To Hell with this...I'm gonna live!

That's right Kaylee, you're gonna live indeed...

Man. I was totally going to blog about how bizarre daytime television is, since I had to stay home today and my allowed activities were limited, which resulted in me sitting around in front of the television all day. Then I was bumming around on Whedonesque, which is the repository for links to all things Joss, and I found a link to this super awesome video on YouTube.



I love YouTube. I also love Browncoats. So this has got me totally thinking I want to rewatch Firefly now. It's not like it will take that long, it's just thirteen (superb and outstanding) episodes and one (supercool) movie. What I should be doing is finishing off the back half of Jericho before the new season premieres in February, but I got through the first half of the season and then just got derailed. This is, of course, no reflection on the series itself. I just had a lot of stuff go down in real life that kind of put me out of the mind frame I need to be in to watch a show as intense in the particular way that Jericho is intense, if that makes sense. I think I might entice myself to finish watching Jericho by promising myself that once I get that done, I can rewatch Firefly as a nice little change of pace.

But thinking about Firefly reminded me that the first issue of the new Firefly comic is supposed to be coming out soon, and that got me all excited all over again. I don't think I can ever give Joss Whedon enough kudos for realizing that, as long as he still has more stories to tell us in this 'verse, we'll take them in any medium we can get them. Comics definitely work. As he's said with Buffy and Angel--sometimes continuing the stories in comic form allows him to give us stories that technology or budgetary concerns would never have let him tell us on television. Also, there's a tiny little part of me that hopes those executives at Fox who totally screwed the pooch with this show have come to realize it and are kicking themselves heartily.

Let's hope they can make up for the bad juju garnered by Firefly with keeping the Sarah Connor Chronicles awesome and around. In case you're wondering, I did enjoy episode two just as much as the first episode. I really liked how they're tying in elements from the past (presented to us from both the movies and from the just the first episode) to give us hints as to the new direction these characters are moving. I also totally dug the appearance by Tony Amendola as Enrique (hey, I know he's been in so much more than just Stargate, but he will always be Bra'tac to me) as well as the nice little send up to L. Frank Baum. I have high hopes for this series. Maybe that's a bad idea, given that it's a genre show on Fox, but who knows, maybe it will go the Bones route and we'll luck out that it will stick around for a while, even if it doesn't end up getting all of the attention we adoring fans know it deserves.

One thing I have noticed about this series though, is that despite claims of the creators that the series is going to totally disregard the third Terminator movie, it doesn't really seem to be doing so. One of the big elements in that regard is Cameron's revelation to Sarah last night that in the original time line, she dies of cancer in 2005, resulting in Sarah going to get herself checked out by an oncologist. While it is clear that the events of the series will not lead up to the events of the third film, to me it really feels more like an alternate time line, not a complete reinvention. It could have happened like Rise of the Machines said it did, but someone who knew about that time line was sent back and changed it, and now we get a whole new course of events to see unfolding. Maybe that's just my take, but there it is.

Anyhoo, that's really all I have for today. There's nothing terribly exciting going on over here. I will leave you with one last YouTube video, while I'm showing you cool stuff. This is a Battlestar Galactica mashup of the original series and the Ron Moore reinvention. It's been around for a while, and every once in a while I feel the need to look it up and watch again. I enjoy the catchy little song that manages to pay homage to and mock both series at the same time. Good stuff.



Until next time, gentle readers, stay safe.

C