Firefly on DVD

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So Joss is saying that the movie deal isn't looking good....?

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Well, I just did a list... and it got erased. I'll get toi it eventually, after I finish with the commentaries.

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Randumb Quotes lifted from FFF.net

 

"Firefly is gonna be totally unlike anything you've seen before in the spaceship genre. Very western, as I'm sure you've heard, but with Whedon-esque trademark character and dialogue. And something about a crew made up entirely of pigs." - Drew Z. Greenberg

 

"A lot of people are asking me, you know, what exactly is Firefly? It's a tv show you morons!" - Joss Whedon

 

"It works on you. It gets under your skin. At least, it did to me. It unfolds. Reveals itself to you." - Tim Minear on the Firefly pilot

 

"I believe we are the only sentient beings in the universe, and I believe that 500 years from now, we will still be the only sentient beings around." - Joss Whedon

 

"We're focusing on their struggles, not a guy with a gorgon on his templok or something." - Marti Noxon on Serenity's crew

 

"When I pitched the show, I said it was about nine people living in the blackness of space and seeing nine different things. That's what I'm fascinated by, how they all react. They must make decisions that are horrific to people who aren't fighting for their lives every day. It's about a group of people who are living hand-to-mouth, and are heroes, day-to-day." - Joss Whedon

 

"I'm very much of the 'make it dark, make it grim, make it tough,' but then, for the love of God, tell a joke." - Joss Whedon

 

"Joss is very busy, and he loves it. He's like a pig in poo." - Marti Noxon on Joss

 

"I'll do the killin' 'round here, if you don't mind." - Tim Minear

 

"How do you create a civilization? It's a personal process. Your ethics and moral structure are going to be tested. It's about life when it's hard, about how we live when we're on the edge." - Joss Whedon

 

"The idea that they may have invented cool lasers but not everybody can afford them is sort of the premise on which we work. Lasers take you to a science-fiction place that I feel has been covered too much." - Joss Whedon

 

"Aliens, you know, that's something everybody else has done and is doing. It's a great metaphor to play with, but it's not what I'm interested in. I'm really interested in 'you are there,' in 'you are a part of this.' And I think aliens take you out of that. I also need to spend some time away from latex." - Joss Whedon

 

"I like a hard world, but I like a hard world that molds good people and people with a sense of humor about the world they're in." - Joss Whedon

 

"Darkly funny, scary in parts, honest, and original" - Jewel Staite on Firefly

 

"I wanted to do a show about people who are not 'super,' just working-class people, the people history steps on." - Joss Whedon on Firefly

 

"Maybe I'm just a dumb softie -- or a subtly brilliant softie. So subtle, in fact, that it cannot be picked up by human beings or any machines." - Joss Whedon

 

"You take people, you put them on a journey, you give them peril, you find out who they really are. If there's any kind of fiction better than that, I don't know what it is." - Joss Whedon

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So I'm watchin Independance Day on TV and I see a familiar face as they enter Area 51.

 

"Who's that man?! WHO'S THAT MAN?!" - RRR

 

"Jaaaaaaaayne, the man they call Jaaaaaaaaaayne"~!

 

That was fucking awesome. I've seen ID4 (as the kidz would say) a dozen times and I still marked out big seeing Adam Baldwin in a rather big supporting role (with lines and everything~!).

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What role does he have?

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He's a soldier-guy in Area 51. He, most notably, greets The President & Co. and tells them they have to get detoxified (for lack of a better term) but The President says "fuck that" and Jayne has to open the lab to them. He also shoots the Alien when it comes back to life. He also drives The President & Ladies to pick up Will Smith and the Stumbling dude. He was on-screen for like, 15 minutes.

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Alright ya stupid bastard, I'll do yer list..........

 

Favorite Episode

 

1. Out of Gas

2. Objects in Space

3. Ariel

 

Favorite Moment (Like Rudo, it changes constantly)

 

1. Mal waking up at the end of Out of Gas. "You all gonna be here when I wake up?" = Line of the show.

 

2. River picking up the stick. Means so much more.

 

3. Book's hair.

 

Favorite Line(s)

 

1. " I'm gonna be in my bunk"- The man they call Jayne

 

2. " Did he just go crazy and fall asleep?"- Wash

 

3. " We are far too pretty for God to let us die"- Mal

 

Favorite Shot

 

1. In Out of Gas when Mal and Zoe first walk onto Serenity in a flashback and it shows them walking through a doorway and then the lights darken and the camera pans down to Mal laying on the ground, breathing heavily.

 

2. River balancing on the railing in Objects in Space.

 

3. The entire funeral scene in The Message. The music particularly works well here.

 

Favorite Character.

 

1. Mal- I've given my reasons, but I'll say it again. I've never seen a more heroic, thoughtful, dickheaded and caring leading character in all my years.

 

2. Simon- Reasons already stated.

 

3. River- So much potential. So much potential. *Rage boils up* DAMN YOU FOX~! DAMN YOU ALL TO HELLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL!

 

Favorite Villian

 

1. Early- Mmmmmmmm. Now THAT is how you write a fucking villian. Empathic almost to the point of telepathy, Early is able to scout out the entire ship just by listening to the conversation the crew has. That's scary. He knows who to take out when and what threats to use. The scene w/ him and Kaylee creeps the everloving shit out of me.

 

2. Blue Hand Men- Uh, they make you sneeze out your brain matter. That's pure evil right there.

 

3. The Reavers- Once again, fuck Fox for not keeping this show on. I can only imagine what kind of shit Joss had written down for the Reavers and part of me wants to know............the other kinda doesn't. (Even though it does.)

 

Favorite Hottie

 

1. Kaylee- Can be cute, can be hot AND she's Canadian.

2. Saffron- THE RACK.

3. Inara.

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New Lists because... well, no reason.

 

Best 'Jayne is a Bastard' moments

It's all about Jayne doing mean stuff and not so much about him reacting to how River would melt his brain or how the Doc would operate on his brain if he got the chance.

 

1) 'How big a room?'

Introducing Jayne to the Serenity in 'Out of Gas' old Jayne turns on his former boss in about 30 seconds just at the prospect of getting a few more bucks and perks out of the deal. Granted, having to share a bunk with 'That one' wouldn't make me all that loyal to my boss either.

 

2) 'You ain't taking me seriously' ** Cha-Chink **

Jayne introduces Mal to 'Vera' as though hes about to take Mal down right then and there. And even though that would make no sense in the context of that story, it works because Jayne's always been a bastard. Turns out its a different flavor of bastard this week though as Jayne actually tries to trade his weapon for Mal's bride.

 

3) From the same episode, I love how Jayne put a space suit up around Vera in order to let her fire in space. What really sold it to me was how they discussed prior to the plan about how they would shoot out the connectors to the 'web' instead of the windows of the thing. Then when the time comes, Jayne does BOTH just to be a hardass and suck those bastards into space.

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Best 'Jayne is a Bastard' moments

 

1. Jayne being distracted by Inara and the chick and Book struggling to keep up the bar.

 

2. "You two quit arguing... you'll waste all the air" - From Out of Gas when Wash and Mal are having a heated argument and Jayne comes in and breaks it up... but not because he hates to see people fight.

 

3. "But.... I'm just sayin... *points* GOLD" in TheMessage where Jayne is wondering what Tracy is carrying in his body. The guy just doesn't care.

 

4. Jayne waking up during the fight in Objects in Space, and going back to sleep.

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SAILING THE RIVER TAM

Buzz inside certain Los Angeles law firms suggests that talent contracts are being hammered out, and they’re timed around a May start for an upcoming Universal feature about a starship captain, a space hooker, a mysterious preacher and a pair of fugitives named Tam. The bad news: under the scenario discussed, “Firefly: The Movie” wouldn’t hit multiplexes until late 2005.

 

-AICN.com

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The bad news: under the scenario discussed, “Firefly: The Movie” wouldn’t hit multiplexes until late 2005.

 

 

Is that really "bad" news considering the other option is...NEVER...

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I wonder if they'll name it "Firefly: The Movie"..

[Mole 0]

Opposed to "FireFly: Not the Movie"

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Opposed to, "There was Firefly: The Show"? Since basically NO ONE has heard of it.

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I bought a puppy last week because my old dog had to be put down.

 

I named him Serenity

[RavishingRickRudo 0]

That's so awesome.

 

Though, really, Jayne is a better name

 

Sorry to hear about your dog. The one bad thing about pets is that they rarely stay with you for a long time (relatively speaking).

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That rocks BPS.

 

Have a trophy.

 

[The Ghost of bps21 0]

*takes trophy*

 

Thank you

 

*bows*

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Ok, LOTC posed this question to me on MSN and I'm bringing the discussion here.

 

Since Joss (or more specifically, Tim Minear) likes to kill of characters, who do you think would be the first of the 9 to die???

 

I say the possible choices are:

 

Inara

Wash

Zoe

With Book as a long shot.

 

I would go with Inara. I see her leaving the ship for a while and then coming back and saving them all and telling Mal she loves him and he confesses his love for her and they are all happy happy and then she tells him she is dying. Her having a Terminal Illness, I think, was where they were going to go with her character. Why else would she leave paradise? Why would she have such a fear of death? Why would she be on Serenity??

 

I think Serenity means 2 things:

 

Life

&

Death

 

Simon sez in Out Of Gas "I always thought Serenity had a sort of funerial sound to it" , and then he says "I don't want to die on this ship" to which Inara says "I don't want to die at all". Inara loved the ship the first time she saw it, it has a special meaning to her. She either sees life in that -sees that you can create a new life in that-, or she sees Death in it. Either way, she sees peace. I think she found out she was sick while getting her yearly exam, left the academy (either on her own, or was forced out - I would say the former), and found the ship. The chinese lettering under her timer means "short interval" - which we think is a joke because of how her clients don't take too long in bed, but it could very well mean she expects to die soon. It may also explain the needle.

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Wash because it would kill Zoe.

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Just picked up the set yesterday. Watched through "Out of Gas".

 

Three quick notes:

 

1. I will echo the Fuck Fox sentiments

 

2. Fuck you RRR, between this and MMA you are starting to cost me too much fucking money.

 

3. I marked the fuck out seeing Jewel Staite on my TV again as I had a crush on her ever since Space Cases on Nickolodeon.

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WHOOO HOOO! $PEND DAT CA$H~!

 

I was watching Serenity and I am still finding things that I missed the first 10 times.

 

I love how they foreshadow a bunch of events, two of which that I notices were:

 

- "I was gonna git me an ear", by Jayne

 

- "If we don't have it (compression coil) we'll be floatin adrift", by Kaylee

 

2 things that really struck me were when Inara was talking about being lost in the woods and Mal saying it's the only place were he can see a clear path, and then once they lose the reavers he says "We're out of the woods". It was Mal who came up with the Crazy Ivan scheme; he saw the clear path. I loved that. The other thing was Book saying "Keep her safe" relating to River; I am _positive_ now that Book was a high ranking Alliance official and am pretty sure he knows what really happened to River and why and that's probably why he left and became a shepard. Both things I noticed before, but I didn't really "get".

 

It's amazing what watching the show with the subtitles on will do.

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Did you notice in Ariel when Wash and Kaylie are searching the dump...what Wash throws when he sees the medical vehicle?

 

If I didn't know any better...

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Another thing that really stuck me with repeated viewings was how great I thought the girl that played Inara was.

 

She was always so calm and measured about everything...only having emotional outbursts when it related to Mal.

 

- In Our Mrs. Reynolds when she thinks Mal is dead, then finds he alive.

 

- In Our Mrs. Reynolds when she snaps at Mal as he ponders having a pack of kids running around.

 

- In Heart of Gold when she finds out Mal slept with the other whore.

 

With the rest of the crew she is comforting and everything you'd expect a Companion to be (with Book in Serenity part 2, With Simon in Out of Gas)

 

Only Mal can really break her down.

 

She even tries to use reason with Early...but that doesn't get her too far.

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Heard a rumor the movie might just be called "Serenity."

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Yeah I know. But no one made a mock up poster for that...so I'll take what I can get.

 

I named my dog Serenity...so it's good enough for a movie, says I.

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That's what I loves about the Firefly. EVERY time I watch I learn something new. For example, pertaining to Book, I was watching Objects in Space and when they pass by Book early says "That man's not a shepard."

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Inara said some things in Serenity:

 

"You seem interested in him"

 

"Well, he's something of a mystery.. you seem interested as well"

 

"Because few men are"

 

(something like that - it sheds some light into why Inara loves Mal that get reenforced in Shindig)

 

And when she was talking about her home world (I forget the name, but she said it was full of light - Mal is from a world called "Shadow", sweeet) she talked of how complicated things where. It's been mentioned that she and Mal related because of complications, but it never occured to me that she used that _exact_ word when referring to her home.

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There's a bunch of little things about Inara/Mal.'

 

 

- In Serenity part 1 where The camera shows Mal look at Inara, and then Inara turn her head to look at Mal, but he's already looked away.

 

- In Bushwacked where Inara is being questioned by the Alliance guy about Mal, and he asks "And you love him?" And there's a beat before it cuts over and you realize he's now questioning Zoe.

 

- In Our Mrs. Reynolds where Mal walks off to talk to Saffron and says "The way I see it we have something in common. We're the only two that don't find this funny" and the camera stops on Inara to see that she doesn't either.

 

- In Out of Gas where she says "You want me" and then theres a beat before she clarifies "You want me on your ship"

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SHOCKING NEWS!!!

 

Buffy/Firefly writer Tim Minear's new show Wonderfalls:

 

"-- Lastly, in a move that will undoubtedly surprise no one, FOX plans to broadcast its midseason drama "Wonderfalls" out of production order. The show's 11th produced installment ("Karma Chameleon") is currently scheduled to air as the series' second episode on Friday, March 19 at 9:00/8:00c."

 

 

The new Fox Ad campaign:

 

 

Fox.

 

We don't learn lessons.