Firefly

[mneme]

Lisa and I have been watching Firefly. I'm sorry we didn't see them earlier -- but I like the way we've been watching them, (mostly) in order, off the DVD, and about one or two a day. We've seen through Ariel.


Minor Spoilers: Speculation based on info through War Stories and Buffy season 4

I think the 2x2, hands of blue villains are grown from the same seed that sprouted The Gentlemen, in Hush. They move slowly, they have a slow but nevertheless inevitable method of killing, they have rhymes about them and what they do, and they have a nearly identical fear factor.

That they also take a part of you which you need, and that both are creations of Joss Whedon are both things I noticed later.

Comments

[avram]

The blue-handed men are pretty close to classic Men In Black; the Gentlemen, not so much.

Kaylee and Willow are both charming, perky tech-nerds with odd taste in clothing. I'm guessing Joss knows a woman like that.

Book and Giles both seem to be bookish, intellectual types who'd shy away from a fight, and they're both hiding that they're actually tougher than that. Being a Watcher isn't all that different from being a monk or a priest.

[mneme]

The blue handed (or gloved) men are close to classic Men In Black in, say, The Train Job. In Ariel, they're closer to The Gentlemen—MIBs don't usually massacre large numbers of people with a horrorshow weapon and then unstoppably stalk Our Heroes.

[imogena.livejournal.com]

I can see the parallel to the Gentle Men,
Kayle is the warmth, and heart of the Ship and has the same innocence about her as Early Willow.

Mal/Jayne. Zoe/Kayle.

but I'm funny that way