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Friday, 07 May 2004 01:46:10
Greetings Browncoats! Well it's up and ready to be read - Heartbroken Part 6. It would have been here sooner, but my Beta reader has had more of what the RP Gunrunners like to call "RL Issues" in the past few months than any one person really needs. I'll be looking forward to your comments. Oh, and if anyone wants to get the chance to be the first to read Heartbroken 7 in about three weeks, drop me a note. Like I said, my Beta reader's up to HERE in too much stuff, and I'm more comfortable having a fresh set of eyes take a look at my writing before I put it up. Heartbroken - Part 6
Friday, 07 May 2004 20:42:01
i've got 2 things to say. one's a possibly new editing goof, and the other has to do with a long standing one. first the possibly new one. at the beginning of Our Mrs Reynolds, when jayne and mal are in the wagon... right as they draw their guns, surprising the hooligans, the pretty floral bonnet disappears for an instant. it starts as a close-up on mal as he's speaking, and then he starts drawing his gun. it switches to a wide shot, then a shot of the head bandit guy... it gets wide again to do a really short pan of the scene, and mal's bonnet is gone! and then just a couple frames later it's back with the close-up on jayne. and it's right after that shot that mal pulls the bonnet down. the other thing has to do with the infamous jayne hat in The Message, with regards to the reappearing straw. again, i don't know if anyone has already figured this out. when jayne gets the hat it's covered in straw, since he just pulled it out of the box his mother sent it in. we all know that. later jayne has presumably cleaned it off. but it's back for the scene when the crew is searching tracey's crate. this isn't an error. it's because the coffin was packed in the mailing crate with more straw. it gets one jayne's hat because they ripped everything appart to see if there was something hidden. the straw had to go somewhere, and some of it went on the hat. yup, so the straw thing has been bugging me for a while, but i was excited to notice the bonnet. ok, that's all i got for now!
Friday, 07 May 2004 20:42:09
The year that Firefly aired was my last year in a dorm, and the only TV stations that came in were FOX and a local Christian station that had hourly Bible readings. Let me tell you, it was a close call sometimes which I was going to watch. So, for the sake of some mindless entertainment, the whole floor would gather 'round the twelve-inch TV and watch the Sunday night cartoons. And then one day, at the end of the Simpsons, they aired one of those commercials-during-the-credits, shoved into one corner of the screen. Fastlane. Pretty much looked like it sucked. But then there was an ad for a Sci-Fi show by the name of Firefly. It didn't look a whole lot better, but in a highly geeky dorm, in a region where we didn't even get the then-mediocre Enterprise, any Sci-Fi is better than no Sci-Fi. Collectively, we made a note to stay in on the Friday night of Firefly's pilot episode, and give this not-too-fantastic-looking show a chance. This is about the point in the story where I'd love to say I loved it from the very first moment it was on... But, alas, I was confused beyond belief for the first half as the character introductions flew by at a breakneck pace, on top of a (frankly) rather dull caper story. Only then, the caper went south, the captain started feeling guilty about the whole thing, and in a particularly beautiful moment, Mal shoved Crow through the engine. ...And that's when I realized this wasn't just any old science fiction. After years (and I mean YEARS) of Trek-style "Everybody play nice and we'll settle this peacefully", here, at last, was a captain who said, "My way or the highway." And it was Good.