Why Firefly deserved to die
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UPDATED: Thursday, December 19, 2024 02:34
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Originally posted by Idefix:
what really really bugs me about technology in Firefly is the weird way it's used.
there was a holographic (or soimething similar) window in the bar in The Train Job. and there were holographic balls on the pool table in Shindig. both bars looked dirty and cheap and backwater to me. why would they have exactly one thing of real fancy technology and this one thing wouldn't be anything useful?
This is after a major war. Civilization has stumbled, if not fallen in many places. Some artifacts survive, mainly because they weren't worth looting or selling for food.
All sorts of strange stuff turned up in strange places after the 1939-1945 war.
At Entebbe airfield in Uganda a whole air terminal sits, still shot up from the raid. The Aircraft involved still sits there. Fighter aircraft with a problem are pushed to one side, can't be fixed. Aircraft just sitting, no owner but the government (such as it is) and noone with the skills to exploit the recycleables.
Jeff Timm
Who wonders about a world where a house can have a satellite link and a color TV, but no indoor plumbing.
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At the moment I am reading a book called "The lexus and the olive tree" by Thomas Friedman. The book is esentially about globablization and the impact it is having on the worlds economy, cultures, technology, and enviornment...one of the most stikeing points put into the book are the huge descrepinies found between the haves and the have-nots.
In one passage the author descibes a train trip he took in egypt in which he was surrounded by the upper class of egypt who all had cell phones labtops PDAs etc and when he would look out the window he saw barefoot farmers tilling the fields along the Nile river with water buffalo. Esentially doing the same work in the same way as people did it durring the time of the pharaohs.
It is fairly obvoiuse that the writers of the show developed this idea of desparity of technology and wealth as a metaphor for what is happing right now in the real world.
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Originally posted by Evans:
I remember when "awesome" still meant "capable of producing a feeling of awe," such as in "Behold God's awesome majesty," and not, "Wow, that was really awesome, dude!" But then, I also remember when Alaska and Hawaii entered the Union.
And Awful once meant "filling with awe."
Jeff
Who also remembers 48 States, but wants to add four or five from Canada and South Eire...
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“I Think It Was The Greatest TV Show Ever”: Firefly’s Cancellation & Enduring Fandom Reflected On By Alan Tudyk
https://screenrant.com/firefly-show-cancellation-fandom-alan-tudyk-res
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Firefly: Jewel Staite on Why Series Endures; Fillion Being "The Best"
https://bleedingcool.com/tv/firefly-jewel-staite-on-why-series-endures
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Originally posted by JAYNEZTOWN:
“I Think It Was The Greatest TV Show Ever”: Firefly’s Cancellation & Enduring Fandom Reflected On By Alan Tudyk
https://screenrant.com/firefly-show-cancellation-fandom-alan-tudyk-res
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I think it certainly could have been.
But alas, it is not. Not even close.
And the movie only served to destroy the TV show, rather than compliment it. Especially when we never got the promised trilogy that may or may not have contained a worthwhile arc.
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"My only fear of death is coming back to this bitch reincarnated." ~Tupac Shakur
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