Finding Serenity - due out on Friday
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UPDATED: Monday, April 11, 2005 10:23
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I'm doing my best to get the word out.
"Serenity" and me made the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette today!
http://www.pittsburghpostgazette.com/pg/05099/485316.stm
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Originally posted by Shiny:
(and the fact that I immediately understood your sig makes me one, too!) ;)
But just killing off all the butterflies won't do it. We also have to write all names and words out in full... to stop sensitive dependence on initial conditions.
Ouch! That hurt my brain! ;p
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Originally posted by bobtaylor:
I'm doing my best to get the word out.
"Serenity" and me made the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette today!
http://www.pittsburghpostgazette.com/pg/05099/485316.stm
(You'll have to scroll down a bit.)
Nice job, Bob!
Jayne, your mouth is talkin. Might want to look into that.
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Originally posted by bobtaylor:
I'm doing my best to get the word out.
"Serenity" and me made the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette today!
http://www.pittsburghpostgazette.com/pg/05099/485316.stm
(You'll have to scroll down a bit.)
Cool! And I'll bet anyone who reads the title of your essay will be instantly intrigued! ;)
I have heard of a place where humans do battle in a ring of Jell-O.
--Teal'c
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Originally posted by Nywoe:
Cool! And I'll bet anyone who reads the title of your essay will be instantly intrigued! ;)
Heh. You're probably right. Funny thing about the title -- Ben Bella Books asked me for an essay title several weeks after I turned in my final draft. I'm not great with titles and, honestly, hadn't given it much thought. The folks at Ben Bella then said, "Well, just give us a temporary title to use as a placeholder for the manuscript proofs."
Off the top of my head, I said, "Just put down 'The Captain May Wear the Tight Pants, but It's the Gals Who Make Serenity Soar.'" We agreed that we'd change it as soon as either them or me came up with something better. Turns out, neither of us did. Worked out okay, though, since I think the title accurately conveys the mostly jovial tone of my essay.
It's nice to hear that so many people are enjoying the book. It was a fun project to be a part of.
www.robert-b-taylor.com
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bobtaylor wrote:
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...It was a fun project to be a part of.
I'll bet! I hope you're also cognizant of the probability of being involved in a growing cultural phenomenon, at the 'ground floor', so to speak. If the movie does as well as I suspect, the Firefly 'verse could someday overshadow the Star Wars saga (if only because JW is the superior writer to Lucas and his sycophants: "Mr. Lucas, is it okay if I have the characters make sense? No? Yes sir, Mr. Lucas, whatever you say, sir!").
As I opined to KRAD, when Serenity soars into the void left by the epically depressing conclusion to Star Wars, I think the public will latch on to our BDHs and JW's ingenious storytelling like a shipwrecked man clutches a life preserver. Finding oneself positioned on the lifeboat -- passing out those preservers -- is good luck, delivered by a hypodermic to the gluteals.
Respectfully,
zoid
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"Burn the land and boil the sea, you can't take the sky from me." The Ballad of Serenity
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Originally posted by bobtaylor:
http://www.pittsburghpostgazette.com/pg/05099/485316.stm
Rob Owen the floor, laughing. Got it -- the book, I mean, not the paper.
Keep the Shiny Side Up . . . (wutzon) Commitments, "Hard to Handle", eponymous soundtrack
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Originally posted by zoid:
"Mr. Lucas, is it okay if I have the characters make sense? No? Yes sir, Mr. Lucas, whatever you say, sir!").
repeating myself, but cant help thinking about an interview with mark hamill. something about lucas' problem is being surrounded (or surrounding himself with) people that would call it pure genius if he was picking his nose.
maybe that's the problem, nobody having the guts to say "uh, george, that scene of anakin riding the giant tick.. it's utter bull and you really need your head examined.. first jar jar and now THIS.. wtf is wrong with you?"
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As I opined to KRAD, when Serenity soars into the void left by the epically depressing conclusion to Star Wars
not sure if it will really be that depressing (except you mean storywise). but then, after the trailers for ep2 i also thought it might be good *sigh*. anyway, star wars over, enterprise cancelled and galactica so far sticking to the small screen sounds like a good window.
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...not sure if it will really be that depressing (except you mean storywise)...
We already know how Episode III: The Sudden But Inevitable Betrayal ends. I'd call that a major spoiler.
By the end of SW EpIII: TSBIB, Anakin will have suddenly but inevitably betrayed the Jedi (perhaps even with a scene in which Mace Windu delivers Wash's line, "Curse your sudden...", right before Vader beheads him). Darth Sidious (Palpatine) will turn Anakin to the Dark Side and together they will hunt down and kill all the Jedi except Obi-Won and Yoda, who will find themselves hiding out in the wastelands of Tatooine and Dagobah, respectively, like Sadam in his hidey-hole, clutching their useless Jedi knowledge and waiting to die. Anakin will have fathered twins on Amidala (who I've got to say has terrible taste in men, perhaps worse than Eva Braun), but they too will be spirited away into hiding, neither even knowing they have a sibling. ...Let alone a Midichlorian-induced monster for a father (ah, Lucas and his mitochondrial genocide gods!).
So, in the thrilling and heart-warming conclusion to moviedom's most beloved sci-fi series, Hayden Christensen will be transformed from a whining 6'1" skinny streak of piss into Darth Vader (six feet seven inches, as portayed by David Prowse), the basso-voiced right hand man of Satan Incarnate. That's what I call character development! Together, Vader and Emperor Palpatine will skip off into the sunset, spreading death and darkness everywhere they turn.
I predict some children will be seen exiting theatres with tears flowing down their faces, while others will have a disquieting glow in their eyes...
So, yeah, I feel fairly comfortable saying, 'epically depressing conclusion'.
Respectfully,
zoid
P.S.
I know it may sound as though I'm bashing SW, but I'm really only bashing GL. What happened to him? I stood on line for hours at the theatre to see the original trilogy at least 6 times each. That's how good I thought they were, how compelling the mythology. Ronald Reagan used that mythology as a catch phrase to defeat the Evil Empire, the former USSR. That's not happenstance, it's testimony to the genius of the original trilogy. So where did George's train jump the gorram track, huh?
I will go see it in the theatre, 'cause I'm that kind of idiot. But, as Luke/Han/Leia/Lando/Obi Ewan would say, "I've got a bad feeling about this...". It'll really be kind of a blessing when the old girl finally shuffles off the mortal coil: It's a shame to see Star Wars suffering from senile dementia this way.
P.P.S.
On the other hand, the SW games totally rock, so 'party on!', LucasArts!
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"Burn the land and boil the sea, you can't take the sky from me." The Ballad of Serenity
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