Wooooo, Script Review!

POSTED BY: 3EyedCrow
UPDATED: Monday, June 14, 2004 18:40
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3EYEDCROW

Wednesday, June 9, 2004 5:58 AM

Hey everyone, I've been lurking for a while but I didn't see this posted anywhere. There is a script review over at aint-it-cool-news.com (minor minor spoilers). Check it out. Everything sounds excellent so far. http://www.aint-it-cool-news.com/display.cgi?id=17749

3EyedCrow

RKLENSETH

Wednesday, June 9, 2004 6:11 AM

All I can say after reading that is that I can't fucking wait. I want a copy of that script.

Oh, and play Cantr II at www.cantr.net.

SEVENPERCENT

Wednesday, June 9, 2004 6:38 AM

Wow. I hate to break the unwritten poster rules with a one word post reply (which I suppose since I have now typed this I didnt), but, unarguably, wow. How many days left?

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He looked bigger when I couldn't see him.

QUICKSAND

Wednesday, June 9, 2004 6:45 AM

HOLY CRAP what is wrong with you people?

I bet you all snuck into your parents rooms to open all your presents on, like, Dec. 22 or something.

Wait for the movie, you weirdos. Why ruin it for yourself?

ATHERTONWING

Wednesday, June 9, 2004 8:52 AM

what everyone seems to have failed to have mentioned is that the review is spoiler free!!! the girl is a massive JW fan and she also didnt want her to be the one who leaked spoilers its just a general 'this was good that was good review" it almost makes you wish she had actually spoiled you she's so vauge at some points.so its pretty much safe to look at.

NOOCYTE

Wednesday, June 9, 2004 8:59 AM

Actually, the poster took explicit (and, to my mind, successful) pains to leave the review as non-spoilery as could be, while still conveying a sense of how well Joss has accomplished his aims. Truly, only the spoiler-free purist (one of which, by now it must be plain, I ain't) would be vexed by this review.

But, to filter even further, let me just say that many of my doubts and fears about Joss' first foray into silver-screen-dom have been put soundly to bed by this wee tease! Sounds like a FILM..and a (Big) Damn Good One.

Counting the days.......

Keep flyin'!

Department of Redundancy Department

PUDOR

Wednesday, June 9, 2004 9:17 AM

I'm going to spoiler-code the bits I paste from the review, just in case they're spoilerific in some way I'm too dumb to notice :)

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(Also, and just to be anal-retentive here, Whedon on occasion seems to use the words “galaxy” and “solar system” interchangeably in some of his descriptions, though I trust that’s a problem that’ll be worked out by the f/x boys long before post-production time.)

What's the chance that this is deliberate, and *won't* be removed by the 'f/x boys' ever? ;) I can well imagine Joss using each term in just the right places to bring a whole new lot of fresh (and typically inconclusive) evidence to the argument :) Could this be a subtle fan reference in itself?

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Only one cast member has notably fewer scenes than the rest, and I almost wonder if there wasn’t a rather severe scheduling conflict that necessitated that person’s absence from much of the filming.

My money's on Ron Glass as being the one she's talking about here, and may indicate why so few sites are reporting his inclusion in the cast.

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Alternatively, I suppose plot-wise perhaps Zoe, Wash, Kaylee or Inara could be sacrificable so that we can concentrate on one of the more relevant characters. Although - if there's action scenes, Zoe's likely to be in them, and Joss would be insane to not put Kaylee in every single scene, if only to sell the film to the Great Hormonal Masses... Same for Inara, actually. Hmmm. Okay, perhaps Wash is the only option apart from Book.

Anyway, this looks excellent. A couple of things definitely put my mind at ease. I'm happy that

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new fans should be easy to convert on the film alone

, and that

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mal is definitively the main character,

rather than

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farming screen-time out to one of the others, which would just be plain wrong.

Woo! :)

CHRISTOPHERROBIN

Wednesday, June 9, 2004 9:33 AM

It truly is for the most part spoiler free so go ahead and read the shiny review. Good one 3eyed crow, big upps to ya

Mal: "Well lady, I must say...you're my kinda stupid."

PURPLEBELLY

Wednesday, June 9, 2004 9:58 AM

So spoiler free that it might have been written by one of the production team

should that opinion have a spoiler-spoiler warning?

ZOID

Wednesday, June 9, 2004 10:04 AM

3EyedCrow, et al:

First: What's "3EyedCrow" a reference to? Does it have something to do with a henchman who's got second sight, but still manages to get put through the portside engine nacelle? Is it a 3Eyed male crow, or a 3Eyed female crow?

Second: The 'review' was interesting, and convinces me more than ever that I've gotten most of the major plot points right whenever I speculate on Firefly... Of course, I suspect all the other, contradicting speculators feel exactly the same way. (Still, read zoid's at your own risk.) It'll be fun seeing who-got-what-right at the theater, and watching people 'back and fill' here at FFFn the next day...

Third: Remember, there should always be a point 'Number 3'. No good explanation can stop with only two points. You heard it here first.

There was one thing that caught my eye in that review:

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Sure they married Riker and Troi, but honestly – does anyone give a fuck?

Now, that's what I'd call '3rd eye-opening'. I just love it when girls talk trashy, don't you?

Respectfully,

zoid
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