Did anybody watch Star Runners???? Notice any similarities

POSTED BY: InpedendantLissa
UPDATED: Tuesday, June 16, 2009 21:24
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INPEDENDANTLISSA

Sunday, June 14, 2009 12:36 PM

I AM SO TICKED RIGHT NOW!!!!!!!!! There are so many similiarities between Star Runners and Firefly it is stupid.
The smart alec captain.
The frozen nnaked girl popping out of the box.
Going to the outskirts of the galaxy.
The big bad goverment after them.
The frozen naked girl is a space cadet that blanks out and goes into her own world. She picks up a gun and doesn't know what is going on.
They discover a government coverup on the planet.
There is a video recording of a government official "confessing" so the rest of the world will know what the government has done.
All of this in the first half of the show!!!!!!!!!

CHRISISALL

Sunday, June 14, 2009 12:43 PM

A "Sci-Fi original movie"?
Original?
Just put that money into more Firefly, PLEASE.

The laughing Chrisisall

KATESFRIEND

Sunday, June 14, 2009 12:54 PM

If that was a movie I made, I would be so embarassed at the blatant rip-off. But maybe Joss will consider imitation as the sincerest form of flattery. It works for network TV. Having Serenity on right before it HAD to be somebody's plan.

CALHOUN

Sunday, June 14, 2009 1:03 PM

Ok, so it is a rip off.

Is it any good? Worth watching?

INPEDENDANTLISSA

Sunday, June 14, 2009 1:09 PM

Honestly it isn't worth watching. The only reason I am going to finish watching is to see if ther are anymore similarities.

KATESFRIEND

Sunday, June 14, 2009 1:12 PM

If it didn't make me so mad at first, I would have enjoyed it more. But it wasn't as awful as "Sands of Time" for instance. The actual story, no surprises here, was very good. The acting was fine, and seeing Connor Trinear doing a Mal Reynolds imitation was nostalgic. It was probably the best original sciffy movie they've had, mostly because it wasn't original at all. If someone saw it who never saw Firefly or Serenity, they would think it was great and want more.

INPEDENDANTLISSA

Sunday, June 14, 2009 1:21 PM

Did you notice the coats at the start? Unfreaking believable. The acting was ok. It was just a ripoff that ticked me off. There is a scene where the goverment is trying to get info from a guy that has a chip so they put a machine on his head. They were in a place with a round area in the middle. The bad guy was standing off to the side. They put something on his head that looked just like the thing they put on River's head at the start of Serenity. The goverments clothes were very similar to the alliance is Serenity. Geez. I have NO imagination and could come up with a story that was less of a rip off.

AURAPTOR

Sunday, June 14, 2009 1:33 PM

I opted to watch some DVDs instead. But isn't imitation the sincerest form of flattery ? Even if it's a crappy SciFi original doing the imitating ?

And the fact it was played right after SERENITY, It think was kinda the point.

I dunno.... seems kinda funny to me.

The T.Rex they call JANE!

GODSMACKSERENITY

Sunday, June 14, 2009 4:34 PM

*sigh* now if Firefly comes back people will hate it even more....

And lemme guess this new show is run by a company with half a brain...

TDBROWN

Sunday, June 14, 2009 4:50 PM

I know I'm gonna catch Hell for this, but I enjoyed it. The comparisons to SereniFly were blatantly obvious, true. Most of the sci-fi "original" movies have been copycats of other franchises. It's flattering to our 'verse, and fortunately wasn't toally awful. I think the big bugs theme was tacky, but was also a distraction to keep Star Runners from being too much like our BDH. To me, this just shows that Serenity is a good, viable franchise. We should e-mail skiffy to thank them for showing Serenity, and suggest that instead of Copying it they should produce MORE of it.

"Might have been the losing side, still not convinced it was the wrong one." -Mal

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