oooh, really? Might have to get the R2 one as well as my R1, which has a surprising lack of extras. Am I missing any easter eggs? I can't seem to find any.

Yah! On the main menu, while 'Play' is selected on the top left, click the left arrow and a portion of the menu should light up on the right hand side of the screen. Click "enter" and you are taken to a short featurette on the making of the Fruity Oaty Bar commercial.

The easter egg is on all regions. BTW, if you are going to get a different region go for R4; it has all the R2 stuff PLUS an Q&A from Australia, featuring our own nixygirl apparently. (I haven't watched it yet, nix, just got it!) I bought mine from EzyDVD: http://www.ezydvd.com.au

I forgot to mention, best part of many best parts of A Filmmaker's Journey: Nathan. Lots of Nathan. Being a silly bitch. Oh, yes.

Coolio! Will definitely go for the R4 then.

oh yea....I'm fairly cringeworthy in it.
It's totally worth it tho...and filmakers journey is a pisser!!

Joss is in England at the moment promoting the DVD release....he was on More4 today on 'The Last Word' with a snob, a fangirl and a philistine host.
It was good to watch him spin out tho at the snob.
download it here
This was filmed by digi cam from a tv for impatient arses like myself.

Also he talks about working hard at getting a Spike movie made for DVD on his BBC radio 5 interview here.

And.....he'll be on the Phil Jupitus show on Radio 6 tomorrow morning, sometime between 9-10.

luvs nix

Thanks for the radio interview link - just finished listening to it.
I love it when interviewers don't do their research: "Spike Lee?"

And I'll look out for you on the DVD when I get it!

He's also on T4 tomorrow (sunday) morning at some point.

Also I'm tempted to get either Serenity or Firefly the series, which do you recomend? Ofcourse i shall be getting them both but which do you think I should see first?

Definitely Firefly. Just makes watching Serenity so much more satisfying.

I'd been feeling so low this last week or so, I'd forgotten that Serenity was out on DVD on Monday! Might just have to treat myself, not that I can really afford it now... well, yet....

Firefly it is then my good man.

So... I introduced the other half (who really is not interested in Sci-Fi or Joss) to Firefly last night... We watched the pilot episode "Serenity"...

Anyone else notice the nod to Joss' days as a writer for Alien Resurrection?

Although, there was a downside to watching it last night! When I went to bed, I couldn't get to sleep for hours... and what did I have accompanying me for TWO BLOODY HOURS...

"Take my love. Take my land. Take me where I cannot stand."

Just those words... nothing else...

Remind me...

The cannon that Mal uses has the symbol of the evil corporation from the Alien films on it, which fits in nicely since that was a Chinese-American conglomerate as well.

I was much more surprised the Lasseter gun, since that was a direct reference to John Lasseter who co-wrote Toy Story with Joss. Seemed like such an odd thing to drop into a series.

It looks something like this



Although, I think Yutani is a Japanese connection, not chinese...

Maybe, it's certainly a connection between an American and an Asian company. It probably is Japanese seeing as the main reason for the Chinese connection in Firefly was that is actually happening now in the economic sphere; when Alien was written they probably wouldn't have been able to predict that would happen, whereas Japan was rising quite rapidly in the 70's and would make more sense.

Do you think Joss even thought of the coincidence... the oriental coincidence I mean.

I can't help but imagine that it must have entered his mind at some point; for a man who plans every detail of his shows and films, it seems a bit to big of a coincidence. The fact that he wrote Alien: resurrection as well seems to suggest that he put it in as a conscious nod to the attentive and those who were familiar with his other work.

Cool. Can't say I'd noticed.

I just bought Firefly for a friend who loved Serenity and is almost as much of a Buffyverse geek as I am. She should definitely love it and I am considering a large scale rewatch over Easter just to refresh me memory.

I skived lab today to watch Shindig, Our Mrs. Reynolds and Jaynestown with a friend of mine who I went to see Serenity with. He loved them.

So I'll be showing more soon.


And I noticed the WY logo the first time I watched Firefly.

Gonna convince the better half to watch another episode tonight.

Watched the entire series on Sunday for the first time, then watched Serenity on Tuesday. Oh....my......god! What have I been missing! I always come late to these things. Late to Spaced, late to Firefly....I'm going to be late to my own damn funeral aren't I?

At least you've seen it now. Just think of all the poor souls who haven't experienced Firefly yet.

It's now your job to get more people into it. I've got 4 people into it so far...

That'd be quite an entrance. Glad you've been enlightened, Bish.

Just out of curiosity, how many people have others converted to Firefly? I've only successfully converted one person since half my friends aren't into sci-fi, and the other half have already seen it. I'm hoping to convert my sister as she was a big Buffy fan, but I don't think I'll have much luck.

I 'turned' Adam, and through him Fireman James. I've also partly got my mates Stealph and Meg (who got me into Buffy originally) but they've not seen it all.

I've managed to convert half a dozen or so people into Firefly fans (of varying degrees).

I think you turned me at my first meet-up.

Yea, I converted my father and several co-workers. The first thing out of all my co-workers mouths after watching the series/movie was "Wash?!?" .

Edit: Then I bitch at them for bending up the edges of the set.

On pestering alone I forced Ade into watching it and he's a convert now. I got mr. widowspider into it as well, and a few sundry other New Yorkers I know.

Everyone I've introduced it to has liked it, but I tend only to force it on people who are of a similar mind to me and who are bound to like it.

*Shuffles to the back of room pretending to examine an interesting spot of dirt*

Well... the other half said last nihgt, after watching Shidig...

"It's growing on me!!"

Unbelievably, I actually won a signed poster (by Joss) of Serenity this week from Videoezy (oz vid franchise).

The only reason I entered was because it was block mounted, or framed!
I mean, I feel a little guilty...ya know....I've been pretty damned spoiled rotten when it comes to Firefly, Serenity and Joss goodness.
but, hey I did win fair and square!



Well, Lasseter did screw Joss out of his writing credit. Maybe it was a snarky thing?


I rekon I would have intro a good 10 - 15 ppl watching it. One of the OzCoats I know has 4 sets that she lends out on a constant basis.
luvs nix

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Did he? His name is still on the credits and he was nominated for the Oscar along with Lasseter and the others. I know that he was screwed out of a credit on Speed but I always thought that he had a good relationship with the Pixar guys. He also laid the groundwork for the sequel with the idea of toys being abandoned as their owners grow up so he can't be that made at them all.

Hmmmmmm maybe I'm incorrect. I've got a JW screenwriting DVD here, which I'm about to watch, where I am sure he talks about being uncredited for Toy Story (irregardless of IMBD). I'll get back to you on this one.
luvs nix

EDIT: yep, I was totally wrong. OK I blame the fact that, I'm sick and errrrr....I was drugged!!!

I can't go back through 64 pages of posts, but why had I never heard of this before?

The River Tamm sessions.

The answer's in the question.

When was it mentioned? I can only assume I was so resolutely determined to stay spoiler-free I blanked it out.

A while after the film came out I think. I can't remember to be honest. Shame they never made the DVD.

You know something has entered the cultural zeitgiest when people have made a surprisingly good and very affectionate parody of it. Some here it:

Odd

There's a nice little joke at the end of teh credits as well.

That won't load for me for some reason, YouTube normally works. I'm guessing it's Mosquito though?


Showed yet more Firefly to yet more people. You can't stop the signal, and all that.

Well, we finally got done with the series... The better half is now a fully fledged fan, fancies the hell out of Nathan, consideres Zoe a role model and wants me to be a bit more like Wash...

I'm picking up Serenity tonight... We watch on Friday...

That's the one.

Talking about Youtube...I put a video up of a Browncoats Shindig, that we had when the movie was released!
Here

Just in case anyone might be interested...maybe...I'm in it...errr...yea.

Ohhh yea...also...jewel is in Oz at the moment, and I get to meet her on Saturday, as well as Johnathon Woodward.

I'm asking them both for a cleavage and arse shot, for the Sen Oz board!
Hahahahahahah

luvs nix

So you're the fan that's giving us respectable poeple a bad name . . .

Yup!

Just me...all on my lonesome...yup...I'm the scarey one.

Hee hee

luvs nix

Heeheehee

Excellent Firefly parody. Keep watching until after the end credits as well.

Nice to see it get mentioned again though, it is spot on.