Are there any plans to show Firefly in the UK? Or, how do I get on the tapes circuit? I'm starting to think I might want to see this thing.
What should I do, then? Send her a gift? Sacrifice? … Unholy fruit basket?
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Am-Chau Yarkona - Dec 04, 2002 6:19:14 am PST #708 of 9843
I bop to Wittgenstein. -- Nutty
Theodosia - Dec 04, 2002 6:19:23 am PST #709 of 9843
'we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon"
That's the one that sold a lot of doubtful viewers here on the show. I could only wish that they'd shown that one first to the critics, to get the buzz going.
Fiona - Dec 04, 2002 2:47:02 pm PST #710 of 9843
Hey! Now it's my turn to brag and gloat... I just watched the first two episodes of Buffy S7! Wow. Now I'm off to read the watch-and-post. There are a couple of places I squealed and shouted, and I can't have been the only one.
Burrell - Dec 04, 2002 10:28:58 pm PST #711 of 9843
Why did Darth Vader cross the road? To get to the Dark Side!
I loved "Out of Gas." Brilliant.
Jim - Dec 05, 2002 2:16:41 am PST #712 of 9843
Ficht nicht mit Der Raketemensch!
Fiona - More tapes coming. In the post tomorrow...
Fiona - Dec 05, 2002 2:38:31 am PST #713 of 9843
Jim, thanks. If I was looking forward to them before, now I'm REALLY looking forward to them.
Plus I think I might be able to persuade SO to watch Firefly with me. I have utterly failed to turn him on to B & A, but as he's a SciFi fan, F might just work. I hope so, it'd be nice to watch some Jossverse with him.
Jim - Dec 05, 2002 2:58:45 am PST #714 of 9843
Ficht nicht mit Der Raketemensch!
FF starts slow but I'm utterly hooked. It nails (and Joss has explicitly said he wanted to nail) my problem with most SF - the fact that the characters aren't Big Heroes Out To Change The Universe, they're just ordinary people getting by. Makes for more interesting drama.
Am-Chau Yarkona - Dec 05, 2002 3:00:53 am PST #715 of 9843
I bop to Wittgenstein. -- Nutty
Stop! I want to watch this show! That's my problem with SF exactly, and if Joss has nailed it, I want to see this show!
t /bratty
Jon B. - Dec 05, 2002 6:13:12 am PST #716 of 9843
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!
Plus - No. Sound. In. Space.
I love that they do that right.
Nilly - Dec 05, 2002 6:19:04 am PST #717 of 9843
Swouncing
the fact that the characters aren't Big Heroes Out To Change The Universe, they're just ordinary people getting by.
Plus - No. Sound. In. Space.
I obviously haven't watched Firefly yet (but thanks to Jon and Jim and Fiona and John I now have a chance), but just from the reading of it those two things seemed connected somehow - like there's no need for a big dramatic sound effect when a spaceship moves through space because it's not a Big Moment thing that requires the 'big' score/sound, just people getting by. You won't have anything special for somebody getting into a car, and so - in that reality - the movement of a spaceship doesn't require it either. But only by realizing it's not a Big Heroes show can you allow yourself to remember the scientific fact that there's no sound in space.
Sorry, it all made some perfect sense in my mind a minute ago, and then I had to think about it in order to write it, and now it's not.