Something that just bugs me...River on the Serenity DVD cover by Dorothea

GUYWHOWANTSAFIREFLYOFHISOWN

This is the 11th hour one...it's the one I use!

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Sunday, July 16, 2006 2:07 PM

those are great

and can anyone make a pic of the original US cover with a highlighted llama?

http://www.albinoblacksheep.com/flash/llama.php
-try it out, I dare you

98% of teens have smoked pot, if you are one of the 2% that haven't, copy this into your signature

I'm so into Firefly, my butt glows in the dark.

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Monday, July 17, 2006 1:00 PM

BLINKER

Quote:
Originally posted by Dorothea:
She looks nice and all, but she looks older and to me, almost like a different person... Can't put my finger on it--but it doesn't look at all like her!

What's with that?

As you can see by comparing the original to the DVD cover, the geniuses at Universal airbrushed the hell out of Summer Glau's photograph. (If you doubt that they're the same shot, compare the strands of hair around her head and across her chest.)

Not content to puff out her bust (her back strategically placed behind a planet to hide her true size), they proceeded to edit the lighting on her face until she resembled a cross between Jessica Alba and a raccoon.

And yet, for all that, I still think she's cute. Oh, I've got it bad.

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Monday, July 17, 2006 1:12 PM

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Monday, July 17, 2006 1:22 PM

Someone else did the circles...I just blew it up!

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Monday, July 17, 2006 1:48 PM

DUG

My wife says that it is not a llama.

Instead she says it is an alpaca, because she has an alpaca obsession. Can anyone loan me 15,000 dollars so I can buy her an alpaca?

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Monday, July 17, 2006 1:58 PM

Q: What's the difference between alpacas and llamas?

A: Size and fiber quality. Llamas were primarily bred to be a beast of burden, and alpacas were bred primarily as fiber producers. An average alpaca standing 34"-36" at the withers, where llamas stand 42"-48" at the withers. An adult alpaca will generally produce 5-8 pounds of high quality exotic uniformly crimped fiber in a single fiber fleece, each year.

Beats me!

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Monday, July 17, 2006 7:21 PM

ONEMANSHORT

Quote:
Originally posted by Penguin:
Q: What's the difference between alpacas and llamas?

A: Alpacas are cuter! Sorry, but I saw a couple at the Calgary Zoo a couple years ago and I just have to say...awwwwwww. Sorry, I've got a slight obsession with cute animals, to supplement my obsession with Firefly. I guess it helps because I'm a sucker for any episodes with cows or horses. Llamas are cute too though!

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Monday, July 17, 2006 7:29 PM

KANEMAN

Quote:
Originally posted by Blinker:
Quote:
Originally posted by Dorothea:
She looks nice and all, but she looks older and to me, almost like a different person... Can't put my finger on it--but it doesn't look at all like her!

What's with that?

As you can see by comparing the original to the DVD cover, the geniuses at Universal airbrushed the hell out of Summer Glau's photograph. (If you doubt that they're the same shot, compare the strands of hair around her head and across her chest.)

wow

Not content to puff out her bust (her back strategically placed behind a planet to hide her true size), they proceeded to edit the lighting on her face until she resembled a cross between Jessica Alba and a raccoon.

And yet, for all that, I still think she's cute. Oh, I've got it bad.

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Monday, July 17, 2006 7:32 PM

DAVESHAYNE

Quote:
Originally posted by dug:
My wife says that it is not a llama.

Instead she says it is an alpaca, because she has an alpaca obsession. Can anyone loan me 15,000 dollars so I can buy her an alpaca?

Personally I see both a llama and an alpaca. I also see a rooster and an emu. There's an entire petting zoo right on the front cover of the DVD.

David

"Not completely as well as the series of Firefly..." - From a review of Serenity at amazon.de

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Monday, July 17, 2006 7:35 PM

MER

Quote:
Originally posted by Blinker:

Granted they airbrushed her to hell, but it's not as bad as the job they did on her for the poster. She barely looks like herself, but still kinda pretty

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Monday, July 17, 2006 8:55 PM

SERGEANTX

The marketing of "Serenity", indeed the totality of 'marketing', is an abomination unto the eyes of the Browncoats.

SergeantX

"Dream a little dream or you can live a little dream. I'd rather live it, cause dreamers always chase but never get it." Aesop Rock

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Monday, July 17, 2006 9:37 PM

Oh, goody. I'd never seen the
oficiall llama cover. It's a
cllassic. Nathan Fillllion!
Sheesh.
Who's responsiblle for it?
May I save and use in pllace of
the uglly thing on my R1 DVD?

And yes, what SergeantX said.
Doublled and Treblled.

bun (hiding behind a guanaco)
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Monday, July 17, 2006 11:56 PM

EMMARIGBY

You know I always thought the obsession with llamas was started on this board. Good to know we're following in a great BDH tradition! I miss the llama stampeding through all the threads. That was fun!

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Hissssssssss!

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Tuesday, July 18, 2006 1:56 AM

MAGDALENA

"No power in the 'verse can stop me!"

Ha ha ha ha (that me LOL!!)

Apart from the enormously funny factor in the Llama covers (alpaca's etc too!) I am in awe fo the skill and dedication it takes to create such a work of art that will bring joy to the hearts of many a browncoat accross the 'Verse!

Thank you one and all!!

Mwaaah! - Magdalena x x x
*still chuckling to herself as she leaves the thread...*

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Tuesday, July 18, 2006 2:07 AM

http://srt.art.home.att.net/

Here's a link to a hi-res, full-sized version.

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Tuesday, July 18, 2006 2:19 AM

CAUSAL

Quote:
Originally posted by jpstargazer:
Ah, the great DVD cover art topic. There have been countless threads discussing not only how sub-par the US version cover art looks

Don't forget the small (but vocal) contingent that hates the international cover, as well!

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Tuesday, July 18, 2006 4:55 PM

Penguin wrote:
Tuesday, July 18, 2006 02:07
http://srt.art.home.att.net/

Here's a link to a hi-res, full-sized version.
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Thanks awfully, Penguin.
That's such a shiny piece of work.
Would be fun if 11th would make one
for SLiTHER. Heh.

ßun
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Tuesday, July 18, 2006 5:46 PM

HERA

Here's a DVD cover I did back in the day. River REALLY creeped me out, so I had to do something.

http://www.fireflyfans.net/sunroomitem.asp?i=6553

-Hera

"Wanna?" – Mal to Kaylee, Out of Gas

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Wednesday, July 19, 2006 7:32 AM

FLAKBAIT

What really bugs me the most is that they changed her eye color for the DVD cover. When I met Summer, the first thing that struck me was her absolutely gorgeous big brown eyes. Then on the DVD they're blue. Is blue proven to increase sales or something?

Oh well.

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Wednesday, July 19, 2006 8:08 AM

SMARTBUTDUMBBLONDE

It does not look like Summer at all. On the llama cover, where does that big crowd come from? Was that in the film?
I also resent the fact that on the promotion material, all the BDH's have guns. Ok, Mal, Zoe and Jayne, But everyone else? I can count the times I've seen Wash with a gun on one hand, and Kaylee doesn't even like everyone else having them. I found a dvd cover, once that someone had labelled, and that captured it perfectly, but I can't find it now.

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Wednesday, July 19, 2006 10:55 AM

MICJWELCH

I had never even heard of the series before the movie. After FOX cancelled Dark Angel, I just kinda boycotted them. When I saw the preview for the movie, it showed River hanging from the ceiling, and I thought "Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon." Then that image you were talking on the cover looked like the girl from "The Ring" that crawled out of the tv. And when it said "From the creator of Buffy and Angel" I was just confused. It was only because of a friend that I ever saw it. Needless to say I was hooked after that.

"We may experience some slight turbulence, and then... explode."

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Wednesday, July 19, 2006 5:20 PM

micjwelch wrote:
Wednesday, July 19, 2006 10:55
I had never even heard of the series before the movie. After FOX cancelled Dark Angel, I just kinda boycotted them. When I saw the preview for the movie, it showed River hanging from the ceiling, and I thought "Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon." Then that image you were talking on the cover looked like the girl from "The Ring" that crawled out of the tv. And when it said "From the creator of Buffy and Angel" I was just confused. It was only because of a friend that I ever saw it. Needless to say I was hooked after that.
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This is only one of so *many* similar stories I've
read here and elsewhere. There should be an
archive made for presentation to the
next organization which will be responsible for
marketing a follow-on SereniFly project should
we ever get one done.

ßun
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Wednesday, July 19, 2006 7:24 PM

ONEMANSHORT

Let me just say, the poster was an abomination (well let me resay it, it's been said before). When my family goes to see a movie, we usually walk around the theater and look at the posters for movies coming up, Serenity was no exception. First of all, Nathan doesn't look half as handsome as he normally does, and the man is damn good looking. The poster made me think it would be a corny movie like "Doom" or some other piece of

movie. (a la Battlefield Earth) There was no appeal, nothing that would make me want to see it. Of course now I realize how wrong I was and regret full-heartedly never seeing it in the theaters. Crappy marketers, the only realistic possibility is that they're Reavers, hating all of human kind.

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Wednesday, July 19, 2006 7:31 PM

The llama cover is officially the funniest thing I've seen in years.

Somebody should make a llama fanvid...

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Thursday, July 20, 2006 6:19 PM

13:
Somebody should make a llama fanvid...
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There ISN'T one?
This is a serious omission.
And an insult to the llama community.

ßun
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Thursday, July 20, 2006 6:37 PM

PHOENIXROSE

You think you know--what's to come, what you are. You haven't even begun.

I remember when I went out to buy the movie, and I saw it was just going "Is that supposed to be River?" I was with my then-boyfriend, and he was saying "Wow! She looks sexy there!" And I was just going "It doesn't look like her at all!" which to me made it much less sexy. Then I saw the original shot used and said to myself "Oh see, now that is sexy! It looks similar, too..." Then I looked close and, like many others, noticed a few lighting a color changes.
Whatever. No one knows how to handle this property, it seems.

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Friday, July 21, 2006 10:34 AM

FUTUREMRSFILLION

JP

You don't have to "get" the Llama, you just have to believe.

one of the Forsaken TM

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Friday, July 21, 2006 10:41 AM

FUTUREMRSFILLION

EMMARIGBY! What have you done? You wished out load and now the Llamas will be released from the spell that had them so docile!

*FMF runs for the Partay thread as the rumbling of stampeding Llamas fills the air*

one of the Forsaken TM

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Friday, July 21, 2006 1:29 PM

EMMARIGBY

Here's a llama

There's a llama http://images.google.co.uk/images?q=tbn:2QIGHiepmPBjRM:www.delargy.com
/images/2005_3_Peru/llama.JPG

And another little llama http://images.google.co.uk/images?q=tbn:AWld-Z3E1c4XmM:www.oldp.net/pi
c/tables/tajming/llama.JPG

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Friday, July 21, 2006 1:59 PM

FUTUREMRSFILLION

*FMF ducks into the thread to hide from the marauding Llamas, only to see the llamas with Emmarigby*

EEEEEEEKKKKKKKKKKKKK

*FMF turns and runs back out of the thread* Gee thanks Emma!

one of the Forsaken TM

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Friday, July 21, 2006 2:20 PM

Add my story to the pile. I don't own a TV, so Firefly was never even a blip on my screen.(commodore 64 monitor hooked to DVD and VCR before you ask. We also run a Mac.) Judging from the chat at work we aren't missing anything by not getting a dish and living too far out for cable.

My hubby said "I heard about this Sci-Fi movie that someone said was actually pretty good", so I rented Serenity. Looked at that cover and said "ooooh..posessed goth chick, this looks like a real stinker, but if he insists..."
Next thing you know I've bought the series and the movie. Maybe if they'd spent less money airbrushing River's bust and more on advertizing I would actually have heard of the movie and seen it in the theater.
For Firefly I would consider getting a proper TV, and whatever enhancements needed for reception. The show's that good. We've been considering moving closer in to work anyway. Me:"They got it back on the air!" Him:"Start packing, we're going where they've got cable." Not having to use a dial up modem would also be really really nice.

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Friday, July 21, 2006 2:26 PM

Duck

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Friday, July 21, 2006 2:39 PM

I'm just looking around for Carl from Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius.

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Friday, July 21, 2006 3:26 PM

stinkingrose wrote:
Friday, July 21, 2006 14:39
I'm just looking around for Carl from Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius.
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Anything or anyone is liable to show up
here. Heh.

Good story about how you found SereniFly.

And impression of River as possessed
goth chick -- LOL!

When I saw the cover for the BDM I wasn't
sure who that was behind River, but because
it didn't look like anybody else I had to
assume it was the Captain. Gah!

ßun (also without a TV)
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Friday, July 21, 2006 6:05 PM

I was looking around the site (thataway)and found the summer crossover challenge. Anybody tried a Blue's Clues yet? Blue paw prints (blue hands,anyone? there must be a link)all over the place, the notepad that Joe/Steve (whoever the hump it is hosting now)draws the clues in could be picture paper, comments like "any male who wears that much eye makeup has issues". Lots of fun with the theme song "you just figured out blue's clues please don't kill me with your brain".
Sorry, I'm happy to be out of that age grouping.

How about Pigs In Space? Firefly meets Muppet Treasure Island?

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Friday, July 21, 2006 6:36 PM

No crossover here -- up against it
trying to keep up with regular threads.

Am assuming, however, that the "eye
makeup" comment referred to my other
favorite Captain, Mr. Jack Sparrow, he
of the weaselly black guts.

ßun
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Friday, July 21, 2006 6:41 PM

Nope, the host of the kiddie show. He was a touch overspackled the first season he took on the duty. Maybe they've toned it down, but there was a striking resemblance to Inara around the eyes when I look back on it.

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Saturday, July 22, 2006 2:16 PM

stinkingrose wrote:
Friday, July 21, 2006 18:41
Nope, the host of the kiddie show. He was a touch overspackled the first season he took on the duty. Maybe they've toned it down, but there was a striking resemblance to Inara around the eyes when I look back on it.
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eeep! My mistake!
Overspackled?
Resembling Inara?
(Mental image of red and gold shadow,
with sparkles applied just above the
lashes)

ßun
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Saturday, July 22, 2006 3:40 PM

ISPOTTEDATRAIN

I have a question. On the top security label some say Unrated, but there doesn't appear to be any difference. Is there any difference between that one and the regularly labeled one?

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Saturday, July 22, 2006 3:45 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by stinkingrose:

How about Pigs In Space?

Look in the Blue Room for Seremuppety!

http://www.fireflyfans.net/sunroomitem.asp?i=11910

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Saturday, July 22, 2006 3:50 PM