FIREFLY RIPPING OFF OUTLAW STAR
POSTED BY: Setsuna
UPDATED: Wednesday, October 27, 2004 20:06
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It is a very suspicious similarity...
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Aaaaaaah! My life ends now! I can't go on!
I just found out that basically everything ever written is somehow attributed to The Odyssey, Beowulf, The Five Rings (Go Rin No Sho), Dante's Inferno, and The Bible. Oh, and Tolkien's Lord of the Rings, which is influenced by Narnia, which is influenced by....
Me thinks people need to just heed these words:
"Just repeat to yourself 'It's just a show, I should really just relax.'"
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"How will this end?"
"In fire."
--Babylon 5, 'The Coming of Shadows'
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Yeah, Ringwraith is right. Hell, everyone is always accusing Whedon of ripping off something or another, only to find out that Joss has never actually seen the shows that he's supposedly ripping off. Ex: Farscape.
Like JW said, you either watch TV or you make it. With 5 shows in production, it's amazing he ever sleeps, much less watches televison.
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Somebody has to point out that even when Whedon is pretending to copy, he's being original. Or maybe especially. Like the Gentlemen. Who supposedly come from some fairy tale -- but not one anybody else has read!
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Again, I give you the Pokeman example. Or Macross/Gundam/insert-random-mecha-series-here. Or EVERY SENTAI SERIES EVER CREATED EVER. When other anime does it it, its ok. Bah.
And having a similar scene doesn't make it a ripoff. I seem to remember The Producers and Schindler's List both having scenes with Nazis. That doesn't mean Spielberg was ripping Mel Brooks off. 
Besides, who cares if it is a ripoff? Spreading anime to the masses is a GOOD THING. 
INARASNEWTOY - I lovelovelove your quote. Joaquin Phoenix is the hottest thing on legs And even if you don't agree... Well, Sings was still a damn good movie. 
Joaquin said in an interview, he likes his girlfriends to call him kitten. Hee Hee. 
Obscure Tv show reference: "Harry, it's Cooper, meet me for breakfast, 7:00 am, at the hotel lobby. I know who killed Laura Palmer. (Pause) No, this can wait till morning!"
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Quote:Actually, there are Nazis in all Mel Brooks movies. Even the westerns!
Originally posted by FlightyKitten:
I seem to remember The Producers and Schindler's List both having scenes with Nazis. That doesn't mean Spielberg was ripping Mel Brooks off.
JOSH, WHERE'S MY CHECK???!!!
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Really? That's hilarious! And see, it makes my point too. 
Were there Nazis in Men in Tights? I don't remember, but thats nothing unusual. 
...I've been in some odd discussions in this forum.
Obscure Tv show reference: "Harry, it's Cooper, meet me for breakfast, 7:00 am, at the hotel lobby. I know who killed Laura Palmer. (Pause) No, this can wait till morning!"
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I will certainly agree that the person starting this thread could use some work on his/her spelling, but I have to admit I had the exact same thought when I saw that promo. In fact, ever since I first read about the premise of Firefly as sci-fi cum Western I had been worried that Joss might just be ripping off Outlaw Star or (the far superior) Cowboy Bebop. Having seen an episode of FF now I'm encouraged that this appears to be untrue. OTOH, FF's got a long ways to go to catch up to Bebop in terms of quality. I'll give it a few episodes before making a final judgment, though.
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i think all this ripping off business is a bit OTT, there is no way on earth this cheese-festered-90210 cack will ever come close to acheiving the kind of genius seen in things such as, for an example, straight off the top of my head, COWBOY BEBOP
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Originally posted by Shuggie:
3) What on earth makes you think that a Firefly website is a good place to recruit anti-Firefly signatures for your petition? You having any luck selling fridges to those eskimos?
The giraffes are liking their stillettos, though...Sometimes things work out oddly, you know?
~S.
You can't take the sky from me...So quit trying! (-:
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