stating the obvious

[opabinia]

On TV and in the movies,

1. Fights are long and beautifully choreographed, instead of short, awkward and messy.

2. People get hurt, and the viewer feels nothing. Properly portrayed violence should cause some discomfort, even if the bad guy is on the receiving end. Paper cuts hurt, man. A broken leg should almost make you sick.

3. People take disabling hits... and jump back up.

4. People take hits that should make them writhe on the floor and cry out for minutes on end, but they just faint peacefully instead. Hey, that wasn't so bad!

5. Violence is okay, but sex is bad.

6. Then again, if there's no sex, people won't watch it. Therefore, there has to be sexual tension in every single storyline.

7. Everyone is quick with a witty riposte.

8. Most of the characters are attractive. Most people are... not.


(Firefly is guilty of all of the above, yes. But damn, it's good anyway.)

The truth is, I'm out of excuses, and I should go work out now.

Comments

[bottleimp.livejournal.com]

"People get hurt, and the viewer feels nothing."

Hey, speak for yourself. Firefly takes apart the sexual tension later on, BTW. It's sort of perversely funny.

[lepidosiren.livejournal.com]

No spoilers! I can't hear youuu.

[bottleimp.livejournal.com]

Ariana the Companion is actually a MAN!

so is that cute mechanic.

The beach-bum pilot is screwing Gene. They're both gay. Gene is a bottom.

The captain is an Alliance spy.

the Reavers all wear surplus Battlestar Galactica Cylon suits.

Sexual tension is relieved when the doctor and his sister have a three-way with the Shepherd.

They all make a lot of money smuggling tribbles and Quatloos.

[darla.livejournal.com]

HAHAHAHAHAHA

You're my new hero.

[alonewiththemoon]

One of those statements is not that far-fetched in a strange way--the foot soldiers of the Alliance wear left-over uniforms from Starship Troopers.

[http://users.livejournal.com/_perihelion_/]

Fights are long and beautifully choreographed, instead of short, awkward and messy

true, quite true.

People take disabling hits... and jump back up

and yet, in what experience I've had, it's proved damned hard to get some asshole to stay down.

Most of the characters are attractive. Most people are... not

I am sooo there with you!

[lepidosiren.livejournal.com]

and yet, in what experience I've had, it's proved damned hard to get some asshole to stay down.

Heh. You know what I mean, though. A 300lb hosebeast of a man gives the captain an uppercut with all his weight behind it... and Malcolm gets back up. Right.

[http://users.livejournal.com/_perihelion_/]

but he's the HEERRRROOOO!!!!! :)

[silas7.livejournal.com]

Firefly is an acceptable form of procrastination from anything.

September is so gorram far away!

[alonewiththemoon]

It's the pants. They're too tight to let him fall over.

commentary on the obvious

[silas7.livejournal.com]

I was going to write a long point by point commentary about your post, filled with witty comments like "fights scenes are ballet that men don't feel gay about watching" or "who wants to watch ugly people for an hour", but the truth is all TV shows are guilty of what you say, and I know you like the show, and dammit this sentence has gone on for just about long enough now, don't you think?