Firefly and baked potatoes
Sep. 2nd, 2005 12:51 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jackI have a DVD player. It is shiny (literally). Shiny as an adjective came to me lots from Firefly, which is what I first used it for. There everyone, even the hardbitten, uses it to mean 'pleasingly good', if sometimes with Irony.
Firefly is cool. I think my guests enjoyed it, though spent some time predicting the cliches. (Why are psychic people always disturbed? To stop them being the answer to every problem. But maybe a different approach would be more refreshing.) But many time laughing, and saying "Ooh, must quote that."
Several things -- Firefly, HHGTTG, Buffy, PTerry -- are so quotable they're unquotable. You always say "This is a good bit. And this. And this. Hell, just read chapters 2-5, 7, 10-17, oh all of it." Though I think "Three Men in a Boat" is the *most* quotable -- almost every page has several lines that can crack up any of my relatives.
And I didn't have time to cook, but manifested baked potatoes and sweetcorn. I think people could have done with something a bit more inspiring[1], but it was satisfactory. And I for some reason I think baked potatoes are one of the foods that really require pepper.
I will have another showing at some point.
Mal was compared to Sheridan. Hmmm. They both have a gung ho quality, but somehow Sheridan is still a bit squeaky-cleaner.
Everyone in firefly and buffy talks in a discoursive style. You can spot the real villains because they don't have any irony, you know Jayne and Badger and even Niska and particularly Jubal[2] will go the distance whereas quiet fed man is toast
[1] Pun intended.
[2] Inspiration[1] for Gerald in my stories.
Firefly is cool. I think my guests enjoyed it, though spent some time predicting the cliches. (Why are psychic people always disturbed? To stop them being the answer to every problem. But maybe a different approach would be more refreshing.) But many time laughing, and saying "Ooh, must quote that."
Several things -- Firefly, HHGTTG, Buffy, PTerry -- are so quotable they're unquotable. You always say "This is a good bit. And this. And this. Hell, just read chapters 2-5, 7, 10-17, oh all of it." Though I think "Three Men in a Boat" is the *most* quotable -- almost every page has several lines that can crack up any of my relatives.
And I didn't have time to cook, but manifested baked potatoes and sweetcorn. I think people could have done with something a bit more inspiring[1], but it was satisfactory. And I for some reason I think baked potatoes are one of the foods that really require pepper.
I will have another showing at some point.
Mal was compared to Sheridan. Hmmm. They both have a gung ho quality, but somehow Sheridan is still a bit squeaky-cleaner.
Everyone in firefly and buffy talks in a discoursive style. You can spot the real villains because they don't have any irony, you know Jayne and Badger and even Niska and particularly Jubal[2] will go the distance whereas quiet fed man is toast
[1] Pun intended.
[2] Inspiration[1] for Gerald in my stories.