Giles, help! He's going to scold me!

Buffy ,'Never Leave Me'


Firefly 4: Also, we can kill you with our brains  

Discussion of the Mutant Enemy series, Firefly, the ensuing movie Serenity, and other projects in that universe. Like the other show threads, anything broadcast in the US is fine; spoilers are verboten and will be deleted if found.


§ ita § - Jan 06, 2006 12:03:23 pm PST #7569 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

If that is a Firefly relevant post, do you intend to delete the rest of the cast so we can't speak of them anymore?


Gus - Jan 06, 2006 12:06:10 pm PST #7570 of 10001
Bag the crypto. Say what is on your mind.

Well ... Okay.

Wait! I can keep Melinda Clarke , right?


Ailleann - Jan 06, 2006 1:01:20 pm PST #7571 of 10001
vanguard of the socialist Hollywood liberal homosexualist agenda

Mal's sidelong glance as the last shot of The Message? HOTTER THAN THE SUN. (You know, just in case anyone missed it.)

Ahem.

In other news, how come DVD sets never seem to include the previouslies?


KernelM - Jan 06, 2006 1:04:19 pm PST #7572 of 10001
Ankh-Morpork Watchman, Dreamer, Scooby, Minister of Grace, Still Flyin' in a Zoo2 World

Well, R1 Mutant Enemy ones never do, at any rate. I know R2 Buffy did for at least some seasons (there's commentaries that had to be slightly edited because of this). And I know my West Wing DVDs have the previouslies.


§ ita § - Jan 06, 2006 4:18:17 pm PST #7573 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

At the risk of making a Firefly relevant post, I present: Serenity being released on HD DVD.


Gus - Jan 07, 2006 10:44:01 am PST #7574 of 10001
Bag the crypto. Say what is on your mind.

I want to be Mal.

I want to have this really seriously weird family that has all kinds of issues that piss off the world. I want to stand between the world and my seriously weird family and tell the world to back off.

It's a boy thing.


Gus - Jan 08, 2006 1:06:04 am PST #7575 of 10001
Bag the crypto. Say what is on your mind.

You know, someone is eventually going to discover that "straight-to-DVD" is no more of an insult to a movie than "straight-to-print" is to a novel.


Polter-Cow - Jan 08, 2006 4:04:40 am PST #7576 of 10001
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!

...what other alternative is there for novels?


DCJensen - Jan 08, 2006 6:23:17 am PST #7577 of 10001
All is well that ends in pizza.

eText? Books on tape? I dunno, I think his point was that it's not necessesarily a bad thing any longer.

However, there will always be a subset of really cheezy and bad films, and they will likely always be there to taint the pool...so maybe there should be a word or phrase we could use to differentiate good straight-to-video from bad STV.


§ ita § - Jan 08, 2006 6:33:33 am PST #7578 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

Right now, direct-to-DVD means either that it's a kid's movie that's going to make a huge %age of its money there anyway, or that it's too crap to be on the big screen ever.

If movies are made simultaneously available, then, like DCJ says, you just find a new word.