Thursday stuff

[annathepiper]

+0: The more I watch Firefly, the more I groove on it. Stupid Fox network, cancelling a most excellent show. mamishka, risu, solarbird and I watched three episodes back to back last night, working our way through the DVD set and working up to the three episodes that never aired. I am most anxious now for the movie due to come out in September.

Rebecca informed us that she had heard tell of a convention at which Nathan Fillion had been in attendance. Apparently the gamers at this con were running a Firefly scenario, and he just showed up. They let him play Captain Mal. I cannot verify the truth of this little story, but it amuses the hell out of me, just because I giggle at the thought of the looks on the gamers' faces when Mr. Fillion wandered in. Hee. Hell, I'd let him play Mal too. ;)

(Did I mention Captain Tightpants is exactly my kind of swoonable hero? Lean, rugged, independent, not exactly well-spoken, but absolutely principled. Also, he looks VERY good in his pants. ;) )

Also, I got Kaylee on the "What Firefly character are you?" quiz. Meems agrees with me that of all the characters in the cast, she's definitely the best match to me. I figure it's because she's geeky in her own way, small, cute, and invariably sunny. And yet, capable of standing up for herself when she needs to!

However, I have yet to make sweet love next to a large humming engine.



+1: Assuming nothing interesting shows up in today's mail, today is the three-month mark since I got the acknowledgement back from Tor. I need to go back and dig into my 1987 diary and see if I can nail down when I originally sent off my very first attempt at a story to Del Rey--just because I'm not certain if I've passed the turnaround time I had on that. If I can pass that turnaround time with no rejection letter, this will sit very well with me.



-2: Didn't bug something fast enough at work and our lead got stern mail about it. Oops. Fortunately this doesn't seem to be entirely my problem as this thing only came to my attention this week; the last time we ran the test cases we had other things going on at the same time, and the guy I'm working with was working on those cases, not me. So I only have to be 'providing information' girl. Sucky pay or not, there are advantages to being a contractor.

+2a: I was informed in yesterday's status meeting that once the thing I'm currently working on ships, I will be "repurposed". (Don't you just love corporate-speak?) This would seem to suggest that my contract will get extended in April. I'll have to get that verified when the time comes.

+/-2b: We're getting a new lead. I'm a little disappointed about this just because I really like my current lead; he's on top of things, he's sociable, he shares some interests in common with me, and he's really great at asking you for immediate statuses but also standing back and letting you do your work. On the other hand, the new guy seems pretty nifty; he has a streak of purple in his hair, and he's apparently a musician! So that'll be good too.

Comments

[framlingem.livejournal.com]

*feels the Firefly love*

I got the DVD set for Christmas, and watched the entire thing with my Dad, two episodes a day. It is perhaps a sign of the odd sense of humour we share that, though we had seen it before, we both laughed for twenty minutes (in that roaring, then giggling, then looking at each other and roaring again as one of us makes the appropriate 'thwiiiip!' noise sort of way) at the end of "The Train Job", in which Niska's henchthug has the unfortunate encounter with the engine.

I get Wash on the quizzes, every time.

[framlingem.livejournal.com]

*feels the Firefly love*

I got the DVD set for Christmas, and watched the entire thing with my Dad, two episodes a day. It is perhaps a sign of the odd sense of humour we share that, though we had seen it before, we both laughed for twenty minutes (in that roaring, then giggling, then looking at each other and roaring again as one of us makes the appropriate 'thwiiiip!' noise sort of way) at the end of "The Train Job", in which Niska's henchthug has the unfortunate encounter with the engine.

I get Wash on the quizzes, every time.

[annathepiper]

"I like smackin' 'em!"

*singing* "The heeeeeeero of Canton, the man they call.... MEEEEEE!"

"Dear diary: Today I was pompous and my sister was crazy!"

"So does this! I call it... Vera."

Last night being the Night of Being Reminded That the Guy Who Plays Jayne is really a very funny actor. ;)

[emmacrew.livejournal.com]

I haven't seen any of Firefly, but I keep hearing good stuff about it. Perhaps we could borrow your DVDs at some point (or hm, maybe Scarecrow's got it). I put it on my amazon wishlist but I'm not sure if I should buy it quite so sight unseen, you know?

[annathepiper]

The DVDs are actually Mimi's, otherwise I'd be happy to loan them to you. (I want the box set, myself.)

If you like Joss Whedon's work you'll probably dig Firefly a lot. It's got the same nifty ensemble-cast chemistry and snappy dialogue. However, I give it higher marks than either Buffy or Angel--just because by and large every single episode comes across to me as very solid. This may be because there are only a limited set to choose from and we didn't have time to get any crappy ones, but. :)

Also, it does do the odd thing of combining a futuristic setting with a flavor of the Old West, which I am given to understand puts some people off. Me, I really like it.

[astraether.livejournal.com]

Actually, the story I heard about Nathan Fillion is that a fan mentioned that there was a group of gamers playing Firefly in the gaming room (this was at one of the big cons), and asked him to come by. So he did, and sat down for a few minutes to watch. The GM was playing Captain Mal, and was evidently pretty tense having the "real" Captain Mal observing, but I guess it went over okay. Nathan tried his hand at playing River, briefly, as an NPC. I don't think he stuck around too long, but of course the anecdote made it onto various fan message boards, and makes Nathan Fillion seem that much cooler. As if he needed it. :)

Btw, I love the show too.

[annathepiper]

Ahh, thanks for the added details! Wonder how he did playing River. :)

[starfallz.livejournal.com]

*keeps fingers crossed for Faerie Blood*

[annathepiper]

Thanks, hon! *pace pace pace* Now to see if I can in fact get through today with no rejection letter, and then make it to my birthday! ;)

[sarekofvulcan.livejournal.com]

Ah, a Fillionaire in training. :-)

Have you signed up at the Big Damn Board (http://browncoats.serenitymovie.com/serenity/index.html?fuseaction=tools.invlink&u=SarekOfVulcan&linkID=36) yet?

[annathepiper]

I have not! And like I need another board to distract me, when I'm already having trouble getting my writing done? ;)

But oh yeah, I'm a Fillionaire. I wonder what I get when I pass the training course!

[chipmunck.livejournal.com]

I love Firefly and when they cancelled the show, I was devistated and hoped that all the stuff fans were doing would have helped. :P

Anyways.. I can't wait for the movie to come out.. they are in production of the movie!! :D HOpeuflly this will spin off a tv show from the movie again.. because everyone I know that has seen the dvd set has loved it.. Fox bad! There had to be some backstore politics on that one.

[annathepiper]

I don't know if it was political or just Fox being run by idiots or what. Certainly showing the episodes out of order can't have helped--Meems has explained to me how broadcasting them out of order pretty much got viewers totally confused as to the various stories with the members of the crew of the ship, and why all these people are together and such.

I think it'd be an interesting question, though, as to whether Joss Whedon would want to resume doing Firefly as a TV show. It'd be kind of weird to go TV show-->movie-->back to TV show. The X-Files did it, but then again, after the X-Files movie, the show started to suck. ;)

[kieri.livejournal.com]

Some of the fans at ComicCon (I think that was the con, anyway) took pictures of Cap'n Tightpants while he was at the gaming table. :) He didn't stay long, because he's terribly busy, but HOW FRICKIN' COOL is it that he thought to stop by at all?

The man wins points all the way around -- goofy, adorable, looks great in a leather kilt, and nice to people. :)

[annathepiper]

He didn't stay long, because he's terribly busy, but HOW FRICKIN' COOL is it that he thought to stop by at all?

Extra special cool. :D All the more reason for me to look forward to the flick when it comes out!