Oh, wow. This place looks great. Oh, I feel like a witch in a magic shop.

Willow ,'Help'


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.


Kalshane - Mar 28, 2005 12:42:12 pm PST #990 of 10001
GS: If you had to choose between kicking evil in the head or the behind, which would you choose, and why? Minsc: I'm not sure I understand the question. I have two feet, do I not? You do not take a small plate when the feast of evil welcomes seconds.

Yes, she did. I seem to recall her commenting on having to be given Mouth to Mouth by David Duchovny.


Frankenbuddha - Mar 28, 2005 3:13:35 pm PST #991 of 10001
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"

She's being held hostage in a basement by a creepy guy.

Well, that narrows it down to one or two episodes a season (snark directed at CC and not JenP). Can you specify the ep? Or at least the major theme of the ep?


aurelia - Mar 28, 2005 3:23:59 pm PST #992 of 10001
All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story. Tell me a story.

Frank, it's Oubliette .


Frankenbuddha - Mar 28, 2005 3:27:42 pm PST #993 of 10001
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"

Frank, it's Oubliette .

Thank ye!


JenP - Mar 28, 2005 3:50:40 pm PST #994 of 10001

Heh, good point, Frank. It was Jewel. Poor little thing. But she ended up OK. And, yeah, mouth to mouth from DD.


Gus - Mar 29, 2005 8:56:59 pm PST #995 of 10001
Bag the crypto. Say what is on your mind.

Check it. There are six months between now and the release of Serenity.

Will we care about Joss' porn addiction then?

Well, OK, we will.


tianxiaode - Mar 30, 2005 5:49:08 am PST #996 of 10001
Adrian Pasdar: bringing hot (and ambiguously gay) to a new level since Top Gun.

As long as there are porn addictions in this world, we will never stop paying attention/fighting/cheering.


HiddenSky - Mar 30, 2005 1:44:31 pm PST #997 of 10001
"There are two sorts of people in the world: those who believe Joss Whedon is a genius and those who are wrong." - Connie Ogle, Miami Herald

I ordered it through barnes & noble (the actual store). I guess they got it in early and decided not to hold it until the proper release date.

(I'm a B&N employee.) If it's not a strict-on-sale title (mostly major releases, like the next Harry Potter book), it goes on sale the day it arrives in the store. Odd exceptions happen like a title being SOS while the corresponding audiobook isn't, and can be bought in advance of the book's actual release.

To steer this back on topic, I got my copy of Finding Serenity early, too, and I've been pleased with the quality so far. I like Jane Espenson's little asides at the start of each piece. Also, Jewel Staite has an essay where she highlights 5 things she liked from each episode.


beathen - Mar 31, 2005 4:34:53 am PST #998 of 10001
Sure I went over to the Dark Side, but just to pick up a few things.

If it's not a strict-on-sale title (mostly major releases, like the next Harry Potter book), it goes on sale the day it arrives in the store.

Is this common knowledge? I'd never heard this before. (I'm not complaining, though, because I got my book a week earlier than I planned.)


HiddenSky - Mar 31, 2005 6:28:04 am PST #999 of 10001
"There are two sorts of people in the world: those who believe Joss Whedon is a genius and those who are wrong." - Connie Ogle, Miami Herald

Is this common knowledge? I'd never heard this before. (I'm not complaining, though, because I got my book a week earlier than I planned.)

I don't think it's commonly known, although it's not really a secret. I wish I had a picture of our receiving department, because it's really not as big as people think. There's no way it could hold each book that arrives until the anticipated sale date. Basically, what you see on the shelves on the book floor is what we have, unless something just arrived in the day's shipments. So, only a selected group of books are SOS (determined by the publisher) and they come in boxes clearly warning not to break the date. Those are the only books where the release date matters. Otherwise, books are on the shelves within a day of when they're received, regardless of the projected release date.

An example of the audio exception is happening right now with the new book by Sue Monk Kidd (The Secret Life of Bees), The Mermaid Chair. We can't sell you the book until April 5 because of SOS, but in this case, the audio isn't SOS (sometimes it is), so you can walk in and buy the audio format today.