Firefly: Opinions?

Freejack

Any thoughts on Firefly?

I think the collision of tech with the dirtiness of the old west is cool. It makes for some interesting stories and keeps technobabble to a minimum.

I also liked the variety in the crew and some of the story arcs it set up. It will be interesting to see if it pans out (and if a major network can keep a sci-fi show going).

Jake

Mundane

I liked it..you can compare it a little with Andromeda/Farscape, in a way that it is one ship,one crew,which is hunted in a way (maybe not Andromeda so much but)

Bekenn

I loved the Old West style.

And the turbine. Definitely the turbine.

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Alec M

Worst ship design EVAR!!!

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Argone

Liked it, Hope the Captain pans out a little better.

Story line could run out well need a little

more on the background though.

Really like the blending of semi old west and Enterprise.

Would be nice if they would have included a few other races.

Other than that it seems well written and will continue to watch unless it gets boring or reruned to death. [img]http://216.15.145.59/mainforums/smile.gif[/img]

Argone

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croxis

I read in the paper that this isn't the pilot. Fox felt the pilot didn't have enough action so they shot a new one (the orig pilot was 2 houres long)

Randy

I heard that the original pilot was much darker, which would have appealed to me. The network wanted it to be lightened up.

As it stands, I was "underwhelmed". IMHO the show only captured the trappings of the (romanticized) old west, but not the spirit, and I wasn’t moved by the performances. I agree that that concept of a sci-fi western is cool, but I think this pilot missed the boat by trying to fuse the two, rather than going for the dramatic possibilities of colliding the two genres.

Much prefer John Doe.

Freejack

I would really like to see the pilot too. It may change the feel of the show though. It seems to me Fox wanted more of a 50s style western (upbeat) and the creater, Joss Wheadon, was wanting something more alone the lines of a Clint Eastwood film (gritty).

[quote]Would be nice if they would have included a few other races.[/quote]

Wheadon specificly said they are going to avoid useing lots of aliens. Think of it as an Asimov view of the galaxy (His foundation series specificly mentions that humans were a freak of nature and there is no other intellegent life).

Jake




[This message has been edited by Freejack (edited 09-27-2002).]

Mundane

[quote]Originally posted by Slade:
[b]Worst ship design EVAR!!!

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worse than the ship in B5: Lotr?

Argone

Boy was Asimov wrong, Theirs no intelligent

life anywhere in the univerce if he was counting humans. [img]http://216.15.145.59/mainforums/tongue.gif[/img] [img]http://216.15.145.59/mainforums/smile.gif[/img]

Argone

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