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lauralhI did in fact do nothing this weekend. I'm not particularly thrilled about it but...
I had never watched a full episode of Firefly, and my Netflix discs were slow, so once I finished Buffy s7 I pulled those out. The thing that struck me most is that they were very much not Whedon-esque. Or Greenwalt-esque (the two main players behind the Buffy and Angel early seasons). It was however very Minear-esque, whom I recalled as my favorite writer on Angel. Till he left for Firefly, right. What all this means for those of you too cool to watch television, is that darkness I kept talking about. Whedon has his own brand of darkness, but he also has his own brand of nerdy that either endears you or turns you off. Mainly with the making the words work in ways they are not supposed to, passing as funny times. Minear's humor is a little more straight-forward and snarky. In general he's more straightforward and well, you know he's not gonna kill your boyfriend to get a character arc moving. This is all to say that Firefly doesn't have the same quirks and campiness one has come to associate with Whedon vehicles.
Apart from that I read Bitter Angels, a SF novel set in a far future when Earth is peaceful and has Guardians to keep the peace. The Erasmus system left a Guardian for dead, and Terese has to find out why. It's an intricate mystery, one of those where almost every throwaway detail becomes important in the end.
I had never watched a full episode of Firefly, and my Netflix discs were slow, so once I finished Buffy s7 I pulled those out. The thing that struck me most is that they were very much not Whedon-esque. Or Greenwalt-esque (the two main players behind the Buffy and Angel early seasons). It was however very Minear-esque, whom I recalled as my favorite writer on Angel. Till he left for Firefly, right. What all this means for those of you too cool to watch television, is that darkness I kept talking about. Whedon has his own brand of darkness, but he also has his own brand of nerdy that either endears you or turns you off. Mainly with the making the words work in ways they are not supposed to, passing as funny times. Minear's humor is a little more straight-forward and snarky. In general he's more straightforward and well, you know he's not gonna kill your boyfriend to get a character arc moving. This is all to say that Firefly doesn't have the same quirks and campiness one has come to associate with Whedon vehicles.
Apart from that I read Bitter Angels, a SF novel set in a far future when Earth is peaceful and has Guardians to keep the peace. The Erasmus system left a Guardian for dead, and Terese has to find out why. It's an intricate mystery, one of those where almost every throwaway detail becomes important in the end.
