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POSTED BY: SergeantX
UPDATED: Saturday, January 18, 2003 07:21
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SELNYC

Saturday, January 18, 2003 7:15 AM

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Originally posted by HKCavalier:
...The gritty underworld of outlaws and criminals in Firefly lends itself to naturalistic treatment. It's precisely Badger's lack of mythic resonance that makes him dangerous. You have no idea who the guy is really. Friend, foe, useful, dangerous? It all depends. I mean the worlds of Firefly are hundreds of years old and the socio-political issues complicated and mysterious...

Badger is a good example of the banality of evil; when you think about it, both Buffy and Angel are rather matter-of-fact about all these vampires and demons walkin' around.

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...And I think about the vaguely egyptian motifs of the original series that seemed to suggest that the ancient egyptian coulture grew directly from the coulture of these spacefarers...

I liked the Egyptian references in the old show, too; I kinda wanted them to do different influences in all the different colonies, y'know, Roman, Native American, Norse, etc. I mean, we're all Firefly fans, we're used to the combo of SF & western, right? I also wanted to see some of these influences on other planets in the Firefly solar system.

And, hey, everyone's speaking Chinese, so where are all the Asian people?

It was the best day ever.

SELNYC

Saturday, January 18, 2003 7:21 AM

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Originally posted by Guailo:
Well, I think BUffy as a concept was created with that notion in mind: teenage girl vs. evil, just like an occult secret agent. The similarities are superficial, but I think more enhanced because both BUffy and Alias have female leads that work with a close-knit group to solve all their problems against the greater evil.

No, what I was saying only refers to the characters of Buffy & Sydney -- I would not try to draw any sort of parallels between specific characters on each show. That both major characters are going up against forces much larger than themselves is the way both of these fantasy shows work.

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