I just had the most hideous thought!

[litlover12]

I don't even know where this came from. You know the movie Frequency? In case you don't, it's a charming sci-fi flick about a son (Jim Caviezel) reconnecting with his long-dead father (Dennis Quaid) via ham radio and some exceptionally powerful Northern lights, and setting right all the things that went wrong in their past. The words "charming" and "sci-fi" don't always go together, but trust me, they fit here. I'm very fond of this movie.

Anyway, I'm rewatching it so I can write about it for an online magazine. I want to concentrate on how it has a much more optimistic worldview than much of modern sci-fi/fantasy, and how it's willing to allow the possibility that the past really could be changed for the better without all sorts of horrible, irrevocable prices being paid and so forth. And then out of nowhere this came into my head:

What if Joss Whedon had written this film?

. . .

I -- I think I need to go curl up in the fetal position for a while.

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[allisnow.livejournal.com]

What if Joss Whedon had written this film?

Death. Lots of death and also death.

(I was just talking to someone today about my Joss issues...)

[jobey-in-error.livejournal.com]

You wouldn't be calling it 'charming', I bet!

Mind you, I adored Firefly, enjoyed Serenity, and am assured that his other stuff also ranges from good to amazing. But never 'charming'. It always has to wow or darkly and energetically amuse.

I -- I think I need to go curl up in the fetal position for a while.

*puts a blanket over you and leaves you to come out of it on your own there*

[ever-maedhros.livejournal.com]

I haven't even seen the movie in question, but you've already blown my mind.

[nisie.livejournal.com]

Ouch...