Daniel Butler
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So, he says as he ducks to avoid the flames, the beginning credits of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, I notice there's a few frames of text in books that flash at the beginning. I've tried screencaps but VLC doesn't like to frame-by-frame very well in Ubuntu, apparently. Soooo if anyone could take a better one...I'd be interested. It's a language geek thing. Not a ... Buffy thing. Really. It's not. I don't even like Buffy. Just don't look in my video folder....
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Here's a zip archive of what seem to be relevent grabs.
A few choice ones:
Looks like Latin, German and a weird glyph one. Of course these are from season 1. (Lemme know if you had a different season in mind)
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Daniel Butler
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Ha-ha, thanks! I'd given up hope of anyone bothering.
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The real question is: how can the smae guy that wrote Firefly have churned out such schlock?
-------------------- Justice inclines her scales so that wisdom comes at the price of suffering. -Aeschylus, Agamemnon
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He posted the pictures the same day you asked. A month-and-a-half later, you finally check back and say you'd given up? Were you expecting someone to send them to you by post?
"The real question is: how can the smae guy that wrote Firefly have churned out such schlock?"
The real real question is : Since when is "schlock" defined as "intelligent and entertaining television, superior to most other programming then or now"?
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Er...you're talking about "Buffy" right? Where everyting has a Hercules/Xena-esque "punch" sound effect or the "blade being drwn from a metal scheath" sound effect- even when the blade is stuck in wood or dirt!
I'm not bagging on it really- it's good campy humor, but it's best is not half of the worst Firefly episode in quality.
-------------------- Justice inclines her scales so that wisdom comes at the price of suffering. -Aeschylus, Agamemnon
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So because it's not as good as Firefly, it's schlock? That's ridiculous. Very few shows approach the goodness of Firefly, Buffy included. But Buffy was still one of the best shows I've ever seen. You know, I'm pretty sure Firefly's punches weren't terribly realistic sounding, either. And didn't people repeatedly cock guns in order to punctuate a threat? Buffy's a totally different kind of show, and I prefer Firefly, but it's still exceptional.
Angel. Angel was as good as Firefly some days.
-------------------- "This is why you people think I'm so unknowable. You don't listen!" - God, "God, the Devil and Bob"
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I'm just saying it's really starnge that both Firefly and Buffy were made by the same guy- they're really nothing alike in how they're handled: the humor and acting in Firefly are handled completely diffrent.
I was pretty suprised at how good Firefly was as a result, and ony caught the series on DVD because I had no real desire to watch anything "buffy-esque". Not many writers/producers have that kind of range and hyping a show as "by the creator of Buffy and Angel" is sure not going to attract most of the fans that loved Firefly to watch.
-------------------- Justice inclines her scales so that wisdom comes at the price of suffering. -Aeschylus, Agamemnon
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"Not many writers/producers have that kind of range and hyping a show as 'by the creator of Buffy and Angel' is sure not going to attract most of the fans that loved Firefly to watch."
Do you have some reason to believe that the majority of people who liked "Firefly" also disliked "Buffy"? Or are you just projecting your own opinion onto the world in general?
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Just based on the reaction from the various sci-fi modeling boards: a lot of people were unintrested becaused they heard "western sci-fi" and thought it would be something more like Andromeda based on Whedon's prior works. Even if FOX had not puled the plug on the show, I really dont think there was enough word of mouth to get a second season (and I love the show- I just never heard of it until after it was cancelled).
Maybe he just wanted to do something "grown up" and move away from the campy stuff- if so, he succedded wonderfully. Coulud be that he's older too: Buffy ran a long while.
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Daniel Butler
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Ok, ur right, I'm sorry. I happen to be fruml. FUck. I mean drunk.
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