Thanks for the birthday wishes ^_^! (though the link doesn't work, btw).
Yes, watch Firefly! Everyone should watch it and love it and write nasty letters to Fox lambasting them for cancelling it. I discovered the series on DVD after a college friend pimped it to me--I never even knew it existed while it was on the air, because there was almost no publicity or advertising for it. Basically, it's the story of a set of semi-outlaws who smuggle things to tiny, backwater space colonies in their ancient and constantly breaking down space ship. Think the Millenium Falcon with a larger crew and a much more lackluster PR job.
There's Mal Reynolds, captain and embittered ex-soldier (his whole command was slaughtered waiting for re-enforcements that never came), his second in command, Zoe, who's been with him since the war, Zoe's pilot husband, Walsh (he plays with toy dinosaurs and wears Hawaiian shirts), and Kaylee, the young female mechanic. And of course, Jayne, the former mercenary who gives all of his guns women's names---and sleeps with them. Then there are the passengers: Book, the preacher with a secret past, and Inara, the space-geisha. Yes, space-geisha. And Simon and his crazy-but-psychic sister River, who stow away on the Serenity to escape evil government scientists.
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Date: 2005-08-07 06:52 pm (UTC)Yes, watch Firefly! Everyone should watch it and love it and write nasty letters to Fox lambasting them for cancelling it. I discovered the series on DVD after a college friend pimped it to me--I never even knew it existed while it was on the air, because there was almost no publicity or advertising for it. Basically, it's the story of a set of semi-outlaws who smuggle things to tiny, backwater space colonies in their ancient and constantly breaking down space ship. Think the Millenium Falcon with a larger crew and a much more lackluster PR job.
There's Mal Reynolds, captain and embittered ex-soldier (his whole command was slaughtered waiting for re-enforcements that never came), his second in command, Zoe, who's been with him since the war, Zoe's pilot husband, Walsh (he plays with toy dinosaurs and wears Hawaiian shirts), and Kaylee, the young female mechanic. And of course, Jayne, the former mercenary who gives all of his guns women's names---and sleeps with them. Then there are the passengers: Book, the preacher with a secret past, and Inara, the space-geisha. Yes, space-geisha. And Simon and his crazy-but-psychic sister River, who stow away on the Serenity to escape evil government scientists.