Person who really hates Firefly
POSTED BY: rklenseth
UPDATED: Thursday, June 3, 2004 20:50
VIEWED: 8313
PAGE 1 of 4
This is this person second Amazon Review.
Quote:
Firefly, The Hindenburg Of Television June 1, 2004
I'm just plain tired of reading 5-star reviews from the maybe 1000 Firefly fans that actually exist. Someone has got to get things strait before too many innocent customers fall into a trap, courtesy of The Joss Whedon Fan Club.
Let me start off with the premise and back-story for the show: A bunch of Rebels resiting an evil, domineering entity a.k.a., The Alliance. Hmm, nope, never heard of anything like that before. How about this: the captain figure in the show is a swaggering, fast-talking, shoot-first-ask questions-later kinda guy. Nope, sounds like a completely fresh and original character to me.
The acting and dialogue in this show leave somthing to be desired. For some reason, the characters can't seem to carry on a normal human conversation. Instead, they use little puns that are supposed to make the audience laugh but left me feeling sick like the way people get when they hear a bad joke.
After all, that's what the series amounted to, a bad joke.
This is her first review.
Quote:
An Insult to Science Fiction Television! May 8, 2004
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, that is to say, most of the material in Firefly material belongs in a lousy reality T.V. show, not Sci-Fi! 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.
Now my question is, why is she still reading the reviews if she hated the show so much and from what I can tell and have seen most people who find Firefly fall in love with? She and a very few others actually hate it. Why can't she accept that?
Oh, and play Cantr II at www.cantr.net.
NOTIFY: N | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | PERMALINK | TOP | HOME
This is also a call to anyone who hasn't posted a review on Amazon.com for Firefly yet to do so. Another thing to do if you know friends who haven't posted a reviews yet and like Firefly then get them to do so as well. Get that person buried and we prove her point wrong.
Oh, and play Cantr II at www.cantr.net.
NOTIFY: N | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | PERMALINK | TOP | HOME
RLK,
My friend purchased it at my insistence. He said to me today, "It was ok! I didn't hate it. It was cheesy and the fight scenes could have been choreographed better, but it was ok."
Bad news for him, but good news for me, because he is giving me his DVD set! Yay!
Mal-licious
NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | PERMALINK | TOP | HOME
While I accept that everyone is entitled to their opinion, I'll never understand why people who didn't like something will try to dissuade other people from making up their own minds. And, for that matter, if you like Joss Whedon, you should love this show. His stamp is on every iota of minutae within this show. Didn't like "Out of Gas"? Must have hated "The Zeppo" (Which I thought was one of the most original bits of TV I'd ever seen. But, I digress. I don't like having my mind made for me, so I will stop trying to make up other's for them.
"You would've lied anyway..."
Mal
NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | PERMALINK | TOP | HOME
Quote:
Originally posted by Malicious:
RLK,
My friend purchased it at my insistence. He said to me today, "It was ok! I didn't hate it. It was cheesy and the fight scenes could have been choreographed better, but it was ok."
Bad news for him, but good news for me, because he is giving me his DVD set! Yay!
Mal-licious
It's RKL.
Anyways, people are entitled their opinion but I am entitled to make of that opinion what I will. Plus this person is trying to make Firefly look bad. Plus, if the series is so bad then why aren't there alot of bad reviews. There is maybe about 50 reviews under three stars. That makes at least 850 reviews 3 stars or higher. Still ranked under 100 in the sales chart over 7 months after being put up for sale and has an average of 5 stars among 913 reviews. I mean it seems popular opinion goes against what this person is claiming as well as I am not a Buffy or Angel fan so how does that make me a Joss Whedon fan. I personally think this person hasa beef with Joss Whedon stuff.
Oh, and play Cantr II at www.cantr.net.
NOTIFY: N | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | PERMALINK | TOP | HOME
First off, I doubt anyone reading reviews will take this hack seriously since she can not even spell straight correctly. Secondly her need to write more than one scathing review just comes across as a bitter vendetta of some sort rather than objective criticism.
As to the "1000 fans" bit, I suppose she does not know that more than 200,000 copies of the DVD set have been sold (as of the last figure the Powers That Be released). I guess each of us "1000 fans" must have bought 200 copies each. Nice facts lady. Bitter, yes. Objective and unbiased review? Not so much.
"May have been the losing side. Still not convinced it was the wrong one."
NOTIFY: N | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | PERMALINK | TOP | HOME
Quote:
Originally posted by BrownCoat1:
Secondly her need to right more than one scathing review...
Should read as 'her need to write'. People who live in glass houses...
P.S. "criticism"
NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | PERMALINK | TOP | HOME
I have to say....it took some getting used to. I'm not sure what it was (read FOX's lousey schedule) but I could not get into it when it was on TV. It was a little hard to swallow up until about the third episode.
This was one hard set to find by the way. I must have checked about 8 stores before buying it online at Amazon (same deal tonight for me with Bubba Ho-Tep), so she obviously doesn't have her information from a worthy source.
'Two roads diverged in a wood, and I took the road less traveled by and they CANCELLED MY FRIKKIN' SHOW. I totally shoulda took the road that had all those people on it. Damn.'
-Joss Whedon
NOTIFY: N | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | PERMALINK | TOP | HOME
I finally wrote my review last night, and they have already added it to the list (916 now). It's titled "Absolutely the best!" and my handle over there is templetongate (ecgordon was taken, so I used the name of my website).
wo men ren ran zai fei xing.
NOTIFY: N | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | PERMALINK | TOP | HOME
Quote:
Originally posted by BC:Quote:
Originally posted by BrownCoat1:
Secondly her need to right more than one scathing review...
Should read as 'her need to write'. People who live in glass houses...
P.S. "criticism"
Please pardon my error, but my computer at home does not have the spell check I do at work.
Glass houses? Hardly. I would not write a review criticizing a show and leave words misspelled throughout the text. Here I am not quite as worried about it, but it is good to see that you are around to critique our spelling.
Odd you haven't posted in over 4 months & only do so now to correct spelling of another Browncoat. That seem right to you?
"May have been the losing side. Still not convinced it was the wrong one."
NOTIFY: N | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | PERMALINK | TOP | HOME