Anyone been watching this show on FOX? It for some reason reminds me
of Free Cal-Tex , odd isn't it...)
A little background:
Set 500 years in the future in the wake of a universal civil war, FIREFLY
tells the tale of Serenity, a small transport spaceship without a homeport.
Captain Malcolm
("Mal")
Reynolds commands Serenity for legitimate transport and salvage runs, as well
as more "entrepreneurial" endeavors.
On Serenity, crew and passengers live together in close quarters as they
shuttle between
the Alliance-governed galaxy and the border planets that delineate the
new frontier. The
crew undertakes almost any job -- legal or not -- to stay afloat and put
bread on the table. Each of the passengers has his or her own motivation for
being on board
-
some honorable, some more questionable. All have unique pasts and different
reasons for wanting to get to their destination.
> Anyone been watching this show on FOX? It for some reason reminds me
Caught it every week so far. I really like the show - the characters
are quite engaging.
It doesn't hurt that *all* the women are spectacular in their own way...
I hear it isn't doing very well in the ratings, though... Friday night isn't
the best time slot, and Fox has been busy with World Series stuff so hopefully
that'll ease things up a bit... It would be a shame if it tanks out.
Someone finally does a *good* "Wild West In Space"...
And yes, kinda "Free Cal-Tex", but lower-tech somehow.
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As a bonus, the show is very well written. Really clever dialogue and
interesting shapes looming just offstage make for a show that can go a while.
> Adrian Johnson wrote:
> Anyone been watching this show on FOX? It for some reason reminds me
I love it! It's my regular Friday Night Thing. However, the "Cowboys In Space"
motif can get to be a little much to swallow.
Later,
I loved the scene in the first episode where they are asking the "bad" guy to
deliver a message. He gave the wrong answer...
> Michael Brown wrote:
guy to
> deliver a message. He gave the wrong answer...
I'm glad some people are liking the show. I've tried to give
On Thu, 31 Oct 2002 01:58:10 -0500, Adrian Johnson
> <adrian.johnson@sympatico.ca> wrote:
> Caught it every week so far. I really like the show - the characters
I've only seen the first episode, but I have the others on tape. This has more
to do with me being a big Buffy and Angel fan (unfortunately I missed almost
all of Buffy last season, and will miss this season, because this area doesn't
have UPN).
> I hear it isn't doing very well in the ratings, though... Friday night
Friday nights bite for ratings. The X-Files shot way up in ratings when
they moved to Sunday. The main reason I have it on tape is because I'm almost
always busy on Friday nights. Usually the VCR is taping it while we're
watching something on DVD. The World Series really mucked about with it, too.
I'll have to sit down and watch the tape...
On Thu, 31 Oct 2002 00:12:54 -0800, Michael Llaneza
<maserati@earthlink.net> wrote:
> As a bonus, the show is very well written. Really clever dialogue and
That's a Whedon trademark, the sort of stuff that makes Buffy and Angel so
good (though Buffy wasn't, apparently, all that great last season; I prefer
Angel myself...).
> Allan Goodall wrote:
Nobody with broadband internet need miss Buffy, Angel or Firefly. There's no
UPN for... thousands of miles here yet not only am I current with all three
shows, I often see them a day before they
are broadcast. Even modem users can find 75-80MB DivX downloads.
Buffy season 6 should be out and about in 400-450MB MPEG files for
burning as VCDs that play in a DVD player. (Season 6 was good, except for
Willow's dreadful storylines, there's some very funny stuff.)
I'm enjoying Firefly very much, it's like a Traveller campaign. My powers of
criticism are limited here because I never started watching Farscape, so I
can't compare it with that. Compared to the Trek shows it's very refreshing...
no rubberfaced aliens (Buffy has enough of them) no episodes where the
officers strut
about their brightly-lit office-like enormoship ordering around a
faceless crew of minions, the Serenities actually have to go places, land,
walk about, interact with and shoot people with guns that go bang and make
people bleed.
Unfortunately, they always land in the same place, the planet where everyone
thinks it's nineteenth century America, but without the slavery and genocide.
(Captain! Historic Revisionism off the Starboard Bow!) I can live with it. The
baddies all carry SA80s, so all their rifles should jam up in the dusty
environment. Stupid SA80.
I've also found not-very-good-quality MPEGs of the unaired Firefly
pilot, oddly in PAL format.
On Thu, 31 Oct 2002 20:58:17 +0000, David Brewer
> <davidbrewer@blueyonder.co.uk> wrote:
> Nobody with broadband internet need miss Buffy, Angel or Firefly.
Unfortunately I don't have broadband internet. In fact, due to limitations in
local trunk speeds, my 56K modem is restricted to 28.8K (and I'm lucky to get
beyond 24K). So, until such time as I can afford high speed access (and it's
not cheap around here), I'm stuck watching Buffy in reruns on FX. I think they
are up to season 5, so maybe I'll see season 6 this year.
Actually, slavery does show up, just this past Friday for example.
> David Brewer wrote:
> Unfortunately, they always land in the same place, the planet