Is Firefly your favourite show?

POSTED BY: ekidd79
UPDATED: Sunday, June 18, 2006 20:42
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FOLLOWMAL

Tuesday, May 16, 2006 12:37 PM

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Originally posted by ekidd79:
is there a possibility that the hold of Firefly is so strong because it's the last series Joss Whedon did? is there a dedication to Joss? or do you feel hard done by that the show was cancelled before it had a chance to really get going? oh and was Serenity enough closure for people?

I don't think that is true for me Ekidd79.

The hold is so strong for me, because I fell in love with a wonderfully written, wonderfully acted show.

I do feel a dedication to Joss... but that's not why I am in love with this show. I only feel a dedication to Joss, because he's such a gorram fine story teller... and he's a good guy too.

I think everyone here feels "hard done" by the shows cancellation!

FOX for their "sudden and inevitable betrayal"!

And Serenity was NOT enough closure for me.... it's only opened the door to new questions about what happens next in the 'verse for me.

I WANT there to be more. I'm doing all I can personally to encourage the powers that be and Joss and the crew to be aware that I WANT more.

"You hold. Hold 'til I get back." Mal

MERC2K

Saturday, June 17, 2006 2:35 AM

I'd say it's one of my favourite shows (probably top 10). I frequent other boards like TV.com and IMDB from time to time, but this is the only board dedicated to a single show that I regularly visit and actually post.

Other shows of which I'm a huge fan:

Red Dwarf
Monty Python's Flying Circus
Blackadder
Seinfeld
Curb your Enthusiasm
Mr. Show
Star Trek (TOS, TNG, DS9 and VOY)
Newsradio
Harvey Birdman
(That's just off the top of my head, I'm probably forgeting some, heh)

I don't seem to have the zeal others here have. Maybe I should turn in my browncoat ;)

ARCADIA

Saturday, June 17, 2006 6:06 AM

Firefly... there are shows that I love to watch, but this is the show I LIVE in. Nothing has every grabbed hold of my quite like Firefly.

And this is coming from a TV person. I love TV as a story telling format. I always have. I could probably list 20 TV shows I love off the top of my head, but there is nothing like Firefly.

To answer a few of ekkid's questions...

"is there a possibility that the hold of Firefly is so strong because it's the last series Joss Whedon did?"
- Well, possible, yes, but I wouldn't say it is especially probably. There are scores of Firefly fans who would rather stand on their head for one hundred days while singing Vanille Ice songs backwards than watch an episode of Buffy. Yes, there are also scores of fans who only saw firefly because of buffy, and a ton more who are inbetween, but I think the group of fans who LOVE Firefly but dislike Buffy is large enough to take serious weight away from this theory.

"is there a dedication to Joss?"
Serenity Day. 'Nuff said.

"do you feel hard done by that the show was cancelled before it had a chance to really get going?"
When describing the BDHs in one of the Serenity DVD features Joss said, "everyone like losers" and I think, in some ways, that can be applied to Firefly itself. Would it be so loved if it had been successful? Personally, I think it wouldn't have. I think that the cancellation is what really fueled OriginalWatcherFans into becoming browncoats and getting the rest of us sorry folks to watch. I think that a large portion -- if not he majority -- of Firefly fans came onboard after the series was dead (me included).

Another thing to consider: Firefly, had it continued, would have been a high quality show its entire run. However, cut short as it was, it really didn't have any "I can't believe we did that" episodes, which Angel, Buffy, and any show that lasts into its second season does. As a result, the show is RIDICULOUSLY good on a RIDICULOUSLY consistant basis. Had it continued, that would not have been the case (it would have been mostly the case, but there would have been slips).

"was Serenity enough closure for people?"
For me, it brought the story to a logical conclusion. I enjoyed Serenity. It was an excellent film. Wouldn't have minded if it were part of a seven-movie triology and each movie was 22-hours long and deivided into 22 episo--chapters. 22 DVD chapters. Yeah.

Hope this helps you!

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KANEMAN

Saturday, June 17, 2006 8:53 AM

Yep...The only show remotely close would be Battlestar...And that's in a galaxy far far away.........

RAVENHAIR

Sunday, June 18, 2006 5:50 PM

Let' see...I'm a tv person from my youth (over 35 or so years!)and this is the first show that...
1. I bought to own
2. I joined a forum for
3. I read fanfic for
4. I watch whenever I can
5. I bought t-shirts for
6. I sing songs from (that's frightening)

So, yes, it must be my favorite show (there was never any doubt!)

I keep trying to figure it out myself, b/c I've enjoyed lots of television, but Firefly just knocked me into another 'verse!

*****
Mal:We're still flying.
Simon: That's not much.
Mal: It's enough.

WTE

Sunday, June 18, 2006 8:42 PM

Firefly ties with Buffy for my favorite, and Whedon in general rules over any lists I make of this sort. Buffy has sentimental value for me, and Firefly has damn fine writing, directing, acting, everything. Hard to beat sentimental, though. Anyway, Serenity was not enough closure, especially after learning that it basically covered season 2 of Firefly. Meaning that there would have been five more seasons of wonderful story telling. Sigh. Need Firefly :(

HONKS

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