Starhunter - Firefly parallels??
POSTED BY: safeat2nd
UPDATED: Thursday, May 31, 2007 16:43
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I'm not saying this was a good series...
I look at a piece of coal and instead of focusing on the black, rough exterior and see the diamond within, the buried potential.
Now don't get me wrong, I'm far from a raving optimist. More of a self proclaimed crank filled with a self righteousness that ones usually finds preaching from atop a soapbox.
So, that being said, I watched this and suffered through the uneven writing, poor acting and sub par special effects and saw the little (and I mean little) glimmers of potential. Good writing goes along way to correcting bad acting, doesn’t fix it entirely mind you.
I thought this was a show that “coulda been a contender”. I could see it as being a prequel or even a spin off of Firefly. Ya that’s stretching it a bit… well ok a LOT. But you can’t tell me that if you squint your eyes tight and watch from a distance, with the sound down low, you don’t see it too. Right? RIGHT??
Ok, move along Mr. Safeat2nd, back to your rubber room. Don’t give us trouble now or we’ll have to up the meds again...
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"Stop doing that thing"
"What thing"
"That thing where your mouth moves and noise comes out"
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^Absolutely. Goes to show you can't produce good TV by formula - it takes talented folks, a lot of them, working together.
How about Dawn Stern for Wonder Woman? 
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Ok, I've seen Starhunter (Seasons 1 and 2) and always thought there was a strange similarity between it and Firefly. Now that I have the complete season 1 on DVD (recently released by Echo Bridge Home Entertainment after they aquired Platinum Disc) I'm more convinced than ever that the story was ripped off for Firefly (although with more budget, better actors, better stories, etc...).
For example:
1) The "Raiders", like the "Reavers" capture, mutilate children and make them their own.
2) In the episode "Siren's Song", a young woman is being experimented on, like River. She's from the "Miranda" quarantine zone, where the government released a "virus" and then abandoned the population.....sounds like the Serenity movie plot to me....plus there's a "government" soldier that will do anything to protect the government's secret.
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