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.
If you want me to leave, you can put your hands on my hot, tight little body and make me.
Spike ,'Get It Done'
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.
Toddson - Mar 07, 2006 5:06:26 am PST #8079 of 10001
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
Frankenbuddha - Mar 07, 2006 5:17:22 am PST #8080 of 10001
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
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.
Una - Mar 07, 2006 10:56:18 am PST #8081 of 10001
when i die, please bake my ashes into a brick and use me to hit fascists.
If anyone needs an extra (loaner) copy of the DVDs, it's 50% off at Amazon right now....
Mikey - Mar 09, 2006 8:36:57 am PST #8082 of 10001
All this time, I thought Hunter was a bitch. Turns out she was just hungry.
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.
Ailleann - Mar 10, 2006 1:59:52 pm PST #8083 of 10001
vanguard of the socialist Hollywood liberal homosexualist agenda
Just watched Out of Gas. Man, I miss this show.
Kevin - Mar 11, 2006 2:56:29 pm PST #8084 of 10001
Never fall in love with somebody you actually love.
Firefly would tend to be much longer than an English series.. We're normally about 6 episodes a series. If we're lucky we get two series of something in total, so 12 episodes.
DCJensen - Mar 11, 2006 3:04:13 pm PST #8085 of 10001
All is well that ends in pizza.
At least the new Dr Who incarnations are 13 ep series/season.
Kevin - Mar 11, 2006 5:05:00 pm PST #8086 of 10001
Never fall in love with somebody you actually love.
Totally. Technically "Hex" also runs at around 13 episodes a season, too: but it's shit ("The British Buffy"). Two Pints of Lager - which I once wrote a script for: laugh now - also runs about 10 episodes a season, and is going on 6 seasons now. In fact, arguably Two Pints is the UK's longest running series of recent years, and BBC Three's highest rated. Which, I think, tells us something about the UK...
§ ita § - Mar 11, 2006 6:03:15 pm PST #8087 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Didn't the thirteen episodes of Who tucker Eccleston right out? High price to pay.
Kevin - Mar 11, 2006 6:09:13 pm PST #8088 of 10001
Never fall in love with somebody you actually love.
Well, the BBC had something like £1.6m for the 13 episode series of Doc Who, about half of which went on VFX. They had two main leads, so I'd imagine Eccleston probably got virtually nothing for it.