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I still can't understand fox...
A gold mine like this but they won't renew or sell the rights to someone who would renew. All cause it would mean accepting the fact they where WRONG about the series. How, even with all the sabotage from the get go, it was a great idea and vastly superior to a lot of sci-fi out there. Even those that the fox network apparently wanted a clone of, trek or the likes...
Cutting off ones nose to spite their face might as well be the motto of fox network.
I still miss the series, greatly, and am glad I had the box set to watch.
A gold mine like this but they won't renew or sell the rights to someone who would renew. All cause it would mean accepting the fact they where WRONG about the series. How, even with all the sabotage from the get go, it was a great idea and vastly superior to a lot of sci-fi out there. Even those that the fox network apparently wanted a clone of, trek or the likes...
Cutting off ones nose to spite their face might as well be the motto of fox network.
I still miss the series, greatly, and am glad I had the box set to watch.
I only saw 2 episodes besides the movie and I loved it.
A shame fox is a bunch of retards that took it down to make room for something I'm sure is less good.
A shame fox is a bunch of retards that took it down to make room for something I'm sure is less good.
Everyone ever should see Firefly. It took me way longer than all of my friends to watch it, and when I borrowed the box set from one of my friends I finished it in 3 days, watching about 5 hours a day. It's that good. Now I just have to see Serenity.
I don't know why Whedon keeps going back to Fox, they screwed him out of the final seasons of Buffy and Angel
On the plus side, Firefly didn't have a musical episode.
On the plus side, Firefly didn't have a musical episode.
Your review... I get the whole, "informing the uninformed masses" about the plot, but as far as reviews go, you could probably trim a lot of the plot outline out, and keep more to what you did near the end of the review.
E.g. More of what you did in that second last paragraph, and less of what you were doing in paragraph's 2 through 5.
All in all, though? Excellent review (as everyone has said already
).
I still thoroughly enjoyed it, and your writing style seems to be a bit different to other reviewers on this site... in a good way.
As one of the many on this site who unequivocally, unabashedly, love Firefly; congrats on the review, and for saying what we were all thinking. ^_^
E.g. More of what you did in that second last paragraph, and less of what you were doing in paragraph's 2 through 5.
All in all, though? Excellent review (as everyone has said already
).I still thoroughly enjoyed it, and your writing style seems to be a bit different to other reviewers on this site... in a good way.
As one of the many on this site who unequivocally, unabashedly, love Firefly; congrats on the review, and for saying what we were all thinking. ^_^
I know what you mean and understand the natural fear that we all have of sequels and zombie series' that should have been put down long ago. However, it should have run on for at least one more season - he had plot arcs planned, questions to be answered and others posed - the whole shebang!joethekoeller said:
Sure, Joss has had some hint-n-miss moments in the past - Alien 3 was crap compared to its fore-runners, Dollhouse started pretty weak - but Firefly was his golden moment, and I think he would have been able to step away from it when the time was right.
I received the entire series on DvD for christmas after some "subtle" hinting, makes me think of what could have been.
It's not as good as Firefly but if you like Fillion's ability to be a charming pain in the ass and be so gorram good at it then you would probably like it. He really sells the show and the murder cases are actually pretty good too.joethekoeller said:
On the whole, your review is quite well written. While there are a few minor slip ups, there?s nothing particularly glaring that could potentially impede the reader. The words and sentences flow together nicely, the review is well presented, but I must confess that the review is quite short.
If you?re trying to sell Firefly to a friend who?s looking for something good to watch, than mission accomplished and I would agree that you?ve done quite well. However what you?ve written never goes very deep into its subject. You talk more about the context of the story than the story itself, and you also point to a lot of positive traits but never really support them. For example, you mention how the show is largely character driven with a lot tension between the players, but you don?t offer any examples of personal drama. I also would like to have known how such a disparate group of people would have come to live in the same house.
Your review is also almost suspiciously glowing in its recommendation, and it seems that you?ve focused way too much on the positive. Not only does your opinion seem more balanced and less ?fanboy-ish? (for sake of example) by bringing negative points to light as well, it also gives you the opportunity to more thoroughly explore exactly what makes the good bits exceptional, and examine the heart, if you will, of what makes such a programme work.
Before trying to review another television show, I suggest you try your hand at reviewing a movie (maybe Serenity?). While they?re clearly more or less parallel, at least with a movie you only have 1h40m ? 2h20m of material to deal with whereas television shows can amount to hundreds upon hundreds to thousands upon thousands of minutes to trudge through. It?ll give you the opportunity to really narrow your focus and? how do I say this without sounding incredibly corny? ?uniquely express yourself as a critic.?
Good luck.
If you?re trying to sell Firefly to a friend who?s looking for something good to watch, than mission accomplished and I would agree that you?ve done quite well. However what you?ve written never goes very deep into its subject. You talk more about the context of the story than the story itself, and you also point to a lot of positive traits but never really support them. For example, you mention how the show is largely character driven with a lot tension between the players, but you don?t offer any examples of personal drama. I also would like to have known how such a disparate group of people would have come to live in the same house.
Your review is also almost suspiciously glowing in its recommendation, and it seems that you?ve focused way too much on the positive. Not only does your opinion seem more balanced and less ?fanboy-ish? (for sake of example) by bringing negative points to light as well, it also gives you the opportunity to more thoroughly explore exactly what makes the good bits exceptional, and examine the heart, if you will, of what makes such a programme work.
Before trying to review another television show, I suggest you try your hand at reviewing a movie (maybe Serenity?). While they?re clearly more or less parallel, at least with a movie you only have 1h40m ? 2h20m of material to deal with whereas television shows can amount to hundreds upon hundreds to thousands upon thousands of minutes to trudge through. It?ll give you the opportunity to really narrow your focus and? how do I say this without sounding incredibly corny? ?uniquely express yourself as a critic.?
Good luck.
Firefly is 2002 sci-fi series created by Joss Whedon (Buffy, Angel). Aired by Fox, starting September 20th, the show gained little few viewers, though many enthusiastic followers. After 14 episodes (Only 11 of which made it to the tv-screens) the show was cancelled. Fans, however, felt so strongly about it that DVD sales rocketed right past everyone?s expectations, eventually leading to the creation of Serenity, a motion-picture partly concluding Firefly?s storyline.
Fast forward 500 years into the future. Humanity has depleted Earth of all resources and consequently left, making new homes by way of terraforming. The most central of these new planets were the first to be terraformed and used this head start to turn themselves into the blossoming center of civilization, arts and science. They would eventually form the Anglo-Sino Alliance (Alliance for short). The outer planets were less lucky. Terraforming is less stable and lush. Life is harsh. Technology, while existing, is largely unavailable for being too expensive. People have to make due with crude tools, man-, and horsepower. In short, it's thewild west all aroundover again.
After a while, the Alliance decided they could use their position to muscle around the outer planets,whowhich took exception to thatthis. After the Alliance tried to reinforce it'sits position using military power, they the outer planets hastily joined together, forming the Independents in a now full-blown civil war. They soon suffer an inevitable crushing defeat. Sgt. Malcolm "Mal" Reynolds (Nathan Fillion), Independent volunteer and ardent believer in its cause (The "one-government-doesn't-match-all-needs" belief), finds his life and everything he fought for falling apart. He tries to continue by finding a way to live outside Alliance control. This "way" turns out to be a small transport ship of Firefly-class (H hence, the name).
I?ve edited in ?which? instead of ?who? because you?re talking about planets, not people. Where you?ve said ?they hastily joined together? etc.,? you should make it clearer the thing to which ?they? is referring.
The reason for changing ?that? to ?this? at the end of the first sentence has to do with proximity. By its very nature, ?that? refers to something further away from the context in which it?s used while ?this? refers to something closer. Because you?re referring to something that?s only a few words and not a few paragraphs away, you should use the more immediate word. Words like this/these and that/those are called demonstratives because they are used to draw specific attention to things, in case you?re wondering.
Even though the alliance has now won control over the entire galaxy, little has changed. It lacks the desire andthe manpower to secure every planet, and so the outer worlds still find themselves notably ungoverned. A , a situation Mal uses to earn a living on any job he can find,( though "any" mostly translates to smuggling and stealing.) With him are his second-in-command and wartime friend Zoe Alleyne Washburne (Gina Torres), ace pilot (and Zoe's husband) Hoban "Wash" Washburne (Alan Tudyk), ruthless hired muscle Jayne Cobb (Adam Baldwin), registered companion (something like a space geisha (or speisha)) Inara Serra (Morena Baccarin), and constantly cheerful mechanical whiz Kaywinnit Lee "Kaylee" Frye (Jewel Staite).
Your listing of the characters is all well and good, if a bit cluttered. Try and stick to given and surnames instead of trying to work in nicknames and other extraneous information. Also, a better word to describe Inara?s profession would be ?courtesan.? You could also use ?hetaera,? which was the word given to such women in ancient Greece, or even ?professional prostitute? would work.
Additionally, they are soon joined in the pilot episode by Shepherd Derrial Book, a priest with an unuasually broad knowledge of violence and crime, and Dr. Simon Tam and his psychic sister River, whom he rescued from government-run experiments, thus turning them both into wanted fugitives. Together they try to get by on illegal operations while flying under government radar (Wwhich isn't exactly easy to juggle), keep their ship from falling apart, and refrain from slaughtering each other with butchers knives.
But what exactly setsthis Firefly apart from the bazillion of other sci-fi serieses out there is? What has made people go so passionate about it? Firstly there'd be the premise, or to be precise, the perspective of the show. This isn't about some superhuman police force swinging glowing sticks around. This isn't about some squeaky-clean intergalactic united nations. N nor is it about secret government-controlled space exploration.
Combine the previous paragraph with the next one.
It's about people on the low end of the scale, having the same kind of problems we have, despite all the shiny new technology they can't afford. And the show does well in focusing on the characters. Not only will the great performance of each individual actor (especially a stellar Nathan Fillion) quickly ingrain them all in your heart, but the incredible chemistry those these guys developed as a group will make sure they stay right there. Spending most of the show on a tiny space-bound vessel means they will often bump into each other or have to and deal with personal tension, and each and every one of these scenes feels more genuine than anything I ever saw I?ve ever seen on TV.
Additionally, Firefly may be science-fiction, but it replaces anything that's bad about it by means of it's wild-west concept. It makes due with hardly any techno-babble and no reversing of polarities. Instead of pew-pew phaser duels we have sixgun/shotgun shootouts. Instead of speeder-bikes we have horses. Instead of wrestling alien giants we have bare-knuckle bar brawls.
The underline bit has me a bit confused, though maybe I?m just crazy.
But lastly and most importantly, what really makes this show stand out from the crowd is the brilliant writing. The crew's constant bickering is the most important source of entertainment here. While every crew member has his own unique personality and humor, each is in one way or another, hilarious. Whether it's Mal's pitch black humor, Wash's dry sarcasm, or River stating creepy facts: Almost any of the lines is liable to put a smile on your face, many of them being absolute comic gold and oh-so quotable. In addition each episode features an incredibly original plot. From the well-planned heist to double-crossing mind games, ; from being on the run to being in captivity, note a single episode feels repetitive in the slightest.
Aside: It?s a good thing nothing feels repetitive because it?d be pretty embarrassing to have fewer than 14 ideas for a science-fiction television series.
Bottom Line: Buy It. Even though the series is relatively short, it's well worth investing in a DVD-box set. Apart from being masterfully written and brilliantly imaginative, it's huge amounts of fun. If you can't be convincedby to buy what I say, I do believe there's a weekly changing selection of 5 episodes available on Hulu.
Fast forward 500 years into the future. Humanity has depleted Earth of all resources and consequently left, making new homes by way of terraforming. The most central of these new planets were the first to be terraformed and used this head start to turn themselves into the blossoming center of civilization, arts and science. They would eventually form the Anglo-Sino Alliance (Alliance for short). The outer planets were less lucky. Terraforming is less stable and lush. Life is harsh. Technology, while existing, is largely unavailable for being too expensive. People have to make due with crude tools, man
After a while, the Alliance decided they could use their position to muscle around the outer planets,
I?ve edited in ?which? instead of ?who? because you?re talking about planets, not people. Where you?ve said ?they hastily joined together? etc.,? you should make it clearer the thing to which ?they? is referring.
The reason for changing ?that? to ?this? at the end of the first sentence has to do with proximity. By its very nature, ?that? refers to something further away from the context in which it?s used while ?this? refers to something closer. Because you?re referring to something that?s only a few words and not a few paragraphs away, you should use the more immediate word. Words like this/these and that/those are called demonstratives because they are used to draw specific attention to things, in case you?re wondering.
Even though the alliance has now won control over the entire galaxy, little has changed. It lacks the desire and
Your listing of the characters is all well and good, if a bit cluttered. Try and stick to given and surnames instead of trying to work in nicknames and other extraneous information. Also, a better word to describe Inara?s profession would be ?courtesan.? You could also use ?hetaera,? which was the word given to such women in ancient Greece, or even ?professional prostitute? would work.
Additionally, they are soon joined in the pilot episode by Shepherd Derrial Book, a priest with an unu
But what exactly sets
Combine the previous paragraph with the next one.
It's about people on the low end of the scale, having the same kind of problems we have
Additionally, Firefly may be science-fiction, but it replaces anything that's bad about it by means of it
The underline bit has me a bit confused, though maybe I?m just crazy.
But lastly and most importantly, what really makes this show stand out from the crowd is the brilliant writing. The crew's constant bickering is the most important source of entertainment here. While every crew member has his own unique personality and humor, each is in one way or another, hilarious. Whether it's Mal's pitch black humor, Wash's dry sarcasm, or River stating creepy facts: Almost any of the lines is liable to put a smile on your face, many of them being absolute comic gold and oh-so quotable. In addition each episode features an incredibly original plot. From the well-planned heist to double-crossing mind games
Aside: It?s a good thing nothing feels repetitive because it?d be pretty embarrassing to have fewer than 14 ideas for a science-fiction television series.
Bottom Line: Buy It. Even though the series is relatively short, it's well worth investing in a DVD-box set. Apart from being masterfully written and brilliantly imaginative, it's huge amounts of fun. If you can't be convinced
Firefly. 13 episode series of amazing acting, writing, and action. And probably the most catchy, somber, yet upbeat and amazing theme song for a space drama. Curse Fox and their stupidity.
"Take my love, take my land, take me where I cannot stand.
I don't care, I'm still free, you can't take the skies from me."
"Take my love, take my land, take me where I cannot stand.
I don't care, I'm still free, you can't take the skies from me."
She can fix my engine any day!.Flying-Emu said:
It was such a brilliant show, cut short in it's prime. Just like Journeyman which I doubt many know.