Serenity:
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If you liked the movie, you'll like the show. An *excellent* series that really could have gone on to become one of the greats. Superb cast, good writing, interesting concept and themes.
Jason
Jason
HomeBrewerDude
Lifer
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BrokenVisage
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If this post is to ask about Firefly, then WHY THE HELL isn't the word Firefly in the topic line? Are you TRYING to confuse people? Do you have any idea why the topic line is even there?
0roo0roo
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and it was overhyped and sucktastic in every possible way. cliche ridden tackiness. apparently when you colonize planets you send wild wild west reenactors who copy everything down to the style of dress and lack of technology
its stupid to the core. a buncha hack actors with piss poor plots trying to cover the thin cliche their characters are and the paper thin predictable plots with a few wise cracks in place of actual dialog. sorry, doesn't cut it. hooker with a heart of gold? how original. and could the crew be anymore politically correct? lolWhat movie did you see? The acting was very good! Much better than the stiff cardboard crap we've come to expect from most movies these days
Jason
Originally posted by: 0roo0roo
and it was overhyped and sucktastic in every possible way. cliche ridden tackiness. apparently when you colonize planets you send wild wild west reenactors who copy everything down to the style of dress and lack of technology
No, the people who make such claims without thinking are stupid to the core. Yes, SOME of the planets were remote and sparsely populated, utilizing things like horses (Egads! They want self-replicating modes of transportation?! GASP!) and herds of cattle (Egads! They want a food supply then can readily replenish without significant offworld help? GASP!) and using simple materials to build their homes (Egads! They used what they could get on the planet instead of having trillions of tons of raw materials hauled in, factories built, processing facilities built, manned and operated, etc.? GASP!)
You must be a trekkie, only they would assume that every planet is perfectly planned for and every square inch meticulously built with all the latest and greatest tech.
And we wonder why so little GOOD Sci-fi gets made.
Jason
I really liked it. And just last night i caught the sci-fi television show of firefly.
I really like how the same actors in the movie are in the show. Most movie versions of television are completely differerent.
I really like how the same actors in the movie are in the show. Most movie versions of television are completely differerent.
0roo0roo
No Lifer
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Originally posted by: DragonMasterAlex
Originally posted by: 0roo0roo
and it was overhyped and sucktastic in every possible way. cliche ridden tackiness. apparently when you colonize planets you send wild wild west reenactors who copy everything down to the style of dress and lack of technology
No, the people who make such claims without thinking are stupid to the core. Yes, SOME of the planets were remote and sparsely populated, utilizing things like horses (Egads! They want self-replicating modes of transportation?! GASP!) and herds of cattle (Egads! They want a food supply then can readily replenish without significant offworld help? GASP!) and using simple materials to build their homes (Egads! They used what they could get on the planet instead of having trillions of tons of raw materials hauled in, factories built, processing facilities built, manned and operated, etc.? GASP!)
You must be a trekkie, only they would assume that every planet is perfectly planned for and every square inch meticulously built with all the latest and greatest tech.
And we wonder why so little GOOD Sci-fi gets made.
Jason
oh bullsh*t. we use herds of cattle and horses in modern america without going back to the days of the wild wild west. we also have cars and sh*t you know. heck even the ranchers have plenty of tech and mechinization. the creator of firefly didn't think it through at all. if the nations of the world achieve the technological power and knowledge to make space travel relatively easy, then expend the massive resources and time to teraform a spade of planets, they aren't going to send colonies of people there to start from scratch. thats just absurd. you don't just forget all knowledge like they've had their minds wiped and even copy the styles of the past...its too silly to even defend. its a universe where a self taught mechanic can repair starships, i think a few settlers could maintain some of their own technology don't you? i'm not a trekkie but i do know trek is atleast rational scifi unlike the inconsistent far fetched horrible concieved future of firefly. and no you don't even seem to even know trek at all like many firefly fans who claim to know scifi but clearly know nothing about it at all. in trek the planets that are advanced enough to create intersteller starships are also advanced in other ways. rational? yea me thinks so. they also visit sh*t hole planets sometimes that have very little tech, so the arguement that everyplanet is pristine is bs.
oh and if you remember anything about the show you supposedly watched. the fact that a private starship was used to ship around cattle shows how cheap space travel is in the firefly universe. it means shipping other things would also be cheap and easy. makes it all the more absurd.
Originally posted by: 0roo0roo
Originally posted by: DragonMasterAlex
Originally posted by: 0roo0roo
and it was overhyped and sucktastic in every possible way. cliche ridden tackiness. apparently when you colonize planets you send wild wild west reenactors who copy everything down to the style of dress and lack of technology
No, the people who make such claims without thinking are stupid to the core. Yes, SOME of the planets were remote and sparsely populated, utilizing things like horses (Egads! They want self-replicating modes of transportation?! GASP!) and herds of cattle (Egads! They want a food supply then can readily replenish without significant offworld help? GASP!) and using simple materials to build their homes (Egads! They used what they could get on the planet instead of having trillions of tons of raw materials hauled in, factories built, processing facilities built, manned and operated, etc.? GASP!)
You must be a trekkie, only they would assume that every planet is perfectly planned for and every square inch meticulously built with all the latest and greatest tech.
And we wonder why so little GOOD Sci-fi gets made.
Jason
oh bullsh*t. we use herds of cattle and horses in modern america without going back to the days of the wild wild west. we also have cars and sh*t you know. heck even the ranchers have plenty of tech and mechinization. the creator of firefly didn't think it through at all. if the nations of the world achieve the technological power and knowledge to make space travel relatively easy, then expend the massive resources and time to teraform a spade of planets, they aren't going to send colonies of people there to start from scratch. thats just absurd. you don't just forget all knowledge like they've had their minds wiped and even copy the styles of the past...its too silly to even defend. its a universe where a self taught mechanic can repair starships, i think a few settlers could maintain some of their own technology don't you? i'm not a trekkie but i do know trek is atleast rational scifi unlike the inconsistent far fetched horrible concieved future of firefly. and no you don't even seem to even know trek at all like many firefly fans who claim to know scifi but clearly know nothing about it at all. in trek the planets that are advanced enough to create intersteller starships are also advanced in other ways. rational? yea me thinks so. they also visit sh*t hole planets sometimes that have very little tech, so the arguement that everyplanet is pristine is bs.
oh and if you remember anything about the show you supposedly watched. the fact that a private starship was used to ship around cattle shows how cheap space travel is in the firefly universe. it means shipping other things would also be cheap and easy. makes it all the more absurd.
At one time Trek was rational sci-fi, but it's been politically correct *garbage* for more than a decade. There's a damn good reason why Enterprise got kicked off the air: it sucked.
As for FF, they've *never* shown a town or planet that was 100% old-west. They *always* have elements of technology intermixed with horses, cattle, etc. The settlers DO work with tech, DO handle their own basic maintenance and repair, etc. Your claims are a dishonest and *gross* misrepresentation of what's been presented. What the worlds presented in FF *don't* have are unlimited resources, unlimited money or some BS "we don't have money in the 24th century" garbage. In other words, it's got far more realism than Trek's had for a *very* long time.
Again, it's clear why so little GOOD Sci-Fi withers and dies quickly. You'd rather have the glitzy SFX, comfy starships with sleek lines and everyone with a glib "let's be happy and work together!" attitude. The other end of the spectrum prefers the "technology will turn on man and destroy him" angle, which is just as tired and poorly thought out as Trek's BS premise.
Jason
What's a more creative alternative, in your opinion?
The only sci-fi I can think of on television in the last 20 years that's as good is the *new* Battlestar Galactica, which is *easily* the best sci-fi TV show ever aired.Jason
HumblePie
Lifer
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Hrmm... name me one other example of a "wild west plopped into a sci fi" show besides Back to the Future 3 and that lame a$$ Will Smith, Wild Wild West, film.
One was "okay," BttF3, and the other sucked donkey ballz, WWW. Neither of which is remotely comparable to Firefly/Serenity.
One was "okay," BttF3, and the other sucked donkey ballz, WWW. Neither of which is remotely comparable to Firefly/Serenity.
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