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tinhuvielartanisI don't know from Serenity and I didn't watch Firefly. I'm not that much of a Joss Whedon fan, so I guess this puts me on the Ultimate Shit List since everyone on the planet seems to have a shrine dedicated to him in their drawing rooms. Sorry, but I just don't get it. I didn't do Buffy and I never saw Angel. I think Spike is an ugly bastard (sorry, ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
clumsycake!). As Danny Elfman sang: I'm on the outside, I'm on the outside!
That said, can any of you Whendonites tell me if this quiz result is a good one? Thanks.
clumsycake!). As Danny Elfman sang: I'm on the outside, I'm on the outside!That said, can any of you Whendonites tell me if this quiz result is a good one? Thanks.
 | You scored as Zoe Alleyne Washburne. The Soldier. You are the second in command, and that is fine. You like a chain of command, but only when the one in charge has earnt your respect. Those who earn your love or loyalty will find no one better to guard their back.
Which Serenity character are you? created with QuizFarm.com |
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Date: 2005-10-01 10:17 pm (UTC)We're out there! Just keep heading towards the sound of my voice!
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Date: 2005-10-01 10:19 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-10-02 12:19 am (UTC)I liked Firefly well enough, but I wasn't fazed when it got cancelled. Buffy and Angel did absolutely nothing for me, period. Give me JJ Abrams over Whedon any day.
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Date: 2005-10-02 07:30 pm (UTC)You rugged individualist you! ;D
Date: 2005-10-01 10:17 pm (UTC)But you can rest assured, Zoe is a capable, strong woman and hell in tight leather.
Re: You rugged individualist you! ;D
Date: 2005-10-01 10:20 pm (UTC)Re: You rugged individualist you! ;D
Date: 2005-10-01 10:25 pm (UTC)(Just think, sanguine red leather and stark white hair, heh!)
Re: You rugged individualist you! ;D
Date: 2005-10-01 10:28 pm (UTC)Re: You rugged individualist you! ;D
Date: 2005-10-02 05:39 pm (UTC)Re: You rugged individualist you! ;D
Date: 2005-10-02 07:41 pm (UTC)no subject
My plan to deal with this, so far, is to just ignore this entire post as if it never happened.
See? Didn't happen. Ah, much better.
*puts feet up on desk*
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Date: 2005-10-01 10:22 pm (UTC)::hands you a large mug o'LOST and poo-poos you::
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Date: 2005-10-01 10:25 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-10-01 10:24 pm (UTC)you are not alone. i don't get it either. ::joins you on the Shit List::
[sorry, but for me, any SF show on telly has some mighty big boots to fill, and those boots are called Babylon 5. though i hear that the new Battlestar Galactica comes close...]
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Date: 2005-10-01 10:26 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-10-01 11:24 pm (UTC)But it DOESN'T hold a friggen candle to B5!
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Date: 2005-10-01 11:28 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-10-01 11:26 pm (UTC)And so it was with Firefly. I never had an interest in the show until, on a whim, I took someones advice to download the entire series as a collection of very highly compressed postage-stamp sized RealVideo files. After watching the first three episodes, I realized that this was a show I wanted to see proper, so I picked up the DVD set and never once regretted it. :P
It might help to keep in mind that just as there are drooling fans of Whedons work, there are at least as many obsessed JMS pants-wetters out there. Since you're a fan of B5, apparently, you no doubt have an idea what it's like to be on the other side of this sort of thing. ;)
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Date: 2005-10-01 11:29 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-10-02 12:20 am (UTC)I haven't actually seen B5, myself. I know everyone says it's great, and such, so I located a torrent with Season 1, and it's been sitting on my drive ready to be watched. I always find something else to do, though.
I guess I'm still biased from my initial exposure to it. You see, back when it first aired I was really excited about it and watched a good chunk of the pilot episode. Not the whole thing. Why? Honestly, at the time it just bored the everloving hell out of me. So, I never watched it again.
I know I need to just watch the damn show and overcome that memory. That was, what, 1994? Long time ago. What's REALLY silly is that I barely remember anything specific about the pilot outside of vague mental images of CGI ships and the emotional result of watching what I did. Which is to say, burning pain.
But in the interim betwixt then and now, I've heard countless people praising the hell out of it.
So I'm trying. I want to fill in this apparent gap in my sci-fi history. It's just taking me forever to get around to it. I just need to find that hook. Then it'll snowball. :D
In related news, I've been catching up on Deep Space Nine starting with Season 1. I never got to see the series first time it came around, since my local Fox affiliate which was airing the show didn't come in clear enough with my poor rabbit-ear antenna. :(
(And yeah, I read about the whole B5/DS9 controversy. I'll pass on all that, thanks. :D)
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Date: 2005-10-02 07:35 pm (UTC)Bored?
Date: 2005-10-01 10:36 pm (UTC)Me thinks you must be bored, Today. 8-)
Adrian
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Date: 2005-10-01 10:37 pm (UTC)Re: Bored?
Date: 2005-10-01 10:53 pm (UTC)8-)
Adrian
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Date: 2005-10-01 10:59 pm (UTC)Re: Bored?
Date: 2005-10-01 11:15 pm (UTC)Amazon estimates delivery on the 8th.
Adrian
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Date: 2005-10-01 11:18 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-10-02 04:20 am (UTC)As for the Whedon/Firefly comments, I first saw Firefly about a month ago. Have seen the first 4 episodes and thought they were great. When I found out the creator did Buffy and Angel, neither of which I watched or wanted to watch, I was nonplussed, but still liked Firefly. Want to see the rest of the episodes (some of which we taped off SciFi earlier this week). And Buzz and I want to see the movie. I hear it's good. It's not B5 or BG, but it's not supposed to be. It's different, and that's good.
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Date: 2005-10-02 07:38 pm (UTC)And thanks for the compliments. You're too sweet.
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Date: 2005-10-02 08:21 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-10-02 08:32 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-10-02 05:36 pm (UTC)Now on the opposing appendage, I've never been much of a BABYLON 5 fan. If I missed the show one or two weeks I was completely lost as to what was going on and the whole thing just seemed too pretentious and overwritten to me. I will admit that the show had aliens that truly did seem alien as opposed to STAR TREK and I loved The Mimbari.
And my favorite episode was where the Russian chick was facing down a vastly powerful armada of space ships and she told them flat out that she was sent by God to destroy them and if they didn't turn around and haul ass, she was going to be the last living thing they ever saw. One the best badass speeches EVER.
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Date: 2005-10-02 07:41 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-10-02 08:50 pm (UTC)As much as the character of Delenn got on my nerves, that quote has stuck with me to this day. Baaaaaaaaaaad-ASS.
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Date: 2005-10-02 08:52 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-10-02 06:36 pm (UTC)BUT "FIREFLY" PROBABLY MEK FAVORITE TV SHOW, EVAR. TIE WITH "COWBOY BEBOP" IF ANIME INCLUDED (INTERESTING NOTE MANY SIMILARITY BETWEEN).
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Date: 2005-10-02 07:43 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-10-02 08:51 pm (UTC)=M=
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Date: 2005-10-02 08:52 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-10-03 08:29 pm (UTC)Buffy on the other hand was *glorious*. Not every episode, and it had long boring bits and very silly bits, but at its best it provided more dark, philosophical story-telling for teenagers than *almost* any programme has ever done for adults. The best of Angel was almost even better, but there was far less of the best. And Angel also had some of the best surreal humour I've seen since Monty Python. (The demon, green Lorne, was one of the most inspired comic characters ever created anywhere.)
It's not really fair to compare anything to Babylon 5, it's a miracle it ever made it to TV. Although I hated it at first, because I couldn't bear that faux-50s poor acting and grainy film. But soon the amazing scripts won me over -- and gradually they updated the look and style.
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Date: 2005-10-03 11:09 pm (UTC)When I took the test I came out The Operative, a mean-lookin' black dude with more than a passing resemblance to Yaphet Kotto in Live and Let Die. This confused me.
Then I watched Film 2005 (THE British film review TV show) and realized this was a character (not the in TV show??) who was tracking River to return her to the Government.
OK, but strange, I don't usually come out that way in quizzes.
Then, Jonathan Ross segued into the next film review: of Kinky Boots, something you probably won't ever see Stateside. It's a comedy based on the true story of a family shoe factory having to close -- until they decide to save it by making spike-heeled thigh boots for transvestites. (I have seen these very boots, there's at least three stores in Brighton that specialize.)
I had already seen an interview about it on the news this morning -- with the black actor who plays the drag queen who advises on the boots. Guess what? Yep, The Operative. Much more my style. I laughed my socks off.
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Date: 2005-10-03 11:35 pm (UTC)Babylon 5 is my favourite series of all time, particularly the 3rd and 4th seasons. I saw only one episode of Buffy and didn't care for it and so I watched neither Buffy nor Angel. I never bothered with Firefly for that reason.
That was a mistake on my part. I recently (almost grudgingly) picked up the DVD box set for Firefly, mostly because I'm familiar with the work of some of the people involved with the show and thought it only proper to see what they'd done.
By the time I finished the 14 episodes that were finished, I was so angry with Fox (as if I needed new reasons!) for cancelling show that I was beside myself. This show had the best writing, depth of concept, character development and dialog of ~any~ show I've seen since B5. Hands down. If only it had been given its head. Like B5, there's a sense that nothing and noone should be taken at face value.
The movie is very good, by the way. It has more impact if you've seen the series, but the movie stands on its own.
...Stivan!
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Date: 2005-10-03 11:38 pm (UTC)I plan on seeing the movie simply because it's Sci-Fi and I'm a Sci-Fi nut. I still don't *get* Whedon, but that's the spice of life innit? Variety that is.
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Date: 2005-10-03 11:52 pm (UTC)I never got Whedon before either, but Firefly's the most impressive thing I've seen to come along since B5. The series takes a more leisurely approach to the character development, so you'll get more depth from the series, but the movie's still and enjoyable and surprising ride!