Describe the shows premise in a unique but truthful way for newbies

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UPDATED: Wednesday, March 16, 2005 03:58
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AURAPTOR

Sunday, March 13, 2005 6:39 PM

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STARPILOTGRAINGER
Still Flyin'.

Saturday, March 12, 2005 - 19:45

A hooker, a crazy girl, and a preacher ride on a spaceship with a bunch of petty criminals. Wackiness ensues.

Works for me!

" They don't like it when you shoot at 'em. I worked that out myself. "

BYTETHEBULLET

Sunday, March 13, 2005 7:11 PM

I have always described it as a Space-ghetti Western. If someone shows interest after that I go into full assimilation mode.

ByteTheBullet (-:

EBONEZER

Sunday, March 13, 2005 8:08 PM

I've actually used this:

You take The West Wing. Then you put it in space. With Cows.

(the guy i was describing it too was a big fan of The West Wing - so i got his attention with that then talked about how cool the charchters were and stuff...)

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Four out of five gynecologists recommend calling Ebo a girl.

MISGUIDED BY VOICES

Monday, March 14, 2005 9:32 PM

Its the Final Frontier meets the Wild Frontier.

Butch and Sundance in the 25th Century.

Unforgiven sieved through Bladerunner.

The Stewart/Mann Westerns for the Star Wars generation.

"I threw up on your bed"

YT

Tuesday, March 15, 2005 10:19 AM

Winchester 2573, for the generation that thought 2001 looked like it had been shot on location. I also like "Space-ghetti Western".

Keep the Shiny Side Up . . . (wutzon) Matchbox Twenty, "Disease", from "More Than You Think"

BROWNED

Tuesday, March 15, 2005 12:22 PM

It is 500 years in the future. Mankind has no space aliens, prostitution is legal, everyone speaks Chinese. A shadowy authoritarian government/military-industrial-complex runs the show ensuring a huge gap between the haves and the have notes.[cough, cough Republican].

You have a captain who was part of an 'independent' paramilitary organization has a libertarian distrust of government and regulations

His security office is -- gasp -- a black women [ethnic diversity on tv? Don't Tell "Friends"]who is intelligent and sexy and likely could kick your ass at chess just as easily she she could just kick you ass. She is married to the pilot a nice laid back guy who wears hawaii shirts and feels that the captain and his wife need to get rid of all that sexual tension.

The engineer is another woman -- goodness another intelligence and sexy woman -- who has warm, newage, earthyness to her mixed in with a 'uneducated' almost Southern charm.

The passeners aboard this ship include a Preacher - an African American male [my point in noting this is multi-ethnic theme in the show is not just erotic background] who has some sort of past [I will not share my opinions on what I think it is] who often the ship's moral compass and a nice example of a preacher on tv who does not seem obessed with abortion and homosexuality. The female companion is often the more secular-new-age moral compass, where as the the preacher has a more pragmatic Christanity approach.

The other two passengers [brother and sister] are part of the upper-middle class elite that have to adapt to the new working class world when they fled as criminals.

Their is the respectable doctor -- who if he did not have a respectable [ A sort of "I am not gay but I dress better then the guys on 'Queer Eye for the Straight Guy' and I dont want to have to put out for a girl on the first date"] lusting for the female engineer I would have expected him to take a sudden interest in 'witch craft' and perhaps start dating a werewolf.

Last, but certainly not least is the other security officer. The manly muscle of the operation. He is not to keen on the guest passenegers, not really a I-am-Ok-You-Are-Ok type of guy and does not subscribe to any clear belief system other then money, beer, loose women and big guns. He is also not the intellectual or moral compass of the crew, and he might have just a tad of Archie Bunker in him. However, aside from comic relief the guy, has a really cool gun [the best in the series] and the character's modern forefather is perhaps some where in Iraq working on the private security force and living an a former palace where consensually liberates Iraqi women of their virtue.

Ohhhh shoot. That is not very short now is it. Wait I think I got it, let me try it again....

Anyways so this cast o

f characters, with diversity in terms of

Edward TJ Brown

THALOS

Tuesday, March 15, 2005 2:42 PM

When trying to get my SciFi friends to give it a chance:

"Firefly is what could have been Han Solo's life before he met Luke, but with no Aliens."

(I think I will include the written by Shakespere part as that is another accurate and telling description.)

"Whoa, good Bible."

SHINYSEVEN

Tuesday, March 15, 2005 6:25 PM

I just tell them, "Hey, you said you didn't want to watch a show about a cheerleader who kills vampires...just TRUST me on this."

Sadistic crap legitimized by florid prose...tell me you're not a fan!

ARAMINA

Tuesday, March 15, 2005 7:29 PM

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Originally posted by shinyseven:
I just tell them, "Hey, you said you didn't want to watch a show about a cheerleader who kills vampires...just TRUST me on this."

But I wanted to watch a show about a cheerleader who kills vampires. And I wanted to watch a western in space. I guess we all got perfect taste :D

When I think of an interesting signature you'll be the first to know.

BADGERSHAT

Wednesday, March 16, 2005 3:58 AM

Okay, stop me if you heard this one:

"A preacher, a soldier, and a hooker walk into a spaceship... "

--Jefé The Hat

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