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I liked the juxtaposition of having an actual Western in space. Star Trek said space was the final frontier. Firefly showed it.
Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.
A troll's hair is still pointy, even when it's wearing a hat.
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One More Thing ;-) I very much liked the character of Kaylee. She reminds me so much of an old girl friend (save the hair color which was auburn) I had my first year of college that I was deeply lost in remember when.
The young lady of my past would have been happy with me dropping out of college and living a carefree life, maybe working on a ranch or in a restuarant. I was a "Computer Geek" in the day when there weren't many and had visions of changing the world.
Watching her and Simon was very real to me. We eventually went our separate ways, though we are still in touch. She had a bunch of kids, three husbands and is now this really cool young gramma.
PS. No, none of them are mine ;-)
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Originally posted by PhoenixRose:
I liked the juxtaposition of having an actual Western in space. Star Trek said space was the final frontier. Firefly showed it.
Precisely, well said! I loved the two worlds coming together!
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Originally posted by Starrbaby:
I also *don't* want Mal and Inara to get together . . .ever. The tension between them is too awsome to break. I think if the series continued, and Mal and Inara got thier acts together, that would have been the equivalant of jumping the shark. It would have been down hill ever since.
I agree, I think that Mal and Inara wouldn't have gotten together. I also don't think that Simon and Kaylee should have really gotten together at the end of the movie. His akwardness and her touchyness was just to awsome for me to see them together, with him saying the right things.
Also, I don't think that anyone else on the ship would have gotten married, or have kids. I could have seen Wash and Zoe maybe having kids, but really, having all of the other characters getting together and married, with kids, (which I've seen in many fics) is just to sappy for me. I seriously doubt that those people would find true love, or whatever you want to call it. It's far to predictable, and very un-Joss.
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Originally posted by Lambytoes:
I don't think that anyone else on the ship would have gotten married, or have kids. I could have seen Wash and Zoe maybe having kids, but really, having all of the other characters getting together and married, with kids, (which I've seen in many fics) is just to sappy for me. I seriously doubt that those people would find true love, or whatever you want to call it. It's far to predictable, and very un-Joss.
I agree. I've voiced my annoyance with the sappy, happy, domestic bliss fic writing more than once.
(This site won't display pngs, BTW, and you only need the URL on the boards; the avatar is the only place you need the HTML code.)
Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.
A troll's hair is still pointy, even when it's wearing a hat.
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Something I haven't seen mentioned yet: The hologram headstones (or whatever their official designation) in the BDM. I think it's because I - like many others - lived through the last 5 schmaltzed-up minutes of Return of the Jedi...but whatever the reason, the mugging images of our "corpsified" friends just kinda rubbed my rhubarb...
It was like that when we got here!
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My unpopular opinion?
"Well if she don't give us some extra flow from the engine room to offset the burnthrough..."
And a few other Alan Tudyk lines (from the series too) were "read" rather than "acted".
Ability-wise, Nathan Fillion and Adam Baldwin are brilliant. Probably the best of the bunch, and a whole lot of other actors.
Morena Played Inara really well IMO. To the comments that she lacked some emotional investment - that is a part of the character. I call it the porcelain doll.
River and Simon's roles were really hard, but well played by Summer Glau and Sean Maher. Gina Torres played a good Zoe. Book was also top notch.
That just leaves Alan Tudyk in a few places... and I know how everyone just loves him.
/hides.
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Originally posted by PhoenixRose:
I liked the juxtaposition of having an actual Western in space. Star Trek said space was the final frontier. Firefly showed it.
I know the reason for doing it. Most of the time, I just didn't particularly care for it.
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I disliked Book. He annoyed me. I was glad when he died, although I wished he wouldn't have had so much time to give a final sermon before croaking. At some point I was kind of hoping Mal would just strangle him so that he'd stop talking.
Questions are a burden to others. Answers are prison for oneself.
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Originally posted by RiverDancer:
Christ Almighty, I didn't realize how many browncoats were not only completely superficial, but slaves to media ideals. This is disappointing as hell.
No kidding.
I don't care about money. I care about personality. I'll throw in a quote from "The Last Dancer" by Daniel Keys Moran tomorrow.
Unpopular opinions?
The music in Serenity was so much better than in Firefly.
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Landmines - $50 per
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"You gotta love that the first pirated HD DVD is the one about space pirates who broadcast a video that the government wants to keep secret.
Can't stop the signal."
-reavers_ate_my_dvd
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