How is it these fourteen episodes plus one feature film rule my consciousness?
POSTED BY: chrisisall
UPDATED: Wednesday, October 1, 2008 08:56
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Chris,
I have to say that I’m with you on this my browncoat friend. Hardly a day can go by that something doesn’t happen to me that in some way is a parallels the firefly universe. I mean it may be just a quote from one of Serenity’s crew that matches up so well with a current conversation I’m in or it could be a situation. Not that I’m in gun battles all the time or bank heist, just the mundane things that happen on the ship and the group arguments, I mean points of view that are expressed seemingly all at the same time.
The show is so well written that a lot of people can identify with it. Had it been on another network I’m sure it would be into it’s seventh season right now and it’s internationally loved by millions.
Z, having his morning cup of coffee with a couple tea spoons of firefly sweetener and two pours of mudders milk, aaahhhhhhhhh…. That tastes SHINY!!
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Quote:Right now, it's still original Lego-colour...
Originally posted by JakeWolfe:
You win the battle for painting it, or is it still all lego-ie?
Butthiswillchangeisall
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How is it these fourteen episodes plus one feature film rule my consciousness?
Well, I just finished watching Firefly season 7.1 and, sadly, its pretty clear that this series has failed to live up to the promise of the early episodes.
Its never been quite the same since Mal married Inara (albeit after a whole season of rather contrived false starts, kidnappings and amnesia attacks - even the writers realised that marrying them off would make things dull) in Season 3 - and promoting Badger and his new wife MaryYoSafBrig to regular characters is further evidence that you can have too much of a good thing.
The DVD commentary does explain why the big Season 7 story arc - River becoming an evil maniac as a result of the tragic end of her lesbian relationship with Kaylee - felt as if it belonged in another show. Apparently it was something Wheedon had sketched out for a proposed TV spinoff of his hugely successful "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" movie franchise - and I can't help thinking that the idea would have worked better in a fantasy setting. Given that everybody knows that the season finale is a cross-over with the critically panned spin off "Ariel Hospital" and features the return of Simon Tam, the resolution of the arc is all too predictable.
I suspect that Wheedon's second career as a country and western singer/songwriter (kickstarted with the chart success of "The Ballad of Serenity Valley" which was ironically, dropped as the Firefly theme tune after the network failed to agree royalties with Wheedon) is distracting him from his writing duties and is he simply recycling ideas from old rejected scripts.
What saves this season is that it is short (12 episode) season, truncated by the recent Viewer's Strike and lacks the padding of 20+ episode marathons of the likes of "BSG" and "24". This made me wonder what we would now be discussing had it not been for the mysterious event that day 7 years ago which, reputedly, persuaded Fox not to can the show after only 14 episodes had been made.
All the fans agree that those first episodes set a standard which later episodes could not hope to maintain (apart from the two part Season 2 finale, which would have made a superb movie). Just because 14 episodes of something are good doesn't mean that 100 episodes will be better. Had the axe fallen then, perhaps Firefly would have been an enduring gem, rather than just an OK space show which enjoyed a brief moment of critttt#####$$$$$$$ +++CARRIER LOST
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Hi-lariousisall
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LOL….this is great IMNOTHERE!! But……
Have you forgotten the fantastic mid-season episode of season4? “My Strange Countrymen” Where Shepherd Book’s illegitimate child shows up on Serenity, keeping his “I never married and I’m not a grandpa” yet, statements intact.
And what of Niska’s becoming a Monk?
And Jayne’s affair with the horse? Strictly on a mind to mind level remember. Lets not get weird.
That episode had me clinching my teeth and sitting on the edge of my chair. I understand the following episodes petered out a bit after that but that one almost rated as high as OoG.
JMO, Z
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I'm still trying to figure this out myself. How weird is it that The Captain is my role model?
"When you can't run, you crawl...and when you can't crawl, when you can't do that... you find someone to carry you."
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Quote:As America leans more toward Alliance behaviour, Mal becomes more & more a legitimate role model indeed.
Originally posted by airpotborker:
I'm still trying to figure this out myself. How weird is it that The Captain is my role model?
Chrisisall
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Originally posted by zzetta13:
And what of Niska’s becoming a Monk?
Not quite as good as "Throw Momma from the Spaceship" in which Jubal Early's mother turns up seeking revenge for her son's death. That final scene where Jayne's mum turns up and the two women fall into the volcano... awesome!
Or "Too Much Information", where we discover (in flashback) the origins of Mal's penchant for cross-dressing (as evidenced in OMR and the BDM).
I think the real shark-jumper was "Oh, what a lovely 'verse" - the famous musical episode. I could see this working as a sort of straight-to-web spoof, but not as a proper episode. Mind you, Summer Glau belting out that cover version of Amy Winehouse's "Rehab" was a revelation. What a voice!
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They're killin' Chrisisall
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