It's been 6 years since Firefly, the show seems dated and other series are better now...
POSTED BY: chrisisall
UPDATED: Saturday, March 22, 2008 16:39
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Originally posted by Strangebird:Quote:
Originally posted by ecgordon:
I knew without looking who had created this thread, but wasn't sure if it was serious until I read it.
For my money, the only show since Firefly to be almost as good, and perhaps when it is all done, better, is LOST.
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I respect your opinion but my feelings could be no more different on the matter of Lost. I'm glad you've found something you like nearly as much and maybe more so though. I finally quit watching that show last season.
To each his own. Season Four has been the best since the very beginning of the series, and I truly believe that even more awesomeness is yet to come.
ETA: I had to return to this to ask when it was in Season Three that you stopped watching. If you went all the way up to the finale I absolutely do not understand why you didn't want to continue. That was the best season finale I have ever seen, and I'm old enough to have seen a helluva lot of television.
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Within the last two months I've had the great pleasure of meeting Nathan Fillion and Mark Sheppard. I am more Firefly intensive than ever.
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remember in The Train Job, it was the six year anniversery for Unification Day...
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Originally posted by Fremdfirma:
Network Exec -"No this family crap has gotta go, more conflict, make someone pregnant, kill one of em off for the season end cliffhanger, and then make it just a dream so we can roll their contract over!"
You know, I would rather take FF out back and shoot it then have it suffer that fate.
-F
you'll get no argument from me there, Frem...
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Originally posted by chrisisall:
NOT!!
Although Stargate Atlantis & Heroes have caught my fancy, I fear no other show ever will ever grab me like this one did.
...well...
No, I don't think even Dollhouse will...
Damn you Joss!!!
Got to agree w/ you Chris.
I liked SG1, but it's gone now. Stargate Atlantis is good (and it has Jewel now!), but this season has been a bit formulatic. Heroes is great, but we are facing a long hiatus due to the writer's strike. Even though I dig Heroes it just doesn't grab me like Firefly.
The only show that has even come close is Jericho, and honestly I would give up Jericho for good for just one new one hour episode of Firefly.
Guess Joss has ruined me for all other sci fi.
Damn you Joss!
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Originally posted by ecgordon:
To each his own. ...
and I'm old enough to have seen a helluva lot of television.
I certainly gave Lost a fair chance - EC, but I have to agree with Strangebird here. I guess the series lost me when it took that long hiatus and then came back without really resolving anything - I may have missed some of the eps simply because of frustration, but each show would always leave me unsatisfied at the end - it's not that I need everything wrapped up in an hour, but this show has dragged on so long it's kinda painful to watch - There have been some intriguing scenarios introduced, no doubt, but I'm just a little tired of being jerked around by Mr Abrams and co.
But, like you said "To each his own.."
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i prefer cats & chainsaws
oh, i kid the chainsaws...
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Ancient spirits of evil. Transform this decayed form to Mumm-Ra, the ever living. I will rid this realm of.... oh oh, pardon me, u were joking. Back to the Black Pyramid for me. Toodles
K.
Heroes gets maybe 60-70% the way up to FF.
BSG maybe the same.
Only show I have seen that is close or equal for me would be HBO's The Wire. ...even then, really only seasons 3-5.
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Originally posted by Strangebird:
P.S. I may never love a woman as much either... I just realized this too and it disturbs me a bit.
I reckon it's likely to disturb the woman a mite, too.
Fortunately I can now - upon closer examination of this provocatively titled thread - holster my flame-thrower and remove my dog-pilin' boots. I've been attached to a greater or lesser degree to a lot of TV shows in my time - Life...House...Boston Legal...The John Laroquette(sp?) Show (the 1st season, before they sappy-ed it down to pre-school level...and that's a blatant insult to pre-schoolers)...to name but a few. I've probably liked a few of 'em about as much as FF...hard to imagine liking any of 'em more...doesn't matter, FF (and its cast, crew, and creator) is in a class by itself. Speshul, as we used to say at The Institute. Not sure sometimes what's stronger - my affection for Firefly and its "fine bunch of ruebens", or my sense of jaded outrage that it was cancelled. Bloody Philistines (and that's a blatant insult to Philistines).
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It was like that when we got here!
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Nothing compares to Firefly, of course...
But Lost and BSG are the two best series on the air. Lost as been excellent this season, and I can't wait for season 4 of BSG to start.
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This is the part where I chime in to say that I once believed the same of Dark Angel- when it got canceled, I gave up on network TV altogether, which is why I had to discover Firefly on DVD in '05, nine months before Serenity came out.
Then I discovered Buffy.
Firefly is WHY I gave Heroes & Atlantis a look. So I have to thank Joss for opening me up to a lot of other things.
But the caterpillar of Firefly & the butterfly of Serenity at at the center of my 'Verse, and seeing as it's almost six years since the six years since the vote for Unification, I thought this might be the time to bring it up.
And since it was also brought up, Lost would be better as a mini-series- it's real dragged-out, IMO, and BSG's season 3 revealed that they indeed had no plan.
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