Yes, it's come to this — my daughter is suggesting things fro me to blog about. (Complete with a "Well, you know, if I had my own blog .." — which, of course, she's welcome to have as soon as we get a few minutes to do it. Maybe over the holidays …)
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Hrm. I lurves me some Firefly, but not how I'd spend $385 right now. But if anyone wants to give it to me for Christmas …
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Serenity LEGO set is now a reality
Granted, it won’t let you build the seven-foot-long Serenity masterpiece that graced this year’s Brickfair, but this 2,186-piece custom Serenity LEGO set is shiny in its own right, letting you build a…
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Last night I dreamt I met myself from a parallel universe, and traded him discs for the three Star Wars prequels and Indiana Jones IV in return for the four season sets of Firefly.
I felt very guilty.
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A remarkable Flickr set of the minifig scale Serenity this guy built. Amazing.
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Minifig Scale Serenity
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… And then in my dream they invited me out for a beer and we talked about comic books and Star Trek …
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Matt Smith meets Nathan Fillion at Comic-Con!
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The big Firefly Reunion at the San Diego Comic-Con will be filmed and rebroadcast (with some added material) … in November. Bless you SyFy for doing this, and curse you for pulling a Fox-like "let's take a break for a few months before we continue with our story …"
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Hey Browncoats, That Comic-Con Firefly Reunion Panel Will be Televised
We mentioned earlier some of the awesome things all us sad not-at-Comic-Con folks will be missing. Well, now you can be marginally less sad! Because it turns out that that Firefly reunion? It’s being filmed. And not just on some grainy flip-cam with sub=par quality so you can half-watch it on youtube later (although we’re sure that’s happening, too). Nope, it’s gonna be on real television, with some more good stuff alongside it.
The panel, which will be moderated by Entertainment Weekly‘s Jef…
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I look very much forward to an official report from Certain Folks attending SDCC on this particular panel.
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Well, there's at least one reason officially announced for Nathan Fillion to be at Comic-Con!
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Firefly Tenth Anniversary Panel Descends on Comic-Con
A number of press releases were issued this afternoon to promote a surprise tenth anniversary celebration of Firefly happening at San Diego Comic-Con International in two weeks. The panel, which will …
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Books are not comic books. Comic books are not movies. Movies are not TV shows. TV shows are not stage productions. Stage productions are not books.
There may be some commonality shared between some of these, but it seems to me that one of the big mistakes (from the perspective of comic books) is trying to imitate one medium in another.
You can make successful super-heroics on TV. As noted in the article, "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" is proof of that. But not by trying to imitate a movie (for reasons both story-telling and budgetary), nor by trying to imitate a comic book (unless it's a comic book that's been very carefully written to have TV sensibilities). You do it, not by making a comic book TV show that turns out to be successful, but by trying to write a successful TV show that is based on a comic book.
(On a somewhat side note, I think this is the biggest failing of Serenity vs. "Firefly" — the movie tried to be an extended TV series episode, only with a bigger budget, and that just doesn't work. It ends up feeling rushed and shallow and too dependent on stuff that a TV audience would remember from the preceding several weeks, but that a movie audience won't understand.)
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Are Superheroes Too Big For Television?
The Avengers, Batman and Spider-man are headlining this season's must-see movies. Then why is it so hard for superheroes to fly on the small screen?
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Not always coherent, but still lots of interesting fun.
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Joss Whedon on Comic Books, Abusing Language and the Joys of Genre | Underwire | Wired.com
Geeks love Joss Whedon. In his TV shows and movies — Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Angel, Dollhouse, Serenity, Firefly — he gives them not necessarily what they want, but definitely what they need. With…
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Heh. (H/t Mark) #ddtb
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Subtle geek pickup lines, problem is, is if a girl gets this she's probably the one you want after all
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So, if the three members of your zombie apocalypse team (along with you) are the (a) protagonist from the last thing you read, you watched, and you played … "how screwed are you?"
I'm pretty lucky, I guess: Honor Harrington (from David Weber's space opera book series), Ms. Marvel (from the "Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes" cartoon), and Velorio (my dual-pistols blaster from City of Heroes ).
So no worries on my part, and a bit of relief it wasn't William McKinley, Patrick Jayne, and … well, the gaming bit is always going to be pretty kick-ass. #ddtb
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Katniss from the Hunger Games, Wolverine from X-Men and Carth Onasi from Knights of the Old Republic. I think I'll be all right (:
Thanks to +Emily Vitori (:
Damn. I really need to rewatch this show. Again. Some more. #ddtb
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