I have hopes for the new Galactica also. A little hevy on the 'look how much religious, Freud, and mythological imagery I can squeeze into 41 minutes while still having enough boom to keep the casual croud happy' from the writers. But that's still way better than the 'quantum-antimatter-injector-leak and/or planet of the week' legacy that StarTrek left us with...John Reynolds said:
Firefly Coming to DVD
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Dang it if you were in the US, id mail you my dvds so you could watch it. Maybe one of our fellow UK'ers would lend them to you. I am 99% sure that if you can finish watching the pilot and an episode or two, you will be hooked. The show was just that bad ass, I dont think ive fired up the dvd for a few weeks, but i still have the song "hero of canton" in my head. The show for some reason gets in you, and you hence forth judge other sci-fi based on this one.london-boy said:
got the lyrics of that song:
get it, watch it, youll not regret it.
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Ah yes, another of the "Joss Whedon players". . .he ended up in a recurring role at the end of Angel too.
I love the director's commentary on the ep where he has to convince the bad guy he is willing to torture him. . .and Joss tells him "Look, don't play it 'large'. . .you don't need to do that. . .believe me, you are bringing 'large' to the party. . ."
I love the director's commentary on the ep where he has to convince the bad guy he is willing to torture him. . .and Joss tells him "Look, don't play it 'large'. . .you don't need to do that. . .believe me, you are bringing 'large' to the party. . ."
Zaphod said:
The new Battlestar Galactica series was OK in parts but far too many of the episodes were dealing with ludicrous civilian vs military political conflicts.
Some interesting new storyline twists in there compared to the original series, however, which made it worth watching.
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Holy resurrected thread Batman!
Thanks to Zaphod I have finally got around to getting "Firefly" for peanuts, and it's as good as everyone says it is. Massive entertainment value of 14 episodes for a piffling $16.
I'm not sure if it's the best TV SF ever, but it's certainly up there at the top of the list. Brilliant writing, acting, characters, story, production values, etc. It's clever and in some ways quite unique, and the suits at Fox are idiots for destroying any chances of it succeeding (changing episode orders, not showing the pilot, delaying episodes for weeks and changing schedules for playoffs) and then killing it off without even showing the whole first series.
Thanks to Zaphod I have finally got around to getting "Firefly" for peanuts, and it's as good as everyone says it is. Massive entertainment value of 14 episodes for a piffling $16.
I'm not sure if it's the best TV SF ever, but it's certainly up there at the top of the list. Brilliant writing, acting, characters, story, production values, etc. It's clever and in some ways quite unique, and the suits at Fox are idiots for destroying any chances of it succeeding (changing episode orders, not showing the pilot, delaying episodes for weeks and changing schedules for playoffs) and then killing it off without even showing the whole first series.
If the movie does well maybe Universal will do a... uhm... Spinoff? They supposedly have an option contracted for two sequels at least. Fox may (probably?) still hold the television rights.Bouncing Zabaglione Bros. said:
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Zaphod said:
There are a few shows that have come back because thier success on DVD has made them viable, and Firefly was extremely successful on DVD sales. However, I would be surprised that the same kind of idiot executives that cancelled it would be willing to admit they were wrong to do so by bringing the series back to life. Maybe if Serenity does well, there might be more of a chance though.
BTW, according to the article you linked, Joss Whedon has got the rights back from Fox and Universal are very interested in the show, so maybe a series might come back.
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PatrickL said:
The pilot is a little slow because it's got to set the scene and introduce the characters, but after that it really finds it's feet, and the characters really mesh well. I was a bit unimpressed after the pilot, but I'm three episodes from the end and I've enjoyed it immensely.
I think it's got to do with the way Whedon writes it. Characters and their development are important to him, so he takes time to lay down decent foundations and then build up a little more each episode. Fourteen episodes is really only half a series, and some of those weren't shown, so the series never even had a chance to find it's feet.
It doesn't say anything about the TV rights, though. I think more often than not one does not nessecarily follow the other. JMS, for example retained (and subsequently optioned off, but now have them again) the rights to a B5 feautre film, while Warner owns all the television programming.Bouncing Zabaglione Bros. said:
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Zaphod said:
True, but it does say that Whedon got the rights back from Fox, Universal has signed them on for three movies, and in one of the other interviews one of the actors is asked if they can go back and do more series after the movies, and he does answer "I hope so".
There's always a hope as things like B5, Enterprise, & Buffy switched networks, and even Farscape got their rights back in the end.