New Bad Firefly Review on Amazon (really bad!)

POSTED BY: rklenseth
UPDATED: Thursday, May 13, 2004 03:37
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RKLENSETH

Sunday, May 9, 2004 2:44 AM

DONT WASTE YOUR TIME AND MONEY!, May 8, 2004
Reviewer: viewer from Hell
I bought the series on DVD after being reccomended it by a Sci-Fi geek friend of mine, and I regretted doing so after watching about two episodes. I found that for the most part the plots were worthless, the dialogue was dull and unoriginal, the characters were flat and stereotype, and much of the material was totally unaccepptable for science-fiction television (In one episode the crew defends a hore-house, I mean, come on!!!). Please, do not purchase this show! A far better alternative is Star Trek: The Next Generation, which delves into some real awsome subject matter and explores issues in a way Firefly could never hope to.

Oh, and play Cantr II at www.cantr.net.

RKLENSETH

Sunday, May 9, 2004 2:47 AM

Note that the only thing that this person has reviewed otherwise is Star Trek the Next Generation.

Oh, and play Cantr II at www.cantr.net.

DARKJESTER

Sunday, May 9, 2004 3:09 AM

A hore-house? Or was it a hoar-house? Maybe a war-house? We all know how much Jayne loves all that warring...
Sorry, cheap shots, but such an EASY target....! LOL

MAL "You only gotta scare him."
JAYNE "Pain is scary..."

SHINY

Sunday, May 9, 2004 3:20 AM

Okay folks, you know the drill...if you haven't yet submitted a review for Firefly, go to amazon and DO IT NOW! :) Let's get this nasty idiot's review off the first page.

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HARDWARE

Sunday, May 9, 2004 6:28 AM

My review:

= Not your average space show
Reviewer: Hardware from New Castle, DE United States
Have you ever noticed how every space show involves military organizations? Star Trek in all it's infinite, moldy incarnations has all the crew in spiffy uniforms. Apparently nobody in the Federation ever gets dirty. The decks and walls of their spaceships are always sparkling clean without anyone every having to lift a finger to perform menial labor.
Now how about a little reality? This is accessible science fiction. The characters in this show are worried about getting a job to buy fuel and food. Let's call it blue collar science fiction. There are no forehead-of-the-week aliens. There are no ambassadors. No phaser banks. The ship looks like a working freighter, lived in.

The characters, oh the characters. They are well written, rounded characters who are flawed, mostly in subtle ways. They don't all get like each other, but they all get along. Just like 9 people in a house would. In only 15 hours of video the cast and crew of Firefly manage to suck you in. This is the best science fiction show in the last 20 years and possibly the best show on Fox the season it aired. I don't know what they were thinking when they exiled it to Friday nights, but nobody has ever proven the existence of a network executive's brain.

Buy it, watch it, enjoy it.

The more I get to know people the more I like my dogs.

MAYDAY

Sunday, May 9, 2004 12:03 PM

Ok a few cheap shots in here but what do you expect?

From the creator of Buffy and Angel comes a third series, FIREFLY. What's there to know, well it's set 500 years in the future, where the Earths resources have been used up, so a whole new verse full or planets and moons have been terraformed to support the human race, some are rich with new technologies, some not so much....
The series is amazing, it takes charecter-driven stories, with an ensemble cast, fantastic script writing, award winning special effects and then adds that little bit of "Wheadon Wit", that fan of Buffy and Angel are all too familiar with.

Basically it's an intelligent SciFi drama with moments of intense levity.....If your looking for somthing that doesn't treat you like a four-year-old ("STar Trek - The Next Generation", for example), buy this DVD NOW!!!

Can you tell from that that I think Star Trek is inane, spoon-fed pivel aimed at children with all the substance of steam?

Jayne:> Don't know these folk and don't much care to neither...
Mal:> They're whores.
Jayne:> I'm in!

MALICIOUS

Sunday, May 9, 2004 7:26 PM

Hardware!!

I live in Bear, DE! Hello fellow fan!

Mal-licious

SGTGUMP

Sunday, May 9, 2004 8:19 PM

Can anyone really take her seriously, she doesn't even know how to spell.

"Jayne! You're scaring the women." -Zoe

DAELUS

Sunday, May 9, 2004 8:35 PM

That reviewer obviously is one of those reality-tv lovers. Plus if she(?) disliked it that much, why did she watch up to the second last episode?(probably watched the last one too). I don't understand how people can dislike 'Firefly', it's like not liking food.

"My days of not taking you seriously are certainly coming to a middle."

AURAPTOR

Sunday, May 9, 2004 8:43 PM

Whats so bad about defending a whore house anyway? Seems to me that even Homer Simpson did that once in an episode of The Simpsons. ( did it with quite a hilarious musical number too..hee hee)

I guess that because Firefly did not have *aliens with huge ears, bumpy bald heads, or could transform themselves into a janitors bucket, it wasn't REAL sci fi.

I bet this person is pining away for the return of Mutant X.

* And before you say it, dead Bessy don't count as an alien.
" They don't like it when you shoot at 'em. I worked that out myself. "

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