"Mingo and Fanty" kind of reminds me of "Shooty and Bang Bang" from the HitchHiker's Guide to the Galaxy novels.

I've got someone who might be available to find out if it's the genuine article. It'll be a couple of days or so before I get the 'goods' though.

I'll get some good practice at the waiting patiently in, then. Not that I haven't had plenty already.

"Mingo and Fanty" kind of reminds me of "Shooty and Bang Bang" from the HitchHiker's Guide to the Galaxy novels.

Where in HHttGG? I thought I knew those novels pretty well, but I don't remember this.

Sophia, I'm getting mental images of you gathering a group of Firefly fans in NY and setting out to search the entire city for any signs of FF filming. It would take a long time, but get a systematic search plan and recruit enough people... then, of course, they'd decide to film somewhere else. I just revealed my over-logical scary-stalker side, didn't I?

First book

From a description of the first book:

...Slartibartfast takes Arthur to Ford, Zaphod and Trillian, who are now dining with Trillian’s mice, which were in fact the pan-dimensional beings. The two rodents offer Arthur great wealth in exchange for his brain, which they believe contains the Question as it was part of the Earth’s operational programming. Arthur and the others refuse their offer and decide to leave, only to be cornered by Shooty and Bang-Bang, two intergalactic policemen who are on Zaphod’s trail following his theft of the Heart of Gold....

That'd be it. I've got the scriptbook from the original radio series and they're mentioned by name. In the novel they aren't. Funny characters with a great bit of dialogue.

Ah! Yes, I remember them now. And yes, Mingo and Fanty could have distinct echoes of them.

Shifting this here from the Firefly 3 thread.

Don't know if this has been posted and I can't vouch for the veracity of the claim but I got this from another board I frequent. Just posting as I found it:

I was working with Nathan Fillion who plays the captain of the firefly. He told me some really cool stuff that is being done in the movie.

SPOILERS AHEAD!!!!!

1. I don't watch the show but Nathan told me you can expect to see what the bad guys really look like. Apparently you've only heard, but never seen them in the show.

2. It is super action oriented. In one scene, straight out of The Searchers, the villians are destroying a local town and killing everyone. There is a small boy and mother running for their lives and the crew of the Firefly have to leave without them. As they pull away in there landspeeder. Nathan pulls out his gun and shoots both the mother and the boy to keep them from tortured.

I'm actually not happy about this. I'm with the people who think unseen Reavers we don't know too many details about will be scarier than Reavers onscreen or even in depth information about them.

Also shooting the civilians/wounded/left behind to keep them from falling into the hands of the enemy worries me a bit. I'm assuming Joss is taking a cliche and exaggerating it and spinning it around. But that is such a big cliche, that I'm worried that what sometimes happened on Buffy will happen here - that a big blinking neon sign flashing "irony" won't stop it from being a cliche.

Just a question: is it necessary to white font in a Spoiler thread?

I don't see why. It's not lite.

Just a question: is it necessary to white font in a Spoiler thread?

I was wondering that. I think not, but having never been a Spoiler thread dweller before I'm not sure. But while we are, I'm think I'm with Typo Boy-- but I trust Joss. It could work.

Edit: ah, thanks, ita.

Also, I think that those same events could look very different in context, even if the report is accurate.