by Amy Ratcliffe I like costumes. I like to play dress up. I am constantly inspired by the strong characters that good science fiction and fantasy produce. This interest feeds another obsession of mine. Planning. I enjoy researching a costume, finding just the right reference photo, and making the accompanying lists only slightly more than [...]
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Nathon Fillion donned the tightpants on TV last night.
Captain Tightpants makes me happy. Video after the jump.
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Serial Serenity: A recap with a bit a trivia thrown in for good measure Episode: Jaynestown Original Air Date: 10-18-02 Written by: Ben Edlund (& Joss Whedon) Directed by: Marita Grabiak Related Stuff:
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These Whedon-verse travel agency posters would look great on my walls. Now all I need are travel posters for Mordor, Tatooine, Latveria and Gotham City. Then I could open up my Imaginary Travel Agency and make big bucks sending people to places that don’t exist. Related Stuff:
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Serial Serenity: A recap with a bit a trivia thrown in for good measure Episode: Our Mrs. Reynolds Original Air Date: 10-4-02 Written by: Joss Whedon Directed by: Vondie Curtis Hall This episode introduces a character that I absolutely hate. Maybe it’s because she reminds me of one of my rivals from college, maybe it’s [...]
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Serial Serenity: A recap with a bit a trivia thrown in for good measure Episode: Safe Original Air Date: 11-8-02 Written by: Joss Whedon & Drew Z. Greenberg Directed by: Michael Grossman Synopsis: Brotherly Love Our story begins 11 years ago in the childhood home of Young Simon (Zac Efron? Yes, THAT Zac Efron) and [...]
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Serial Serenity: A recap with a bit a trivia thrown in for good measure Episode: Shindig Original Air Date: 11-1-02 Written by: Jane Espenson Directed by: Vern Gillum Remember, kids, we’re doing these in the order Joss intended, not the order Fox arbitrarily placed upon them. Can you tell I’m still bitter? Synopsis Bar Brawl [...]
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Serial Serenity went on hiatus three months ago, but Rachel has returned to resurrect her column and we couldn’t be happier! Unless there was cheesecake involved, because cheesecake does have a way of increasing happiness levels. Here’s Rachel’s (cheesecake free) take on the Firefly episode Bushwhacked. Synopsis Ball Game While playing a game involving a [...]
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Rachel’s column, Serial Serenity, is on hiatus for the time being while she takes care of some personal matters. When things settle down for her, she will be back on Firefly duty. On another Whedon note, we’re still looking for someone to take over Buffy for Beginners. If you’re up for it, tell us at [...]
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Original Air Date: 9-20-02 U-Day As any good Western, The Train Job starts in a saloon. A belly dancer wanders through the crowd and stealthily hands a note to Mal who is seated at a table playing Chinese Checkers with Zoë and Jayne. A man at the bar proposes a toast on this special day, [...]
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A World of Trouble In the kitchen, Simon tells the story of River to the crew of Serenity. His story is juxtaposed with shots of him treating River in the infirmary. He first speaks of himself: how brilliant he was in medical school and so on. He does this to illustrate how smart River is; [...]
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The following is the first installment in a series on the television show Firefly This review will be quite long because of all the exposition, but subsequent entries will be shorter and expand more on the philosophy and theory behind the characters from the point of view of a woman. Now, I am not going [...]
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For three wonderful months in 2002, the world glimpsed Joss Whedon’s vision of the future (500 years ahead, to be exact) through his series Firefly. An instant cult hit, this sci-fi western told the story of nine people on a smuggling ship just trying to scrape by. It merged the past with the future to [...]
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