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i didn't get home in time to watch Firefly, and i was wondering if anyone did. i got to see most of John Doe, and it seems promising. anyone have any opinion on the "new Fox Friday"?
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I missed the first twenty minutes, but the rest was quite cool. Certainly a very different take on things than Trek, and I really liked that. I'm sure it will be compared endlessly against Enterprise when really they're very different shows trying to do very different things. It also had the nice polished feel to it that most non-Trek sci-fi out there just doesn't have (predominantly a budgetary thing, I suppose. The verdict so far is a very enjoyable hour of entertainment that will be watched for the forseeable future.
And, um, spoiler, but the last scene involving Mal and Mr. Quasi-Maori was sheer brilliance.
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That was poo.
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well, i own the perfect sessions, so i don't need to "find" Cowboy Bebop. from what i heard, it [Firefly]was a lot like a live action Outlaw Star.
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Well... it's certainly very different for a sci-fi show. When Whedon was touting it as a "sci-fi western," I didn't think he meant that literally. In a way, it puts Roddenberry's "Wagon Train" analogy to shame, the way the colonies were portrayed in "Firefly."
Not that that's necessarily a good thing. I'd like to think that I'm not hung up on the cool technology and whiz-bang laser fights, but I really missed the "clean" look that just about every sci-fi show has -- Trek, B5, even Star Wars and Farscape. But Firefly was downright gritty. I'm not sure if I agree with the idea that colonists would be living Wild West-style, literally. I think that if we're going to have the technology to make it to other worlds and even terraform them as alluded in the episode, there's likely to be a bit more technology available than suggested here.
Still, it's a different view of the future, and that's nice to see. I'm definitely going to give the show a chance. Although the characters seemed a little too "paint-by-numbers" to me, there were some interesting questions that were left unanswered by the show -- things like the background on the civil war, and what the heck those blue-handed guys were doing to Simon's sister. I'm a sucker for detailed backgrounds and mysteries.
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Shows that will probably die: In-Laws Hidden Hills American Dream Do Over That Was Then A whole bunch of CBS shows Some of those new medical dramas/comdeies Fast lane 8 Simple Rules for blah blah blah... Perhaps, if ratings are not good, the Twilight Zone
Maybe one or two of these will become hits. But, remember last year we had: Thieves American Embassy Citizen Baines Education of Max Bickford First Monday Watching Ellie Wednesday 9:30/8:30 central Wolf Lake
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Not total poo, mind you, but definitely having distinctly poo-like attributes. I've only just found out that the original 2 hour pilot did not contain enough 'action' for the Fox executives, and so Joss et al decided to quickly slap together a new one rather than recut their original. I thought this might be a pretty good third or fifth episode, but it sure as hell wasn't a pilot. Apparently this pilot will be shown to us some time in December should the show still be around...
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