More to the point, why is Whedon doing a remake of "Dark Angel"?

Anyway, I get absolutely no sense of where this show can go after the first four episodes. It's hard enough to balance independent monster-of-the-week scripting with long, underlying-forces story arcs when you have the luxury of the FBI or a vampire slayer to work with, but this who-is-she-really thing looks like a real narrative trap. Either she figures out pretty quickly, and there's no more show left to do, or she doesn't, and the audience is bored to tears.

YouTube posts that this video is not available any longer. So much for that. Back in my TV - watching days, I loved Buffy.

I loved Firefly but while I admired the effort, I have to say their Mandarin Chinese was unintelligible. As an American speaker of chinese I understood it better (since I am familiar with the botched pronunciations) then did any of my Chinese friends.

Blackton, it's in the future!  The language has been bastardized over the years in order to facilitate cursing under your breath.  Science fiction.  Duh.

Wierd, blackton.  I remember watching the show with some of my friends and remarking "this show is really good, but I worry their Mandarin translation might be botched."

You have confirmed my darkest fears.

Don't know if it is the same clip but found this:

www.tvweek.com/.../upfront_video_a_peek_into_foxs.php

I'm with bone on this one, blackton.  You and your "knowledge" about what Chinese is supposed to "sound like," what with "speaking the language" and all are worthless because, um....it's the future?  Hello?  In the episode where they inflitrate a hospital before the creepy blue-handed guys showed up, did I criticize the medicine?  No, even though as a pediatrician I am adept at adult critical care.  Because it's the future.

Their English is, of course, perfect, because English (being the superior language) has no further need to evolve or change.

Oops.  I meant to say "I'm with bcbaird."  It serves me right for trying to side with boneill.

Here's what you see when you try to watch the video, as the pseudo liberal Republican shill mentioned.

"This video is no longer available due to a copyright claim by Twentieth Century Fox"

After what Fox did to Firefly, refusing to promote the show, changing the order of the episodes, and canceling it halfway through the first season, I don't know why Joss Whedon still works for them.  No doubt they've got him locked into some soul binding lifelong contract.

The Bush supporting anti-democracy Pro-corporate creeps who run Fox tossed Firefly into the garbage bin because they thought it promoted dangerous ideas that young people shouldn't be exposed to, ideas like freedom and questioning authority, you know, the kind of things the suits at Fox most fear.

As long as Whedon is working for them he will never have the creative freedom necessary to create a show as nuanced and meaningful and deeply needed by our society as Firefly was. Fox wouldn't want the youth of this country to become accustomed to good writing, good acting in good directing, otherwise they might be compelled to begin putting such elements and redeeming social value in all their TV shows, and their viewers might actually start to learn, grow and evolve as human beings, and perhaps even thinking for themselves.  That's a prospect that Fox and those who run the  networks simply cannot and will not tolerate, because such viewers would certainly become a threat to their continued existence.