Firefly DVD Reviewed at CHUD

POSTED BY: Josh294
UPDATED: Friday, January 9, 2004 22:51
VIEWED: 7772
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JOSH294

Friday, January 9, 2004 10:15 AM

http://www.chud.com/chudvd/reviews/tv.php3

This isn't a great review, and the reviewer doesn't seem to really 'get' Firefly.

GAIJIN

Friday, January 9, 2004 10:28 AM

Guess he just didn't like it. Wonder if he actually watched the whole thing.

Thanksgiving is a sham. But it's a sham with yams...it's a yam sham.

JOSH294

Friday, January 9, 2004 10:29 AM

On the message boards he called Jewel Staite's acting "weak as hell." O-kay.

BOOMERGOODHEART

Friday, January 9, 2004 10:48 AM

He really doesn't get it at all. :-( Everything that he says detracts from the show is what MADE the show interesting in the first place. I was happy that there weren't any aliens or lasers (and didn't he watch "Heart of Gold"? There was his damn laser.).

Maybe I'm taking it too personally.

BoomerGoodheart
"I love my Captain."

HKCAVALIER

Friday, January 9, 2004 10:57 AM

Folk who dismiss this show have a very unnerving habit of saying that Nathan's work is somehow unremarkable. That loon from the "evil firefly hater" thread said he obviously got cast because of a passing resemblance to Dirk Bennedick (sp?). This stuff just floors me because to my way of thinking Nathan inhabits that role more fully than anyone in anything I can think of. The guy is Mal. And Mal is extraoridary as a person and as a character in a fiction.

I'm certain this guy never watched half of the episodes. And Jewel is annoying? Like when?

"Lack of polish?" I've never seen a show that burst on the scene in such a complete and balanced way. Remember the first seasons of X-files or Quantum Leap? Man, they were weak, but both those shows had a "certain something" and by their third seasons knew what they were about. But Firefly leaps out of Joss's head and onto the screen like a Athena from the brow of Zeus!

Some people!!!

HKCavalier

Hey, hey, hey, don't be mean. We don't have to be mean, because, remember, no matter where you go, there you are.

VICPALISADES

Friday, January 9, 2004 1:25 PM

Some folks get off on knocking what other people love.

He can say what he wants...he can't take my DVD Boxed Set from me!!!!!!!!!!

PHLEBOTININ

Friday, January 9, 2004 2:39 PM

Dollars to doughnuts the guy didn't watch the whole set. But if he watched anything, he'd have watched "Serenity," and if he didn't "get" that, then, wow. That's all I can say. Taste is taste is taste but I can't conceive of someone not being blown away by Serenity.

This review annoys me to no end. The DVDs need all the help they can get. I wonder if this guy isn't related in some way to Fox execs?

Oh, and Jewel Staite being a horrible actress?

PHLEBOTININ

Friday, January 9, 2004 2:55 PM

Okay,

In what way does a damning review like CHUD's hurt Firefly's sales and thus chances of being revived as a move? Well, this is lifted off a response to the review in CHUD's message board:

"here I was thinking about going out and buying Firefly tonight. Now I'm all torn...and will probably be checking out Space Ghost instead."

Great. Thanks, CHUD.

BROWNCOAT1

Friday, January 9, 2004 3:37 PM

I don't honestly think that this review is really going to hurt anything. First off, it is only one guy's opinion. Don't know about you, but I don't put much stock in any one person's opinion, especially someone I do not know personally.

I would say by reading his review that he is a big Star Trek/Star Wars/Babylon 5 fan, so Firefly's lack of aliens, laser weapons, and spectacular spaceship battles probably jaded his interview. I would be willing to bet he only watched several episodes, and then only to drool over Morena.

This does not seem like an subjective review to me, & I hope that anyone who reads this will not allow one person's opinion to keep them from making their own decision.

"May have been the losing side. Still not convinced it was the wrong one."

PHLEBOTININ

Friday, January 9, 2004 4:50 PM

Browncoat1, I love your positive attitude. I'm officially not going to care any longer about that Chudster's review.

Thanks.

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