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Date Posted: 13:02:00 10/26/02 Sat
Author: matching mole
Subject: Favourite character, etc.
In reply to: Cactus Watcher i.s. 's message, "CW's Writer's Journal for "Out of Gas" (spoilers for the ep)" on 09:52:51 10/26/02 Sat

Hard to say which is my favourite, I find most of them appealing. I do really like Wash and I hope he gets an episode of his own if the show survives.

I did enjoy Out of Gas although maybe not quite as much as the previous two episodes. Spaceship problems on Star Trek have always seemed kind of nebulous and mystical. They seem to get fixed by the engineer chanting some technobabble over the equipment. I realy enjoyed the 'concreteness' of the problem and its solution in this case.

For obvious technical reasons Firefly is following in the footsteps of Star Trek and every other space fiction program and film that I can remember in one respect. They lose power, life support and yet they still have gravity? Sort of like all of those sewer scenes in BtVS and AtS in which no one is carrying flashlights but you can still see perfectly well. Some things have to be sacrficed to practical consideration (unless they wanted to film portions of the show in orbit but I doubt that FOX would agree to fund that).

This did strike me as the kind of episode that could only be made fairly early in the history of a show. Ship breaks down putting them in danger. Ship gets fixed. The ship can't keep on breaking down all the time, at least not as the primary source of conflict in an episode. Sort of like the decline in the importance of vampires as adversaries in BtVS.

I must say that Firefly is really making me look forward to Friday evenings.

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  • Re: CW's Writer's Journal for "Out of Gas" (spoilers for the ep) -- TRM, 13:13:41 10/26/02 Sat
  • Just shows my knowledge of languages has its limits. Thanks for the correction. (NT) -- CW, 13:23:20 10/26/02 Sat
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