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I forgot to mention that I ended up borrowing the first season of "Firefly" on DVD from the inestimable ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
thegreymouser. So far we've made it through the first disc--the pilot, and the two episodes we had watched before(or at least started to--I'm not sure we made it all the way through "Bushwacked" the first time). We may watch another one tonight, if "Threshold" is really a repeat like the TV guide says it is(but it was lying about "Lost" on Wednesday being a new one...). On the other hand, we may get back to Season 7 of Buffy, too. Hard to say.
I am not yet thoroughly sold on "Firefly", but I'm willing to watch further. I'm not that keen on Mal as a character--in an isomorphic translation to "Buffy", he'd probably be closest to Angel, except with more of a sense of humour. He's still got the brooding down pat, though. Jayne still irritates the hell out of me--Cordelia, Spike and Anya all had their annoying moments, but in Jayne they're distilled to their essence. Zoe's a little bit of a cipher, still. Wash and Kaylee(sp?) are a lot more fun. Okay, I won't go through the whole cast one at a time, but overall I don't feel like they gel for me yet. There are a heck of a lot of them to start out with--watching the Pilot first helped me keep them straight.
I'm assuming that, with the episodes on the DVDs arranged out of broadcast order, that the DVD sequence is optimized in some way, to maximize my viewing pleasure? Though it's not encouraging to see episodes that somebody feels can be watched in multiple sequences. In the main, I like my shows to have a set chronological order, the way other things like time and causality tend to do. Just one of my little quirks.
But, on the other hand, somebody was in physical jeopardy right at the end of the last "Buffy" episode we watched...
thegreymouser. So far we've made it through the first disc--the pilot, and the two episodes we had watched before(or at least started to--I'm not sure we made it all the way through "Bushwacked" the first time). We may watch another one tonight, if "Threshold" is really a repeat like the TV guide says it is(but it was lying about "Lost" on Wednesday being a new one...). On the other hand, we may get back to Season 7 of Buffy, too. Hard to say.I am not yet thoroughly sold on "Firefly", but I'm willing to watch further. I'm not that keen on Mal as a character--in an isomorphic translation to "Buffy", he'd probably be closest to Angel, except with more of a sense of humour. He's still got the brooding down pat, though. Jayne still irritates the hell out of me--Cordelia, Spike and Anya all had their annoying moments, but in Jayne they're distilled to their essence. Zoe's a little bit of a cipher, still. Wash and Kaylee(sp?) are a lot more fun. Okay, I won't go through the whole cast one at a time, but overall I don't feel like they gel for me yet. There are a heck of a lot of them to start out with--watching the Pilot first helped me keep them straight.
I'm assuming that, with the episodes on the DVDs arranged out of broadcast order, that the DVD sequence is optimized in some way, to maximize my viewing pleasure? Though it's not encouraging to see episodes that somebody feels can be watched in multiple sequences. In the main, I like my shows to have a set chronological order, the way other things like time and causality tend to do. Just one of my little quirks.
But, on the other hand, somebody was in physical jeopardy right at the end of the last "Buffy" episode we watched...
