Sheep, baaaaaaah, baaah bah!
POSTED BY: AngusThermopyle
UPDATED: Friday, June 8, 2007 16:23
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Originally posted by AngusThermopyle:
Shakespear (although the jokes are better).
Rather than resorting to name-calling or insulting you or anything, I'll simply point out this one thing.
His name was spelled with an "e" at the end.
SHAKESPEARE.
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"Wash. . .we got some local color happening. A grand entrance would not go amiss."
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I'm beginning to wonder. . .does the Internet make assholes of all of us sooner or later?
I mean, I just don't understand the concept of going somewhere with the sole purpose of starting up an argument.
"You've just gotta go ahead and change the captain of your brainship, because he's drunk at the wheel."
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Just to chime in about the whole 'writing vs acting' thing - most TV shows you can actually just listen to. Get one of those radios that broadcasts TV (TV is in the FM band) and go about your day keeping tabs. Firefly is not like that at all. Yes, it has a plot, characters, and dialogue, courtesy of the author. But you can't just listen to it - it won't make sense. A lot of what happens is the acting going on. I'm sure it's written somewhere in what might be called stage-directions, at the behest of the director, following the script and characters, but still ultimately, a vital portion is the acting.
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wow.. you know, I was truly offended, there, for a second.
I've always said I'm a tiger, not a sheep, but that was mostly to piss off the bible-thumpers who go on about being sheep to J.C.'s Shepherd... J.C.... hey.. Jayne Cobb?? Wow.. whole new thought process there...
Back to my point..
Sheep implies a HUGE following. It also implies following without thought. There's good and bad there. I'm still offended, really, but on another level, if other sheep got into firefly simply on the sheep level, hey, at least it's Firelfy they're getting into, and I could never complain about that. At least it's healthy, smart, etc etc (all you Flans you know what I'm saying).
Still, dude, seriously, this is like a black going into a KKK rally - you KNOW there's going to be trouble, and it's all gonna be aimed at you. (Not a great analogy, on the taste side of things, but it gets the point across.)
And double kudos for the reactions among us browncoats - we're reacting so much more maturely than I'm used to seeing from other fanly types. We're all so shiny :P
as for the vernacular, bite my shiny metal ass, I LIKE how the vernacular sounds, disregarding the source entirely. I haven't learned mandarin at all - I just repeat the swearing stuff cuz I'm a chick, and everyone laughs at me if I swear in english - I'm one of those chicks that just can't. If I swear in mandarin, people don't laugh, they just look at me funny, and I'm used to that. As for shiny, gorram, and such, well, gorram it, it's no wierder than that "fo' shizzle" goushi.
yeah, so I'm a freak.
Deal.
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Originally posted by AngusThermopyle:
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The fact that messages get answered in the same vernacular as the series is (like) so disturbing. Is this a cult now? Do you people have alters to Joss Whedon? I bet many of you have Starfleet uniforms, too...
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As a person who always looked somewhat skeptically at uber-fans (or maybe I should just use the original word fanatics) it has been slightly disconcerting to find myself turning into one. But that slight hesitation is more than outweighed by the enjoyment of the experience.
I'll just share a few thoughts with you: what works for some people doesn't work for others, anything that brings joy to a person and doesn't have the potential to harm themselves or others should be celebrated, and it's probably not a good idea to peek in your neighbors windows and then make fun of what you saw them doing.
I hope you enjoy the time spent on this board. This is a great, intelligent, creative, diverse, passionate community. For me personally, I can think of far worse, and none better, places to virtually hang out. But if it doesn't float your boat, at least lend out the DVDs and keep working to raise awareness so the movie is a success in September. Success means at least one sequel if not two. That's the bottom line.
[tongue in cheek]
As far as an altar goes... I haven't got around to installing one because I'm having a hard time figuring out what the sacrifice should be. Joss is a hard deity to figure out.
[/tongue in cheek]
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"What sort of raw meat do you people feed your cruiser captains, Hamish?" - Queen Elizabeth III of Manticore
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Originally posted by SimonWho:Quote:
I am also not suffering from multiple personality disorder. Me neither.
Roses are red
violets are blue
I'm schizophrenic
And so am I
May none of your pizzas have unfortunte toppings.
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Originally posted by Shadesiren:
wow.. you know, I was truly offended, there, for a second.
Still, dude, seriously, this is like a black going into a KKK rally - you KNOW there's going to be trouble, and it's all gonna be aimed at you. (Not a great analogy, on the taste side of things, but it gets the point across.)Quote:
Offensive? A black? A black what? I think that's a great analogy. Sounds like I am in a KKK meeting...
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Originally posted by SoupCatcher:
...at least lend out the DVDs and keep working to raise awareness so the movie is a success in September. Success means at least one sequel if not two. That's the bottom line.Quote:
Ah, so there is going to be a movie! Great. Hope one of the studios does decide that a series would be a worthwhile idea lol.
That's one thing I really don't get: They must've made a fortune from Buffy and Angel, so why cut Firefly after only one series? Is it coz there aren't any aliens in it? I can't see any other reason. It's the best sci-fi series in years. Lexx still manages to keep going and that got s**t after series 2!
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Originally posted by AngusThermopyle:
Ah, so there is going to be a movie! Great. Hope one of the studios does decide that a series would be a worthwhile idea lol.
That's one thing I really don't get: They must've made a fortune from Buffy and Angel, so why cut Firefly after only one series? Is it coz there aren't any aliens in it? I can't see any other reason. It's the best sci-fi series in years. Lexx still manages to keep going and that got s**t after series 2!
Yeah. Universal decided to do one movie and the filming is already completed. Right now they're working on the special effects. They did a test screening a few weeks ago and the response sounded positive. All nine of the original cast appear in the movie (and I think I remember reading that the contracts they signed were for up to three movies). As far as returning to television goes, if things stay the same as they are now that won't happen for a number of years - I think it was ten years. Fox still owns the television rights for Firefly.
There are a number of reasons the original television run of Firefly in the US was not successful. The pilot episode was not aired until the very end of the run. The episodes were aired out of order. The show was in the Friday night slot-of-death. The show was pre-empted for sporting events. Not much advertising was done at all. All of these things added up to viewer numbers that were not at the level Fox was looking for. But it also seems like they made up their mind even before they aired the series that they weren't going to support it. It sounds like they got in a contract with Joss and then just didn't like what they got (they asked him to write a new pilot episode after viewing Serenity with a ridiculous deadline - Joss and his team ended up writing Train Job over a weekend and that's the pilot Fox went with - so all the exposition and setting up of characters that happened over two hours was compressed down into an hour).
Whatever the motivation, the result was that Firefly did not have the viewers that a major network looks for (although I think the viewer numbers were comparable to Buffy or Angel - but I could just be pulling that out of somewhere).
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"What sort of raw meat do you people feed your cruiser captains, Hamish?" - Queen Elizabeth III of Manticore
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Originally posted by zoid:
*zoid sits in the rowboat on the placid lake, and releases the undersized big-mouthed bass back into its waters, saying, 'Run along home littl'un, and bring back yer Papa.'*
Zoid, he didn't take the bait! What is WRONG with these new-fangled trolls?
Also, as a note to the baby troll, I speak the vernacular here because it's kind of an inside joke amongst us Fireflyers. We have all bonded. So, bite me.
Mal-licious
Co-Holder of the Red Bell from Hell
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