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Serenity and Firefly
haha, i don't update this thing much, do i? but here's an entry because i figure some of you know what i'm talking about even if i dont. so here's what i think...
so last night, while poking around the homestead, i found a Serenity. about the only dvd they own. seriously, they have no dvds.not even the harry potter dvds, which i find absurd, as big of a harry potter fan she is. she has 3 different sets of the books. and two copies of "quidditch through the ages" and "fantastic beasts & where to find them" each. i can't believe she has not one harry potter movie on dvd.
anyway, back to Serenity. so i watched the movie, without seeing any of the series Firefly that it's based on. (no, i think i did catch part of one ep in AZ, no clue what was going on though.) i had never heard of any of this until all the ruckus about it coming to dvd and Serenity coming to theatres. so i watched Serenity. it was odd. i'm expecting the complete sci-fi thing. i get that and the quasi-space pirates, along with a vibe taken straight out of a john wayne western.
even the bg music. at times, it was very heroic and something like you'd hear in a swashbuckler movie. and there are other times when it's rolling with a drawl, and you're expecting a shoot-out at the local corral. even the way talked was something very western. i can only wonder how much western joss whedon was watching and reading while working on this show.
also mixing with western drawl and talk was chinese. at first i wasn't even sure they were speaking chinese. but the subtitles told me they were. i listened more closely and decided it probably was chinese. some of the chinese did not sound like chinese, i tell you.
the Serenity Crew. mix-n-match crew. it boils down to this:
the captain
the captain's old soldier buddy from the war days
the pilot of the ship (also husband to the captain's old war buddy)
the cutsie mechanical genius girl
the raging testerone with muscles and guns
the preacher (called Shepherds in this universe)
the geisha (minus the make up, callled Companions)
the doctor
and the doctor's psychic sister
they're all over the place. i compared them to the One Piece crew. and they dont really seem to fit together, but they do anyway. i still dont care for the companion girl inara. i'm still not sure what she was doing on the ship. but i suppose i need to watch the Firefly series to figure that out.
today i did watch 3 eps of the Firefly series. they actually had one of the dvds here. they were enjoyable. and i got a listen to the theme song which is very very western-like. even the opening theme sequence ends with a group of horses running. heheh. these three eps were enjoyable. one of them was the ep i partially watched in AZ. things make more sense this time around. and i managed to put together enough of the basic relationships between the crew members as well as some basic background information of their times. not all. it is an interesting world. i think i can see where the fandom comes from. maybe one day i'll finish watching the rest of the series.
so last night, while poking around the homestead, i found a Serenity. about the only dvd they own. seriously, they have no dvds.not even the harry potter dvds, which i find absurd, as big of a harry potter fan she is. she has 3 different sets of the books. and two copies of "quidditch through the ages" and "fantastic beasts & where to find them" each. i can't believe she has not one harry potter movie on dvd.
anyway, back to Serenity. so i watched the movie, without seeing any of the series Firefly that it's based on. (no, i think i did catch part of one ep in AZ, no clue what was going on though.) i had never heard of any of this until all the ruckus about it coming to dvd and Serenity coming to theatres. so i watched Serenity. it was odd. i'm expecting the complete sci-fi thing. i get that and the quasi-space pirates, along with a vibe taken straight out of a john wayne western.
even the bg music. at times, it was very heroic and something like you'd hear in a swashbuckler movie. and there are other times when it's rolling with a drawl, and you're expecting a shoot-out at the local corral. even the way talked was something very western. i can only wonder how much western joss whedon was watching and reading while working on this show.
also mixing with western drawl and talk was chinese. at first i wasn't even sure they were speaking chinese. but the subtitles told me they were. i listened more closely and decided it probably was chinese. some of the chinese did not sound like chinese, i tell you.
the Serenity Crew. mix-n-match crew. it boils down to this:
the captain
the captain's old soldier buddy from the war days
the pilot of the ship (also husband to the captain's old war buddy)
the cutsie mechanical genius girl
the raging testerone with muscles and guns
the preacher (called Shepherds in this universe)
the geisha (minus the make up, callled Companions)
the doctor
and the doctor's psychic sister
they're all over the place. i compared them to the One Piece crew. and they dont really seem to fit together, but they do anyway. i still dont care for the companion girl inara. i'm still not sure what she was doing on the ship. but i suppose i need to watch the Firefly series to figure that out.
today i did watch 3 eps of the Firefly series. they actually had one of the dvds here. they were enjoyable. and i got a listen to the theme song which is very very western-like. even the opening theme sequence ends with a group of horses running. heheh. these three eps were enjoyable. one of them was the ep i partially watched in AZ. things make more sense this time around. and i managed to put together enough of the basic relationships between the crew members as well as some basic background information of their times. not all. it is an interesting world. i think i can see where the fandom comes from. maybe one day i'll finish watching the rest of the series.
