Can you believe this.

POSTED BY: Firestalker
UPDATED: Monday, March 6, 2006 06:43
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FIRESTALKER

Tuesday, February 7, 2006 6:12 PM

I saw this earlier and I thought I'd bring this to all of your attention. I highlighted the relevant part.

FIREFLY has only been around for a couple of years as a failed TV show on a 4th network, and now it's a failed feature film. It didn't connect or resonate with ANYBODY beyond a very limited (and primarily English-speaking) fanbase. And here's the cruelest cut -- I don't think it will stand the test of time. FIREFLY/SERENITY is too dependent on *other*, more popular creations for its context. It *needs* STAR TREK and STAR WARS to play off of. It's not so much an original creation as a parody/pastiche of more substantial works. Its referential humor and storytelling falls flat otherwise.

That's the problem with parody. It generally fades over time. And FIREFLY ain't none too popular to begin with. Besides, we already have a great star wars parody-Space Balls

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SERYN

Tuesday, February 7, 2006 6:15 PM

Where did that one come from then?

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CHRISTHECYNIC

Tuesday, February 7, 2006 6:17 PM

I can only believe it because I already read it on my own. Were it not for that I'd think you made it up for a laugh, or maybe not, but ... still.

The only logical explanation I can come up with is that the post itself was parody, but though that is logical I see it as very unlikely.

FIRESTALKER

Tuesday, February 7, 2006 6:22 PM

I got it from Amazon. I forgot the guys name, but I thought it was interesting to read.

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CBY

Tuesday, February 7, 2006 6:50 PM

I don't really care what other people think of the show. You can't force them to like it anyway.

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3ELEVEN

Tuesday, February 7, 2006 7:12 PM

The guy is obviously predisposed as a hater as he talks about the show as a failure, blah blah blah. Of course the movie will not connect. The truth is, is that he is probably a very very lonely bitter man sitting in a dark room in his undershorts thinking he is making an impact. Take it with a grain of salt, there are haters for everything and one little shrew won't keep Serenity from flying.

"You can't take the sky from me."

OLDFOGEY

Tuesday, February 7, 2006 7:13 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by Firestalker:
...see subject line Can You Believe This

No. Can't. ...Too much hair.
sorry, couldn't stop that 3rd bit from
getting out. What I meant was, No. Can't.
Where do those moonbrains come from anyway?
(My sisters are moonbrains but I forgive them.
Sometimes I'm not real sure where they came from
either.)

MILFORD

Tuesday, February 7, 2006 7:29 PM

Wow, this person has come to the astounding conclusion that (gasp) people use things that have gone before them as springboards ofr understanding and creating new things. Goodness. I imigine that review was posted from some uber-secret government think tank. And by unber-secret government think tank I mean the breakroom at Taco Casa.

It's especially silly when you consider that Lucas himself admits to ripping off doezens of Ideas. Silly man.

Remember, that but for one trifling exception, the entire universe is made up of others.- Oliver Wendall Holmes

ETHAN

Tuesday, February 7, 2006 7:31 PM

What's funny is how this guy thinks the concepts and plot of Serenity are so complex and special that only reference to Star Wars and Star Trek is going to make them meaningful...or that Star Wars and Star Trek uniquely made their themes intelligible in the first place.

(I'm afraid our messsage board isn't going to last...owing we have to constantly refer back to the English language)

CHRISTHECYNIC

Tuesday, February 7, 2006 8:00 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by ethan:
(I'm afraid our messsage board isn't going to last...owing we have to constantly refer back to the English language)

Perhaps we could use grunts and hand signals, provided that not one of them refered to one that came before.

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