Good news. With any luck, they'll get the funding they'll need to produce a feature-length animated movie, it'll be a resounding success, and Disney will scramble to get back on track. We can always dream. Hopefully, at the very least, this will encourage other animators and studios to do the same thing - buck the trend and take a chance.

Post-Christmas sales served me well today, and I've purchased some much-needed shirts, a sweater, and a pair of jeans - all at fifty percent off sticker price. I feel thrifty. But you do tend to feel a bit cheated when, mere weeks after purchasing Christmas presents, everything is half price. You'd think there was a conspiracy of some sort...and, why yes, there is.

I've begun watching Joss Whedon's Firefly from the beginning - courtesy of the new DVD box-set - and it's quite astonishing that Fox didn't air the original pilot (which I'd never seen before) until later in the season. It's exciting and action packed, it establishes the setting and the characters, and it's a very well written and directed mini-movie. It's a shame the show died an ignoble death, because it certainly had potential, and I'm quite sure the ratings would have picked up if Fox had done more to support it. Still, with fourteen episodes in the set, it's well worth picking up - especially since there may be a big-screen continuation at some point in the future.  ¶ 17:47