When I picked up my comics today, cute comic-book guy showed me the Serenity RPG book. (Or *a* book; there may be more than one, I dunno.)
I told him that I was less of a Firefly fan than many Whedon fans are, but that I did see the sneak preview of the movie. Comic-book guy said "My only problem with the movie was that, okay, Reavers: savage, basically mindless killing/raping/destroying creatures. So how is it that they still have the brain capacity to be so good at piloting and navigating spaceships?"
Heh. Made *me* laugh.
There's precedent. Consider the Chelsea fan navigating the Underground to get to the soccer game. Add futuristic drugs, and lo! Reaver.
Penelope von Whistleblower? Nice.
ETA: Ok, just to be sure: is that you, Allyson?
Whedon has become the first filmmaker in history to require an audience to watch a 13 hour DVD set prequel in order to understand what the fuck is going on in his film.
Mwah!
You didn't go to one of the screenings on Whedon's birthday, did you? Where they sang happy birthday to him in absentia and had people sign a banner? I did want to sign it "Dear Joss, please stop believing your own press," but I didn't want to harsh anyone's mellow.
I'm all for various points of view, but don't know if I want to hang around for the full Whedon backlash, now with extra bile.
Hec is me. Fully willing to admit that it's probably extreme bias influencing me, but I can't sync up to the all-over naysayers. Not getting what it is that inspires such fervent anger, even after reading the explanations of just that.
But, but, I was there before there was bile! Ask Matt! He sometimes hated me! Which is fine, truly, and that's part of why I like Matt, and why it means so much to me when he would very occasionally agree with me. And I'm not namechecking him to imply that he agrees me with me about the next paragraph, because I'm pretty sure he doesn't. I'm namechecking him on the "it's not personal" front. It's not.
I do not like Whedon, because I think he cannot plot, and plot is very important to me. I have friends who like Whedon, and I argue with them, and it's fun, because we understand that it isn't personal. And... that's all. I really, really did not like Firefly, and I understand if it is a sore point in this thread, so I don't go tromping around saying "Bleh," just to rain on people's parade. But... I also don't like being lumped in like we're part of some groupthink backlash. We can honestly not like something that you honestly liked. It's fine. Some people that I respect think the movie rocked. It doesn't stop me from wanting to be friends with them. I'll just argue with them, and continue to like them despite their being Wrong. (And that's a joke, to be clear.)
I'd hate to see any thread here become "for lovers only." We're b.org, not borg.
Or, Virginia apparently, if their ad campaign is to be trusted.
