Comments | kaydeefalls: late to the party

kaydeefalls

late to the party

Apr 16, 2006 17:00

So, courtesy of siochan, I have now at last seen Firefly. All of it. Great show, really. I can finally understand why everyone was so pissed off about it being cancelled.

Also saw Serenity. ( cut for unpopular opinions and spoilers )

fandom: firefly

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newredshoes April 16 2006, 17:00:44 UTC

Yours isn't actually an entirely unpopular opinion -- I know a couple of people who just consider the movie an AU (not out of hatefulness, which I see even more HP fans doing with HBP -- but because it contradicts canon: Simon breaking River out, Mal not thinking of the Tams as crew, Wash, etc). For me, I can't watch it: that whole "leaf on the wind" scene turns me into a quivering, blubbering mass of ow that doesn't redeem all the other cool parts.

And meep! What's happened this time?

kaydeefalls April 16 2006, 21:05:27 UTC

Yeah. I don't have hate for the movie, it just...didn't do it for me. Except for WASH, who died for ABSOLUTELY NO REASON WTF STABBITY. Gah. I much prefer the way the series ended -- sure, it shouldn't have ended, because omg so many loose ends left hanging, but on the other hand, that's what fandom is for, right? Tying up loose ends, and such.

With the proposal, I just...keep asking the wrong people to design, apparently. A lot of really good designers seem to be taking fall quarter off due to burnout. And now I've got less than a week left, and I don't have all the designers I need, and suddenly committee wants preliminary designs BY FRIDAY, which they've NEVER asked for before, and there's just. no. way. And I feel like I'm working twice as hard as any of the other proposers, and it's not getting me anywhere. Blah.

newredshoes April 16 2006, 21:08:40 UTC

What designers do you need? There may be people I know that you don't know to ask.

kaydeefalls April 17 2006, 00:29:10 UTC

I need a lighting designer. Badly. If you can think of anyone, please tell me. I've asked about five people so far, all nos for various reasons.

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msilverstar April 16 2006, 23:12:29 UTC

I kinda thought that on first viewing (in a theatre, big screen) but we watched the series again and then the movie, and it does work better the second time around. Things are darker and grimmer, and they can escape the narrative limits of series TV, which they use to make the stakes far higher (including killing off characters). I could have lived with less fighting, too.

*hugs you about the show thing*

kaydeefalls April 17 2006, 00:29:48 UTC

*clings*

secondsilk April 17 2006, 05:06:14 UTC

Joss Whedon likes to do this thing (and he did it both Buffy and Angel) where he can convince the audience that he's going to kill EVERYBODY.
He admits that the beginning of Serenity is a step beyond the ending of the series, and that is perhaps just there OOC that Mal doesn't want Simon and River on the boat. But he cites narrative necessity for that, Wash's death, Book's death, and the flashback to Simon breaking River out (which isn't actually directly contradictory to what we know already).

I still really, really want to have the story of Serenity drawn out over a complete season (after a completed first season). In such circumstances we'd know more about Book and Wash would still be alive. And then there could be the full seven seasons and we'd destroy the BlueSun corporation and Zoe'd fall pregnant and, and, and.

There's still new Firefly fic being written.

Break a leg and Chookas for the performance.

kaydeefalls April 17 2006, 13:24:50 UTC

Yeah. I was fine with the basic plotline of Serenity. I just didn't much care for the way they did it. Ah, well.

secondsilk April 17 2006, 13:34:52 UTC

It needed to be ten times as long. *g*