Ok how about some negativity.....Yes towards Firefly!!!!

POSTED BY: TheSomnambulist
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THESOMNAMBULIST

Monday, April 12, 2010 7:57 PM

Well I was wondering....

Are there things that bother you about Firefly? The amount of killing without remorse perhaps? Zoe refering to the captain as 'Sir' even though the war has long since ended and she now has a husband. Inara parading around in those fancy dresses all the time? I mean sometimes they are weeks away from a planet... Can she not just chill in some tracksuit bottoms or something? How about a no make up day!? And Kaylee.. Always expecting Simon to moon over her and when he doesn't she gets narky!

... and the like.

Anyone have anything to add?

MINCINGBEAST

Monday, April 12, 2010 8:13 PM

negativity is my specialty, and there is nothing that occasions more negativity than the things that i actually enjoy. your list is a fine start, but i would add:

1. everything about kaylee

2. the browncoats putative identification with the confederates.

3. wash's "zany" sense of humor

4. book's statement equating child molesters with people who talk during theatre.

5. Inara and her tea

BYTEMITE

Monday, April 12, 2010 8:39 PM

I think Book's joke was more of a murder arson and jaywalking joke that it was saying child molestation is a frivolous offense.

My issue: No showers, and they still look the way they do. Even Jayne, though at least they complain about how he smells.

ZEEK

Monday, April 12, 2010 8:56 PM

None of the ones listed so far bother me.

The things that top my list are:
I can't remember where it's from, but they talk about "capitol city". Come on is this the simpsons or something? Create a real name for the city.

Bushwhacked has a number of issues. The guy who sees reavers and then tries to become like them just seems like a bad plot device. I can only hope that Mal's reasoning wasn't the real reason he turned. Maybe he got infected with whatever the original cause of the reavers was going to be. Then there's the whole "he'll look for familiar ground to start hunting. How would he find that exactly? He was knocked out most of the time he was moved around. Then there's the whole "oh you saved my life. You're free to go". Not buying it. A real alliance captain would find a way to rationalize being a stickler about the rules IMO.

AGENTROUKA

Monday, April 12, 2010 9:02 PM

Whee!

3 things that might have potentially been redeemed in later episodes by leading to actual consequences:

- the way Zoe tends to dismiss Wash's concerns

- Mal's wonky logic about respecting Inara

- Kaylee's occasional blindness to Simon's situation (Romancing her - not his priority!)

Things that are irrevocable annoying to me:

- Yes, the gratuitous, glorified violence

- Alliance people are all bad and incompetent, Mal knows everything better. *yawn*

- Inara's silly outfit during the Reaver fight. Come on, that was gratuitous. And btw, a BOW??

- River in the movie. They mostly removed her personality and replaced it with fetish fuel.

Actually, this makes me want to list all the small details I love about the show.

BYTEMITE

Monday, April 12, 2010 9:05 PM

Fanwank ahoy!

Bushwhacked was more intended to be a space horror than anything specific or explainable, much like the Reavers themselves. Reavers are boogie-men, and Mal's description of looking into the darkness and going mad is very lovecraftian.

Also suspiciously informed, based on what happens in the episode. So I like to think Reaverism is caused by two main factors.

First, exposure to PAX, which the Reaver ships might be carrying on their air processors. Assuming that the chemical doesn't decay, they might be continually exposed to it, and so would any of the victims they take back to their ship... And any of the ships that they docked with.

Second. Post traumatic stress disorder has been actually shown to permanently change brain chemistry and structure. It causes the brain to produce too much adrenaline and engages the HPA axis constantly, which governs aggression. So you have a traumatic experience, your brain changes.

Trauma + Pax = well, you know the rest.

BYTEMITE

Monday, April 12, 2010 9:09 PM

But, AR, Inara had her most sensitive and most important vital assets covered! Everyone knows according to movies, tv and comic books that if a woman armors her breasts and crotch and leaves everything else exposed, nothing can hit her!

Look at Kaylee, she dressed normally, and got hit by a dart, and Zoe got slashed down the back. Only River got away with dressing fairly normally, but then she's a loveable (and interesting) Mary Sue.

MINCINGBEAST

Monday, April 12, 2010 9:13 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by Bytemite:
But, AR, Inara had her most sensitive and most important vital assets covered! Everyone knows according to movies, tv and comic books that if a woman armors her breasts and crotch and leaves everything else exposed, nothing can hit her!

Look at Kaylee, she dressed normally, and got hit by a dart, and Zoe got slashed down the back. Only River got away with dressing fairly normally, but then she's a loveable (and interesting) Mary Sue.

agreed! it is well established that the only thing on a woman worth protecting are her, you know, breast and crotch area. to armor anything else would be superfluous.

AGENTROUKA

Monday, April 12, 2010 9:16 PM

Byte, your logic is difficult to counter, especially since you prove it with statistics!

BYTEMITE

Monday, April 12, 2010 9:25 PM

Additional proof:

http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ChainmailBikini

http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/Stripperiffic

But then, it's justified, because...

http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ShowSomeLeg

http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/DistractedByTheSexy

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