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selkie at 12:50am on 27/05/2005
selkie at 12:50am on 27/05/2005I have just seen the Firefly movie, Serenity. It is possibly the least serene thing I've ever seen. I mean, I know there's a billion of them. Or 1.3 billion, or whatever. Anyway.
I thought it was a great movie. I hadn't seen Firefly before the movie, but it did a good job of not confusing me. It also did a really good job of grossing me out. And there's kicking. Joel, you will like the kicking. I thought the actors were very good. I mean, not only compared to other space dramas, but just as... actors. Who are not very well known, but are very committed to making a good movie. You should all go see it when it comes out.
BIG SPOILER HERE
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muffinbutt, do NOT look past here!
Alan Tudyk's character...
is MARRIED.
The fans were part of what made the experience really enjoyable. There were fan-made stickers and t-shirts and wanted posters. There were geeks playing a double chess board. And Merry and Pippin drove up from Maryland to scalp tickets. Well, I think their names were actually something and Brian, but they danced and capered and they were very Merry and Pippin like, and they got their tickets. And soon, you will see a picture of me and some other people and a really hot actress, in really short shorts, and whose name I completely don't remember. But she played the hot chick!
In short, go see Serenity when it comes out. Because it's like small publishing - it needs support.
I thought it was a great movie. I hadn't seen Firefly before the movie, but it did a good job of not confusing me. It also did a really good job of grossing me out. And there's kicking. Joel, you will like the kicking. I thought the actors were very good. I mean, not only compared to other space dramas, but just as... actors. Who are not very well known, but are very committed to making a good movie. You should all go see it when it comes out.
BIG SPOILER HERE
muffinbutt, do NOT look past here!Alan Tudyk's character...
is MARRIED.
The fans were part of what made the experience really enjoyable. There were fan-made stickers and t-shirts and wanted posters. There were geeks playing a double chess board. And Merry and Pippin drove up from Maryland to scalp tickets. Well, I think their names were actually something and Brian, but they danced and capered and they were very Merry and Pippin like, and they got their tickets. And soon, you will see a picture of me and some other people and a really hot actress, in really short shorts, and whose name I completely don't remember. But she played the hot chick!
In short, go see Serenity when it comes out. Because it's like small publishing - it needs support.
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Anyway, before I was a slash ho, I was a romance novel tart, and before that, I was a sci fi slut, which would put this observation in the mid- to late-70's time frame: there was a short spate of novellas and stories positing that in the star-spanning future, everyone was going to look 'exotic' (as defined by the extremely whitebread target audience of the day) because as humanity streamed out to the stars, racial prejudice would become impractical and there are simply more human beings of Asiatic extraction than any other flavor, so their genes would have the most influence humanity's "look."
Daring stuff for the 70's, yo.
My first impression of Firefly was that certain elements strongly reminded me of the knock-off high fantasy I used to write, as if Joss had been a very young person when he first started putting this story together. Part of that impression stemmed from the pervasive Chinese culture, as if he'd been reading the same stuff I did c. late-70s, early-80s.