Oh god oh god it's on TV

POSTED BY: tmurrie
UPDATED: Tuesday, September 6, 2005 18:44
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TMURRIE

Monday, September 5, 2005 9:13 PM

So I'm sitting at home watching the Space Network's "Labour Day Joss-a-thon" and they're showing some Buffy, some and Angel, and ALL of Firefly.

So not only does this get me all excited that I can see Firefly on tv again, especially with those annoying commercials, but no matter. But there's this contest with trivial and I could win one of ten Firefly dvd's. But that's not even the best part.

Serenity previews up the wazoo, space network is advertising Serenity like no tomorrow, so far I've seen two different trailers, one that Space is showing out of their good hearts, and then the regular television one. I'm seeing either one about every other commercial break.

Should you feel the needt to partake in the contest, go here:

http://www.spacecast.com/events/joss_a_thon/index.asp

You'd have to be watching the marathon to be able to get the questions, but they're pretty straight forward answers, I think you should be able to understand them, since they're in order from first to last episode.

SERENITYVALLEY

Monday, September 5, 2005 9:24 PM

Ha! This is great. I didn't even see the questions and I got only 2 out of 14 wrong. You can tell by the answers what the questions were.

http://www.simple-assault.com/Firefly.htm

DROCCULARI

Monday, September 5, 2005 9:31 PM

Wow. That was weird. Picking answers without knowing the questions, and still getting most of them right. Guess I am a Firefly geek.

ISABELLAION

Monday, September 5, 2005 10:12 PM

Yeah, I was watching and by the time I left the house to come to work, the episode where Inara kisses Mal and falls asleep was playing.

Now that was a funny one.

I saw the trailers for Serenity on the space chanel, but if anybody wants to see 2 very long trailer see you at:

http://www.apple.com/trailers/universal/serenity/

http://www.apple.com/trailers/universal/serenity/trailer_2/

It's worth it.

STARPILOTGRAINGER

Monday, September 5, 2005 11:11 PM

I'm not too fond of the TV commercial, at least from a 'getting people who aren't already big fans into the theatres' perspective. All you get is a couple generic tough-but-good-guy-sounding phrases, and only one of the funny lines, and a bunch of clips going by so fast it's hard to really get a sense of anything of than 'well, it's SF'.

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SHORNY

Monday, September 5, 2005 11:35 PM

I know I might be getting some enemies with this comment, but I hate the previews for Serenity. The music makes it seem like a typical action film. Just thinking about it upsets me. I wish they would have made them more dramatic and less....I don’t know... explodey? I’ve only seen the two on Yahoo so maybe the TV ones are better (I don’t watch TV so I wouldn’t know)

I worry if they oversell Serenity people may be turned off. I know I stay away from big boxoffice movies.

OXYOPIA

Tuesday, September 6, 2005 1:55 AM

Can any of our northern neighbors tell me whether they are showing the Firefly episodes in fullscreen or widescreen? I know that the SciFi channel here in the U.S. is airing them in the fullscreen format and it is more than a little disapointing...especially since the next 3 programs which follow are all in widescreen.

-Oxy

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BLINKER

Tuesday, September 6, 2005 2:12 AM

"Serenity" and "The Train Job" are the only episodes run in widescreen... and even then, when they play the edited two-part version of "Serenity," it's fullscreen too. Even though this results in characters delivering dialogue from offscreen or with the right side of their heads chopped off.

There are a few other subtle discrepancies between the DVD and TV versions, like a different take of Tracey's recorded message being used and an alternate "Firefly" logo animation in the opening credits of "Bushwhacked."

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STARPILOTGRAINGER

Tuesday, September 6, 2005 2:13 AM

Quote:
Originally posted by Oxyopia:
Can any of our northern neighbors tell me whether they are showing the Firefly episodes in fullscreen or widescreen? I know that the SciFi channel here in the U.S. is airing them in the fullscreen format and it is more than a little disapointing...especially since the next 3 programs which follow are all in widescreen.

They air it fullscreen here.

They also typically air the episodes with all of the 'Previously on Firefly', and the 'The Earth Was Used Up' narrations, and, for Objects in Space, they use the originally aired opening scene (which makes no mention of Inara leaving), rather than the DVD scene (which does)... perhaps it's simply a package deal, and that's the way the episodes are sold to stations.

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"Remember, the enemy's gate is down."
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Unreachable Star: http://www.unreachablestar.net - Comics & SF News/Reviews/Opinions
This week: My spoiler-free Serenity review

SAFEAT2ND

Tuesday, September 6, 2005 2:27 AM

I was just going to say the same. In Ontario, it's full screen. I like the little interviews with the guest stars.

Oh the trailers are "explodey" on purpose, they are trying to get the low attention span movie goers what are beginnin' to make up a large part of the population. The popularity of Sin City is a prime example.

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