Firefly a ripoff of Andromeda?
POSTED BY: Swatter
UPDATED: Wednesday, July 9, 2025 04:13
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I just saw a post on this board about Rev Bem from Andromeda and a charater on Firefly. OMG! I just noticed that most of the charaters are the same! Sorry, but I'm just a big fan of that show. I'm not sure if many people are gonna watch it now if it's just a clone of Andromeda. I expected more of Joss...
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So how many episodes of Firefly did you watch before you came to this conclusion? One, two, five, the whole season?
Oh wait....
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The interesting thing is that the same can be said about Andromeda copying Farscape (which is the best sci-fi series on TV).
Dylan is Crichton
Beka is Aeryn
Trance is Chiana
Tyr is D'Argo
Andromeda is Moya
Rev Bem is Zhann
Lol...Harper is Rygel? Nah...Harper doesn't eat as much, but he definately can talk just like the little guy.
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Most of the characters are the same?
In what way? As someone who's tried to watch Andromeda intermittently over the last few seasons (watching it ALMOST become a decent show before show creator Wolfe was ousted and it degenerated into a shoot-em-up) I can say from what little ANY of us know of the characters there really isn't any basis for even the most superficial correlation.
Besides, as has been brought up several times before on various topics, you can take pretty much any sci-fi show and find some similarities and/or trace some of the sources of inspiration for the series.
Pretty much everything you see on TV in sci-fi series? You can find them in the novels and sci-fi magazines going back years and years.
There are no new ideas, just well executed old ones with a new coat of paint and hopefully a fresh spin infused by the idea-maker.
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Originally posted by Haken:
The interesting thing is that the same can be said about Andromeda copying Farscape (which is the best sci-fi series on TV).
Dylan is Crichton
Beka is Aeryn
Trance is Chiana
Tyr is D'Argo
Andromeda is Moya
Rev Bem is Zhann
Lol...Harper is Rygel? Nah...Harper doesn't eat as much, but he definately can talk just like the little guy.
Hmmmm... maybe Harper is Jool? LOL
Anyway, you bring up a good point. The fact that Andromeda and Farscape are similar in some respects and yet so dissimilar quality wise just goes to show how important execution is.
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Yeah, and the operative word here is "Archetype."
You can pretty much break any character in a sci-fi series down to basic archetypes, which explains why you see the same characters over and over.
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Okay, here I am, a brand-new newbie jumping in...
I think that the real test will be if the show can take the archetypal set of characters and make the stories new and unique. And I'm confident that Joss and crew will be able to do that, based on what they've done in the past.
-- Joce 
PS: Just as a pointless side-note -- I've never been to a board that has smilies like this one (hanged and evil and whatnot)! They're very cool.
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Originally posted by Haken:
Yeah, and the operative word here is "Archetype."
You can pretty much break any character in a sci-fi series down to basic archetypes, which explains why you see the same characters over and over.
What I've noticed that's interesting is that the archetypes for sci-fi characters are *very* similar to the archetypes of Westerns. Maybe it relates to the fact that Star Trek, one of the pioneering (no pun intended) sci-fi shows, was originally titled "Wagon-Train to the Stars."
I just think that's interesting.
--Dylan Palmer, aka NoVaGrAsS--
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None. Like I said, I just read the charater description and they seem more than similar.
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