'Trash'
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.
I mean, you had to QUIP in Buffy. Who can come up with Jossian-quality quips all the time, on the fly?
I once ran a con tournament DC Heroes game in the Vertigo setting where the guy who played Etrigan spoke exclusively in rhyme and never once broke character. No one grumbled when he won the prize.
Finished watching Firefly with the girl (we'll probably watch Serenity this coming Friday) and I'm missing my show all over again. It's probably been a year since I last sat down and watched all the episodes in order, and this was the first time post-Serenity. I find myself mourning again for all the great stories in that 'verse Joss and Tim never got a chance to tell.
Indeed, Kal.
Yep. We've been sitting around today going, "You know what I wanna watch? I wanna watch S2 of Firefly."
Wrod. I am, upon occasion, selfish and greedy that way.
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From a very recent Gary Numan Q&A:
Did you watch any sci-fi on TV last night?
(Kerry Malenkova, Canada)
GN: "I didn't watch anything because I was working but we use Sky Plus so we can record and watch in our own time. Last night we recorded 'Battlestar Galactica' and 'Prison Break'. I'm not a very big sci-fi fan, to be honest, and haven't been for twenty years or more. I do like 'Battlestar Galactica', though. My favourite ever sci-fi series was 'Firefly' but they only did one series and it got cancelled. It's brilliant; that new film 'Serenity' comes from it. One of my biggest albums ['Replicas] was loosely based on sci-fi but that was about 27 years ago. People associating me with sci-fi has gone on longer than I expected. Assumptions become accepted as fact, like people think I'm miserable... well, if they think of me at all (laughs)."
I have a friend I got hooked on "Firefly", so of course she saw "Serenity". We were discussing it and she said she really loved it. So much so that she wanted to have Joss Whedon's babies. I told her she'd have to get in line.
My favourite ever sci-fi series was 'Firefly' but they only did one series and it got cancelled. It's brilliant; that new film 'Serenity' comes from it.
It just occurred to me that Firefly in England would have had about a normal one season run in terms of the number of episodes. Funny how you get used to 22 episode seasons.
Granted it didn't have such a definitive conclusion as, say, Wonderfalls, but "Objects in Space" wasn't a terrible last episode for the series.
If anyone needs an extra (loaner) copy of the DVDs, it's 50% off at Amazon right now....
I've stopped loaning my extra set--to friends who have Comcast, that is. I give them Orville Redenbacher's and soda if they promise to order Firefly On Demand, or Serenity on PPV.