Feeling a bit down tonight. Still catching up on sleep. Reckon fatigue has something to do with it.
To get my spirits up, thanks to io9 I could always raise my spirits by watching the credits sequence Firefly deserved:
No, I can’t figure out how to center it. Deal. I was fortunate to be able to persuade it not to be too wide for my text column. Anyway, who cares? It’s a cool video.
And it reminds me I need to finish watching my Firefly DVDs.
It wasn’t an unproductive day. I do need to figure out a good way to rearrange the scenes remaining in the first half of the rewrite. I’m hoping I don’t have to print ‘em out, cut ‘em out with scissors, and rearrange ‘em. That would be too old school.
Suggestions, anybody?
Update, 7-11-10 9:10 PM: Centering issues with embedded video resolved. You could probably tell. Thanks, Mike Blessing!
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Very cool video. Thanks for posting it.
Firefly had so many good things going for it. One detail that I loved was that there was no sound in space – the ships didn’t go “varoom” like in most all movies and TV shows.
Though why you need rocket & jet engines when you can control gravity, I don’t know
Hey, Bill! Happy surprise to see you here. Hope you decide to become a frequent visitor.
Good point about the gravity thing. While Joss Whedon & Co. definitely got the “in space, no one can hear … well, anything” right, what I hear is he was never a stickler for science details. I suppose the gravity control issue is one of the things he didn’t stickle on. Although I suspect the cost of doing zero-gee effects for a weekly show was a decisive factor.
The thing with Firefly is that it got so very much right. Centering on characters – who were alive, whom you cared about, and who were believable though definitely non-standard-issue – was its biggest strength. In science fiction terms, Joss and his other writers got enough of the techie stuff right not to detract from the other important, and oft-neglected SF elements that also succeeded: primarily the culture of his star-system wide ‘verse.
There are many definitions of science fiction. Mine happens to be: fiction which explores the ramifications of technological development on human beings. By that standard Firefly (and Serenity, o’ course!) succeeded excellently well as SF.
I still hope Cap’n Mal and his intrepid crew will, one day, once again take us out to the Black.
They couldn’t have found a few seconds for “Sean Maher as Dr. Simon Tam”?
I’m kinda partial to the theme music Joss Whedon used too.
It’d make a killer series promo though.
They straight forgot him, it appears. See their sniveling (if tongue-in-cheek) excuse here.
Everybody loved the “They can’t take the sky from me” theme. I loved it. The point the intro-maker was making, I gather, is that it (like the rest of the actual intro) was maybe a bit downbeat for opening credits. They could as easily have played it over the end credits.
Yep, that excuse was surely sniveling. And out-of-character, given the events in “Serenity”; 1 – he’d never abandon his sister, and 2 – having “been with” Kaylee, he’d probably not leave her either.
Re: “They Can’t Take The Sky From Me” -Yeah, they could have used it for the end credits – except that, these days, most channels overdub the end credits, which would mean that, unless/until one watched it from DVD (or MAYBE if it re-aired in syndication on a second-tier station), one would never have heard it.
To center the embedded video clip, you just paste the HTML you copied from the clip’s Youtube page in between two <center> tags — <center>[copied HTML]</center>.
Thanks, Mike! I fiddled around with the post per your suggestion. As you can see, it worked.
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