Why is it that Firefly/Serenity is so appealing and just so ruttin' beautiful to YOU???
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UPDATED: Wednesday, December 14, 2005 21:13
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Heck, me...well, I still don't have that one favorite girl because River and Kaylee are pretty much staying neck n' neck!
i love all the girls on firefly, which is so rare, seeing as all tv shows have some really annoying girls. i love kaylee. jewel staite reminds me so much of my cousin, so i just can't not love kaylee. inara is amazingly gorgeous, this delicate thing that is almost unreal in her beauty, but who has a personality, you know? she's not just pretty. summer as river makes me want to cry, but she's so tough it makes me smile. but zoe... amazon goddess. i'm in love with zoe.
i think it's just easy to quantify the physicality that attracts people to firefly, but it's really the whole thing. the lighting guys, the set designers, the directing, the writing, the acting, the costumes... everything. it was just such a singular thing; i can't imagine that it'll happen again.
on the downside, until i watched serenity ( and all of firefly after that), i loved the show lost. now all tv seems hollow and forced. joss whedon ruined all my tv from here on out. i wouldn't trade it though. now i know tv can actually be good.
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inara is amazingly gorgeous, this delicate thing that is almost unreal in her beauty, but who has a personality, you know? she's not just pretty.
I agree. While I'm more into Kaylee and River now, Inara was the initial head-turner for me when I saw my first episode of Firefly, which is the "Our Mrs. Reynolds" episode (which made me go out and see Serenity, and later get the box set and see all the episodes). I wasn't even emotionally attached to the characters when I first saw that episode...but she was so hot when she admitted to Mal that she didn't bump her head...all nervous and vulnerable...I think I was holding my breath hoping he'd kiss her, and this was my first episode! I wanted to slap Mal silly when he didn't kiss her, and I don't think I can ever watch the episode now without wishing I were him in that scene! "Just take her in your arms!" I usually catch myself thinking, even though I've watched the episode a gazillion times over already.
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now all tv seems hollow and forced. joss whedon ruined all my tv from here on out. i wouldn't trade it though. now i know tv can actually be good.
I'm agreeing with you again. I'm not a big fan of television at all. While I own a television, I don't have cable and I can't pick up the local channels, and that's fine with me. Any TV watching I do (barring throwing a movie into the DVD player) is when I'm paying my parents a visit, so it was kind of a fluke that I was visiting the day the Sci-Fi channel was having a Firefly marathon, and incidentally showing the commercials for the movie during it all (otherwise I probably wouldn't have learned about the movie). This show made me realize that there can be a program that grabs hold of me and doesn't let go. I was a kid when I fell in love (literally) with Macross (this show was and still is ahead of its time, IMHO), and I didn't think a show would ever rope me in like that ever again. It's so great to get proven wrong sometimes!
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The positive responses it gets from everyone*.
They seem not only to be of the "That's brilliant" nature, but more considered, in terms of how the characters have insinuated themselves into you. Warmer, if you see what I'm driving at.
Fannishness aside, I'm guessing a fair few of you (or maybe it's just me...) are thinking at various times - "That's the right thing to do" "I wish I was like that" "Everyone should be like that" and particularly "Now how can I sneak that phrase into everyday conversation?"
That just doesn't happen with other film characters or stars. (Although Hugh Grant got close telling Billy Bob Thornton to sod off in "Love Actually")
G
*well, everyone who gets it, anyway. (Much as I dislike sweeping statements, if you don't like it, then you really ain't right.)
"They do got these bastards called Reevers though, named after Keanu Reeves I believe."
Vern
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What makes Firefly appealing and beautiful to me?
I love the complexity (or versatility if you will) of the show.
There are nine main characters, each equally important, each different, fleshed-out, flawed, lovable and real. And it’s not just the great characters, their personalities, inner motives, secrets, pasts and unknown futures that make Firefly so special. It’s the relationships and with nine characters there’s plenty of them.
And of course it doesn’t hurt that talented actors, smart writing and great dialogue bring these characters to life.
To elaborate this complexity thing further… in Firefly there’s drama, there’s comedy, adventure, action, suspense, romance, horror, sci-fi and western, all wonderfully mixed. This show could take its characters anywhere.
I adore the way the western aspect brings in the elements from the past and the grittiness and the sci-fi brings the futuristic stuff: spaceships and alike. There are also rich Central planets and poor Outer worlds. There’s the mix of Asian and Western cultures. There are the winners and losers of a war. And all this says there’s a huge potential of different type of stories in Firefly.
One other thing that makes Firefly so appealing to me is that unlike so many others shows it is not confined to one town, city, courtroom, island, country or planet or one time era. Yet compared to most sci-fi shows the absence of all the humanoid aliens and other fantasy type of things in Firefly create a certain refreshing feeling.
So behind these wonderful fictional characters whose lives I really want to explore there is a rich, complex universe also worth of exploring. And I love the fact that the show is still about ordinary people (or petty thieves) trying to make a living and survive. Not about saving the universe, finding new species or interspecies diplomacy. Yeah, there are bigger themes in the background like war, politics, religion, poverty, slavery, prostitution, morality issues… there really isn’t much stuff Firefly couldn’t have dealt with. Except the aliens.
What really sets Firefly apart from most of the sci-fi I’ve seen is the humor. This show is funny, it makes you smile, it makes you grin and laugh out loud. But it’s not funny at the expense of the drama. You still get your little aww-moments that really make you care about the characters.
And the beauty. That comes from all those little details: acting, writing, music, silence in space, language (both English and Chinese), non-verbal character moments, lighting, clothing (and lack there of), set design, those little gimmicks they do with the camera: the flare, shaking, blurring, zooming.
I should just say it’s the whole package and save you the time.
Sorry about the long ramblings. I don’t get out much, I tend to lurk more than I post.
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I agree with virtually everything everyone is saying.
For me, the show was always unpredictable. The minute Mal kicked Niska's viking goon into the engine, I was hooked. I've seen that same scene played out a hundred other times in other shows and movies, and always the hero let's the villain go. It's the same old tired formula in everything these days. No sane person in a lawless frontier would let a gangster thug vowing to kill you go free, only to have to fight them another day (cept in TV land). The whole show always seemed to do the opposite of what I'd expect. The characters seemed to do what I imagine I'd do were I in their shoes. That's rare to see in a show.
Never leave a castle in the rear.
XG
No such thing as gravity. The "Earth-that-was" just sucks.
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