Possible references / homages in Firefly
POSTED BY: weerwolf
UPDATED: Sunday, July 25, 2004 19:04
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First Firefly show I saw was Shindig, and it struck a chord since I'm a huge fan of the British made-for-TV movies Sharpe.
In Sharpe's Honour Richard Sharpe has to accept a duel with an expert swordsman, although he himself is much more a brawler than a swordsman. The expert swordsman gets knocked down to the ground eventually. Especially Mal's "Watch it Ath, these things are sharp" made it for me.
And of course Vera, the Callahan full-bore autolock. Callahan as in Dirty Harry Callahan?
Anymore?
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"Damn it Mal... I forgot my line!"
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Originally posted by weerwolf:
First Firefly show I saw was Shindig, and it struck a chord since I'm a huge fan of the British made-for-TV movies Sharpe.
In Sharpe's Honour Richard Sharpe has to accept a duel with an expert swordsman, although he himself is much more a brawler than a swordsman. The expert swordsman gets knocked down to the ground eventually. Especially Mal's "Watch it Ath, these things are sharp" made it for me.
And of course Vera, the Callahan full-bore autolock. Callahan as in Dirty Harry Callahan?
Anymore?
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"Damn it Mal... I forgot my line!"
I can see those yep.
The one other one that struck me is Wash saying,"Hang on, travelers..." in Serenity. Traveller is a science-fiction roleplaying game going way back, and in it one of the common group setups are free traders, basically they do exactly what the crew of Serenity does.
Of course I'm probably reading too much into a single line, but hey...that's what we do around here.
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Originally posted by Gunhand:
The one other one that struck me is Wash saying,"Hang on, travelers..." in Serenity. Traveller is a science-fiction roleplaying game going way back, and in it one of the common group setups are free traders, basically they do exactly what the crew of Serenity does.
Of course I'm probably reading too much into a single line, but hey...that's what we do around here.
Glad to know I wasn't the only one to see that!
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Traveller is a science-fiction roleplaying game going way back, and in it one of the common group setups are free traders, basically they do exactly what the crew of Serenity does. Of course I'm probably reading too much into a single line, but hey...that's what we do around here.
I don't know about that. Aren't these the same creators who gave us the "Spiral" episode in the 5th season of BUFFY, which basically concluded as an extended reference to Dungeons & Dragons? Willow casts a Shield spell, and the Knights call forth their "clerics" to dispell the shield. Spike even makes the joke that the knights are "role-playing rejects".
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Originally posted by Gunhand:
The one other one that struck me is Wash saying,"Hang on, travelers..." in Serenity. Traveller is a science-fiction roleplaying game going way back, and in it one of the common group setups are free traders, basically they do exactly what the crew of Serenity does.
Of course I'm probably reading too much into a single line, but hey...that's what we do around here.
Absolutely, I keyed in on that the first time I saw it. It's probably a big part of the reason I turned on to the show so quickly. I'd heard Joss was something of geek's geek, but that one blew me away.
We played a wonderful Traveller campaign for a couple of years in high school centered around a free trader called 'The Almighty Dollar'. I drew up pictures and plans of the ship, the whole bit. Wish I still had them, it looked an awful like Serenity.
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OK, this is really blowing my mind. The aforementioned Traveller connection got me to wondering whatever happened to the pictures and stuff I drew of the ship we used when we played. Well, I did some digging and found one. Its kind of tattered, but its almost twenty-five years old... It's no wonder I was an instant Firefly fan.
It worked!
http://www.fireflyfans.net/sunroomitem.asp?i=1159
SergeantX
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The relationship between Simon and River reminds me of the movie Benny and Joon.
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Originally posted by SergeantX:
OK, this is really blowing my mind. The aforementioned Traveller connection got me to wondering whatever happened to the pictures and stuff I drew of the ship we used when we played. Well, I did some digging and found one. Its kind of tattered, but its almost twenty-five years old... It's no wonder I was an instant Firefly fan.
It worked!
http://www.fireflyfans.net/sunroomitem.asp?i=1159
SergeantX
"Dream a little dream or you can live a little dream. I'd rather live it, cause dreamers always chase but never get it." Aesop Rock
Now that is a pretty groovy ship there. It does look like something that'd belong in the 'Verse. Especially if you shortened up the nacelles some, they look a little long and Trek-ish but not too bad.
Not a Firefly class but something comparable, maybe something mass produced by a competitor of whoever made Fireflies.
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around playing art critic till I get pinched by
the Man, how's about we move away from this
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I suppose so. I had a moment. I'd kind of forgotten about those days somehow. It kind of all came crashing back the other night.
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That happens to me every gorram day. The crashing of things I'd forgotten.
Gets bothersome sometimes.
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around playing art critic till I get pinched by
the Man, how's about we move away from this
eerie-ass piece of work and get on with our
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