I thought this episode was exponentially more fun, and intriguing, than any that I've watched.
For one, Joss relocated his Whedonesque pen! (Template. Whatever. He found it. :-) It helps having Patton Oswalt -- who could not have been more perfectly cast to the play the uber-nerd Internet billionaire -- to deliver lines like "serious moral spankitude" and to call Ballard "F-bitch-I."
And then it's the funny things said almost in passing: Ballard ending his little vignette with " ... and I'd be writing the Great American Arrest Report." BWAH! A twist on the familiar works every time.
Plus, Topher throwing Langton off the scent with "Not everything is about you, Infinite Ego Man."
The two aspects that just weren't doing it for me were A) an overabundance of Eliza Dushku and 2) the absence of the wit that I love so much in Firefly. Thankfully, those two matters were addressed in this episode. I am SO back in. :-)
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Date: 2009-03-22 06:13 pm (UTC)For one, Joss relocated his Whedonesque pen! (Template. Whatever. He found it. :-) It helps having Patton Oswalt -- who could not have been more perfectly cast to the play the uber-nerd Internet billionaire -- to deliver lines like "serious moral spankitude" and to call Ballard "F-bitch-I."
And then it's the funny things said almost in passing: Ballard ending his little vignette with " ... and I'd be writing the Great American Arrest Report." BWAH! A twist on the familiar works every time.
Plus, Topher throwing Langton off the scent with "Not everything is about you, Infinite Ego Man."
The two aspects that just weren't doing it for me were A) an overabundance of Eliza Dushku and 2) the absence of the wit that I love so much in Firefly. Thankfully, those two matters were addressed in this episode. I am SO back in. :-)