{"id":3663,"date":"2002-10-11T09:25:20","date_gmt":"2002-10-11T14:25:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/?p=3663"},"modified":"2013-06-03T11:57:25","modified_gmt":"2013-06-03T17:57:25","slug":"better_late_tha-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2002\/10\/11\/better_late_tha-2.html","title":{"rendered":"Better late than … oh, never mind"},"content":{"rendered":"

Watched last week’s Firefly at long last (thanks for the tape, Doyce). Hy-larious, not to mention well done. Too many good lines to count. Yeah, sort of a fluff piece, but, still, we keep getting little details fleshed out about the crew of the good ship Serenity<\/i>.<\/p>\n

(Parenthetically, one cool thing is that we’re beginning to get a feel for where things are on the ship. This is one of the few space series where the ship is small enough for us to get a feel for the spacial relationships between different decks, quarters, the bridge, the cargo bay, etc. And that should only increase over time, which is neat.)<\/p>\n

(Also, parenthetically, isn’t it nice that a same-sex seduction scene can be a part of a plotline without being the <\/i>plotline, and without being “a shocking, very special episode of Firefly”? I think so. I mean, not so long ago, you couldn’t even consider it as part of a plot. Never would have entered anyone’s mind.)<\/p>\n

So … after rushing to get done with the tape before the following Friday rolls around … what’s up with Fox preempting the show after only three episodes? (And from what I hear, it’s been worse back east<\/a>.)<\/p>\n

Yes, I realize, Sports Preempts All. <\/p>\n

So why is it that shows I <\/i>like always get plopped in the same time slots as so many sporting events?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Watched last week’s Firefly at long last (thanks for the tape, Doyce). Hy-larious, not to mention well done. Too many good lines to count. 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