On Sun, Dec 20, 2009 at 10:44 AM, Ben Scripps <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> I couldn't agree more; Lachman *is* very pretty, but Enver Gjokaj has
> really turned out (for me, at least) to be one of the most enjoyable
> parts of this show. He's really shown a lot of versatility,
> especially this season. And it's been a long time since I laughed as
> hard as I did a couple of weeks ago when Victor was imprinted with
> Topher's personality while Topher was in Washington.
>
> (SNIP) I have seen, though, enough flashes of good writing (Topher's
> line a couple months back about his work: "I can't fiddle with the
> mind until it's wiped clean. The human mind is like Van Halen. If you
> just pull out a piece and keep replacing it, it just degenerates." I
> found ridiculously funny) to prompt me to add 'Firefly' to the Netflix
> queue. Hopefully that'll show me a bit more of this Whedon brilliance
> everyone was talking about going into 'Dollhouse' last year.
>
That double Topher episode was a highlight of the whole series. There was
also a nice line in one of the recent episodes ("What year is it?"; Echo:
"2010 I think, I don't know how long we've been off the air").
Gjokaj seems to be the kind of actor that was needed to make this show work
- he has really melted into and believable sold about 10 different
characters during the course of the show; and he makes the somewhat
ridiculous love story between him and Sierra almost work.
"Hit and Miss" is the term that describes all of Whedon's work that I have
seen. The one season of Buffy I saw was watchable because every second or
third bit of business he tried worked pretty well, sometimes very well, even
as the other one or two fell very flat. That ratio is still there with
Firefly, but the idea is interesting enough, and several characters likable
enough, that I found it charming.
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