well, while working, and avoiding working, I’ve been watching some DVDs and so forth, and it’s led me to a revelation. Firefly is awesome, I can’t believe it got cancelled. But I suppose all good shows do, that’s just the way of things. Interestingly, the guy who plays the captain on Firefly looks a bit like Michael Bluth on Arrested Development, another awesome, yet cancelled, show.

An interesting facet is that the characters will occasionally break into Mandarin Chinese, particularly when they are cursing. In terms of practicality, it provided the show’s writers with a way around network censors. The choice of Chinese is significant in that the dominant governing body, the Alliance, was formed between China and the United States - the last remaining superpowers from Earth-That-Was.

My favourite bit so far, Captain Reynolds has his enemy lying on the ground beneath him, a sword to his throat.
“It takes a truly great man to forgive.”
(stabs the man)
“I guess I’m just a good man.”
(stabs him again)
“Well … I’m alright …”

Hilarious. The movie Serenity apparently picks up where the series left off, but I’ve not seen the series quite long enough to tell.

In other news, Bek was in a dream I had last night, and we were fighting. I don’t know what it was about, but I woke up feeling guilty, so I guess I was in the wrong. Sorry babe!

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