[TML] Alternate Firefly review

[Richard Aiken]

On Tue, Aug 12, 2008 at 11:35 PM, The Sayat Menace
<sayatmenace at earthlink.net> wrote:
> in other words, a character-centered show with no characters

Sorry.  But Jayne was a character.  And he got to do all the Ron
Perlman shots, too.

> that was trying to be a story-driven series with a boring storyline

They never got to finish the storyline.  And it certainly resonated
with me - a Southerner.

> -- I'm cool with all that, but the problem for me boiled down to
> this:  the jaw-droppingly stupid and lazy attempts at Chinese
> dialogue, the "let's translate my comic-book-like oneliners using
> only this cheap pocket dictionary and pat myself on the back for
> thinking outside the box" thing. (But to be fair, where could Whedon
> have dug up a fluent Chinese speaker anyway, though?)

Actually, he had one.  And the actors worked very hard at getting
their lines right.  Of course, I think it was Nathan Fillion who said
in the DVD commentaries: "I just knew that there were gonna be people
in China saying to each other, 'Wait a sec.  WHAT did he just say?'"


-- 
Richard Aiken

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