Re: The grumpasaurus, and "Firefly"

[JDMeans@xxxxxxx]

In a message dated 11/6/2002 11:32:34 PM Pacific Standard Time, 
danspector@xxxxxxxxx writes:

> "Firefly" is doing okay, but nine characters is waaay too many. "Buffy"
> started with four (Cordy was on the show, but not really in it until
> "Out of Mind, Out of Sight") and "Angel" had three. Heck, nowadays on
> "Angel", they work real hard to keep the characters down to four to make
> the stories manageable—I just can't understand why they think we'd
> rather see Fred, Gunn and Lorne than Cordelia, Wesley and Connor.

I dunno, I think they've managed to juggle them well for the most part. And 
just between you and me, I'd rather see fruit ripen than Connor! What a 
waste of space that could just as easily be filled by Fred! (I got a thing 
for girls who are attractive without being aware of their beauty. And 
apparantly so does Joss; witness Willow, Tara, Fred and Kaylee.) Connor's 
kinda like Spike; when he's not evil, he's just a lump! The jury's still out 
on Wes.  

Besides, this being a Mutant Enemy production, odds are that someone's gonna 
die in the near future. Personally my money's on Shepherd, but I'd much 
rather seem Jayne die. He's a Baldwin brother, that should be your first 
clue. Give him a Liverpool accent and call him Spike and get it over with!

The thing to remember is that this ain't Buffy. It's an entirely different 
animal. No big world-saving quest, no sense of destiny, simply a struggle to 
survive. And so far it's been a fun ride.  

I read someone compare the Fox Friday night lineup to a similar lineup nearly 
ten years ago; a quirky comedy-action that mixed science fiction and 
western(The Adventures of Briscoe County Jr.), followed by an eerie 
mysterious SF show(The X-Files). Here's hoping that both Firefly and John 
Doe enjoy a better fate than poor Briscoe; it may have been cheese, but it 
was fun cheese. And I'll watch anything with Bruce Campbell!

Kirayoshi
"You can't take the sky from me..."