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Well, it was FOX, so....
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Daniel Butler
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lol Yeah but the FCC will generally fine a network for a hell of a lot less than "I swell at the thought of you inside me, and I see that you do too..."
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quote:Originally posted by Daniel Butler: Two things in relation to Guardian's post: First, have you seen the X-whateverytheycallit, the surface-to-orbit vehicle they want to replace the shuttle fleet? Won't be around for awhile, but definitely not an ugly capsule.
They're replacing the shuttle with an enlarged and updated Apollo-style capsule called Orion.
quote:Also, what difference would a 'vertical' ship actually make? I mean I know TV SF likes to keep everything oriented on the same plane, and I guess near a gravity well that might make sense...maybe...but out in space there'd be no telling the relative attitudes of the ships. A horizontal ship could look like a big vertical slash in the sky, depending on which angle it came at you.
Hence the reference to the TV screen.
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Well what happened to that other surface-to-orbit shuttle? The one they show in the opening credits of Star Trek: Enterprise? It was still in the design stages then, but I was rather sure they had a working prototype doing high-atmospheric tests on top of a jet carrier...
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quote:Originally posted by Daniel Butler: Yeah, that's it. That's a bit confusing.
I think it was done on the theory that most of the people going to see the movie would either be folk who hadn't seen Firefly and so confusion wasn't an issue or Browncoats, who had seen the series over and over and over and so confusion also wasn't an issue. Latecomers like yourself will just have to deal.
quote:Originally posted by Daniel Butler: lol Yeah but the FCC will generally fine a network for a hell of a lot less than "I swell at the thought of you inside me, and I see that you do too..."
But it had some good bible.
quote:Originally posted by Daniel Butler: Well what happened to that other surface-to-orbit shuttle? The one they show in the opening credits of Star Trek: Enterprise? It was still in the design stages then, but I was rather sure they had a working prototype doing high-atmospheric tests on top of a jet carrier...
That would be a fictional design, roughly based on the old X-30 and X-33 concepts.
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You really find Firefly to be that risque?
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Daniel Butler
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For American cable TV, yes. For my personal taste, no. And after I posted that I saw the scene B.J. mentioned where Mal meets Kaylee; and of course there's the scene in the pilot where Inara is plying her trade. Those are things that would make a movie rated R here...I don't understand how they got on regular cable besides the midnight-to-3am timeslot.
*scratches head* I thought for years now there was an X-something that was going to replace the Shuttle fleet. It's a bit of a mind-strain to find out a solid fact you've known for years is baseless nonsense...
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Just wait until Saffron's second episode. There's a full nude scene right at the start, I've leave the identity of the offending party for you to find out for yourself.
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lol. Again - buttcracks on American cable TV are usually blurred out. Of course I suppose they might've done that during broadcast. I wonder how much they paid Morena Baccarin to stand that close to him...
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Dude...are you on fucking crack? Or have you just not watched any television since 1987?
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Daniel Butler
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Ehhh, no, but nothing but Conan O'Brien, Jay Leno, SG, and Adult Swim since 2003 or so.
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