lightningbug
thanks to the generous lendings of friend g., I have now had the immense pleasure of peeking at firefly, mr. whedon's third television endeavor, and I am firmly convinced that the abrupt cessation of this miraculous little show is one of the sadder things imaginable for our sad tvland. in one particularly gripping episode, our beloved cap'm is tortured to death and then revived for more torture by a sadistic super-bad-guy, who cuts off his ear among other uglinesses, and when the motley troops of serentity (the ship) load up their guns to take the badguys by storm, I gotta say, I choked up a little bit. and that the next episode is all about our captain's bare naked ass (isn't that what it was about?) just shows the show's very fine range.
plus, you gotta love a show that makes, for its futuristic slang (in addition to the common introduction of chinese into particularly heated conversations), use of words like "shiny" and "humped."
this thing has got to be brought back. it's just too wonderful.
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You've seen Serenity, right? Right?
I love firefly. It's so gorram awesome.
of course! and I'm just chomping at the bit to see it again, post-firefly extravaganza. now that I'm all attached, I can't believe whedon killed shepherd and wash! that's not shiny.
I think Wash was killed to free up Zoe for romance (it was a big network complaint that there wasn't enough romantic possibilities in the series). That's my guess anyway--which was too bad--he had such awesome lines ("we live on a spaceship").
my favorite: Yes. Yes, this is a fertile land, and we will thrive. We will rule over all this land, and we will call it… ‘This Land’.”
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