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[taiyou_to_tsuki]

A lot of things have been going on since my last update. Uni is demanding, I didn't get the apartment (apparently I wasn't supposed to have it since this isn't my first term... which, would've been nice to know before they put me through bureaucratic hell). When I haven't been studying I've mostly been... consuming

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[lost_spook]

Pushing Daisies was wonderful! It is very sad that they cancelled it so soon - when I started it, I wondered how they could extend such a premise beyond a few eps, but they did. Very surreal, and colourful and the narration and all the film parodies - my friend and I watched it recently and loved it.

I haven't watched Firefly, but, yes, Joss Whedon watched B7 and it's definitely a huge influence on the show. (Also on Farscape and to a lesser extent Babylon 5. B7 is just like that. :-D)

I feel slightly scared and aged that even the latter Virgin New Adventures, with Chris and Roz can be twenty years old. That... surely can't be allowed. /o\

(I'm sorry rl is being less fun, though. :-/)

[taiyou_to_tsuki]

It's really a strange, genre-defying show-- I heard it described as "Disney for adults", which is basically true, but it also has a sort of gleeful morbidity that is almost more Addams Family than Sleeping Beauty. Ned and Chuck's relationship is simultaneously very much a fairy tale romance as well as one of the more realistic relationships I've seen portrayed on TV, where both people involved (but particularly Ned) have to navigate a living situation, make compromises and acknowledge their own flaws. It's not quite drama, but not comedy either. It's just really fun and heartfelt and sincere and I love it.

HAPPY NEWS is that a revival might be in the works, which would be amazing (also a musical. PUSHING DAISIES MUSICAL

[lost_spook]

Yes, it's this odd sort of candy-coated morbidity. It's quite something. Have you seen Dead Like Me? It's sort of connected but very different - but also excellent in its own way. And, like Pushing Daisies, cancelled too soon.

I still haven't seen Firefly, and I only watched B5 after B7 and am still slowly making my way through Farscape. I think Farscape and Firefly are the two most obvious debtors. (Farscape has a bunch of convicts escaping in a super-ship, so, just a bit, uh... :lol:) I think it's not all that odd, if you factor in the Classic Who connection - it depends which route you take! :-)

Aha, so not yet 20 years, not for the latter era. I thought they were still being published when I moved to my current home, and that was not quite 15 years ago, though that's scary enough. Time is an illusion, as they say, we shouldn't worry about it too much either way.

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[taiyou_to_tsuki]

Haven't seen Dead Like Me, though I've heard of it. Think I'm gonna put off seeking it out though; I still have to finish Firefly, and I should try to catch the second season of a Swedish sci-fi series before it's taken off the channel's livestream (meaning it'll probably be nigh impossible to find a stream afterwards, because... Sweden).

Firefly is good, though it's not as OMGAMAZING as I've been led to believe? But I've only watched three episodes so far so that might change. I'm also not sure I would've noticed the B7 connection if I hadn't known about it, because it does do some worldbuilding of its own ("renegade crew sticking it to an oppressive authoritarian organisation" seems like it should be a fairly common sci-fi trope). That summary of Farscape though. :D

Not quite twenty, no (I wrote fifteen at first, fun fact). I think they stopped being published around the same time the EDAs were launched, so around '97?

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