Unpopular Opinions
POSTED BY: Lexan
UPDATED: Monday, August 3, 2026 22:05
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Originally posted by mal4prez:
BTW #2 - 6string, you have such potential, and then you go on these rants that, I'm sorry to say, make you sound like such an ass. Man - don't do that! I'm so close to thinking you're really cool. Quit getting in the way! (Should I put a kissy emoticon thingy here or a knife in the head? Ah hell - you decide what my tone is.)
Thanks for saying so mal4prez. I must say, with the exception of "you have such potential" & "you're really cool", I think the part of your post directed at me would be more appropriate in the "Popular Opinions" thread.
It was pretty rocky there..... really rocky there for awhile... but me and PR are cool again.
Hey PR.
"A government is a body of people, usually notably ungoverned." http://www.myspace.com/6ixstringjack
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Lots here I want to respond to, although I'm not sure if I've time (although I may come back and try) so first off I just want to ask if anyone else is really interested in finding out Riverdancer's opinion of them? 
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Originally posted by Orpheus:
My unpopular opinion? You really want it? Alright...
My unpopular opinion: The BDM has too many jokes. It's too funny. Don't get me wrong, I enjoy the humor (most of it anyway), but the first half of the film feels like they're trying to shoehorn as much of the show's humor as possible. From the time we meet Mal to the moment Simon starts arguing with him, it's quip-joke-quip-quip-turbulence-gag-joke-Simon. It's always felt like too much to me. I get that Joss had to draw in newcomers and satiate fans at the same time, but I think he overdid the humor.
As much as I hate to say it, the movie doesn't really become "Serenity" to me until Book shuffles loose the mortal coil. Until then, it was just "Firefly: The Movie".
Start the thrashing now.
Might just be me, but I tend to find that stressful situations bring out the best (or frequently worst, as I do enjoy making people laugh at inappropriate things) in my sense of humour. The characters were in high-stress from the get-go, Might be that this is a perfectly in character and reasonable reaction, because I know I'm not the only person on the planet (and imagine I won't have been the only person, 500 years down the line) who gets that way.
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Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:Quote:
Originally posted by PhoenixRose:
And some smile, flirt, and say "Hey, I'm really liking you a lot."
What's so hard about that?
Step into a guys shoes for a little while and you'll have your answer.
What does a man have to do to walk into a room and have every woman in the place want to be with him? He's got to be rich and powerful or influential and definately have a lot of money.
What does a woman have to do to walk into a room and have every man in the room want to be with her? I don't know..... her hair?
Ignoring all that comes after, I just wanted to throw you another POV Jack. Speaking for myself, it's weird little things that attract me to a woman, being smart, funny, good looking, well maybe, but more likely it'll be maybe how the light catches in their eyes, or if they take the piss out of me when I am other people, and other stupid things. It's a bit, well, picky, and I wouldn't want to be the body trying to come against it.
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Originally posted by PhoenixRose:
I love Heart of Gold.
I kind of love it for maybe unpopular reasons, though.
Actually, another unpopular opinion I might have is that Inara bugs the hell out of me. I never bought the chemistry between Mal and Inara, for one thing, but even if I did I don't like the way they interact. They both act like spineless, brainless juvenilles in the context of their 'relationship', even more so than Simon and Kaylee, who are younger than them! It's irritating as hell, really. And I think the way their relationship would have played out over five or seven years would have been equally irritating. They would have eventually stopped dancing around, said "oh yeah, we really do have something" been completely blissed out for about a week, and then it would all fall apart because Mal would get pissy about Inara's job again, and it would get even more stupid. She would probably leave again, Mal would get all cranky at everyone and act like a sulky, angry teenager, and it all would have been just ridiculous.
Neither of them are teenagers!
But they both act like it in relation to each other, and sometimes that spills over and affects other people!
It's annoying!
I understand that some people find teen angst to be dramatic and entertaining, but I'm not one of them, esspecially when the teen angst is coming from a 20-something and a 30-something. Seriously.
I dunno, Mal for one is pretty emotionally damaged, I mean the guy is all kinds of screwed up, ju
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Yep, all good. Hi, Jack 
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Originally posted by Oddsbodskins:
here you go getting me into their nobbly little fictional heads >.< )
w00t!
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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Originally posted by Oddsbodskins:
anyone else really interested in finding out Riverdancer's opinion of them?
You are? O_O
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Glad to please Rose xD
And sure Riverdancer, who doesn't like to hear a relatively unbiased opinion of themselves from time to time?
I'd reply to more bits of the unpopular opinions, but my arms hurt >.< Don't drink, carrying beer and your shopping for a mile home hurts 
They may think their sins are original, but for the most part they are petty and repetitive.
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Firefly should have had more actors who were actually Chinese. It was really a missed opportunity for a cult-popular sci-fi show to have East Asians as main or supporting characters.
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Originally posted by PkDecatur:
Firefly should have had more actors who were actually Chinese. It was really a missed opportunity for a cult-popular sci-fi show to have East Asians as main or supporting characters.
I agreee with that, and always have entertained the idea that, had the show gone further, this would have happened.
I do have my own little grievances with one character or another that people would find unpopular but these greivances bcome strengths when I look at not the characters induvidually, but the crew as a whole.
The Reaver fight in Serenity. I loved the fluid movments of the fighting and thought River was spectacular, but (and there always is, is there not?) two things bug me. One: One of the reavers is dressed like Han Solo. My hand to God, I swear this to be true. You look closly at those reavers, and you will see him too. Two: (and more importantly) The reavers who are not fighting River while mostly concealed by shadows and lighting, stand around like ninjas in a bad kung fu movie, waiting for thier turn to get thier ass kicked. I try to tell myself that they are reconsidering the situation (after all, how often do they encounter this kind of resistance from a slip of a girl?) but I have a hard time convincing myself of that.
Okay, that was more of a general complaint than an opinion, so lets try this. Jayne is a PRICK, an a**hole, and I feel people give him way more reverence then he deserves. He is cool, but not good, certainly not noble, and if I met him in the real world I shoot first or be running the other way. When I see an fanfic that turns Jayne into some sort of noble, caring person for the crew, it bugs me on a special level.
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All good things must come to an end.
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Originally posted by Jigman:
One of the reavers is dressed like Han Solo. My hand to God, I swear this to be true. You look closly at those reavers, and you will see him too.
I've gone straight through the screenshots of the fight, starting here: http://www.leavemethewhite.com/caps/displayimage.php?album=73&pos=2361 (even lightened a few so I could see more detail) and I'm not seeing it. Can you point me in the right direction?
(By the way, that astonishing grace River has in motion looks very odd in freeze-frame)
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The reavers who are not fighting River while mostly concealed by shadows and lighting, stand around like ninjas in a bad kung fu movie, waiting for thier turn to get their ass kicked.
I don't think that's true. She's taking on more than one at a time, she's just fast as hell. Several rush her at once and get cut down, which I kinda liked. It's like a wolf pack going after something with a couple blades and lightning fast reflexes; they fail.
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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This is less of an unpopular opinion and more of a medical fact: that VOMITING (River in the BDM) somehow magically erases years of brain damaging psychosis and makes you better.
I know, I know it's another one of Joss' quickie problem solving metaphors.
Vomiting maybe a cure for a nasty hangover, but it obviously doesn't work for River because she goes helpless again, in the following scene, with the Reavers.
And NOW, as suggested at the end of the BDM, she's flying through space as the frackin co-pilot ready to solve the woos of the 'verse. Or wait, that's only in poorly written fanfics.
Overall, I found this progression of empowerment (you go girl, because it's YOUR TURN!) even harder to believe than the ridiculous Reaver fight.
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I never "got" that River was "cured" at that point until I read some fanfiction.
The way I saw it was that River was an oddball. She got triggered with some actions and memories. She went worse.
Now that she has got to the bottom of her memories, she is better. "Better" as in returning to that oddball phase, NOT "better" as in reversing brain damage.
I don't think she would be a lone pilot for a long long time. Maybe ever.
Secondly, she would not be automatically promoted into taking part in violence and jobs. There is the issue of control.
A further unpopular opinion is Joss lost some of his confidence and went back to some age old means. "Super Buffy mode" being one of them. (and no, I do not buy that argument about empowerment.)
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