#firefly challenge

Today I ask you to write about a dream that really affected your life. Either write a story about that dream, write about how your life was changed because of a dream, or use dreaming as a prompt in your post. Let’s hear about your efforts! Don’t forget to post it on your blog or your Facebook and post the link here in the comment section. You can also post your links on our Facebook page! To…

  This week we continued looking at the genre of Romance novels and what it takes to write a good one. Creative Yarn: talked about why she reads Romance novels and Evan Peterson talked about pitching your story to yourself first. Aisha’s Oasis: shared her romantic poem. And we read an Interview with author Nana Prah.

This week we also reviewed a YA romance book – Book Review: The Fault in Our…

30 DAYS OF FIREFLY: Best Wash-centric Episode/Moment [12/30]

30 DAYS OF FIREFLY: Best Mal-centric Episode/Moment [10/30]

"Doctor could be called a lot of things, Coward wouldn't be one of them though." -Mal

Yep, Simon Tam. Much like my reasoning for relating to Buffy... I'm a fighter.

Though Simon is a different fighter than Buffy, he still believes in fighting for what he believes in and especially for people he loves and cares about; both fighters nonetheless. Giving up is not an option, Simon has an intense dedication to his sister, a similar dedication that he begins to develop towards Kaylee and Serenity. On a more surface level we're quiet, smart, and confident (more or less). We don't loosen up on the spot, we need some time to warm up. But that's when you get to the good stuff.

Because of our intense dedication to certain individuals and our process of logic and over-thinking we don't always make the "right" decisions or say the "right" things. We can come off as judgmental or even selfish. Socially awkward if you will... Cheers for being sarcastic asses! We also like to think that we're more sophisticated than we actually are; growing up in a fairly sheltered environment with A LOT of expectations really doesn't help. 

This is *such* a difficult decision for me. I really cannot express the difficulty in this. But ok, I will have to say the scene of Inara crying. It is so incredibly intimate and I love how it goes from craziness in the house where Inara is fronting her usual strong self, and then the next time you see her, she's crying in a room by herself. The artistry involved is just too much. I love it.

It's a huge toss up between that scene, the Inevitable Betrayal scene, the scene where Jayne is recruited, and the Out of Gas ending scene. They're all brilliant and if I really sat here I could come up with a million more, but every time I think of watching Firefly, I want to watch Heart of Gold for this one scene.

If Firefly was revived but with a new cast, who would you choose?