Quote of the Day, and a wee DVD Sale
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ealgyldenFrom "Firefly vs. The Tick," by Don Debrandt, in Finding Serenity:
"I should mention that I'm extremely grateful for the appearance of Dinosaur Neil. He allows me to segue from facial hair to giant prehistoric lizards, a leap that would cause most works of prose to derail in the sort of horrifying spectacle that actually causes injuries in adjoining essays.
The scene that introduced Wash, Serenity's pilot, placed him at the ship's controls. He was not paying attention to them, and he did not have a mustache. He was, however, playing with two small plastic dinosaurs, which he pitted against each other in a scene fraught with betrayal, horror, and lots of evil laughter. He is obviously a very bad man, and we will talk of him no further.
It is worth mentioning, though, that when the captain and Zoe first met him, he did have a mustache, and Zoe didn't trust him. Six years went by, they got married, and the mustache disappeared.
Coincidence?
I think not."
Heeeee. I love this essay. It probably helps that I have been, at various points in my life, deeply obsessed with both Firefly and The Tick, but good god, this is fun. Don Debrandt is a nutball. He compares Mal to El Seed. El Seed! My favorite Tick baddie ever! And it's jam-packed with Tick quotes and compares the Reavers to the Heys, and you can't fight evil with a macaroni duck!, and it's a short little thing, you could probably read it in the bookstore. Except I find that really annoying, so don't get caught or hurt the book. Okay, one more summary quote:
"So, to sum up: the links between Firefly and The Tick are obvious. There's the hair data, the dinosaurs and the monkeys, stuff about Christmas and weird language and, uh, they're both funny as hell, and there's all this material about the color blue and cows and high school French I didn't have room for, and it adds up in a perfectly logical, not at all insane way..."
And Amazon is having another sale on first seasons of TV shows on DVD. It's a very short list, but I heartily recommend Dead Zone, and I've heard very good things about Boomtown. Sadly, the Providence set is a "Best of," and doesn't include Richard Burgi's (rather strange) episode.
"And so, may Evil beware and may Good dress warmly and eat lots of fresh vegetables."
"I should mention that I'm extremely grateful for the appearance of Dinosaur Neil. He allows me to segue from facial hair to giant prehistoric lizards, a leap that would cause most works of prose to derail in the sort of horrifying spectacle that actually causes injuries in adjoining essays.
The scene that introduced Wash, Serenity's pilot, placed him at the ship's controls. He was not paying attention to them, and he did not have a mustache. He was, however, playing with two small plastic dinosaurs, which he pitted against each other in a scene fraught with betrayal, horror, and lots of evil laughter. He is obviously a very bad man, and we will talk of him no further.
It is worth mentioning, though, that when the captain and Zoe first met him, he did have a mustache, and Zoe didn't trust him. Six years went by, they got married, and the mustache disappeared.
Coincidence?
I think not."
Heeeee. I love this essay. It probably helps that I have been, at various points in my life, deeply obsessed with both Firefly and The Tick, but good god, this is fun. Don Debrandt is a nutball. He compares Mal to El Seed. El Seed! My favorite Tick baddie ever! And it's jam-packed with Tick quotes and compares the Reavers to the Heys, and you can't fight evil with a macaroni duck!, and it's a short little thing, you could probably read it in the bookstore. Except I find that really annoying, so don't get caught or hurt the book. Okay, one more summary quote:
"So, to sum up: the links between Firefly and The Tick are obvious. There's the hair data, the dinosaurs and the monkeys, stuff about Christmas and weird language and, uh, they're both funny as hell, and there's all this material about the color blue and cows and high school French I didn't have room for, and it adds up in a perfectly logical, not at all insane way..."
And Amazon is having another sale on first seasons of TV shows on DVD. It's a very short list, but I heartily recommend Dead Zone, and I've heard very good things about Boomtown. Sadly, the Providence set is a "Best of," and doesn't include Richard Burgi's (rather strange) episode.
"And so, may Evil beware and may Good dress warmly and eat lots of fresh vegetables."
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Date: 2005-04-02 03:25 am (UTC)You have fine taste. :)
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