Tuesday, October 10, 2006

Go thou and rent or buy the DVD's of Firefly, and listen thou to the commentary by the Joss. Hunter and I listened to the Joss's commentary on the pilot. It's illuminating to see how he sets up the characters -- and in some cases, sets up the characters with intentional misleads. (Simon is clearly the villain of the episode -- whoops, he's not.) Also a good deal in there about camera and lighting. A bit too much about Nathan Fillion's pants splitting, but it's illuminating to see how Joss convinces you that Kaylee's dead, pulling out all the cinematic stops -- and it's a mislead -- to warn you that any character can die -- and that you can't be sure you know which way the story is headed...

10:57 PM

3 Comments:

His commentary on "The Body" is also quite illuminating. It's like sitting in a filmmaking class with Joss at the helm.

By  Chelley, at 5:17 PM  

I just bought it ... got a killer sale and it was only $25! Now to find the time to watch it all. I need to train myself to sleep less.

By  ME, at 8:49 PM  

There is a huge difference between the pilot and what actually aired as the first episode, but the difference came from the network. The Network didn't like the dark Mal. They wanted a lighter funnier Mal instead of the cark conflicted Mal that Joss wanted. They wanted more moments like the "Kaylee's dead" moment. That a long with the Network not wanting to air the 2 hour pilot is what lead to "The Train Job."

I personally feel that the actual pilot introduced us to the characters much more sufficiently instead of just throwing all this information at us at once. There was a reason why someone said something instead of just exposition which was a lot of what "The Train Job" was. Joss has even said that the Mal that he wanted would've taken the medicine despite the hundreds of sick people on that planet.

By  Chelley, at 9:16 PM  

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