Friday, October 30, 2009
Castle as Malcom Reynolds
This week's episode of Castle didn't just offer a nod to fans of Firefly & Serenity - it treated us to a full 35-second inside joke (and then another couple minutes of Nathon Fillion walking around in a Captain "Mal" Malcom Reynolds-esque costume).
Has it really been five years?
I'm often wary of that heavy of an inside joke placed inside a show. I can just see someone unfamiliar with either Firefly or Serenity scratching their head. But hey, I guess I'm a fanboy. I loved it.
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That's epic! Thank you very much for sharing. I think I will watch Firefly during the holidays once again.
Too bad the third comic isn't out yet, I want to find out so badly about Book's secret.
Keep flying browncoats all over the 'verse!
Too bad the third comic isn't out yet, I want to find out so badly about Book's secret.
Keep flying browncoats all over the 'verse!
I can not even begin to explain how I felt watching that episode.
I like Castle, mainly because I like Fillion. So when it opened with that scene, it was like an ex-girlfriend walking by and actually talking to you, having, even if briefly, that same look in her eye when she actually was your lover and friend...still.
And for a strange and awkward second you are transported back, leaving you with a slim hope that the last five years was indeed a dream...
But then her new husband walks up, she introduces him and their little two year old daughter and you know that you'll never have that again...that the moment has past. That your brief time with her, however intense is gone.
Okay, so maybe I did explain it...but yes, it was awesome, but equally painful...as I loved Firefly.
cl
I like Castle, mainly because I like Fillion. So when it opened with that scene, it was like an ex-girlfriend walking by and actually talking to you, having, even if briefly, that same look in her eye when she actually was your lover and friend...still.
And for a strange and awkward second you are transported back, leaving you with a slim hope that the last five years was indeed a dream...
But then her new husband walks up, she introduces him and their little two year old daughter and you know that you'll never have that again...that the moment has past. That your brief time with her, however intense is gone.
Okay, so maybe I did explain it...but yes, it was awesome, but equally painful...as I loved Firefly.
cl
Funny clip; didn't even know Fillion was doing another show at the moment (it must not have made its way across the Atlantic yet). That said, like Chris I felt there was something painfully bittersweet about watching that clip.
Yeah. I'm afraid Firefly will forever be the "Show that could have been" for many of us. At least we got a great movie out of it.
Why would anybody scratch their head at a sequence that lasted all of three and a half seconds?
I mean sure, it's enough for the Firefly fans to get what they're trying to get across, but hardly even close to enough to come anywhere near to confusing anyone... it was over before it even began.
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I mean sure, it's enough for the Firefly fans to get what they're trying to get across, but hardly even close to enough to come anywhere near to confusing anyone... it was over before it even began.
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