If you don’t already know, SafeTinspector is a Science Fiction geek.
     Not to the point of learning to speak Klingon or attending conventions and hoaring myself out for signatures, but certainly to the point where I frequently fantasize about cochlear implanted communication devices and I once seriously considered getting a barcode of my social security number on the back of my neck to prove a point.

     What point that might be I wasn’t certain at the time and am even less certain now.

     In the last ten years there have been two science fiction television series which I enjoyed tremendously. One of which was awesome as an epic but was hit-or-miss when taken in small doses. The other, ah….it was a science fiction orgasm from start to finish with only a few very minor and forgivable mis-steps.

     The first was Babylon 5 seasons 2-4 (we won’t talk about seasons one and five).
     The second was FireFly. Did you ever see FireFly? I watched all the episodes that aired on Fox, and I bought the series DVD set when it came out.

     It was the Dark Time on Fox when FireFly was on the air. The emperor and his advisors were mad, and no one was brave enough to assassinate them and end their irrational, capricious and evil rule.
     Shows were cancelled with little or no justification while others that were complete dreck were allowed to live long beyond the time when their rotten corpses should have been buried in the septic fields of Hollywood where the Pansies Grow Twisted. (I’m talking about YOU, John Doe)

     FireFly was cancelled. I was quite upset. But some time later they released the series on DVD. Geeks asserted their collective consumer power and purchased the set en masse. World leaders viewed the development with alarm. Prime ministers, dictators, retarded presidents, regular presidents and cartoon Mafia kingpins mobilized their forces and soon a FireFly movie was in the offing.

     Long story short: I went on a date with my wife last night. We saw Serenity, the FireFly movie. George Lucas, look at what Joss Whedon has done. He is handing you your ass. Do you accept your ass back? I think you should just leave it there, you don’t even DESERVE your ass back.
     This is how characters should interact. This is how dialogue should work. Here is how to do a really great action scene without going all cartoony with the CGI.

     It wasn’t a perfect movie, it wasn’t the greatest movie of all time (that honor goes to The Blues Brothers) but it is in the best movie I’ve seen in a theater since The Incredibles. I won’t do a review beyond this, though. I don’t want to give ANYTHING away to anyone thinking of attending a viewing in their area.

• Well, friends, that was weird. Anyone who read the huge advertisement for Verizon services that originally appeared under this post please be aware that is a new development. I’ve posted from the phone many times in the past without incident, and now I have another reason to dislike the cell phone company
• The rest of the date with Heather went really well. We had a nice dinner. We went home. We got romantic. We slept well. A wondrous Friday indeed.