Bad Firefly reviews on Amazon

POSTED BY: rklenseth
UPDATED: Monday, March 1, 2004 04:58
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Thursday, February 19, 2004 9:42 PM

And if you all get a chance, stop by BarnesandNoble.com and leave your mark. A lot of people go to B&N to buy DVDs, books, etc. (myself included), and last time I checked there were only about 40 reviews on their site. Two of them were bad (1 star) based on the following criteria:

1) One was written before the DVD set was even released, and the reviewer mistakenly thought the DVD was in full-frame only.

2) One reviewer has an obvious axe to grind regarding the cancellation of Dark Angel for Firefly.

So if any of y'all have any spare time, maybe you could throw in a good word or two about your favorite show, whichever that is

BECKINSALE

Thursday, February 19, 2004 9:47 PM

The review from New Orleans was written by an online friend of mine. I speak to him nearly every day. He wrote it basically just to spite me.

A few facts you may be interested in:

He does not own the DVDs. Nor has he seen every episode. He downloaded 3 from the internet and did not like them. (Safe, Bushwacked, and Ariel according to what he said to me last night.) We were actually in the middle of a messenger convo while he wrote the review. He did not tell me until he’d submitted it.

Also, he said that since he had not seen every episode, he came HERE to THIS site to gather negative info from us for his comments.

The episodes he watched did not have an abundance of Simon/Kaylee. His comments on that… I’m fairly certain… were added for me because I am a Simon/Kaylee fan. Maybe it was some kind of “See? I’m not THAT mean” sort of tactic.

I knew when I introduced him to the show that I ran the risk of him pulling something if he didn’t like it. He’s just the type of person who enjoys somewhat cruel practical jokes.

I apologize to my fellow Browncoats for his action. He has apologized to me for being “mean.” But not for this specific event.

I have to admit that I felt very much betrayed by this. We all work very hard at promoting the show/DVDs/movie. I know I do. It hurt to have someone turn around and use it to bite me. Especially while in the middle of a conversation with me.

I just had to get that off my chest and give some insight into that particular review.

SAINT JAYNE

Thursday, February 19, 2004 10:58 PM

Quote:
Original Amazon review at:
http://www.amazon.de/exec/obidos/ASIN/B0001B3YTM/qid=1077228610/sr=2-1
/ref=sr_2_11_1/302-0190994-3852830

Let me take a crack at it. Or wait 24 hours and see if one of the many European fans will tackle it.

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4/5 stars, February 14, 2004, by Opi-Os: Firefly, the somewhat different sci-fi series!

As I watched this series I was excited from the beginning.

It occurs about 500 years in the future where a war has just been won by the Alliance. The captain, Malcolm ‘Mal’ Reynolds, of the Firefly-class cargo ship Serenity, had fought in the war and now earns his bread as a smuggler.

The rest of the crew includes Zoe, a commrade of the Captain, the pilot Wash, the ship’s engineer Kaylee, Inara, a sort of call-girl, and Jane (sic), the mercenary. The Pilot episode also brings Doctor Simon Tam and his sister, who is very gifted but sadly would be abused for medical experimentation. And then the last to come is the priest, Shepherd Book.

The few episodes are well made and the characters develop further with every incident.

Unfortunately the provider FOX cancelled the series during the first season so there isn’t a proper ending, even if you’ve seen all the episodes there are still too many loose endings and cliffhangers in the story, and I asked myself after the last episode why it was that they stopped in the middle of it.

For bonus material there is also a Making Of and deleted scenes if the Ausstatung (??? export?) is like the US version, which I assume. Unfortunately there is no German Audio track, but that’s not amazing even with UK imports.
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BTW, Opi-Os also gave 5 stars to Charlie's Angels, and the Firefly DVD set costs 55 euro on Amazon.

SPERCUSSIONIST

Thursday, February 19, 2004 11:50 PM

Ahoy, fellow Browncoats! This is my first post here, but I thought I would emerge from lurking long enough to say hello, that this is a great little community, and we can now add one more 5-star review at Amazon since I quit procrastinating. I'll nudge a few other Firefly fans I converted to do the same.

FREMDFIRMA

Friday, February 20, 2004 12:02 AM

Hey Beck, ask him if he's familiar with the words of Shuan Yu....

I'll handle the rest, heh heh heh.

-frem
diefuxdie

COSMICCONCUBINE

Friday, February 20, 2004 12:51 AM

Oh Beckinsale, that's so yucky! I'm sorry you had to deal with that. Please don't feel bad. If anything at least it helped push the more lazyheaded of us (read: me) to write some.

"Sir, I think you have a problem with your brain being missing."

CUDA

Friday, February 20, 2004 1:06 AM

Also on Amazon,under different DVD titles, there is an option to "Recommend an Item". Seems to me there are many DVD titles like Babylon, Stargate, Star Trek under which we could be recommending Firefly. Hell, on a daily basis we could just recommend Firefly under all Amazon's top sellers.

TJ63

Friday, February 20, 2004 1:50 PM

Just posted my review on the Amazon UK site. Mine's only the 8th one, so some openings there.

TJ

"Best not be taking it as a suggestion"

LTNOWIS

Friday, February 20, 2004 8:10 PM

Somebody's gotta put a new reveiw on, right now it's at 666 reviews!

LTNOWIS

Friday, February 20, 2004 8:35 PM

Sorry to post twice, but I just had a thought. I think most of the 1-star reviews with indifferent comments were trying to balance out the average somewhat. They saw a never-ending parade of glowing reviews, and they wanted to say. "Hey, it's not that great." If all of the reveiws were 1-star, they'd give it 4, and say "I kinda liked it; it was ok." Whatever, it's a theory.

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