Sorry to be so late to the party, but in case anyone’s still interested:
I think the Jayne Cobb figure is nice, especially the harder to find “Mercenary” (aka “Cigar”) variant. Decent sculpt, good likeness of the character, and the variant has a pretty nifty paint job compared to the very plain regular version. I’ve seen Mal but found him severely lacking. Among other problems, the figure bears a stunned expression suggests he’s just been hit in the back of the head by a 2x4. I thought the Reaver was just “meh” - but then, I always thought the Reavers were a lot scarier when we didn’t know what they looked like.
The lack of any other characters, especially Zoe and River, still leaves me wondering just what “they” were thinking.
Oh, also, random observation based on a movie reference in Serenity that IMDB pointed out to me:
The research ship they found on Miranda was labeled C57D, which was apparantly the name of the spaceship from Forbidden Planet. Heh. They were on a forbidden planet.
I had a Serenity Christmas. The wife got me the Serenity Visual Companion (which is very cool), Finding Serenity, a collection of essays about the show, and the Jayne Mercenary action figure. I expect I’ll put Jayne on the shelf in case he becomes collectible. He looks pretty decently molded to me. Not a bad likeness.
Oh, and another thing that bothered me about the commentary is that Joss doesn’t cover the fact that he backslid on the ‘no sound in space’ thing for which he was once lauded. It buged me, and I hoped the issue wouldn’t be ignored. I mean, it is a staple of the genre, and for a high-action film like this it’s kind of hard to have all that shit going on in the visuals without some kind of sound to accompany it, but gaah.
Did he? I remember there was an early shot in which I went “oh, bother, they’ve given in to the cliche,” only to be pleasantly surprised when the shot pulled back and it turned out the ship was in atmo. Were there any other sound-in-space shots other than that lengthy early one?
The entire Alliance vs. Reaver “space” battle had sound; they justified this by staging the whole battle in the dense ion cloud, which presumably has enough particles to transmit sound. That the ion cloud itself is sci-fi fudgery is another issue, but they did adhere to the “no sound in space” rule.
You know, I watched the TV show. eh. I watched the DVD- much better, but hardly GREEEEAT!!! I saw the film- and it was pretty darn good- but again- it’s not that good.
And (warning spoiler but we have a spoiler warning so it’s not going to be hidden)
Whedon killing off half of the only happily married couple that existed on any drama on TV was a complete sell-out. It was crap. The happily married couple (which is against all TV drama rules) was one of the things that set his show apart. Then he killed it.
And the faux hillbilly/cowbot jargon grates on my ears. Sorry.
Yes, it was a cool show. But it wasn’t 'all that". Of course, around here, this is heresy, so I am sure I’ll get flamed. Oh well.
Wash & Zoe aren’t the only happy couple in TV ever. Whedon alone has brought us several wonderful, functional, loving couples to us over the years. And then killed them.
My question concerns the Serenity DVD cover itself - that’s River, right? Then why are her eyes a striking blue on the cover? Huh? River has brown eyes, numbnuts.
Now, now… Willow’s parents were a functional, loving couple who didn’t die… they also never showed up on screen…
I was just looking at all the actor info on IMDB, and I think it’s sad that there are only two or three projects in the works for all the main actors & actresses, combined… Fillion’s working on two projects, Adam Baldwin has something going on and everybody else is just sort of swinging in the breeze… then you get down to all the extras and they’ve all got six or seven projects going…
Willow’s mom showed up in one episode, and tried to burn Willow at the stake (along with Buffy and Amy, who soon after became Amy The Rat)
It’s amusing to see Nathon Fillion randomly show up in stuff. I saw him on a movie on the Lifetime channel where in the climax he ended up in a shootout in a burning shed with a sawed off double-barrel shotgon. A while back I noticed him in “Saving Private Ryan”, playing Private Ryan (no, the other one). I think the only time I’ve seen him on a show where he didn’t have a gun was on Buffy, when he was a priest with superhuman powers (which he put to use knocking Buffy around on several occasions).
Just browsin’ the threads, and thought I’d bump this one to note that Forbidden Planet was a basically an SF remake of The Tempest, the heroine of which is… Miranda.
