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7 years after Firefly: Where are they now? Basically just an excuse for the writer to whinge and show a lack of knowledge about what's actually going on with those actors. Whatever.
Want To See Joss Whedon's Next Web Project? Animated 'Astonishing X-Men'. Super.
Summer's role on 'Dollhouse' upgraded to 'recurring'. AWESOME.
I haven't done any Chris Lowell appreciation lately, which is a bit remiss of me, so here are some videos and pictures to make up for it.
LMAO at the last part. They're such dorks, wow. I love how about half the stuff Chris says about his photos is true and half is just a big bag of lies.
He's not in this one enough.
These aren't new, but they're new to hi-res, and they're from the honeymoon period (I love his new haircut but this was when I loved him most):
Faaavourite.
Oh hey, surprise!Muhney!
You know what I downloaded last year and totally forgot to watch until today? Dead Like Me: Life After Death
Obviously, this is the TV movie that was made to provide some closure on Dead Like Me. I found it a little tough to watch, because Ellen Muth really looked just awful at that time. With her dried-out hair and stretched-out skin and skeletal figure, she kind of looks like a corpse, and nothing like the spiky-yet-relatable kid she was when the show started out. George still fits her like a glove, though, and it was nice to see all the characters again - although really Roxy and Mason are given sort of short shrift, and Sarah Wynter just isn't Daisy. It's not that she's a bad actress, it's just that Daisy is a hard character to make sympathetic, and Laura Harris had to work hard at it on the show and let it develop over time. Mason is so fucked-up sweet, though - there's a scene where he blows off two skanks called Tiffany just to wait outside a theatre and give Daisy a flower and tell her she was great in a play, when she was really terrible. It's probably the only decent character moment that lot get - a couple of interesting storylines start in their world, but they don't finish satisfactorily.
I think the main problem with this film is an abrupt change of focus about halfway through. For the first half of the movie, it's about the new guy (OH HEY HENRY IAN CUSICK PLAYING A DOUCHE!) who's taken over Rube's spot as their boss and proceeds to upgrade their technology and basically fuck with them, for no reason actually given in the film. Then suddenly it totally changes and becomes a film about George and Reggie reconnecting (the girl who plays Reggie, by the way, is outstanding, and it was good to see the family again.) While that's a nice story to watch, it is a jolt and it becomes confusing as to where they're going.
I also think that, really, the show DID finish George's story. In this film she's a different person to who she was in the first episode of the show. She doesn't actually have anywhere to go in this film, because she's learnt her lessons already, and some of the stuff she tells us is stuff we already know about her. It makes the movie feel superfluous and purposeless. It was really the other characters we needed closure for, and we aren't given it, although there's fun to be had in watching it.
2.5 out of 5
In honour of it being Glee day, I made an inspirational macro. I didn't come up with the text on this. I stole it from a Star Trek TOS macro I found.
Anyone got it bigger?
...okay, I just felt like reposting that. Who wouldn't?
If you people spent less time thinking about sex and more time thinking about comic books, we'd have far fewer of these embarrassing moments
Green Queen
Want To See Joss Whedon's Next Web Project? Animated 'Astonishing X-Men'. Super.
Summer's role on 'Dollhouse' upgraded to 'recurring'. AWESOME.
I haven't done any Chris Lowell appreciation lately, which is a bit remiss of me, so here are some videos and pictures to make up for it.
LMAO at the last part. They're such dorks, wow. I love how about half the stuff Chris says about his photos is true and half is just a big bag of lies.
He's not in this one enough.
These aren't new, but they're new to hi-res, and they're from the honeymoon period (I love his new haircut but this was when I loved him most):
Faaavourite.
Oh hey, surprise!Muhney!
You know what I downloaded last year and totally forgot to watch until today? Dead Like Me: Life After Death
Obviously, this is the TV movie that was made to provide some closure on Dead Like Me. I found it a little tough to watch, because Ellen Muth really looked just awful at that time. With her dried-out hair and stretched-out skin and skeletal figure, she kind of looks like a corpse, and nothing like the spiky-yet-relatable kid she was when the show started out. George still fits her like a glove, though, and it was nice to see all the characters again - although really Roxy and Mason are given sort of short shrift, and Sarah Wynter just isn't Daisy. It's not that she's a bad actress, it's just that Daisy is a hard character to make sympathetic, and Laura Harris had to work hard at it on the show and let it develop over time. Mason is so fucked-up sweet, though - there's a scene where he blows off two skanks called Tiffany just to wait outside a theatre and give Daisy a flower and tell her she was great in a play, when she was really terrible. It's probably the only decent character moment that lot get - a couple of interesting storylines start in their world, but they don't finish satisfactorily.
I think the main problem with this film is an abrupt change of focus about halfway through. For the first half of the movie, it's about the new guy (OH HEY HENRY IAN CUSICK PLAYING A DOUCHE!) who's taken over Rube's spot as their boss and proceeds to upgrade their technology and basically fuck with them, for no reason actually given in the film. Then suddenly it totally changes and becomes a film about George and Reggie reconnecting (the girl who plays Reggie, by the way, is outstanding, and it was good to see the family again.) While that's a nice story to watch, it is a jolt and it becomes confusing as to where they're going.
I also think that, really, the show DID finish George's story. In this film she's a different person to who she was in the first episode of the show. She doesn't actually have anywhere to go in this film, because she's learnt her lessons already, and some of the stuff she tells us is stuff we already know about her. It makes the movie feel superfluous and purposeless. It was really the other characters we needed closure for, and we aren't given it, although there's fun to be had in watching it.
2.5 out of 5
In honour of it being Glee day, I made an inspirational macro. I didn't come up with the text on this. I stole it from a Star Trek TOS macro I found.
Anyone got it bigger?
...okay, I just felt like reposting that. Who wouldn't?
If you people spent less time thinking about sex and more time thinking about comic books, we'd have far fewer of these embarrassing moments
Green Queen
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I agree. I think a lot of times, even when a series ends unexpectedly, them being series finales still end up leaving you with an ending. Like with Angel, that is actually a really great series finale, imo.
MISHA POURING MILK IN HIMSELF IS ALWAYS WORTH REPOSTING.
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I guess part of it is that I didn't actually watch Dead Like Me when it was on, so when I first watched it I knew how many episodes it would have. Although I didn't see Firefly until after I attended a very early preview screening of Serenity, and the cancellation of that still hurts.
Yeah, Not Fade Away works great as a finale for the whole series. I never liked Angel as much, but I liked the last season.
ACTUALLY IT'S YOGHURT. I don't know why that's important, but it is. And that is one of the hottest photos I've seen in my life.
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