Celestial Annihilation Sounded Pretty Good, As I Recall

[alfvaen]

I forgot to mention that I ended up borrowing the first season of "Firefly" on DVD from the inestimable 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...

Comments

[iamo.livejournal.com]

As with many genre shows, the order as aired was not decided on because it made sense on a fundamental level, but because it made sense to someone who knew nothing about the show.

Still, the order aired is really not nearly as bad as people say it is. I think the first episode aired made a better first episode than the pilot (the pilot was too slow for me. I like jumping into the action, and I feel there was more character establishment in the bar scene in the first episode than an entire half hour of the pilot), but keep in mind they never even aired the pilot until after the show was over. They didn't change the order, just skipped the creator's first episode.

The order changes were towards the end of the run. And there was only really one of them.

This is all nothing compared to Crusade having half its season reordered to the front of the season, along with a costume change that fluctuated from episode to episode as a result. Same reasons were given for that, mind you -- it started off too slow.

[alfvaen]

Then why, on the "Firefly" DVD set, does the second disc have two episodes from November followed by two episodes from October? That's what I'm wondering about.