[wplug] [OT] ooh ooh ...

[Matthew J. Hughes]

Philip Reiche wrote:

> I bought the DVD set on Steve's and your recommendation back in late 
> June, and I love it!  My wife loves it! She's a huge fan of Sci-Fi and 
> westerns and Firefly combines the two styles quite well. Best TV we've 
> seen in years. The pilot, shown for some inane reason at the end of 
> the series when it was broadcast, does a great job introducing the 
> characters and establishing the ongoing plotlines.

Those that bought the DVD probably already know, the shows were 
rearranged because some network exec decided the first show wasn't good 
enough to catch audiences. So they put together (wrote) "the train 
robbery" in a couple a days, and made it first. Essentially the network 
executives decided that audiences can't grasp it in the way the 
writer/director wanted to present it. Maybe that is why the the simpsons 
make fun of network executives. The DVD extras describe this.

>  
> Minor spoiler:
>  
> One of my favorite scenes. Bad guys fought crew of Firefly and lost. 
> Baddest of the thugs makes one of those TV "you may have won this time 
> but I'll track you down if it's the last thing I do" vows. Hero kicks 
> him into the intake of an engine, ending threat. Nice ....
>  

The look Mal gives in this seen is great, and is descriptive of his 
character. I really thought that what you described was the set up for 
the joke. The joke being how henchmen #2 acts.

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> > I don't want to seem like a clueless dolt ... but what is Serenity?  I

This is exactly why the show is off the air. I didn't even know this 
show existed until after it was canceled. I think I stumbled across it 
while looking for the trailer for the movie. Probably the same network 
executive who rearranged show order decided it didn't need any 
promotion. This sad thing is this show would have brought in great long 
term revenue, liscencing and rerun, if they had done a little up front 
investment. It would have been like Star Trek in that there would be a 
convention every year, spin-offs, movies, merchandising, and sadly a 
bunch of geeks running around doing a battle-of-Serenity-reenactment.

-matt

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