Call from ALIEN RESURRECTION (aka River Tam/Kaylee, the beta version)
This is confusing the hell out of me. Please to explain?
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brenda m - Nov 09, 2007 8:13:05 am PST #2151 of 10000
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there
Kevin - Nov 09, 2007 8:16:48 am PST #2152 of 10000
Never fall in love with somebody you actually love.
Have you seen Alien Resurrection, brenda? It's a bit like Firefly, if you punched Joss in the head before he started writing it.
tommyrot - Nov 09, 2007 8:17:55 am PST #2153 of 10000
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Have you seen Alien Resurrection? Call was the ship's mechanic, right? Plus she, um... was not what she seemed and had special powers (I think) and was really an assassin.
eta: X-posty....
brenda m - Nov 09, 2007 8:18:19 am PST #2154 of 10000
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there
It's the River-Kaylee intersection that's throwing me, I think, because I don't think of them as particularly similar.
Ah. Got it.
Kevin - Nov 09, 2007 8:21:26 am PST #2155 of 10000
Never fall in love with somebody you actually love.
The thing that cracks me up about Alien Resurrection is the fact Jayne is in it. You know, he looks a bit different, though. One of Joss's many drafts is on the UK DVD, and it includes even more Jayne jokes.
Frankenbuddha - Nov 09, 2007 8:23:15 am PST #2156 of 10000
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
Call doesn't map quite as well as some of the other characters. Johner was SO Jayne that honestly I could see Adam Baldwin in that role or Ron Perleman in FIREFLY.
I also think Michael Wincott and his (black, female) second in command COULD have been a Mal/Zoe, but either Joss didn't flesh them out for the movie or Jeunet chucked out large parts of the script (probably a bit of both). They were schmuck bait alien chow in any case, but I get the feeling seeds were being planted at that point.
tommyrot - Nov 09, 2007 8:25:18 am PST #2157 of 10000
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
I really like Alien Resurrection. Ok, I really like the first half. Once it gets all action-y it loses me. Although the action part did have one of the coolest revenge killings evah!
Frankenbuddha - Nov 09, 2007 8:27:57 am PST #2158 of 10000
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
Although the action part did have one of the coolest revenge killings evah!
I ALWAYS loved that bit, especially since it's the Dane from Miller's Crossing that he takes his revenge on. Honestly (apart from the science being SERIOUSLY crap) it was when it started being an ALIEN movie (especially the very end - how many ways can you suck an alien out into space? Let's find out...) that it stopped working for me.
Kathy A - Nov 09, 2007 8:42:02 am PST #2159 of 10000
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
The ALIEN series lost me at the beginning of Alien3, when they killed off Hicks and Newt. Sorry, but you kill off two of my favorite characters ever, I'm not going to be a fan of your movies.
Kevin - Nov 09, 2007 8:44:15 am PST #2160 of 10000
Never fall in love with somebody you actually love.
Not looking forward to Serenity 2, Kathy A?
(Sorry)
I have Joss on video record saying he never wrote the Alien being sucked out into spacey thingy.