Firefly - I just don't get it

[Renton]

(spoil)

Spoiler

"'Dear Diary: Today I was pompous and my sister was crazy. We got kidnapped by hill folk and it was the best day ever!'"

That's one of my favorite scenes. Still laugh out loud funny!

 

[John Crichton]

To me, a lot of great "fantasy" is genre cross-over, it's just not obvious about it. My favorite movie steals bits directly from a samurai pic ("The Hidden Fortress"), a western ("The Searchers"), and a British WWII bomber movie with lines like "stay on target, almost there". And that's just the scenes I recognized as image for image/word for word copies. I'm not even mentioning the generic "rip offs" from Greek myth, Arthurian legend, 30's pulp stories and serial adventure movies, etc. Most people would say it's a sci fi movie 'cause it's technically set in space . . .

Ya know, I was gonna say something about Star Wars being a cross-over and being the ultimate space-fantasy (aint' really sci-fi, ain't really fantasy) but you already did it.

 

[John Crichton]

If I recall correctly, it was "The Adventures of Brisco County, Jr." (no "e", despite the name of the actual county), and it only lasted one season. One big, expensive, ratings-dud of a season, for all its wonderful writing.

Gone, but not forgotten.

That show was just flat out odd. I only watched it for Bruce Campbell. I'll have to go back and see if I like it anymore now than I did back when...

 

[haakon1]

If I recall correctly, it was "The Adventures of Brisco County, Jr." (no "e", despite the name of the actual county), and it only lasted one season. One big, expensive, ratings-dud of a season, for all its wonderful writing.

Gone, but not forgotten.

Surely it was at least two seasons . . . IMDB says 1993-1994, so that's more like "at most" two.

You're definitely write about the spelling, though!

 

[mhacdebhandia]

American television seasons don't start at the beginning of the year, though, do they?

 

[Fast Learner]

Nope, not usually. The standard season, certainly during that time period, is fall through spring. Just one season, in this case, 27 episodes from August '93 to May '94, as can be seen in this episode guide.

 

[glass]

Funily enough, I saw the first episode last night (one of the guys couldn't turn up for are usual game, so another of the guys brought some DVDs round).

I really enjoyed it. I particularly like that

1. It was silent in space
2. Spacecraft don't always fly the same way up
3. The girl who plays Kaylee is gorgeous

Also, a lot of space opera shows have had the western in space idea, Firefly really runs with it, even down to the hats!


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[glass]

I must be the only person who enjoyed Alien Resurrection. Aside from the climax (I cringe at the physics of sucking something to bits with vacuum), I had no complaints. It's a solid, tongue-in-cheek action movie.

Ditto me on both counts. I'd love to see a Phil Plait Bad Astronomy review of it.


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[glass]

I had never seen Firefly on tv, and bought the DVD just because I could. The first few episodes didn't do anything for me, but I started getting into it after 4 or 5 episodes, and now I'm really looking forward to the movie. It starts off slow, but gets better as it builds complexity and we find more out about River (and the episode where

Spoiler

the Captain gets married

is pretty good).

The OP was specifically asking about it from the perspective of having seen the only pilot, and it's apparently showing on US TV again so presumably quite a few other people were in the same position (and coincidentally so was I, via the DVDs). So, any chance of spoiler tags if you are going to give away events in future episode, eh?


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[BryonD]

Saw "Our Mrs. Reynolds" today.
That one was really good.