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Upcoming Movie: Knights of Badassdom!

by storiesbywilliams on January 30, 2013 in Fantasy, Missions, Video and tagged a game of thrones, fangasm, fantasy, firefly, geekdom, horror, indie film, jason stackhouse, LARPing, nerdom, peter dinklage, river tam, ryan kwanten, Sci-Fi, serenity, summer glau, tyrion lannister

I’m not sure why, but I’ve been inundated with movie previews lately, ones which I feel I must pass on to others. And this is just the latest and most awesome! Seriously, it was like this thing was created with me and my fellow nerds in mind! Some might think it an overly-appropriate commentary, others […]

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Favorite Cult Classics (Part The First)

by storiesbywilliams on October 6, 2012 in Movies, Sci-Fi and tagged AI's, Akira, anime, army of darkness, arnie, Arnold Schwarzenegger, ash, Blade Runner, boomstick, bruce campbell, captain malcolm reynolds, cimmerian, commando, conan, conan the barbarian, conan the cimmerian, cult classics, cyberpunk, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep, evil dead, firefly, Harrison Ford, hyboria, indiana jones, james earl jones, Katsuhiro Otomo, manga, miranda, neo-tokyo, netflix, nuclear war, Philip k dick, post-apocalyptic, Predator, reavers, replicants, Ridley Scott, river tam, robert e howard, sam raimi, serenity, spiderman, Star Wars, the alliance, the operative, Thulsa Doom, wwIII, xena warrior princess

It might be that I’m feeling nostalgic, or it might be that since my wife and I sprung for Netflix, I’ve been finding my way back to several of my favorite old movies. Hard to say exactly. All I know for sure is, I want to talk about the cult classic movies that I like […]

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Worlds of the Firefly Universe

by storiesbywilliams on August 4, 2012 in Movies, Series, Worlds Of and tagged 34 Tauri, ariel, badger, bai hu, battle of serenity valley, beaumonde, bellerophon, bernadette, black tortoise, blue dragon, border planets, brown dwarves, captain malcolm reynolds, dozens of planets and hundreds of mooons, dyton, earth-that-was, Eavesdown Docks, elder gomman, fanty and mingo, firefly, firefly movie, georgia, greenleaf, harvest, haven, heinelin, hoban washburne, huang long, jaynestown, jiangyin, kalidasa, londoninium, mal, miranda, mudders milk, niska, niska's skyplex, Our Mrs. Reynolds, pax, Persephone, qing long, reavers, regina, river tam, robert a heinlein, safe, saffron, serenity, shadow, shepherd book, sihnon, simon tam, sino-anglo alliance, the alliance, the blue sun, the brown coats, the central planets, the independents, the mudders, the operative, the red pheonix, the rim, the train job, the unification war, the verse, the white sun, the white tiger, trash, triumph, whitefall, xuan wu, yellow dragon, zhu que, zoe washburne

It’s been forever since I did a post about the various planets that make up a sci-fi universe. And I got to admit, this is one I’ve been holding out on simply because the sheer volume of info made it seem just the slightest bit intimidating. I am, of course, referring to The Verse, also […]

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Serenity, Best Lines!

by storiesbywilliams on May 2, 2012 in Best Lines, Movies and tagged american frontier, ariel, assassin, book, buffybot, captain reynolds, chinese pinyin, core worlds, fanti and mingo, firefly, firefly movie, fox network, heist, history, hoban washburne, inara serra, jayne cobb, joss whedon, kaylee frye, malcolm reynolds, manifest destiny, miranda, mr. universe, Persephone, psychic, pulse beacon, reader, reavers, river tam, Sci-Fi, science fiction, serenity, serenity movie, shepherd book, shiny, simon tam, space western, substance pax, sword, the alliance, the operative, white man's burden, zoe washburne

And we come to the final installment at last. Given the sheer kick-ass nature of the show’s writing, it took me three whole posts to get all the best lines from the single season that the show produced. And it was not even a full season! But of course, honoring Whedon’s criminally under-appreciated sci-fi creation […]

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Firefly, Best Lines (part III)

by storiesbywilliams on May 1, 2012 in Best Lines, Series and tagged adam baldwin, alan tudyk, book, bounty hunter, bridget, bridgitte, browncoats, chinese in firefly, chinese pinyin, Christina Hendricks, do-se, early, fee-oo, firefly, gina torres, heart of gold, inara, independents, jayne, jonah, kaylee, mal, malcolm reynolds, mandarin in firefly, morena baccarin, nandi, nathan phillion, objects in space, petaline, psychic, rance, reader, river tam, ron glass, saffron, sean maher, serenity, simon tam, space western, summer glau, the alliance, the message, tracey, trash, wash, when you can't run anymore you crawl when you can't crawl you find someone to carry you, zoe

Hello! Welcome to the third and final installment in the “Best Lines” series dedicated to the awesome show Firefly. It seems fitting that I put up the final installment in the show seeing as how my wife and I just finished (re)watching the entire series on Netflix last night. It’s times like this that make […]

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Cool Ships!

by storiesbywilliams on April 29, 2012 in Cool Ships, Movies, Sci-Fi, Series and tagged Alien, aliens, b5 crusade, Babylon 5, Battlestar Galactica, book, building better worlds, cache weapons, captain sheridan, cat, chewi, cheyenne dropship, cloaking device, colonial marines, commander adama, companion, conestoga-class, corellia, corellian ships, cylons, deep space nine, defiant-class, delenn, drakh, dropship, firefly, firefly-class, han solo, hegazi, hell-class weapons, hoben washburne, ilia volovya, inara serra, interstellar alliance, j michael straczynski, jabba the hutt, jayne cobb, kaylee, kessel, kessel run, lighthugger, lister, malcolm reynolds, melding plague, millennium falcon, mimbari, phasers, president roselyn, quantum torpedoes, red dwarf, religious caste, revelation space, rimmer, river tam, romulans, sajaki, secret compartments, serenity, shepherd book, simon tam, spice, star trek ds9, Star Trek TNG, the alliance, the borg, the defiant, the dominion, the empire, the excalibur, the galactica, the pegasus, the rangers, the sao paolo, the twelve colonies, the valiant, the victory, the white star, ultranauts, ultras, uss nostromo, uss sulaco, wash, Weyland Yutani, white star destroyers, white star fleet, xenomorphs, zoe, zoe washburne

God, what an obvious extension of the whole conceptual sci-fi thing, I can’t believe I didn’t think of it sooner! After all, what is a sci-fi franchise without some cool spacefaring vessels? Sometimes, these come in the form of exploratory ships that chart the unknown regions of the galaxy. Sometimes they are battleships which kick […]

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Firefly Best Lines (cont’d)

by storiesbywilliams on April 28, 2012 in Best Lines, Series and tagged alliance planet, apple grenade, ariel, Best Lines, book, browncoats, companion, core planet, core world, cortical electrodes, firefly, griswald, hoban washburne, inara serra, independents, jayne, jayne cobb, jaynestown, kaylee, kaylee frye, mal, malcolm reynolds, mudders, New Casmir, niska, out of gas, river, river tam, serenity, simon, simon tam, the alliance, the councilor, war stories, wash, Xiang Yu, zoe, zoe washburne

Last time, I dedicated an entire post to the best lines out of the Firefly series, and only got halfway through its first and only season! I can’t imagine how many posts I’ve going to have to divide this into to make them all fit and not be totally overwhelming to read! Best estimates put […]

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Firefly Best Lines!

by storiesbywilliams on April 26, 2012 in Best Lines, Series and tagged atherton, badger, book, browncoats, bushwacked, firefly, hoban washburne, inara serra, jayne, jayne cobb, kaylee, kaylee frye, mal, malcolm reynolds, Our Mrs. Reynolds, river, river tam, safe, saffron, serenity, shepherd book, shindig, simon, simon tam, sir warwick harrow, the alliance, the independents, the train job, wash, zoe, zoe washburne

Part of what made Fireflythe best show to ever get cancelled by the Faux Network was its many, many awesome lines. Depending on the tone of things, they could cheeky, witty, smart-assed, or just downright hilarious. And after giving the show a review, I thought I might dredge up some of the better ones that […]

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Firefly and Serenity or “How I Realized Fox Sucks!”

by storiesbywilliams on April 20, 2012 in Movies, Reviews, Series and tagged alan tudyk, bounty hunters, brigdet, browncoats, Christina Hendricks, companion, derrial book, firefly, gina torres, gorram, gun slingers, heist, hoban washburne, inara serra, independents, jayne cobb, Jubal Early, kaylee frye, mal, malcolm reynolds, miranda, mr. universe, nathon fillion, objects in space, Our Mrs. Reynolds, out of gas, pax, Persephone, reavers, river tam, safe, saffron, sean maher, serenity, shepherd, shindig, simon tam, smuggling, So me and mine gotta lay down and die... so you can live in your better world?, summer glau, terraforming, the alliance, the blue sun, the operative, trash, unification war, wash, westerns, zoe washburne

Yeah, I know I’m hardly alone in loving the cult-hit Firefly, nor am I alone in censuring Fox for its inept and inexplicable decision to cancel it after its first season. But then again, that seems to be their thing. What is more lamentable is the fact that after years of maintaining a following worldwide, […]

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