If Firefly's your favourite show of all-time, what's your second favourite?
POSTED BY: chrisisall
UPDATED: Monday, December 5, 2005 21:40
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Okay, my new second favourite (possibly my favourite) is 'Veronica Mars'. It's almost Whedonesque. No, it IS Whedonesque. It could've been written by Joss!
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Hmmm, that's a toughie. i would probably have to say Wonderfalls. i just love Jay and her cynicsm.
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Dark Skies was my second I think. It was such a long time ago I watched it I don't know how good the acting was
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Star Trek the Next Generation. Just watch "Inner Light" and you'll understand.
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It’s hard for me to divide TV shows up that way. I usually define my favorite show as being anything that I’m currently watching, and my second favorite show would be any show that I’m also currently watching, but would not watch in any given week that I don’t have time to watch more then one show. It’s really more an issue of pragmatics and scheduling then an issue of quality.
Dark Angel comes to mind. The first season was pure genius. The second season was not as good. I try to keep my copies of the second season and first season dvds separated by at least one non-Dark Angel dvd for fear that if they touch they will annihilate one another. I’d have to say though that Dark Angel is really the only show during my adult years that I have been as passionate about as Firefly.
The X-files and Buffy are two other tv shows that I also really liked. Whether I liked them more then Dark Angel or Firefly is an interesting question. The X-files and Buffy both ran season after season until they finally devoured themselves with their own stupidity. But there’s the feeling that both the X-files and Buffy got a fair and clean run of it, and that might make it easier to let go. Firefly and Dark Angel were both victims of circumstance and puzzling Fox Network executive decisions, which invariably lead to their untimely cancellation. There’s the possibility that my interest in Firefly and Dark Angel may be biased by nothing more then something like unrequited love; a frustration at having read halfway through a really good novel only to discover that some Fox executive decided not to include the last 100 pages. This is the first time that I’ve ever really thought that hard on it, to be honest.
The last show that I called my favorite was Rome on HBO. That’s gone off and I’m not aware that it will return, but I’m hoping it will. I’d love to see HBO’s probably somewhat fictional take on Marc Anthony’s affair with Cleopatra and Octavian’s war with Brutus and Crassus. Yes, along with Science Fiction, my other amateur interest is ancient history, particularly Post-classical Europe.
But honestly, I just don’t watch tv that much. A lot of the shows that I see people talking about, I’ve never seen, such as Babylon 5, La Femme Nikita, Alias, Deadwood, Twin Peaks, etc. The only one of these that I’ve watched is Alias and I only saw the first episode. As such, I'm a really poor judge of tv shows.
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Firefly is my second favorite show. Buffy is my very favoritest. Point of interest, Angel is third.
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I refuse to be constrained to listing just my second favourite show. It feels like I would be doing all my other favourite shows a dis-service(is that a word?). I shall therefore attempt to list all my favourite shows in order:
1. Firefly
2. Battlestar Galactica (The new series! although back in the day the old one was my favourite show
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3. Farscape
4. Babylon 5
5. Buffy
6. Star Trek Next Gen
7. Space, Above and Beyond
8. Stargate SG1
9. Angel
10. Band of Brothers deserves to be higher..
11. Stargate Atlantis
12. Star Trek Deep Space nine
13. Star Trek Voyager
14. Star Trek Enterprise
15. Lexx
Hmmm.. I think I have forgotten some.. damn.
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Just a quick response here
For me, Dont have a 2nd instead I have two #1 favs.Firefly/Serenity and Bablyon 5 baby. So far there has never been a epic before or since that matches the diplomatic,military, and raise/fall of empires as B-5. Not to mention the good discussion questions. Key words "Who are you" and "What do you want"
Well I do believe this here qualifys as a reg down home fist fight.
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Wow. I don't think there was one show listed here that I watched besides Dead Like Me.
I'm into much more mainstream choices, sadly. I love Sex and the City (minus season 6), Footballer's wives, and the only show I make sure to catch every week... America's Next Top Model!
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Quote:I think you nailed it, in part.
Originally posted by Finn mac Cumhal:
There’s the possibility that my interest in Firefly and Dark Angel may be biased by nothing more then something like unrequited love; a frustration at having read halfway through a really good novel only to discover that some Fox executive decided not to include the last 100 pages. This is the first time that I’ve ever really thought that hard on it, to be honest.
Example: Kung Fu. The show ran 3 seasons and although the third wasn't as great as the first, it was good. It didn't get stupid. Most shows can't say that about themselves.
Firefly might not have gotten stupid, and Dark Angel looked to be in a recovery near the end, but we'll never know now.
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Chrisisall, hoping for a FF/DA crossover TV movie
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