Sober Thal said:
haha plead away my good sir! Personally I only thought buffy was hot for the first two seasons, then she got a bit too skinny. That's just me though.
Summer, however, you can imagine being so graceful in the sack your penis would cry.
Pegghead said:
-whatever the chinese word for "snip" is
Yeah you're right, you can still enjoy the film if you haven't seen the series, but all the stuff you've said goes largely unexplained. If you like I'll run through some of the points, as always I'm more than willing to chew someone's ear off about the franchise to force them to appreciate it lol
- River was turned psychotic when she was experimented on by the alliance
- The chinese thing is because china and america where pretty much the only two civilisations left before space travel became viable, so they kinda melded into one
- because joss whedon wrote them
- the gas thing was actually pumped in during the terraforming of a planet (pax... paxalon hydro-something?) to try and make them more compliant with the alliance, most where so relaxed they just stopped eating and the others had an adverse reaction. The hologram explains this, but it really is "blink and you'll miss it" exposition, you're quite right
it could have been more newcomer friendly, but realistically nobody who missed firefly was going to watch it (as proved by the box office) so joss had a choice between REALLY pleasing the fanbase or try to please everybody... I don't know, personally I think he made the right call. And please please PLEASE enrich your life by watching the TV show, if you're a scifi fan then you owe it to yourself lol
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