... in which there's wacky fun
1.Once More With Hobbits: up there with Once More With Contrivance, but this time with hobbitses. Also mp3s to download!
2.3D... stuff: including goodness relating to Aubrey Beardsley, M.C. Escher, and Hieronymous Bosch (what a weirdo).
3. The best music video ever, which has totally beaten Coffee and TV in my music video affections.
4. This site, which not only has a whole lot of cool Firefly-related interviews and such, but also has... an apparently legit script for an unaired Firefly episode!
Squee! I mean, I can see why it didn't get aired; it's a little bit filler, with a good deal of it being stuff we either already knew or didn't necessarily need to have explicitly stated. Obviously this isn't the finished product, but as it is now, I reckon that while it'd be nice to see on the screen, in the end the episodes we do have are better, and that getting rid of this was the better choice. On the other hand, though... seeing more of our lovely characters! Some of this new stuff would have been awesome, and oh my gosh the wait for the Serenity movie is going to take ages. Eeee!
I love Kaylee and Inara, for a start. I've always liked their relationship - it's so nice to actually have female characters who are not only interesting people in their own right but also have complex, meaningful relationships with others! other women! my god! - and the little extra stuff we get here is cool. I'm intrigued by the fact that apparently Kaylee is way more self-aware than I had thought she was; according to this, she has conciously decided that she's going to choose happiness. Cool. Her saying she's always OK and Jayne worrying about her and being all crushy is cute, too. And it sounds like Inara was raised somewhere posh... although I suppose the fact that fairs "weren't quite the thing" where she grew up could be taken in several ways if you wanted to. And while "being good with anatomy" is just asking to become a euphemism, I really don't think Inara meant it that way, so how come Inara has scientific training?
(And is this is any way connected to her Big Honkin' Mystery? Abd again, Inara being connected to children. Hmm. I do wish this script had more on both Inara and Book, as the people whose stories I would most like Joss to get round to talking about, stat. Murble.)
I also adore Wash and Zoe, as always. This is certainly not the best Wash and Zoe-ness ever (probably because it hasn't had the cast's imput yet; apparently Alan 'I will fong you' Tudyk improvises a whole lot of the Wash stuff, like the interrogation bit where he goes on for ages about how hot Zoe is, heh) but it's still cute. Some of it, like Wash saying that Zoe's not moved on, probably didn't need to get said like that, but it's still quite good to see when you're an obsessive fangirl. :) Though this also made me start wondering about Zoe's arc; this showed that they've got the potential to take the 'detactching from the military-and-Mal mindset and getting with the Wash-and-kids programme' arc in some really dark directions. While I have no problem with dark storylines, I'm not at all sure I want to them to do that to Wash and Zoe. Oh, my Wash and Zoe. They've already had the torture, dangit!
In a completely random change of topic: Jaaayne! Jayne and his floppy turtle! I do wonder what's going on there; this is yet another time that Jayne's shown to have a great fondness for various inanimate objects, and while his not realising how his fondness for a stuffed turtle contradicts his percieved self-image fits his general pattern of being complete un-selfaware, I do get the feeling there's at least meant to be something else there as well. What, I'm not exactly sure, but having it just be comic relief wouldn't fit with everything else: one of the coolest things about Firefly is that there's always more going on than it seems on the surface.
Sort of like River - I love the use of River's storytelling here. So it was the blue handed men who tortured her; not that this wasn't already the most likely thing, but it's nice to have an actual fact in what's still just a big ol' mess. Poor River - and poor Simon, too. This episode really shows how much the whole thing sucks for him, as well. Wah.
Oh, do I love this show.
And finally, I am almost halfway through Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell, and it is freaking AMAZING. All the hype is so totally deserved. Just thought you ought to know.
2.3D... stuff: including goodness relating to Aubrey Beardsley, M.C. Escher, and Hieronymous Bosch (what a weirdo).
3. The best music video ever, which has totally beaten Coffee and TV in my music video affections.
4. This site, which not only has a whole lot of cool Firefly-related interviews and such, but also has... an apparently legit script for an unaired Firefly episode!
Squee! I mean, I can see why it didn't get aired; it's a little bit filler, with a good deal of it being stuff we either already knew or didn't necessarily need to have explicitly stated. Obviously this isn't the finished product, but as it is now, I reckon that while it'd be nice to see on the screen, in the end the episodes we do have are better, and that getting rid of this was the better choice. On the other hand, though... seeing more of our lovely characters! Some of this new stuff would have been awesome, and oh my gosh the wait for the Serenity movie is going to take ages. Eeee!
I love Kaylee and Inara, for a start. I've always liked their relationship - it's so nice to actually have female characters who are not only interesting people in their own right but also have complex, meaningful relationships with others! other women! my god! - and the little extra stuff we get here is cool. I'm intrigued by the fact that apparently Kaylee is way more self-aware than I had thought she was; according to this, she has conciously decided that she's going to choose happiness. Cool. Her saying she's always OK and Jayne worrying about her and being all crushy is cute, too. And it sounds like Inara was raised somewhere posh... although I suppose the fact that fairs "weren't quite the thing" where she grew up could be taken in several ways if you wanted to. And while "being good with anatomy" is just asking to become a euphemism, I really don't think Inara meant it that way, so how come Inara has scientific training?
(And is this is any way connected to her Big Honkin' Mystery? Abd again, Inara being connected to children. Hmm. I do wish this script had more on both Inara and Book, as the people whose stories I would most like Joss to get round to talking about, stat. Murble.)
I also adore Wash and Zoe, as always. This is certainly not the best Wash and Zoe-ness ever (probably because it hasn't had the cast's imput yet; apparently Alan 'I will fong you' Tudyk improvises a whole lot of the Wash stuff, like the interrogation bit where he goes on for ages about how hot Zoe is, heh) but it's still cute. Some of it, like Wash saying that Zoe's not moved on, probably didn't need to get said like that, but it's still quite good to see when you're an obsessive fangirl. :) Though this also made me start wondering about Zoe's arc; this showed that they've got the potential to take the 'detactching from the military-and-Mal mindset and getting with the Wash-and-kids programme' arc in some really dark directions. While I have no problem with dark storylines, I'm not at all sure I want to them to do that to Wash and Zoe. Oh, my Wash and Zoe. They've already had the torture, dangit!
In a completely random change of topic: Jaaayne! Jayne and his floppy turtle! I do wonder what's going on there; this is yet another time that Jayne's shown to have a great fondness for various inanimate objects, and while his not realising how his fondness for a stuffed turtle contradicts his percieved self-image fits his general pattern of being complete un-selfaware, I do get the feeling there's at least meant to be something else there as well. What, I'm not exactly sure, but having it just be comic relief wouldn't fit with everything else: one of the coolest things about Firefly is that there's always more going on than it seems on the surface.
Sort of like River - I love the use of River's storytelling here. So it was the blue handed men who tortured her; not that this wasn't already the most likely thing, but it's nice to have an actual fact in what's still just a big ol' mess. Poor River - and poor Simon, too. This episode really shows how much the whole thing sucks for him, as well. Wah.
Oh, do I love this show.
And finally, I am almost halfway through Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell, and it is freaking AMAZING. All the hype is so totally deserved. Just thought you ought to know.