Firefly
March 31, 2009And so I finally gave Firefly another shot. I just finished the 4th episode, so here are a few short first impressions.
The elephant in the room: the western theme draped over this scifi. Weird, odd, but at the same time, infinitely brave and original. And if there’s one thing the dead space-faring scifi market needs it’s originality.
No aliens.
Kaylee is fcuking awesome. Seriously. One of the coolest scifi characters in a long time. And she’s so pretty!
The obviously developing romance between Inara and the captain is a little too cheesy for my taste. From their first scene together I knew these two were going to hook up. I’m going to be infinitely surprised if that doesn’t happen.
I like the depiction of the future: not the utopian nonsense of Star Trek, but the brown and metal dystopia of the Alien series and BSG.
No aliens.
Kaylee!
That is all for now.
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Firefly is pretty dire. Not as bad as Babylon 5, but full of cheese. I’ve watched about 5 or 6 random episodes. Whilst I don’t fully understand the entire story, it’s just not interesting enough for me to care about. Without Jewel Staite, it would be completely pointless to watch too, so I’m with you on that one Thom :-)
She’s in Stargate Atlantis too. Not the best show, but better than Firefly. And she’s just as interesting in that :-) I like Stargate though… it’s okay. I can’t watch more recent SG1… it’s got Crichton and Aeryn Sun from Farscape in it… it makes no sense to me anymore. That’s a bit like, “crap, we’re failing… quick, grab some actors form formerly cult scifi series to boost the ratings…”, except they completely fail to recreate the dynamics. Tsk.
OMG.. I’m blogging on Thom’s blog comments.. I’m a leech!!
Comment by memsom — March 31, 2009 @ 11:18 am
I would suggest you read my original Firefly blog posts back in 2004-2005 too. I had the same opinion. Until I watched the series IN ORDER (Fox f*cked the series basically by not broadcasting the series in order). Then, the story made sense, and I got over my “western” disliking undertones of it. After having rewatched the series in order, I find it to be one of the best series of the decade.
I highly disagree. SG:A is a cheap TV series. Absolutely nothing new in it. If there’s one cheesy TV series that is the SG series. Firefly is way more original and well-written than any of these Stargate series.
Comment by Eugenia — March 31, 2009 @ 10:03 pm