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[kaydeefalls]

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. Unpopular fannish opinion time: it had its moments, and I liked the plot in general, but I thought it was vastly inferior to the show. I don't know. There was way too much fighting and too little character development. And I'm very glad I waited to see Firefly rather than going out to see Serenity when it was in theaters, because I think if all I'd seen was the movie, I wouldn't have been interested in watching the show. I'm not entirely sure why I didn't like it much (aside from, um, killing off my favorite character for no particular reason except to make the audience cry, but I'm well aware that's a particularly biased opinion). I'd have to watch it again to be able to properly express why I was so disappointed in it, but frankly, I don't have the inclination. I'd rather stick to the show and pretend the movie doesn't exist.

But, hey, Firefly! Was good! Which everyone already knew and the fandom seems to have mostly deactivated, but, y'know, still.

In other news, christ, could anything ELSE go wrong with my show proposal? No, really, bring it on, it still just barely has a snowball's chance in hell of passing and we can't have THAT, now can we?

Comments

[newredshoes]

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.livejournal.com]

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]

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

[kaydeefalls.livejournal.com]

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.

[newredshoes]

Try Graham Fetterman. cavin[at]uchic. He's really into lighting and would probably be extremely enthusiastic about the project. Tell him I told you to give him a try.

Also, he looks like Wash.

[kaydeefalls.livejournal.com]

Already asked him, but he's on Hannah Kushnick's proposal.

[msilverstar]

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.livejournal.com]

*clings*

[secondsilk.livejournal.com]

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.livejournal.com]

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.livejournal.com]

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