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Yeah, "Out of Gas" was pretty cool. I liked seeing how all the crew had come aboard the ship.
The only thing I'm not sure about this series is it's being set 500 years in the future. If I didn't know otherwise, I would've figured a couple of hundred years at most.
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There isn't any confusion about the episode order, though. I mean, that is, in the DVD set they are packaged as chronologically structured.
(Where does the date come from, anyway? In the promotional material for the film they give a specific one, even: 2511, for the Battle of Serenity Valley. Is that in the scene cut from the pilot?)
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No specific date is mentioned in the cut scenes from the pilot on the DVD. Don't know where that date comes from.
EDIT: Just found a transcription of the intro that includes the line "CHYRON READS: '2517 A.D.'" CHYRON is evidently a name brand of a character generator for subtitling, etc. which has become adopted as a term for a text overlay.
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I think the apparent "lack" of visual advancement is deliberate to demonstrate the lack of technology on the frontier. The various scenes on the core worlds look a lot more advanced, to be sure.
But who's to say that jeans, printed T-shirts and suspenders won't go into and out of fashion several times over the next five centuries? Jeans have been around for over a century now and they haven't changed much in use or fashion.
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Good for you, Masao! Firefly is definitely one of the best!
(Minor spoilers ahead.)
I always thought that the DVD set's order was pretty much the chronological order of the episodes. My mind's a bit fuzzy on the specifics (haven't watched the episodes in a month or so), but didn't Inara say she was leaving at the end of "Heart of Gold"? Then there was that scene in "Objects in Space" where we got the impression that Inara was still planning to leave, but just not quite yet (because she hadn't told the crew). So I think that the order on the DVD set is correct.
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I must tell you that the most amazing and just "who the fuck thought this up?" character is a woman (well, I don't know if you could call her that, although that's certainly how Jayne thinks of her) named Vera.
I'll say. "Well, my days of not taking you seriously are certainly reaching a middle."
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That whole episode was hysterical. "If someone tries to kill you, you kill them right back!" Hee!
Why is it, whenever sociopaths give their weapon a girl's name, it's always something like that? Vera, Elvira, Betsie...never something like Amanda or Julie. I was gratified to see Vera again in a later episode--nice that they kept continuity like that.
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I watched it when it first aired, mostly because of the buzz around the Ex Isle forums about the show. I got the DVD's, called in sick the next day and watched all the episodes.
Glad it is getting a second chance in the movies.
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quote:Originally posted by TSN: Oddly enough, I've never had mail delivered in the gloom of night. Nor have I ever heard of anyone who has.
Haven't you heard of overnight delivery?
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