River Tam Question
POSTED BY: Summerrivers
UPDATED: Saturday, November 12, 2005 17:34
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In the River Tam Sessions, how does that guy die? I don't get it.
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"Psychic, though? That sounds like something out of science fiction."
"We live in a space ship, dear."
"So?"
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That guy was Joss Whedon and he was stabbed in the neck with his pen.
"I swallowed a bug." -River Tam
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but he totally deserved it!
BTW did you notice the little spoiler for the movie?
LOL
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watch the R. Tam Session vids: http://www.hittarivertam.nu/
and buy the 'Serenity' comics published by Dark Horse,
and have you joined the Browncoats yet?
http://browncoats.serenitymovie.com/serenity/?fuseaction=tools.invlink
&u=embers&linkID=36
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The River sessions were good and creepy, weren't they? I didn't read that the eeeeeevil doctor was Joss till after I saw them.
Has anybody read Pattern Recognition by Wm Gibson? The premise is that there's a film that's being released one tiny scene at a time, being posted randomly for people to find, and it has an enormous and underground fanbase because it's breathtaking and mysterious. (Sound familiar?) Anyway, I've wondered if that's where they got the idea for the River Tam sessions.
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If you think the River Tam sessions are creepy you should hear my idea for a super hero.
"I swallowed a bug." -River Tam
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You don't say. I have enjoyed your eeeeevilheadedness on many occasions. Regale us with your lightbulbousness.
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My idea for a super hero, which I still have no idea how to write for, was a powerful warrior from ancient China who was defeated and captured by a demon he swore to slay. The demon tried to turn to warrior into his servant but the warrior would not break so the demon killed the warrior with the torture known as the death of a thousand cuts. The warrior’s remains were thrown into the corpse pits but the warrior’s will was so great that when the carrion vermin devoured his remains his consciousness manifested within them. From that day on, the warrior became a writhing mass of thousands upon thousands of rats, roaches, ants, centipedes, worms, flies, and various other vermin, roaming the land fighting evil and trying to hunt down the demon who murdered him.
His “condition” is not the only thing unique about him, the only thing that sustains him is his will, it is his will that defines him, the only reason why he exists as an abomination is because of his will to continue to do what he believes is right. Of course that is also his weakness, strike doubt into his insubstantial heart, weaken his resolve, destroy his will and he will cease to exist, literally.
I wish I could draw, so I can make this guy into a comic book.
"I swallowed a bug." -River Tam
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Curse my inevitable ability to drag threads off topic! Some day an OT monitor will arrive to drag me to the Blue Hands Room for this!
FFF peeps are just so interesting, I can't help it! Please forgive.
I haven't heard of anything like this guy, you are evilheaded as usual. I'm seeing some cursed to be human and therefore weak possibilities ala Angel, Spidey, Batguy. Poor wormy, ratty guy, my favorite sort of cursed hero. Chinese art has some lovely style for comic book adaptation too, and some great visual possibilities in the movement of masses of creatures under a single will. I want to hear more, but I don't want to be so inappropriate to the threadiness.
You can draw you know, you just stopped giving yourself permission when you were 10. Find the book called "Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain" by Betty Edwards. To talk yourself into buying it, look at the examples from her classes of people who couldn't draw a stick figure when they started. It is amazing. I do draw, and I've gotten better after doing the exercises. My sister gave me the book because it changed her life. An idea like this shouldn't mold in your brain! Go forth and be evilheaded!
I went to see Serenity again last night and had a good look at River's boots and Mal's boots. They are very similar. Thick soft soles, thick soft leather, straps on the sides, same shape and height. I haven't had a chance to find enough good close-ups of his boots in the series to see for certain, but I think his movie boots are more like River's than they were in the series. Another way Joss is using props etc. to make the connection stronger between Mal and River?
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I think that I've heard something like it; Spawn.
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What? How is that anything like Spawn?
"I swallowed a bug." -River Tam
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