One thing I forgot...

...softlykarou and I watched Serenity last weekend.

I'd known about Firefly for a while, though I'd never seen it--the people on RPG.net are, frankly, crazy over the series. I admit, I had a little bit of geek aversion to it at first (i.e., a bunch of other people like it, so clearly it sucks), but when I actually watched it, I realized that they were right. It really was that good.

I'm not sure what I like about it so much. It's not, strictly speaking, sci-fi--it happens to take place in space, but it's really a Western, with any number of of tropes to reinforce it (interfering government lawmen, lawless frontier, the way the characters speak, the weaponry, the Reavers as a "Savage Injun" stand-in, etc.). There are some sci-fi elements (oppressive corporations, government conspiracies, psychics), but... It's just the way that everything mixes together. Especially for a show that only had 13 episodes, it's incredibly well-written. There's none of that rocky start-up time that a lot of shows have, the characters flow well together, the dialogue is funny when it matters and dramatic when that matters... I also like the fact that Mal is willing to actually kill people who need killing (and, admittedly, a few who don't). I've been watching too much anime lately--the "absolute pacifist" always gets on my nerves.

And yes, I do have an .mp3 of the show's theme song, if anyone wants it.

Take my love, take my land
Take me where I cannot stand
I don't care, I'm still free
You can't take the sky from me.

Take me out to the black
Tell them I ain't comin' back
Burn the land and boil the sea
You can't take the sky from me.

There's no place I can be
Since I've found Serenity
You can't take the sky from me...