Hey, give us conservatives a break once in a while, willya? You’ve got 99% of Hollywood sewn up, so don’t begrudge us the occasional non-liberal to enjoy on the screen.
I think you’re reading a bit too much into that scene.
Simon’s parents disowned him because they had no idea anything with River was even wrong. And the only way Simon figured it out was because River sent him an encoded SOS that his parents didn’t even know existed.
Bother. First I find out about Dave Mustaine, and now Jayne goes wacky too. Mind you, if he’s the more libertarian sort of ‘conservative,’ I can dig it. It’s just the evangelical Christian conservative Sarah Palin bit that’s a problem.
I’ve got absolutely nothing against conservatives, and in general I don’t care much about a celebrity’s politics. But people who willingly identify as Tea Partiers are a more specific breed. Maybe not quite as bad as the Scienos, but…on the other side of the aisle, I surely wouldn’t want to own a celeb who identifies as a Communist, you know?
They (well, we only saw River and Simon’s mother in one scene) never seemed to be true believers. Instead, their father seemed to be most concerned with his reputation and standing, such as in the scene where he bailed Simon out of jail and noted that his being there would go on a permanent record.
You’re confusing authoritarianism with liberalism (again). Anytime the characters refer to the Alliance, they’re generally speaking of the military. The military seems ever-present in the show - they’re patrolling the spaceways, keeping watch for criminals and other undesirables on the ground - or they’re high-tech assassins (of the sword-carrying or blue-gloved variety) who are fanatical in their devotion and unquestioning of their cause. It’s only in the movie that they even reveal there is an Alliance parliament, without really describing it beyond the name.
i read one of his. . .I guess it was a blog post, because it was a poorly-written short little blurb. Didn’t think he was batshit, but his writing was poor, in that case anyway.
Still think he’d be a great Jack Reacher, and Jayne was a great character perfectly matched to the actor. Col. Casey is boring next to Jayne. Of course, Casey doesn’t have Joss to write his dialogue.
You seriously think that Alex Baldwin looks the kind of man even a heavily armed, cranked-up terrorist would think twice about tackling?
There is no Alex Baldwin. You’re thinking of Alec Baldwin but the thread is about Adam Baldwin who is not related to the Baldwin brothers.
That said, William “Billy” Baldwin of “Threesome” fame, who is a Baldwin brother now a born-again Christian and Republican (and general nitwit) and is a Palin supporter, at the very least, and is probably a Tea Party sympathizer if not a member. He’s also broke, and soliciting donations to shore up his personal finances. Talk about throwing money down a rathole.
My take was not so much that the elder Tams were evil, but that their comfortable position made it impossible to conceive that the Alliance could be doing harm to their daughter. Imagine in our world millionaire parents being extremely skeptical that their son at – I dunno, The Citadel – is getting his brain carved on by the staff there. The Tams’ failure was not in their doubt but in their willful refusal to even examine any evidence to the contrary.
That’s my point. Simon had no evidence to the contrary beyond a letter that he thought included an encoded SOS. IIRC, even he wasn’t sure if it was.
No, he was dead sure. He didn’t know what kind of trouble, but he knew there was trouble. When a highly intelligent, alert person starts writing about things that never happened or people that they’ve never met, either they’re doing it intentionally and trying to send some kind of message as subtext (a la “The crow flies at dawn”) or they’re making genuine mistakes because their mind has been tampered with in some way. Either way, it was simply Not Normal for River.
Here’s the shooting script: twiztv.com
The entire code hinged on spelling mistakes and River mentioning a lake from their vacation when they visited the mountains (which most likely did have a lake).
Reading it again, it does sound like Simon’s father is more concerned about having a publicly crazy son more than he is about River being in trouble. But there’s no real proof she is in trouble. The whole flashback scenes are supposed to show that no one is connected to River like Simon is.
And? That doesn’t disprove me, since I said nothing about Simon’s father. Simon is absolutely positive, no doubt in his mind, that something is wrong with River. I was replying to this, remember:
(my bolding)
Edit: Also, that’s not the final script. I’d have to dig out my DVD, but I’m quite certain that’s not the conversation that made it into the final cut.
My obnoxious political brain tends to identify tea-partiers as ignorant thuggish jerks, so it’s not surprised.
You’re thinking about *Stephen *Baldwin. Billy Baldwin is the one from *Backdraft *and Fair Game.
Wow, what a downer, I was a big fan.
You guys have to lighten up. If those of us on the right refused to like any entertainers who were on the left, we’d have nothing to watch or listen to.
As amazing as this may seem, Adam Baldwin’s politics do not make him a bad person, or a bad actor, or in any way diminish your reasons for having liked him in the first place.
If you’re going to shun people you previously liked just because of their politics, you’re simply shallow and close-minded.
Amen. That, and you guys all like Firefly way too damned much. Decent show, but nothing spectacular.
So what? What business is it of his fans what his politics or religion is?
I don’t have any problem with enjoying the work of people from the right. But what does that have to do with Adam Baldwin being a teabagger?