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Well, today was my interview. ( stuff on job interview )
Finished watching the Firefly DVDs Pumpkinpuss lent me. Already missing those characters. Damn, Fox.
( rant about American Idol, which I vehemently despise )
Back to Firefly, interesting collection of episodes. Works much better if you see them all in order as the creators meant them to be seen. Fox did set out to destroy that show. Anyone want to barrage Fox executives with angry email deriding them for greedy and inhumane programming choices? Nah. Too much effort. But I do wish I had a Neilsen box, so I could just boycott them.
Okay, I'm going to stop ranting at Fox now, I promise. They certainly could care less what I think.
( Firefly Episodes ranked )
What worked in Firefly was the characters. They were complex, interesting, and humorous. Their interaction felt believable and I geniunely cared what happened to them. That's hard to pull off on TV. I know because there's a lot of tv shows I can't watch because the characters either turn me off or just don't engage me. Joan of Arcadia has that going for it as well - great characters. I'm not sure the western aspect really worked. My favorite episodes tended to be more sci-fi based, the more Western themed episodes seemed a little silly to me. On the other hand, I love Westerns and even the weaker Firefly episodes are more enjoyable to me than most of the TV shows on right now. Don't really want to analyze Firefly or criticize it, just want to sit back and enjoy my memories of those episodes. Some shows you pull apart and analyze, others you just sit back and enjoy - Firefly was one of the ones I just sat back and thoroughly enjoyed, escaping into their world.
Moving on to Red Dwarf now. Heard so much about it from cjl, who loaned it to me, that I'm curious to see what it looks like on screen.
Oh things that made me smile:
This lovely quote from aliera99:
Or, as the psychologist D W Winnicott once put it, artists are continually torn between "the urgent need to communicate, and the still more urgent need not to be found.
--John Clute, A Turn Up for the Books quoting Stacey D’Erasmo who was writing about Paul Auster in the 30 November 2003 New York Times Book Review.
And this bit from whedonesque:
Apparently the same actor who plays the role of the big obnoxious fiance on that new reality series was the same actor who played the lurker demon who gave Spike back his soul in Villians to Grave. Heh! The rifs I could do off of that one....
Finished watching the Firefly DVDs Pumpkinpuss lent me. Already missing those characters. Damn, Fox.
( rant about American Idol, which I vehemently despise )
Back to Firefly, interesting collection of episodes. Works much better if you see them all in order as the creators meant them to be seen. Fox did set out to destroy that show. Anyone want to barrage Fox executives with angry email deriding them for greedy and inhumane programming choices? Nah. Too much effort. But I do wish I had a Neilsen box, so I could just boycott them.
Okay, I'm going to stop ranting at Fox now, I promise. They certainly could care less what I think.
( Firefly Episodes ranked )
What worked in Firefly was the characters. They were complex, interesting, and humorous. Their interaction felt believable and I geniunely cared what happened to them. That's hard to pull off on TV. I know because there's a lot of tv shows I can't watch because the characters either turn me off or just don't engage me. Joan of Arcadia has that going for it as well - great characters. I'm not sure the western aspect really worked. My favorite episodes tended to be more sci-fi based, the more Western themed episodes seemed a little silly to me. On the other hand, I love Westerns and even the weaker Firefly episodes are more enjoyable to me than most of the TV shows on right now. Don't really want to analyze Firefly or criticize it, just want to sit back and enjoy my memories of those episodes. Some shows you pull apart and analyze, others you just sit back and enjoy - Firefly was one of the ones I just sat back and thoroughly enjoyed, escaping into their world.
Moving on to Red Dwarf now. Heard so much about it from cjl, who loaned it to me, that I'm curious to see what it looks like on screen.
Oh things that made me smile:
This lovely quote from aliera99:
Or, as the psychologist D W Winnicott once put it, artists are continually torn between "the urgent need to communicate, and the still more urgent need not to be found.
--John Clute, A Turn Up for the Books quoting Stacey D’Erasmo who was writing about Paul Auster in the 30 November 2003 New York Times Book Review.
And this bit from whedonesque:
Apparently the same actor who plays the role of the big obnoxious fiance on that new reality series was the same actor who played the lurker demon who gave Spike back his soul in Villians to Grave. Heh! The rifs I could do off of that one....
