annoying things in firefly

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ZEEK

Thursday, January 20, 2005 4:27 PM

Oh yeah I remembered another thing that always bothered me. They made a whole big point of calling Inara ambassador in Serenity. Then it's never used again. Not even a mention once or twice just so it can be reasonably believed that this wasn't just a setup for the scene where Book gets confused.

THESOMNAMBULIST

Thursday, January 20, 2005 5:13 PM

.... Not bothered by much as regards the episodes, but the title credit for Jewel Staite is definitely shorter than the other actors!

That always kinda bugs me.....

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MALICIOUS

Thursday, January 20, 2005 9:45 PM

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Originally posted by Zeek:
Oh yeah I remembered another thing that always bothered me. They made a whole big point of calling Inara ambassador in Serenity. Then it's never used again. Not even a mention once or twice just so it can be reasonably believed that this wasn't just a setup for the scene where Book gets confused.

YES! That always bugs the crap out of me too.

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ZEEK

Thursday, January 20, 2005 11:37 PM

Bushwhacked always bugged me too. The way Mal just predicts exactly what is going to happen to the derilect. How the heck would Mal know? How does he know so well how reavers would act? Going to familiar ground and stuff. Which also made no sense since Serenity wasn't familiar ground. The guy had only seen the infirmary. The alliance trusting him to help them doesn't even seem remotely right for the alliance. Then Mal having to save the captain when there were a bunch of armed alliance men around? Just bad bad bad.

I think I had to drag that out of repressed memories it took me so long to remember. I don't watch that episode much.

INEVITABLEBETRAYAL

Thursday, January 20, 2005 11:59 PM

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mines is easy..Kaylee, she annoys me so bad

Not that I had a lot of respect for you before, but man--what little there was is gone now. Leaving the attrocious grammar and punctuation aside ("mines is"?

), how on earth could you hate Kaylee?

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CLEANER

Friday, January 21, 2005 12:07 AM

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Originally posted by Zeek:
Bushwhacked always bugged me too. The way Mal just predicts exactly what is going to happen to the derilect. How the heck would Mal know? How does he know so well how reavers would act.

I always thought that this,and other things, were strong hints that Mal had some kind previous encounter/dealings with Reavers. Maybe they knocked on his door early one Sunday morning in Shadow and tried to bring him the gospel of cannibalisim

My most annoying episode was Heart of Gold. The entire script for it was nothing but 1 line jokes.

"If wishes were horses we'd all be eating steak!!!"

ZEEK

Friday, January 21, 2005 7:03 PM

oh oh also how about in Serenity when Inara is talking to her first client that we see. The editing is really weird. At one point she's talking but her lips aren't moving. The scene where she's bathing has some of this too. I don't know if it's supposed to be artistic or not but it's no where else in the series so I have to chalk it up to bad editing.

THESOMNAMBULIST

Friday, January 21, 2005 7:24 PM

ZEEK

I don't think that's bad editing. Just intended as a mode to see the 'real' Inara as it were.

In Out Of Gas this non-linear editing is used again, to further the narrative. Personally I really liked that way of presenting a characters real thoughts.... But I have to admit when I was watching this one with my folks (who love Firefly by the way) this non-linear editing was something that really confussed my Dad, and I spent most of the episode explaining the intent behind it.

David Solomon (Director of Out of Gas) has really gone up in my estimation. I've since rewatched old Buffy which he directed and his tricks are very clever and understated, not so in your face..... I hope he goes on to do more.

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BLINKER

Friday, January 21, 2005 8:21 PM

Inara's random hallucinatory interlude bugged me too. If it isn't a dream, and it isn't a twisted parallel universe where Your Primitive Human Understanding Does Not Apply, and it isn't MTV, then JUST KEEP THE EDITING SANE!

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I would blame Fox for wanting a greater action element in a show that had been cast for actors who could create the personality of their characters. For me, Gina Torres is wonderful as Zoe but doesn't appear to be a natural athlete.

Amen to that. Olympic relay somersaulter or not, she IS the character to me. So much so that when I happened to catch a moment of her on "24," wherein she was crying and whimpering like a helpless little girl, the words "degrading" and "blasphemy" came to mind.

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Maybe they knocked on his door early one Sunday morning in Shadow and tried to bring him the gospel of cannibalisim

Hey, makes just as much sense as the Reaver conversion method seen in the show...

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Saturday, January 22, 2005 12:33 AM

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Maybe they knocked on his door early one Sunday morning in Shadow and tried to bring him the gospel of cannibalisim

Probably did it throughout his childhood, as is not uncommon in societies descended from European cultural heritage. I don't know much about other religions, but ritual cannibalism is part of joining many different sects of Christian church.

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