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Saturday, January 22, 2005 5:31 AM

CAPTAINCRUNCH

... stay crunchy...


What is/was your favorite tv sci-fi show ever?

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Saturday, January 22, 2005 10:55 AM

WYK


How does Joss feel about two of the best shows currently on TV stealing his writers and actors? First Lost kidnaps his writers, then Veronica Mars steals Willows. They even brainwash poor Alyson into saying that Veronica Mars is the "new Buffy."

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Saturday, January 22, 2005 11:06 AM

MALICIOUS


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Originally posted by Nywoe:
My husband has a theory that the man who "rescues" Kaylee from the mean girls at the party in "Shindig" is suppoed to be Mark Twain. So you may be on to something there!




Mark Twain? Clark Gable? I thought he was supposed to be Jed Clampett.

Mal-licious

Co-Holder of the Red Bell from Hell

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Sunday, January 23, 2005 8:53 AM

ARAMINA


Um, Joss?

Can I have a job please?

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Sunday, January 23, 2005 9:00 AM

EMBERS


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Originally posted by pizmobeach:
If you could ask Joss Whedon one question
what would it be?



Mr. Whedon, Sir?
May I just sit at your feet and listen to you talk?
...and read everything you write?
Is that too much to ask?


edited to add:
I had been wishing I had more of Joss' writings to read and our own dear Shiny posted this thread of old posts:
http://forums.prospero.com/n/find/findRedir.asp?webtag=foxfirefly&mg=2
A6E69AC-583E-4900-89D4-038CB45A9325

THANK YOU SHINY!

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Sunday, January 23, 2005 11:29 AM

OLDFAN45


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Originally posted by pizmobeach:
If you could ask Joss Whedon one question about Firelfy what would it be? If we're lucky ... by stealth mule, over the mountains... ninja penguin over the polar icecaps...they might make it into the right hands.



Please sir, please please please let this former literary agent/editor find/edit/develop fanfic anthologies for your wonderful shows! I don't eat much, and I swear I won't drink anything except water the whole time you let me have this dream job. Please???

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Sunday, January 23, 2005 2:46 PM

JEBBYPAL


Hmmm...and yet, Fox gave Point Pleasant an optimum timespot, leadin from American Idol, and advertising up to wazzoo. And all of this despite the fact that the friday night death slot was open (and it's bad).

Of course...this could play into the revenge theory also --- only promote bad shows by ME alums.

The Strawberries: 2004 Blue Sun Fanfic Awards
http://mysite.verizon.net/vzenvl6n/

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Sunday, January 23, 2005 10:45 PM

SAFFY


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Originally posted by zoid:

Saffy:

I can't speak for pizmobeach, but I caught sgtgump's reference, being a Farley fan myself. In the skits, Farley winds up calling himself 'stupid!', pounding his forehead and pulling his hair, while the shocked interviewee tries to calm him. I think the stars' reaction to this character was a perfect reflection of the viewers' response to the big, lovable lummox who portrayed him: People instinctively liked Chris, and didn't want him to hurt himself doing crazy stunts. How sad, he had to leave us so soon.

I have often thought Loren Michaels selects comedians whom he thinks are on the road to destruction, so that their deaths may ensure his success. He's in league with the Devil. (Yes, he's a bowler.) The question is: Who's next?

BTW, I love your byline. It's my favorite line from YoSafBridge, and it's delivered so subtly (a non sequitur) that I missed it the first viewing or two...


v/r,
-zed




Hi, Zoid! I love that sketch because it represents exactly how I've felt on the few occasions when I got to meet a "hero" of mine. I can't have a normal conversation with someone I'm that in awe of. Through my husband's work I got to meet Margaret Weis (of the "DragonLance" series) a couple of years ago, and I was so giddy and breathless I'm sure I came off as the biggest ditz in the world. Then I beat myself up for sounding like an idiot in front of Margaret Weis. ;)

Chris Farley was just as funny to me when he wasn't throwing himself on top of coffee tables. I used to love watching his co-stars like Adam Sandler struggling not to laugh at him.

I love that there are enough wonderful lines in Firefly that practically every single member of this board can have his own. :)


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Sunday, January 23, 2005 11:15 PM

JADE0REFRACTION


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1. In your original Firefly pilot script, Kaylee was described as "zaftig" (or was it Rubenesque? Either way, she was supposed to be cute an' chunky). Despite Jewel Staite's obvious talent, why couldn't you have flung off Hollywood's preconceived notions of what makes a woman beautiful and sexy and actually cast the role according to what you had first intentioned? That would have been groundbreaking.


Amen to that one! FF was breaking ground all over the place, with filming techniques and blurred genre lines. Staite had to gain a lot of weight for the role, and did well at it, but being the gorgeous girl she is, the weight didn't really show. It's along the same lines as Renee Zellweger as Bridget Jones--neither are overly skinny, but are perfectly acceptable as "thin enough" in American (yes, I know Bridget was British, but I can only speak from my own perspective) culture. To truly break ground there, the change would have needed to be much more drastic.

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Mr. Whedon... in your opinion, what is the likelihood that a primitive culture will be able to withstand cultural and societal assimilation, retaining their own intrinsic system of beliefs, values, and societal morays, after being exposed to the influence of a separate culture whose own society and technological progression has advanced to a degree wherein the first culture's reaction to the technology would be akin to that of Midieval Europe's reaction to the presence of what they perceived to be magic?


I'd like to hear the answer to that one. It seems to me that it's something to really think about in terms of building a complete sci-fi universe. You have to figure where the cultures come from and where they go. Frank Herbert takes one view of it, and a very thorough one at that, but there are other ways to address the problem. It would all depend on the depth of the influence of the second culture. Is it a momentary glance into their own future? Much could be said about this. See Star Trek: First Contact for one way to approach that aspect. When a culture sees what they can become, what they will become, they can rebel and refuse to progress, which then leads but to delayed progress. I can't think of any examples off the top of my head, but I know the concept has been addressed before. A generation refuses to take certain steps, go in a certain direction, and for good cause (they think), but future generations don't share their sense of caution. Rebellion like that cannot stop a society that is built for progress. If they don't react that way, they might see what they are to be and grow intent on becoming that as fast as possible. See Ender's Game and the reverse engineering from the Buggers. If the chances hold that we will be this eventually, shouldn't we throw caution to the wind and take hold of all progress possible? Both reactions have good and bad points.
And this doesn't even go into prolonged exposure to more advanced civilizations...that thought is quite scary on its own.

I'd like to know what Whedon would think about it all.


And now you're what, a petty thief with delusions of standing? Sad little king of a sad little hill.

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