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Re: The movie: Serenity

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From: Xocyll
Date: Tue, 16 May 2006 11:48
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gray.wizard@moria.mines looked up from reading the entrails of the porn
spammer to utter  "The Augury is good, the signs say:

>On Fri, 12 May 2006 18:20:39 GMT, Sheldon England
><sheldonengland@netscape.net> wrote:
>
>>In a way, I'm with you. I very much enjoyed the show and was sad that it
>>ended so soon. Especially with the lingering "unfinished business"
>>episode that closed the series where that bounty hunter drifted away
>>into space saying, "Well, here I am ..." 
>
>When the show originally aired it must have gotten near-zero
>publicity. I never knew the show existed until SciFi aired the reruns
>gearing up for the film release.
>
>>In another way, I'm glad it stopped before it became a soap opera like
>>TNG and all the other 3000+ episode milk-the-hell-out-of-the-franchise
>>shows. Even the funniest joke loses its lustre after hearing it 300
>>times. Best to stop while the quality is still there.
>
>Agreed...how many times do the friggin' holodecks have to malfunction
>and kill 30 people before Starflleet outlaws the technology? Oh,
>wait...if they did that ST:TNG would have lost 25% of their episode
>material.

I've always wondered about the exploding consoles every time they get in
a fight.

And just how many times did the "starboard power coupling" go kablooie?

You'd think they'd get some new designers after a few decades of that,
but nooo, they keep on hiring the same "exploding workstations are fun!"
contractors.

Xocyll
-- 
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