Ah, *here* I am!
October 20th, 2005 11:08 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
shiredancerLookee, I found my lost journal! Gosh, maybe I'll post something.
What I Have Done Of Late:
Learned that students who say they're going to turn in the work to get them off academic probation don't necessarily mean it, and then hang you out to dry with their TAship.
Realized that painted toenails cover a multitude of... okay, not sins, just fungi.
Researched and put out the word to faculty on the Major Policy Change that is starting to cause a renewed era of protest reminiscent of the 60s now that the students are informed. Hey, why should it bother them that they might have to chuck up an unexpected three to nine grand just to get those three stupid little letters after their names??!
Enjoyed -- *not* -- the last few nights of troubled sleep due to the aforementioned Major Policy Change.
Spent almost a month composing, and revising, and rewriting, a six-page handwritten letter to the First Love -- sealed it and stamped it and set it out for the mail tomorrow. What am I doing???
Spent all of last weekend from Friday night through Saturday finishing the Firefly DVDs so we could go watch the movie Saturday night. And what did I think of it?
So, I waltzed off to the movie Saturday night, just so happy and eager to see "Serenity" after that wonderful, fabulous, SHINY series of DVDs that made me think this was just possibly the Best Damn TV Series Ever.
And I. Was. DEVASTATED.
I canNOT handle that they killed off Wash. Just can't frickin' believe it. It undid everything that was good about the movie for me. I mean, I loved the resolution of River's story, and the promise for Kaylee and Simon, and the hope of a door opened for Mal and Inara. Those were all good things, things I'd hoped for. But DAMN! I *loved* the relationship between Zoe and Wash! Throughout the series, I was just so tickled by this portrayal of a really unique marriage, where each partner had their own strengths and they weren't necessarily the typical ones played up in Hollywood. I loved that this strong warrior woman could be so obviously in love with this great, geeky pilot guy. I wondered if that baby might eventually come along. I had no doubt they would make it. The relationship between Zoe and Wash was one of my really, really favorite things about the series. And the dinosaurs! *sob*
Maybe it hit me so hard because it had been such an intense two days of steady "Firefly". But really, I can't see a good cinematic reason for that death. It wasn't to save somebody else, it wasn't a necessary sacrifice, it didn't further the plot. It was, as far as I'm concerned, gratuitous gut-wrenching emotion. Up until the very end, in fact, I was positive it was going to be undone -- Wash would be the one who saved someone at the end because, see, they only *thought* he was dead, and it was a mistake, and he was going to pop around a corner and take out a reiver and all would be well again. That's all I could think -- it *had* to be a mistake. And when it wasn't, and there was a tombstone... I was just numb. I was depressed the rest of the weekend and most of this week.
Yeah, I take this stuff far too much to heart. But DAMN!! Wash! River and Mal do *not* belong in the pilot's chairs!
Not. Shiny.
Big Damn Sigh.
What I Have Done Of Late:
Learned that students who say they're going to turn in the work to get them off academic probation don't necessarily mean it, and then hang you out to dry with their TAship.
Realized that painted toenails cover a multitude of... okay, not sins, just fungi.
Researched and put out the word to faculty on the Major Policy Change that is starting to cause a renewed era of protest reminiscent of the 60s now that the students are informed. Hey, why should it bother them that they might have to chuck up an unexpected three to nine grand just to get those three stupid little letters after their names??!
Enjoyed -- *not* -- the last few nights of troubled sleep due to the aforementioned Major Policy Change.
Spent almost a month composing, and revising, and rewriting, a six-page handwritten letter to the First Love -- sealed it and stamped it and set it out for the mail tomorrow. What am I doing???
Spent all of last weekend from Friday night through Saturday finishing the Firefly DVDs so we could go watch the movie Saturday night. And what did I think of it?
So, I waltzed off to the movie Saturday night, just so happy and eager to see "Serenity" after that wonderful, fabulous, SHINY series of DVDs that made me think this was just possibly the Best Damn TV Series Ever.
And I. Was. DEVASTATED.
I canNOT handle that they killed off Wash. Just can't frickin' believe it. It undid everything that was good about the movie for me. I mean, I loved the resolution of River's story, and the promise for Kaylee and Simon, and the hope of a door opened for Mal and Inara. Those were all good things, things I'd hoped for. But DAMN! I *loved* the relationship between Zoe and Wash! Throughout the series, I was just so tickled by this portrayal of a really unique marriage, where each partner had their own strengths and they weren't necessarily the typical ones played up in Hollywood. I loved that this strong warrior woman could be so obviously in love with this great, geeky pilot guy. I wondered if that baby might eventually come along. I had no doubt they would make it. The relationship between Zoe and Wash was one of my really, really favorite things about the series. And the dinosaurs! *sob*
Maybe it hit me so hard because it had been such an intense two days of steady "Firefly". But really, I can't see a good cinematic reason for that death. It wasn't to save somebody else, it wasn't a necessary sacrifice, it didn't further the plot. It was, as far as I'm concerned, gratuitous gut-wrenching emotion. Up until the very end, in fact, I was positive it was going to be undone -- Wash would be the one who saved someone at the end because, see, they only *thought* he was dead, and it was a mistake, and he was going to pop around a corner and take out a reiver and all would be well again. That's all I could think -- it *had* to be a mistake. And when it wasn't, and there was a tombstone... I was just numb. I was depressed the rest of the weekend and most of this week.
Yeah, I take this stuff far too much to heart. But DAMN!! Wash! River and Mal do *not* belong in the pilot's chairs!
Not. Shiny.
Big Damn Sigh.
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Date: October 21st, 2005 11:09 am (UTC)But yes, Firefly - best thing on television since The X-Files, so of course the bastards took it off the air. What were they thinking!?!?!? That's crazy talk.
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Date: October 21st, 2005 07:27 pm (UTC)My spirits have been lifted, though, because in another comment it was reported that Joss plans on more movies, and bringing Wash back. *Immense relief*
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Date: October 21st, 2005 03:32 pm (UTC)If it helps, Joss has said in several interviews--well, one, at least--that Wash will be back for further Firefly movies, but not in a cheesy "Mr. Spock-evil twin brother" kind of way. I've no clue how he can do this, but he swears it will happen.
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Date: October 21st, 2005 07:22 pm (UTC)I don't know anything about Josh Whedon, really, since I've never followed Buffy. I do know that she was killed off -- several times -- and revived, so I did wonder just a bit if this was a typical Joss kind of thing.
Thanks for lifting my spirits! *Hugs*