Is Firefly the best sci-fi series ever?
POSTED BY: Darkfly
UPDATED: Friday, August 18, 2006 22:38
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Is Firefly the best sci-fi show ever(I mean best show ever).Don't get me wrong I love Star Trek but take all the Star Trek series apart from the orginal, they all follow the same pattern,the first few series start off midly entertaining then the last few series pick up and get interesting.While Stargate SG-1 on the other hand was okay at first,it then it got better,then worse(Richard Dean Anderson was really getting really unfunny by the time he left) and now I thinks its getting better with Ben Browder & Claudia Black.But Firefly was brilliant from the first episode to the last. Well you all now what the 2nd best sci-fi series is...its Battlestar Galactica(new)off course.
And I finish this post while my Serenity soundtrack just finished playing the track Love,and love is the only thing that keep us going.
My poem about FOX
FOX canceled a great show
I'll shoot them with Inara's bow,
FOX should have heavy tax
then I'll give'em a pax,
Universal made a big damn movie
we browncoats think it's groovy,
we all need to tell
that Fox are going to special hell!
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Things are about to get interesting...Define interesting...Oh GOD oh GOD we're all going to die.
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Yes!! 
those Fox execs... also 
and 
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coz I've never given anyone the finger before...) 
Megda x x
"I love my Captain!"
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*lol* You can't ask that question and then demand that everyone agree with you! This is a fanboard, but it's also a discussion board! Key element of discussion - differing points of view to discuss!
Personally, I love Firefly more than all the other sci-fi shows I've seen, including all the Treks, both the Stargates and Bablylon 5. But there are many reasons why someone might prefer another show. We don't send other sci-fi geeks to the special hell - we're all part of one, shiny, happy family!
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I'd say it's the best only because I think it is the most realistic view of what the future may bring. No aliens for one thing. The people who move out to colonize a new solar system won't all be ace pilots and scientists - there will be a lot of people just muddling along trying to make a living.
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Darkfly asked:
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Is Firefly the best sci-fi series ever?
I'll go you one better. Firefly is the only science fiction show ever aired on television.
Science fiction purists will understand this...
v/r,
-zed
P.S.
That's why it has to return to television, imo.
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Science fiction like everything else has grown up. Firefly shows a lot of talent and what I feel is great writing. Joss did an excellent job with this gem.
Just remember that someone had to get the ball rolling. Joss was not first. There have been many TV shows and movies prior to Firefly. So maybe the best science fiction is the one that was first, because Joss may be wasting time writing docter shows without knowing of this great genera. Shudder the thought. They were not the quality of Firefly, but did kick start this great experience we call science fiction.
So please don't send me to that special place in hell because I am greatful for those who pioneered this artform. We would not have had Firefly without them.
To expeience those raw beginnigs you could seek out one of the Flash Gordon series starring Buster Crabbe. The writing is terrible. The special effects, well I'll let you judge for yourself after you get done laughing. But those wonderful people really tried to put science fiction out there for the masses. And I will always appreciate that effort. My Flash Gordon sits right next to my Firefly where they both belong.
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yes
"And I think calling him that is an insult to the psychotic lowlife community."
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traveler wrote, in part:
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Science fiction like everything else has grown up...
No, science fiction sprang fully formed from the imagination of authors like Verne, Burroughs, Orwell and Herbert.
There have been very good science fiction movies, even some great ones (Blade Runner). But there has been a lot more rancid shellfish than pearls.
As far as TV is concerned, Star Trek was very good futuristic entertainment, but I hesitate to call it 'science fiction' (from a purist's viewpoint), because it is too utopian. No one struggles against their culture, its machines, and no one questions its ethical morality. That's the essence of science fiction.
So, I reemphasize, Firefly is the only science fiction -- and near the idealistic pinnacle of storytelling, regardless of genre or medium -- to ever be aired on television.
Respectfully,
zoid
P.S.
And would somebody -- Peter Jackson? -- please make a responsible movie retelling of E. R. Burrough's John Carter of Mars series? According to Wikipedia, John Favreau is currently set to direct a three picture project for Paramount (their third choice of director to date), but the thing keeps getting delayed. Even then, I fear a focus on the action-y elements, and a loss of its heart and social criticism.
BTW, A Princess of Mars, the first book in the series, was written in 1911. Pick up a copy, read it yourself, and see if it has aged at all. Then when you're done reading the entire series (cuz you will!), start in on reading Dune and experience its timeless enlightenment. Then, revise your list of science fiction entertainments, and leave out the stuff that's not actually sci-fi, including just about everything on the SciFi Channel (with the exception of the freakin' wrestling, of course
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Rather!
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Firefly isn't Sci-Fi... it's SF. [img]
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