Not exactly.

Mid, Serenity was based on Firefly, and I enjoyed it, but the true love comes from the series, which had humor, action, and drama wrapped up better than almost any other show on television.

 

Firefly had very strong characters, but I never quite fell in love with the whole "space western" concept. To me, it worked better as a metaphor, and they were too literal with it at times.

 

farscape is no where as anti mainstream as it used to be. I followed it since the first wormhole till the row boat and into the movie.

And with all the actors shifting over to stargate alot of scifi fans have been introduced to farscape. thats where they coined the term fargate.


Its a good series, I'm not going to argue there, and I think they could have leached atleast another season out of it, but if your whole argument for it is that its not mainstream then your basicly one of those fags at clubs who like to go up to people and boast that your into indie music.

Nothing wrong with an established mainstream series

 

I tried man. I saw some really bad acting, and some REALLY bad special effects. Some of you are from the Pokemon and Yugioh generations, you lot'll watch nearly anything, some explosion and tits for the ADD and you're good to go! Hey look cake! I just don't get it, but to each his own I guess.

 

Hmmm. Go back to the first couple seasons of BtVS and look at the SFX and acting and it's pretty painful (of course it's moot if you don't like Buffy either, in which case maybe you just don't get/enjoy Whedon's style). It's tricky for SF/fantasy series because they don't get much of a budget early on. But then if everyone dislikes the series because the effects were crap, then it doesn't last long enough to get that budget.

What I liked about Firefly was a) the space western thing, b) the witty one liners. I think it was a concept eminently suited for TV, as well - the episodes felt right rather than like a hacking up of a continuous story.

You are, of course, entitled to your own opinion even if it's wrong. And I do enjoy Firefly having a smaller fan base than, say, HP. It's cozier.

PS. Yu-gi-oh/Pokemon? Oh, I was totally a child of Sailor Moon and Dragonball Z, not those other lame anime series

 

Back in my day, we didnt have any fancy-schmancy eff ecks and animation. We had plot, and occasionally a special with MORE plot. And we liked it. Kids these days.

 

http://www.collegehumor.com/video:1910892

Oh shit, son.

 

Lol, funny, but as Orson Scott Card showed, you can do that with almost anything.

So many shared tropes around these days.

 

Sarcasm is completely fucking lost on you, isn't it?

 

Its the interwebz... of course it is!

For all I know you contracted a case of the Stupids.

 

It was unbe-fucking-leivably amazing. I was in the middle of the 3rd row, and it was just awesome. I could feel all of the sip's traversing the screen (and the entire cinema), and believe me the fights take on a whole new level of awesome when giant fists are colliding with extremely audible results.

I'm still grinning and humming the theme.

Huh, now I do feel slightly chargrined as I was just watching Yugioh the abridged series (it's funny alright) but Firefly is still awesome. Its a Joss Whedon show that came out of that magical time when the planets were all in perfect cosmic alignment or something and damn near everything he touched turned to sci-fi gold. Unfortunately most of what he's done recently has been pretty shit (I'm thinking Dollhouse and Btvs Season 8 comics).

He should just join the classic sci-fi renaissance we're seeing at the moment.

 

Sailor moon was hot. Screw gender based television.

@Magus;what you got against dollhouse?

But your right Joss whedon is leading this geek rebellion and I will be his willing jihadist.

Almost all good shows and fiction now a days has an element of sci fi in it.
And you can't really blame it. This has been said a lot and its pretty hokey but you gotta admit now a days, life is becoming pretty sci fi. Short of aliens and ray guns we're definitely pushing the bounds of what we considered reality.

I really wonder what the world will look like in 20 years. I'm hoping for holodecks and sex bots.

 

Here's what Microsoft thinks it will look like in 10:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rxVS5nYFnkA

 

1. Outside of Dollhouse being absolute bullshit with miserable acting?
2. You need to get off Whedon's dick ASAP before you suffocate.

 

He can take me from both ends...

@taure; Yeah I saw that. I can't say I would be disappointed if that ever happened. That would be a cool future, especially that window thing communication board in the classroom. Can you imagine going to a glass wall and giving japan a call and have it instantly translated. That is some epic tech.

that video was actually pretty cool because it built off of existing tech and taking it one step further. Very realistic in my opinion