The Glade 4.0

Wow...what was I thinking by working midnights and missing out on this...

Thank God for Netflix! I LOVE this series!

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Dream as if you'll live forever...
...Live as if you'll die tomorrow

Vivere Senza Rimpianti

Welcome to the club.

Glad you're enjoying it. Key me know when you finish it, I'll commiserate with you because it was cut too short by a boneheaded network executive's vacuous wife.

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"Aaaah! Emotions are weird!" - Amdee
"... Mirrorshades prevent the forces of normalcy from realizing that one is crazed and possibly dangerous. They are the symbol of the sun-staring visionary, the biker, the rocker, the policeman, and similar outlaws." - Bruce Sterling, preface to Mirrorshades

Yup, I actually finished re-watching the series again yesterday. Still makes me so angry that something so amazing could get cancelled 12 episodes in.

P.S. Just finished watching Serenity (again). I finally figured out what bugs me about it. It's so frantic. Joss knew he had to tell a story to an entirely new set of viewers, and wrap up as much of the show's loose ends as possible. While he did a great job, the original show had this very strong western pace to it, it took it's time to get you where it was going. The film just blazes past, losing a lot of the western flavor from the show simply due to the necessary pace. I'm not saying it's worse or better, but I think that's why it FEELS so different.

Here's your browncoat.

Welcome to the club.

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Holy shitsnacks!

Now she will understand why we say Gorram a lot around here.

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The U. S. Constitution doesn't guarantee happiness, only the pursuit of it. You have to catch up with it yourself. B. Franklin

"A mind needs books like a sword needs a whetstone." -- Tyrion Lannister, A Game of Thrones

She will also understand "special hell"

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Darksiege
Traveller, Calé, Whisperer
Lead me not into temptation; for I know a shortcut

Welcome, Browncoat.

Now you need to take this a step further and start on more Joss Whedon shows. I suggest you join Darksiege in discovering Buffy.

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Well Ali Baba had them forty thieves, Scheherezade had a thousand tales
But master you in luck 'cause up your sleeves you got a brand of magic never fails...
...Mister Aladdin, sir, What will your pleasure be?
Let me take your order, Jot it down -You ain't never had a friend like me
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and Dollhouse -- thankfully Dollhouse was added to Netflix in the last week.

Firefly was prety darn good. To be honest, after first viewing of the series I didn't think it was all that special. 2nd and 3rd viewings of the series have been much better, although I can't really pinpoint why. I both love and am annoyed by the characters (Mal especially). The dialogue is the same, its both awesome and irritating. The stroylines aren't really all that unique either. But in the end, it was a special series and I'm quite sad it didn't get more than one season to gain some steam and really explore its possibilities. The episode with the bounty hunter or whatever was my favourite by far though.

Welcome to years ago. I don't really get the Joss shrines, but Firefly is good.

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"...the line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being. And who is willing to destroy a piece of his own heart?" -Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

One of us, one of us.

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Raell Kromwell

Oh, God... No she doesn't.

Firefly is one of the two best shows I've ever seen, but I can't stand anything else he has done.

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Ezekiel 23:19-20 

I heard my first Gorram! And discovered...Firefly wiki lol

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Dream as if you'll live forever...
...Live as if you'll die tomorrow

Vivere Senza Rimpianti

Buffy the Vampire Slayer is by far my favorite show he's done. Firefly would probably have eclipsed it had it lasted long enough. Dr. Horrible's Sing-a-long Blog and Angel rank right up there, too.

Dollhouse was merely "okay," and didn't make me a big fan in the end.

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Well Ali Baba had them forty thieves, Scheherezade had a thousand tales
But master you in luck 'cause up your sleeves you got a brand of magic never fails...
...Mister Aladdin, sir, What will your pleasure be?
Let me take your order, Jot it down -You ain't never had a friend like me
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This is basically a movie. So you might as well include Serenity.

Serenity was the best movie I've seen in years.

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Wait, what was this? Someone's wife? I thought it was just a boneheaded network exec. What's the story here?

The story is that the network exec called for Firefly to be cancelled because his wife didn't understand the show.

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"Aaaah! Emotions are weird!" - Amdee
"... Mirrorshades prevent the forces of normalcy from realizing that one is crazed and possibly dangerous. They are the symbol of the sun-staring visionary, the biker, the rocker, the policeman, and similar outlaws." - Bruce Sterling, preface to Mirrorshades

No way. I call bullcrap.

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The Dude abides.

I can't find any source for this either. Although this quote did make me sad all over again:



This is why we can't have nice things!

Personally, I still believe it was cancelled because Fox refused to air the first episode, rushed Joss into making a second episode on an insanely tight schedule, aired the rest of the episodes out of order, pre-empted the show with sports events, and moved the show around on the schedule, all while airing only 11 of the 14 completed episodes.

Yeah, I don't understand why it didn't make it...

Yeah, I went looking, and didn't find anything. I swear that's what I read at some point (and if you read it on the Internet, it has to be true!) as insider rumor. It's the kind of thing that's unlikely to be confirmed officially, but I can't even track down the rumor at this date.

I suppose it's entirely possible that it was some sorrow-induced hallucination...

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"Aaaah! Emotions are weird!" - Amdee
"... Mirrorshades prevent the forces of normalcy from realizing that one is crazed and possibly dangerous. They are the symbol of the sun-staring visionary, the biker, the rocker, the policeman, and similar outlaws." - Bruce Sterling, preface to Mirrorshades

Of course if it was cancelled because the exec's husband didn't understand the show, it definitely wouldn't be true.

What? Lex?

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Dream as if you'll live forever...
...Live as if you'll die tomorrow

Vivere Senza Rimpianti

Sci-fi appeals to men much more than women. A lot of women don't get the appeal.