Ooh! So nerd girls ARE sexy! polishes up glasses, dusts off lab coat
Tsk, tsk, ** carni ** - as I learned the hard way (see above), it’s “Jayne”. And don’t you forget it!
And I agreee - I’m all for kicking guys into jet engines. That’s good stuff. Hooray for violence!!
So if he’s turned into testosterone pate’ it won’t matter how they spell his name on the tombstone, hunh?
^:)^
I resemble that remark.
Kn*ckers, I am now a fan of yours forevermore…
See I got this fantasy about a nerdy chick with glasses and a lab coat and… WHAT! Don’t look at me like that…
And never forget that the Sports Night gal was supposed to be the main “Heart Throb” on Sliders. I still think she’s hot.
Now, back to FireFly. I think next were going to see the evil “Blue Men” try and smack our fair cast for a loop in some fiendishly obvious manner that none of us will expect.
blushing nerdily oooh, I have a fan… And an asterisk. What more could a girl want?
Ahem. Right. Firefly.
My prediction for this week: Slime. Lots of slime. Big wads of it. It is purple testosterone-sucking slime. Oh no! Poor Jayne! The hormone-hungry slime is going to suck him up!
Kn(getting dangerously close to making a dirty joke here… Or at least a disgusting one)ckers
Hey, I’d still do her. (But she does look like Michael Jackson, dang it!)
She’s just not anywhere near as hot as the engineer, IMO. And you people back off! She’s mine! Don’t make me kick you all into a jet engine. (That’s got to be bad for the engine after a while.)
<singing> Tonight is the night… </singing>
I’m expecting full on goodness tonight, you hear me Joss!!!
And Kn*ckers, everyone needs a crazy pseudo fan right?
Crazy pseudo fan, stalker, whatever… We all need to feel loved.
Ack - Stupid Red Sox - thanks to the game, Firefly is being pushed back to 11 PM here in Beantown. past my bedtime, but since it’s Friday, I’m willing to make the sacrifice.
Now wait a dam’ minit! By Neddie Dingo, I spent good money on pectoral implants, contacts and Rogaine for the express purpose of puttin’ all those days squarely behind me. Don’t you dare tell me it’s all for naught just cause I showed up here…
Look, the Babe is who you spend a wild long weekend with after meeting her on the beach in Rio. Grease-spunky is who you take home to meet Mom and end up making little nerd-lets with. Yes, Willow falls right into that category; and yes, Cordelia is the hottie (mmmm, Cordy…)
As for the show as a whole, Mrs. Tygr & I were discussing how the story’s going to go. Meaning, Buffy the Show, is essentially about Buffy the character. The rest of the cast is supporting roles. But this new show is a total ensemble piece - who’s story is it?
Actually, the rest of us are just wondering what it is you’re hiding under that asterisk…
It’s kinda the Web equivalent of a pastie, IMHO. 
Well, two episodes into the season, and I am still enstoked. When Wash said, “Have you ever made it with a warrior woman?” I said, in my best Caspar Gutman, “You are a man for me, sir.”
Well, two episodes into the season, and I am still enstoked. When Wash said, “Have you ever made it with a warrior woman?” I said, in my best Caspar Gutman, “You are a man for me, sir.”
“Michael Jackson”? ewwwwww! someone needs to feed ferrous to the tribbles!
I very much enjoy Firefly and think it has more potential than a lot of science fiction shows the past few years (by potential I mean that a major network might stick with it a few seasons, rather than build up a good fan base then drop it, ala “Brimstone” or “Farscape”).
As to “jane”, “jayne”, “jain”…he’s just the studly comic antagonist within the group. And also the only Baldwin I can stand watching.
And, to those who don’t think robots can be anything but a bit…um…robotic, I think the only robot besides Gort that could ever be a screen star is if someone gets off their butt and writes up a screenplay for R. Daneel Olivaw. That could be, as Data would say, “fascinating”.
I also wanted to comment on the “western set in space” aspect of the show…it works. it works very well. the music is a nice piece that could have fit in well with any of the classic “western movies” and I REALLY like the costuming. It works well in the setting.
That’s my story and I’m sticking with it.
moonchilde
I dislike a man who talks too much, sir. He will talk at the wrong time and be kicked into a jet engine.
-The Fat Man
It’s funny that everybody’s describing the engineer as “the nerdy one,” since on “Honey I Shrunk the Kids” (a terribly underrated TV series, IMO) she played the equivalent of Cordelia – the rich, popular girl. It just drives home how much these are TV shows, where everybody is pretty. The only one who doesn’t really look like an actor is the pilot, and maybe the creepy crazy girl.
So after two episodes, I’ve decided that I like the show. I don’t love it yet, but it’s well-done and has a ton of potential. I’m hoping they take it more in the western direction and less the syndicated-science-fiction-series direction – the “finding a ghost ship” story has already been done tons of times in sci-fi shows, most recently as the second episode of “Enterprise”.
Ooh! I figured it out! It took me forever, and I’m sure you all got this before I did, but I know now why they talk funny: Because it’s a WESTERN. Yes, I’m very slow, I know. But I was sitting there, listening to Reynolds say “I got no notion to argue this with you!” and thinking what an odd way it was to say that. “He sounds like a cowboy,” I thought. Well, of course he does. He IS a cowboy. This was a very exciting discovery for me. Bonus points to Whedon for that clever little piece of chicanery.
Ahem. Sorry for that outburst of obviousness. I was excited.
So my prediction of testosterone-sucking slime turned out to be slightly off the mark, and Jayne lives to fight another day - though there was that molasses stuff that oozed out when g-spunky bypassed the booby-trap thingy.
And now for the grossest thing I’ve imagined all month: Someone cutting his tongue up the middle. Yee-uck! So glad they didn’t show that.
Re: Michael Jackson: ** Ferrous ** , I have to admit that I find it slightly alarming that you would be attracted to someone you feel resembles Mr. (Ms?) Jackson. But it takes all kinds, and I can respect your feelings. And don’t worry, I won’t fight you for the space whore. I’d fight you for any one of the boys, though…
And how much do I love the captain’s costume? A lot. Mmm, suspenders…
The analogy of Western and the outer reaches of space being a frontier is obvious. Perhaps the Western dialect is meant to convey a manner of speaking in dialect.
Perhaps one can go too far in an effort to get viewers from the ranks of Bubbadom.
Good point - though I haven’t seen anything previously that really tried to stay true to the western part of being a space western. There’s lots of shoot-em-up sci-fi, but most of it seems to get overly focused on the sci-fi bits, and not bother with the western so much. That’s something I like about Firefly - it’s pretty much equal parts.
As for courting the Bubbas of America, at least they aren’t frying up possums and sleeping with family members. I have to wonder how that would affect ratings, though. Would people tune out from disgust, or tune in from morbid cuiosity? It’s a puzzle.
Let’s hope they wouldn’t tune in because they got off on it. O’possums, that is.
You and me both, sister.
No no, it’s the engineer I was trying to fight over. Sorry, badly attributed pronoun on my part.
To recap: Spunky engineer=major babe. Space whore=too much makeup, looks a bit like MJ, but still reasonably do-able. 'Kay? (In fact, the space whore is only third on my list of Firefly babes. Zoey is hotter too, and the psychic psycho will be in a few years as well.)
Anyway, I enjoyed episode #2 as well. No one got kicked into a jet engine, but pretty good anyway.
Ah, thanks for clearing that up. I had some long nights, tossing and turning and wondering which chick was most fight-worthy. I’m glad to have it all straightened out.
I agree that it was kind of a bummer that nobody got kicked into an engine, though. I think that should happen every week.