BIGGEST MOVIE SPOILER YET!!

POSTED BY: chronicthehedgehog
UPDATED: Sunday, July 18, 2004 06:13
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CHRONICTHEHEDGEHOG

Thursday, July 15, 2004 7:01 PM

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Wash is going to have more switches on his dashboard!

Sweet Jeesus, have you ever heard anything so cool?

Check out his interview at scifi.com

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JCKNIFE

Thursday, July 15, 2004 7:15 PM

Cheater! How can anyone resist peeking when you "sex it up" like that!

CHOZSUN

Thursday, July 15, 2004 7:16 PM

So I have heard.

It has also been said that they have upgrade a couple of monitors.

CHRONICTHEHEDGEHOG

Thursday, July 15, 2004 7:17 PM

Mwahahaha! Mine is an evil laugh!

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CHOZSUN

Thursday, July 15, 2004 7:19 PM

Furthermore, that is what makes Firefly such a great show... it does not use whizbang technology in order to entertain the audience. Whenever anything techie goes on, it usually falls on Kaylee. Going my personal experience, if you focus less on stuff that doesn't matter (technology, etc) and focus on what really matters (character development, plot), you usually come away with a kickbutt TV series. In general, I think that appeals to many women I have notice that watch Firefly (including my wife and her friends).

JCKNIFE

Thursday, July 15, 2004 7:49 PM

I agree, CHOZSUN: on another board I frequent, people were griping about all the technical flaws in the movie Signs. "Why would aliens come to a planet that is 2/3 water if water kills them?" "Why didn't they have lasers?"
The movie wasn't about aliens, it was about faith.

SOUPCATCHER

Thursday, July 15, 2004 7:53 PM

This is one of the things I love most about Firefly - the realistic (from my point of view) portrayal of the role of technology in the future. I will hold up "Out of Gas" against any other TV shows version of the mechanical-problems episode. It's just one freaking part. But when that part goes you're in deep trouble. The solution is simple: replace that part. But that's a bit hard to do without a spare. And since you're operating on a tight budget, the easiest thing to skimp money on is replacement parts. (Why aren't you fixing the roof? Because it's raining. Why didn't you fix it when it wasn't raining? Because it wasn't leaking.) Space is at a premium on a merchant freighter and the last thing you would expect would be fabrication capabilities along with the necessary stock of materials.

But most other TV shows would've had the engineer completely build a new part out of socks, dishwashing liquid, metal stair tread, and duct tape. Or completely change the principle of the engine so that power came from a re-calibration of the aft tehallybopper relay.

Firefly takes the problem and treats it as a socio-technical problem (we know which part we need. we need to find someone who has the part. once we find someone we need to deal with the consequences of trying to negotiate with very little leverage). Most other TV shows treat it as purely a technical problem.

Oops, I think I just rambled

I shaved off my beard for you, devil woman!

HARDWARE

Friday, July 16, 2004 1:32 AM

Gorram it! No fair teasing the spoiler whores like that!

The more I get to know people the more I like my dogs.

EVENTHORIZON

Friday, July 16, 2004 3:10 AM

Quote:
Originally posted by JCKnife:
I agree, CHOZSUN: on another board I frequent, people were griping about all the technical flaws in the movie Signs. "Why would aliens come to a planet that is 2/3 water if water kills them?" "Why didn't they have lasers?"
The movie wasn't about aliens, it was about faith.

I loved Signs, but my fav gripe about it was "The aliens travel how far and they need to coordinate their attacks/navigate our planet using crop circles?"

But part of the reason I loved Firefly was because technology wasn't the focus- it wasn't like SciFi shows trying to explain how everything's done. It was about the people, not the toys... just like Signs wasn't about the Aliens, but faith.

CAPNHARBATKIN

Friday, July 16, 2004 5:26 AM

I'm starting to like Soupcatcher's posts more and more.

OOG would probably be my favorite eposide. I agree about how straight forward their treatment of the problem is.

One thing I've noticed with the ability to watch the DVDs multiple times is the number of times that the problem was foreshadowed/echoed

Everyone feel free to kick on this but I think the compression coil/catalyzer is:

1. Mentioned as needing to be replaced in Serenity, the series pilot
2. Again requested by Kaylee in The Train Job

and is it just me or does:

3. Wash pick up a part that looks exactly like the catalyzer in Ariel and throw it against the ambulance when they're in the junk yard?

That's the kind of thing that only someone with too much time on their hands come to realize. (makes sign of capital "L" against his forehead).

Now, how's about we get on with this increasingly eerie-ass day

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