Canadian Eh?

POSTED BY: hippydog
UPDATED: Friday, September 26, 2003 10:54
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SWITCHY

Tuesday, September 23, 2003 6:12 PM

Mondays are great on Space. I have to say Bushwacked seems an oft overlooked episode. I myself didn't think that much of it until last night. Some really good stuff. One funny observation though. When the feds are searching the ship for River and Simon, the shot of all of them from where R & S are hiding outside the ship looks quite funny. They're all milling around the galley for a good minute looking under the placemats and under the table. Not too smart these feds.

HANS

Wednesday, September 24, 2003 5:20 PM

You're right about Monday night's on Space. Firefly, followed by Buffy, followed by Angel...it really is the Joss power hour(s). Only Thursday night comes in second (New Angel, Buffy, Angel).

I was going to records Firefly on mondays, but I think I'll wait until it comes out on DVD.

And yup, I'm Canadian, and yup, a maritimer.

Hans

LENNIER

Thursday, September 25, 2003 6:24 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by switchy:
Mondays are great on Space. I have to say Bushwacked seems an oft overlooked episode.

I always thought that Bushwacked was by far the most intelligent and carefully executed episode in the series, and came the closest to expressing the fundamental concept of the show (all the stuff about the nature of society vs. the darkness vs. the wilderness etc., and the way they incorporated classic western cliches with much deeper meaning--eg. the idea of the savage, etc.).
The camerawork etc. is also pretty much the most meaningful in the series (eg. the way that openning scene is divided into three metaphorical spaces, and each one of those spaces is shot in a different hand-held visual style, to capture what they're about--the chaos below, civilization above, and River standing across in her own space, fascinated by the chaos while Simon and Inarra stand above it. words can't begin to capture how brilliant that scene is, and how well it sets up what the episode is about).
I could go on forever about this perfect episode, but the real issue is...

Does anyone know WHY Space is not airing the episodes in widescreen?
Should we all be sending in complaints?
I was so disapointed when I saw the openning in
fullscreen, especially for this beautifully shot episode.

ZAPHODB

Thursday, September 25, 2003 6:32 PM

SPACE is showing the eps that are available for broadcast. This means the same ones both Fox and Global aired. Only Serenity and The Train Job were in widescreen. The rest of the eps, including the three aired ones, are full screen. Joss wanted all the eps to air wide, but Fox nixed that idea. The DVD's will be here soon enough.

IAC

Friday, September 26, 2003 10:54 AM

I think Space has a choice. Tapes exist in both Wide Screen and Full Screen mode. I just checked my downloaded "unaird" episodes. They were encoded by people in Britain when shown there. At least those three are wide screen, and I think I recall mention that they saw them all in wide screen.

In fact, the copy of trash has a leader in front of it with show information (series name, 1AGE12, etc.). It lists the tape as being in the High Definition 1080p format.

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