What you love most about the firefly vers...

POSTED BY: dyepbr
UPDATED: Friday, February 3, 2006 16:53
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RAVENHAIR

Friday, February 3, 2006 1:26 PM

Yes, everything everybody said already...
the characters, the cinematography, the set (love the dining room and all the scenes filmed there)the continuity, and the fact that every time I log on here someone points out something else to look for so that I'm "forced" to watch episodes again and again (like I need an excuse).

The BDS and BDM are so layered that I find something new with each viewing...that's great television (did I use 'great' and 'television' in the same sentence? yes, because I'm talking about Firefly)

RPLACKETT

Friday, February 3, 2006 1:36 PM

I love the way that the technology is ignored, just as it is today - its there but its never explained. This neatly sidesteps all the warpbabble and reduces it all back to the story.

Yep we'll be there in a day.

This (and the lack of aliens) adds tremendously to the realism and the feeling of conection you get with the crew. Their lives are so much more like ours, there is technology there, but they dont spend hours having expousing conversations about warp theory.

OLDFOGEY

Friday, February 3, 2006 4:13 PM

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Originally posted by DonCoat:
Serenity is a gem, abso-ruttin-lutely. If there's one thing wrong with her, it's that she's maybe a bit too roomy. Most aircraft (and all submarines and spacecraft) are quite cramped...

They kind of explain it in one of the books. See,
first they solved the Unified Field Theory, then
they invented the grav drive. (Simple really -
the gravity generator's connected to the engine
drive and the engine drive's connected to life
support. It's all one big twisty thing in there,
so most people just call the whole package "grav
drive").

Somewhere in there is the law of conservation of
gravity. That's not in the book but I figure it's
just so obvious that they don't bother to mention
it.

Since they got gravity going on inside, they got
antigravity going on outside. This frees them up
to be relatively unworried about things like
aerodynamics and how much more fuel it would take
to lift something bigger and heavier. Firefly
can be as chunky and adorable as they want to make
her.

Oh - what I love most about the verse.
Mal+Serenity. When those two get together
everything else just sort of falls into place.

CLIOMUSE

Friday, February 3, 2006 4:41 PM

Everyone else has pretty much said it all.

I love that I genuinely cared about the characters because they were written as people, warts and all, and played so beautifully and individually by the actors. I love that the characters were allowed to grow and change. No one was "stuck" in a cliche role, (no "Jayne's the loose cannon, he's *always* going to react *this* way.")

I love the care that went into the sets and costumes, the "reality" of the whole darn thing.

And I love that darn ship.

LEIASKY

Friday, February 3, 2006 4:50 PM

I don't really need to reply...everyone else has said it for me. But, I can't help but weigh in.

The characters and their complexities and how they respond/react to one another is a highlight of the show for me. The lines and delivery of them are just perfect all the way around.

Everything else I agree with but the above is most important to me.

Tammy

"A government is a body of people usually notably ungoverned."

SAMEERTIA

Friday, February 3, 2006 4:53 PM

Everything that was said above. Yup, best thing for everybody!

But I will add-

Kaylee's smile, (And by turn Jewel's amazing ability to turn that smile sad, happy, pensive, considerate, loving, or scared and sometimes all at the same time!)

Jayne's (and by turn, Adam Baldwin's) arms. I could watch that man lift weights all day. Oh, wait, I have!

Mal's ability to say everything with an expression. (And of course, that's really Nathan's gift, isn't it?) Whether it's "Oh, crap. We just lost the entire war. Everything I believed in is dead" or "Shut up, Jayne", or "I really love this crew"- just a glance, a wink, a half smile- it's all right there.

Zoe's boots. Gotta LOVE great costuming, and when you see Zoe stride out of the cargo bay that first time on Persephone, that's the first thing thing I notice. Those boots.

Inara's sexual freedom! YOU GO, GIRL! No puritanical shame over sexual expression in our 'verse!

And about a dozen other things that I'll expand on when I'm not about to be late for work...

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