Firefly (The Series)...POLL

Gwaihir · #1 May 5th, 2003, 03:53 AM

I only saw part of one episode (i didn't find out about it until after a few episodes and then missed a few others, always figuring I could get them later - I rarely watch TV - I was hoping to start watching regularly at a later point (if only it was on on weekends!)), but I've read all the scripts I can find (some floating out there, and a few very good summaries, beyond whats posted on the website, but haven't found everything) and watched all the clips I can find . . . anyone know if there's a [cheap] way to get all the episodes to watch?

I went nuts when i found out it got cancelled - especially since everything unresolved about river (and details about the Alliance and Blue Sun Corp) is STILL bugging me. Especially some of the stuff from her little "Shindig" rant - the brushing teeth, the little roots, nothing that I've found explains that bit. and "the little ones in the corner that you didn't catch . . . they're the ones that reach in and do it, they're the ones with teeth and you have to smash them" - reach in how and do what? or is it the psychological effect of the omnipresent Blue Sun ads . . . whatwhatwhat??? So many things, and I won't ever know if they were even supposed to be wrapped up eventually or not!

[ May 05, 2003, 02:53: Message edited by: Gwaihir ]

raynor · #2 May 5th, 2003, 04:05 AM

The captain may have been more believable than Kirk. But he was pretty shallow and one-dimensional compared to Picard. The plots were so-so. I can't point to a single episode that had a good plot. The acting was poor compared to the combined body of Star Trek. Granted, Inara was pretty cute. All in all, in my opinion, the show started from nowhere, went nowhere, and was cancelled--big surprise.

No offense. But you just can't come on to the scene and start picking on Star Trek.

Taz-in-Space · #3 May 5th, 2003, 04:21 AM

Taz takes another pole! Taz Takes Another Pole!

Be serious? Well, OK.
Firefly... could of had big potential. Interesting group of characters and novel premise. Kinda like a freebooter space saga. Overall story hadn't advanced far enough for me to get a handle on where it would have been taken. Unfortunately we probably will never know.

Farscape, Firefly: maybe the top brass just don't like the F words!!

Sorry, but Taz was serious long enough!!

Gwaihir · #4 May 5th, 2003, 06:35 AM

To raynor:
Well, it can't be expected to "go" too far in 10 episodes. It sould have been given longer than that.

Preacherman · #5 May 5th, 2003, 09:08 AM

you can dowload the series via emule, edonkey, kazaar or whatever filesharing program. for emule, edonkey i'd suggest going to www.sharereactor.com , they are trustworthy and do all their riping themselves, so no viruses, trojans...

to raynor: character depths comes with time and of the 10 episodes 2 weren't that good and took the western style to far. but it was not the usual change this or that field and we win style of startrek (tng) which can get quiet boring if you see it every 3rd show.
and they had a storyline which i am a huge fan of, like the latter ds9 or b5 sequels.
by the way, their engineer gets dirty and has oil stains sometimes, not like the cleaning crew of every startrek series i saw, i like that.

Gwaihir · #6 May 5th, 2003, 09:16 AM

OOOH!!! THANKS!!!

clearly I didn't look hard enough.

hrm, i guess i should re-install Kazaa this summer . . . but it becomes such a timesink to have all those things you can get . . .

Slynky · #7 May 5th, 2003, 09:57 AM

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Originally posted by geoschmo:
B5 suffered from the same inconsistant scheduling in my area, at least until the Last couple seasons. I never knew when the show was going to be on the first couple years. And a lot of times it wasn't on even when it was supposed to be according to the schedule. By the time it settled down to a consistant time slot the story was so far developed I couldn't get into it.

So Slynky, you got a juicy conspiracy theory for us concerning Firefly?

Fortunatly, rumors to the contrary, their is no "trilateral commision" in charge of making sure quality TV shows fail. It's simply short sighted programming executives that have to score big Ratings quickly or they get fired by even shorter sided upper managment. Shows like firefly that go against the flow take a while to develop a following. Networks don't take the long term view enough and give good shows a chance to develop that following. Cookie cutter formula shows get mroe slack because "something like this worked before", regardless of whether they have any virtue of their own.

Geoschmo

Juicy theory? Sure. But in a moment. I need to waste time trying to convert people who didn't give it a chance.