The Onion reviews Firefly

POSTED BY: williamx
UPDATED: Friday, January 16, 2004 14:53
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TOM

Thursday, January 15, 2004 4:38 AM

Yea that is a good point but there were asian people on the show granteed none were a major role but in Hearts of gold and some of the extras on the sets were of asian decent. maybe if the show had gone on longer there might have been more people added to the cast.....Hmm i wonder just how many people they could get on Serenity.

CARDIE

Thursday, January 15, 2004 3:04 PM

I posted about this on some other thread. I would at the very least have expected to see a considerable Asian presence on the core worlds and among Alliance officers. In fact, it would have been very convincing if River and Simon had been played by Asian actors (not that I don't love Sean and Summer.)

Cardie

DAVEB

Thursday, January 15, 2004 3:17 PM

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The science-fiction/Western TV series Firefly was admittedly crowded, pretentious, and too innovative to be a guaranteed success

Crowded? Maybe but the reason I love the show is the large ensemble cast and no character is negelted to the background so there's no real problem.

Pretentious? Mmmmmmm, how?

FREMDFIRMA

Thursday, January 15, 2004 4:23 PM

>>I am reminded of the superb killing of Crow, a scene that is just half a beat away from corny.<<

The whole show is, in essence, half a beat away from corny, that is it's "magic" - that they somehow manage to write/act/film this and it's NOT corny, but entertaining.

And for TheOnion's standards, that review is glowing.

-frem
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DRAKON

Friday, January 16, 2004 10:46 AM

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Originally posted by tulip:
FYI, traditional japanese geishas did not have sex with the patrons. The were exceptional entertainers (played musical instruments, read/made up poetry).

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(damn you fox!!).

I keep hearing this, but the Japanese seemed to have a more relaxed sexual morality than was present in Protestant Christian civilization. And that makes me doubt it. I don't know.

"Wash, where is my damn spaceship?"

TULIP

Friday, January 16, 2004 2:53 PM

Oh, they had(have) prostitutes. Geishas were a later (imperial japan I think) development for brothels that wanted to make their environment more sophisticated. The Geishas were usually very beautiful, excellent musicians, good at converstation, poetry, calligraphy, etc. Then once the patron had been entertained socially by the Geisha, the patron would go off to the prostitute for the actual sex. Inara seems to be a combination.

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