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schneefinkThat was it? Seriously? Not fair!
The Message: Oh, Simon. The beginning was cute, then touching, and when Tracey woke up I first thought this could be interesting, but as soon as he saw Kaylee I knew what was going to happen, and when Book mentioned the Fed station I knew how it was going to end. Not really exciting. I'm just glad they didn't have Simon knock out Tracey, that would have been too much.
Heart of Gold: I want to forget this episode existed. That was just so unnecessary. In the beginning, when the one girl asked "but who would help us?" I almost shouted "the A-team!" and then came the cut to Mal, heh. When it turns out Mandy (?) asked Inara for help I had hope, but it didn't last long. Why oh why did we need a love scene between Mal and random woman who is supposedly a Companion and yet finds him irresistible for no reason at all? And hey, Mandy, good for you if you didn't know Inara was interested in Mal, but way to go and tell him, idiot. I loved Inara's talk to Mal after he came out of Mandy's room, but it was completely ruined by her breaking down in tears. Seriously? A short moment with deep breaths, hands pressed against her face, maybe shoulders shaking, and then looking up again, okay, but this? No.
The villain hates women, that's why he's evil! Strange that all the important life-saving in this episode is done by men, even Zoe is just standing there shooting. Mal and Inara have a moment over his dead lover's corpse - come on. Amazing Grace at the funeral? *hides face* Also apparently the brothel doesn't even have a midwife for some reason. And of course it only serves men.
I'm not sure how I feel about Zoe wanting children. I wish they'd left it out so I don't have to think about it.
Things I liked: River's "it's starting!", Kaylee and Wash ("tell me I'm pretty", heh. Although: they left the ship unsupervised and apparently not secured, are they stupid? And they could at least have shown something about getting the thugs off the ship.)
Objects in Space: A River episode! Poor River, an untrained and ill telepath. How old is she? I liked how she runs through the ship, picking up things (especially from Simon, ouch, and Zoe and Wash - poor River, and a double invasion of privacy), and the crew meeting overheard from both sides.
Firefly is very, very good at scary villains. The bounty hunter and Kaylee - ouch. He was obviously insane, which worked very well, and so well developed that I was surprised by his death.
Go, River, being sneaky and scary and awesome! And Simon, awww. River about Simon, heh, and Simon directing Zoe how to operate on him - and Wash with the brow-mopping! And Kaylee and River playing again! And Jayne and Book annoyed that they missed all the excitement.
I don't think I'll be able to get Serenity here, so that was it for a while :( (I've already seen it, but it was a while ago and I hadn't seen the series then.) But from what I remember there must be a long time between the series and the movie so that Book could set up his community.
And to be honest, I'm not sure I want to think about the movie now. I know how it ends, and when I watched it it was just that pilot guy that died, but now? Ow.
I'm surprised the Reavers didn't appear more often! Only twice, from what I remember: once in a ship, following them, and once the tortured guy. But there's no shortage of bad guys in this world.
Characters ♥ I love all of them, except Mal and Inara. Mal mainly because of how he treats Inara. And Inara because she's too much tell: we don't know anything about her, and while Book is a deliberate mystery with Inara it just seems like an oversight. She has a crush on Mal regardless of how he treats her, she's a Companion, she's basically nice, proud, but other than that? Meh. (I once read about "how to test if a character is three-dimensional": how well can you describe them without mentioning their profession or their role in the plot? I can do it easily with everyone but Inara.)
But the others! Simon and River, Zoe and Wash, Kaylee, Book and even Jayne, awww. I love that we get to see everyday live and friendships on the ship, that there's actual character development, and there's a lot in the background that there wasn't enough time to explore.
I'm so glad I finally got around to watching this (although I wish I could have done it without falling sick.) And I still have the bonus material. :)
The Message: Oh, Simon. The beginning was cute, then touching, and when Tracey woke up I first thought this could be interesting, but as soon as he saw Kaylee I knew what was going to happen, and when Book mentioned the Fed station I knew how it was going to end. Not really exciting. I'm just glad they didn't have Simon knock out Tracey, that would have been too much.
Heart of Gold: I want to forget this episode existed. That was just so unnecessary. In the beginning, when the one girl asked "but who would help us?" I almost shouted "the A-team!" and then came the cut to Mal, heh. When it turns out Mandy (?) asked Inara for help I had hope, but it didn't last long. Why oh why did we need a love scene between Mal and random woman who is supposedly a Companion and yet finds him irresistible for no reason at all? And hey, Mandy, good for you if you didn't know Inara was interested in Mal, but way to go and tell him, idiot. I loved Inara's talk to Mal after he came out of Mandy's room, but it was completely ruined by her breaking down in tears. Seriously? A short moment with deep breaths, hands pressed against her face, maybe shoulders shaking, and then looking up again, okay, but this? No.
The villain hates women, that's why he's evil! Strange that all the important life-saving in this episode is done by men, even Zoe is just standing there shooting. Mal and Inara have a moment over his dead lover's corpse - come on. Amazing Grace at the funeral? *hides face* Also apparently the brothel doesn't even have a midwife for some reason. And of course it only serves men.
I'm not sure how I feel about Zoe wanting children. I wish they'd left it out so I don't have to think about it.
Things I liked: River's "it's starting!", Kaylee and Wash ("tell me I'm pretty", heh. Although: they left the ship unsupervised and apparently not secured, are they stupid? And they could at least have shown something about getting the thugs off the ship.)
Objects in Space: A River episode! Poor River, an untrained and ill telepath. How old is she? I liked how she runs through the ship, picking up things (especially from Simon, ouch, and Zoe and Wash - poor River, and a double invasion of privacy), and the crew meeting overheard from both sides.
Firefly is very, very good at scary villains. The bounty hunter and Kaylee - ouch. He was obviously insane, which worked very well, and so well developed that I was surprised by his death.
Go, River, being sneaky and scary and awesome! And Simon, awww. River about Simon, heh, and Simon directing Zoe how to operate on him - and Wash with the brow-mopping! And Kaylee and River playing again! And Jayne and Book annoyed that they missed all the excitement.
I don't think I'll be able to get Serenity here, so that was it for a while :( (I've already seen it, but it was a while ago and I hadn't seen the series then.) But from what I remember there must be a long time between the series and the movie so that Book could set up his community.
And to be honest, I'm not sure I want to think about the movie now. I know how it ends, and when I watched it it was just that pilot guy that died, but now? Ow.
I'm surprised the Reavers didn't appear more often! Only twice, from what I remember: once in a ship, following them, and once the tortured guy. But there's no shortage of bad guys in this world.
Characters ♥ I love all of them, except Mal and Inara. Mal mainly because of how he treats Inara. And Inara because she's too much tell: we don't know anything about her, and while Book is a deliberate mystery with Inara it just seems like an oversight. She has a crush on Mal regardless of how he treats her, she's a Companion, she's basically nice, proud, but other than that? Meh. (I once read about "how to test if a character is three-dimensional": how well can you describe them without mentioning their profession or their role in the plot? I can do it easily with everyone but Inara.)
But the others! Simon and River, Zoe and Wash, Kaylee, Book and even Jayne, awww. I love that we get to see everyday live and friendships on the ship, that there's actual character development, and there's a lot in the background that there wasn't enough time to explore.
I'm so glad I finally got around to watching this (although I wish I could have done it without falling sick.) And I still have the bonus material. :)
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Date: 2011-09-21 10:39 pm (UTC)Another thing about Firefly that's rather neat is that it seems to cross over readily to the non-fannish world -- there are a lot of people who don't consider themselves fannish people in general who will admit to being fans of Firefly, and make fanstuffs, etc. The author Steven Brust wrote a novel-length Firefly fanfic that is available for download on his pro site XD. And while I've never been that involved in Firefly fandom, even from the outside I've noticed that it has a lot of neat, creative fanstuff, like Notes on a Fridge (on a Spaceship), which (along with similar epistolary & imaginary-found-item fic) provided part of the inspiration for "Postcards to Jeannie". (ETA: Actually, re-reading it ... I guess I should say quite a lot of the inspiration for it! I'd forgotten that it was that much of an influence on the style I'd used in that and similar fic.)
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Date: 2011-09-21 10:53 pm (UTC)And the Notes on a Fridge are adorable! (Heh, good thing Ronon's drawings are less creepy ^^)