Firefly fun

[chelidon]

Having gotten 1/2 way through the DVD collection of Firefly episodes, I continue to be impressed, delighted, even mesmerized on occasion, by the quality of the writing, and the acting. The writing particularly. No, I'm not quite a fanboy, but I do like, a whole lot. And as an extra bonus, after watching the end of one of the episodes night before last, my partner screamed, "wait! stop!" and we rolled back the credits, and found she'd caught that one of the bit parts (but a speaking part, nonetheless) was a good friend of her family's whom we both know. Going back through the episode again, we recognized him instantly. Too funny.

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[eregyrn.livejournal.com]

I'm so glad you're having fun with "Firefly". It's awesome, isn't it? I'm like you -- I like a whole, whole lot, but am not fangirl over it, really. We all wailed and gnashed our teeth when it was cancelled by Fox, after they failed to really give it a chance. The end result, though, is that the 13 or so episodes that exist are all wonderful, and you never have to worry about a show going on too long or going way downhill.

And of course there's the movie, coming out. Yay!

[morrigandaughtr.livejournal.com]

Which episode and which role, for the family friend?

I've just finished up viewing the third disk of four, and I'm looking very forward to seeing the rest of it. I *am* a fangirl. :-)

[chelidon.livejournal.com]

We're one disk behind ya.

The person we saw is Bob Fimiani, an old family friend who used to work for my father-in-law. I knew he'd done some work with Joss, but hadn't known he was in Firefly:

Bob Fimiani played Mr. Ward, the head of the Initiative in The Yoko Factor and Primeval who ordered the Initiative to be closed down and the earth salted over. Bob also played ‘Grounds Keeper’ in the Angel episode ‘The Prodigal’ and ‘Codger Demon’ in the Angel episode ‘Heartthrob’. He played ‘Elder Gamman’ in Joss Whedon’s show Firefly, in the episode ‘Our Mrs. Reynolds’.

[chelidon.livejournal.com]

Yay indeed! I can't wait.

And while it is a bummer the show was cancelled, I'm happy they got to make it at all. It restores a tiny little bit of faith for me that someone, somewhere is still doing good drama, with wit and good writing.