Just ordered this from Amazon. Comments/opinions? I completely missed this when it originally aired, so I'm going on word of mouth, which seems to be fairly positive amongst sci-fi geeks.
Firefly - The Complete Series (DVD)
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It started off slowish, but by the last few episodes of the series, it was excellent. Hopefully the few unreleased episodes continue that direction.
But Milennium.. damn, that was a cool show.
But Milennium.. damn, that was a cool show.
Ahh, sweet firefly. By far one of the greatest sci-fi shows of all time. I think ive watched each episode at least 10 times. This show will be turned into a movie, not sure on release date yet.
Here are a few things that I loved about this show:
-2 civilizations/cultures left, a western culture and a chinese one.
-its god darn funny
-great looking cast
-more scientifically correct than star wars or star trek
-great script
-fantastic scenes
Im planning on getting the dvd also. Ive yet to watch the extra unaired episode.
The problem with the series was that fox had it in a extremely crappy time slot, and then would unexpectatly pre-empt the show. Also fox execs decided that the pilot wasnt action packed enough and so had then air the 3rd episode first, making it extremely confusing to understand who everyone was. At the end of the series life, they aired the pilot last. Great job you morons at fox, you could teach anyone how to kill a series.
ok i might add more later,
epic
Here are a few things that I loved about this show:
-2 civilizations/cultures left, a western culture and a chinese one.
-its god darn funny
-great looking cast
-more scientifically correct than star wars or star trek
-great script
-fantastic scenes
Im planning on getting the dvd also. Ive yet to watch the extra unaired episode.
The problem with the series was that fox had it in a extremely crappy time slot, and then would unexpectatly pre-empt the show. Also fox execs decided that the pilot wasnt action packed enough and so had then air the 3rd episode first, making it extremely confusing to understand who everyone was. At the end of the series life, they aired the pilot last. Great job you morons at fox, you could teach anyone how to kill a series.
ok i might add more later,
epic
Babel-17
Veteran
Decent sci-fi with respectable writing and interesting plots in a good show that was made something special by the terrific ensemble acting of excellently cast characters.
There is some magic there.
Edit: forgot to add that the DVD shows the episodes in the order intended by the creator. Fox's choice of airings was incomprehensible.
Similar to what Crusade (a Babylon 5 spinoff) had to deal with ...... and which also went off the air.
Swiped this link from that great bookmarks thread at slackercental.
http://www.tvtome.com/Firefly/
There is some magic there.
Edit: forgot to add that the DVD shows the episodes in the order intended by the creator. Fox's choice of airings was incomprehensible.
Similar to what Crusade (a Babylon 5 spinoff) had to deal with ...... and which also went off the air.
Swiped this link from that great bookmarks thread at slackercental.
http://www.tvtome.com/Firefly/
Like any show Firefly had its problems and weaknesses, but it also was rather unconventional and mature for a Sci-Fi show, which IMO was a good thing. Once you got used to the setting and characters it was quite an enjoyable ride that ended much sooner than it should have!
Besides all the Fox trouble, I think the one major problem Firefly had was that each episode was just too darn expensive. Didn't people learn anything from the SAAB debacle? Sci-Fi is not a very popular TV genre right now, except for maybe Stargate almost every other genre show seems to struggle or at least do worse than expected. In order for a Sci-Fi show to succeed it has to be economically feasible, Firefly just wasn't...
Besides all the Fox trouble, I think the one major problem Firefly had was that each episode was just too darn expensive. Didn't people learn anything from the SAAB debacle? Sci-Fi is not a very popular TV genre right now, except for maybe Stargate almost every other genre show seems to struggle or at least do worse than expected. In order for a Sci-Fi show to succeed it has to be economically feasible, Firefly just wasn't...
I certainly wasn't overly impressed with it to start off with but saw all the episodes and found I grew to like it more as the series went on. It is a pity that they cancelled the show so soon as the characterisation was improving week by week.
Another series from a few years back which I found quite enjoyable was Dark Skies. This was also cancelled before it's time I believe? I do know that the final couple of episodes that were shown made no sense whatsoever!
Another series from a few years back which I found quite enjoyable was Dark Skies. This was also cancelled before it's time I believe? I do know that the final couple of episodes that were shown made no sense whatsoever!
Bouncing Zabaglione Bros.
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US TV companies seem to chop shows very quickly nowadays, unless they get very high ratings straight away (Dark Angel, Firefly, Crusade, etc). Sure, there may be lots of dross, but you'd think people (who's job it is to know) should be able to spot quality. After all, similar shows have garnered dedicated fan audiences week in and week out.
It's even more weird when you look at some shows like Star Trek:TNG or DS9 that took two or three seasons to get properly going, and then ran for years and years, becoming a worldwide franchise. It's like TV execs don't know how to grow a show anymore - they just want instant success or they bin a show.
It's even more weird when you look at some shows like Star Trek:TNG or DS9 that took two or three seasons to get properly going, and then ran for years and years, becoming a worldwide franchise. It's like TV execs don't know how to grow a show anymore - they just want instant success or they bin a show.
Baron: Yes, yes it was. Kinda like X-Files meets Silence of the Lambs, with some paranormal stuff thrown in.
It's a shame that it had to end after 3 seasons.. but of course they had to cancel it because it built up to the millennium and once 2000 hit, there was no more intrigue. Oh, and the ratings probably sucked. They had to.
It's feasible to say that they could have changed one of the main plot subjects (the millennium) to something else, but then it might have simply been the X-Files with Frank Black instead of Mulder/Scully and pro bono instead of federally employed.
Meh, I still would have watched it. When it does hit DVD, I'm getting all three seasons.
It's a shame that it had to end after 3 seasons.. but of course they had to cancel it because it built up to the millennium and once 2000 hit, there was no more intrigue. Oh, and the ratings probably sucked.
They had to.It's feasible to say that they could have changed one of the main plot subjects (the millennium) to something else, but then it might have simply been the X-Files with Frank Black instead of Mulder/Scully and pro bono instead of federally employed.
Meh, I still would have watched it. When it does hit DVD, I'm getting all three seasons.
Bouncing Zabaglione Bros.
Legend
MfA said:I thought the plot for Dark Angel ran it's course, you can only pull off the hunted escapee schtick for so long.
In my mind no sci-fi series will ever rival V ... but I know better than to try and watch it again
You could see they were getting desperate to hit the ratings when they drastically changed the storyline - kind of like what they are doing with this season of Enterprise.
Of course, the worst example was what Sci-Fi did to the last season of Farscape - because the new president of the channel doesn't understand sci-fi and just want to do x-files mystery type stuff, just like the other mainstream channels.