Watching firefly

POSTED BY: farscapeman
UPDATED: Thursday, August 27, 2009 12:49
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FARSCAPEMAN

Sunday, July 26, 2009 4:57 AM

Wow! I just watched the first show sernity. The action,humor, and drama are amazing. I have seen so many shows that have hooked me in in season 1. This show hooks you in in episode 1. I think Jane is my fav so far. I can't wait to see where the show takes you. I will post on here as I watch each episode and would love to hear spoiler free thoughts on each episode from all you experts out here. Does the show stay as good as this first one was? I liked the Star wars the future is dirty and western feel to it. Some one said mal was like han solo. I so see that! How show that starts off this well got cancelled is beyond me. Wow! I can't say enough. The ship felt so real.
I am glad JAne didnt turn on Mal. Anara seems like a future geisha or somthing. The speak chinese so I am guessing china takes over the world in the future is what they are getting at. The priest should alot to the story as well. I would like one spoiler answered. Is River really his sister?
THanks

ODESSA762

Sunday, July 26, 2009 5:33 AM

Yes, River is his sister.

You do realize that the DVD box set arranges the episodes in the order that Joss Whedon envisioned - not in the order they originally aired, right? The 'Pilot' episode you just watched did not air 'first'.

China takes over the world? Uhhh...no.

Is the rest of the show as good as the pilot? Well, why do you think the show is so popular ;)

Welcome to the party!

BORIS

Sunday, July 26, 2009 5:41 AM

The rest of the show is extremely good....which is why here we all are still deeply attached to it etc etc quite a few years after it's unfair annihilation. warning: you will get hooked....and you will be as mystified as the rest of us re why it was ever cancelled. Enjoy!

ECGORDON

Sunday, July 26, 2009 12:49 PM

The pilot episode was the last one that FOX ran, if you can believe that. And they had already decided to cancel it at that point, even though they hadn't formally announced it yet.

Yes, it does get better. In my opinion it is as close to perfection as television has ever come. Character, plot, attention to detail, believability while still being totally imaginary.

There are two episodes that are consistently at the top of fan favorite lists, "Out of Gas" and "Objects in Space," but you will find a lot of support for just about every other episode as well. Note that "Trash," "The Message" and "Heart of Gold" were not aired by FOX, so were never seen until the DVDs came out.

Please be careful reading this site. Lots of spoilers, some even in the thread title itself. It might be best if you just go on a marathon viewing binge, making notes as you go, but not returning here until you've seen it all. Massive spoilers also abound concering the theatrical movie "Serenity," so watch out.

wo men ren ran zai fei xing.

NEWOLDBROWNCOAT

Sunday, July 26, 2009 1:53 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by farscapeman:
Does the show stay as good as this first one was?

Dude, in case nobody has exactly said it, THE SHOW GETS BETTER.
Spider Robinson once wrote that one of the nicest things a person can say to another is, " You lucky SOB, you're about to be newly introduced to something I already know is great."

Welcome to the party, you lucky SOB...

FARSCAPEMAN

Sunday, July 26, 2009 3:24 PM

Wow! Thanks for the great thoughts. Nice to hear the show will stay strong. With advice up top I will only go to this thread and post after I watch the show. Thanks making me feel welcomed.

YERSINIA

Monday, July 27, 2009 12:12 AM

Quote:
Originally posted by farscapeman:
Wow! Thanks for the great thoughts. Nice to hear the show will stay strong. With advice up top I will only go to this thread and post after I watch the show. Thanks making me feel welcomed.

Yeah, welcome to the Verse! I'm almost as new as you -- friend of mine just gave me the Firefly series and Serenity movie about a month ago: I've watched seven top to bottom "marathons" of the whole thing to date. I still love it, will be running my next "marathon" in the next couple days or so.

If I may, and I mean no disrespect, I have to laugh a little at your comment that "the show will stay strong." Ummm, sorry, but the stupid television powers-that-be cancelled the show 7 years ago, and it only ran for one season. What's going strong still is the fandom, not the show itself, which is off the air, no new episodes being written/produced.

Now here's why I have to laugh (and it just so figures that I ended up falling in love with Firefly) -- kind of a personal observation really... what scant amount of commercial entertainment I noticed and got attached to -- it's all dead, except in the minds and hearts of the fans, where it lives intensely. Before Firefly, the only TV show I was ever a serious fan of (and I still am) was Star Trek (which died when the Voyager series died: post-Voyager wasn't Star Trek, it was goram crap) -- and still my favorite Trek is the original series. Also, the one computer game I play is The Sims, the original game! I didn't like Sims 2 when I tried it (at my friend's house on numerous occasions) and I'm not interested in Sims 3 at all. But, just like Firefly, old Star Trek and the original Sims live on strong in the minds and hearts of their fans, and on plenty of Internet forums.

So I guess I'm just totally and completely retro -- and that's why I gotta laugh.

"Call me if anyone interesting shows up..."

JEWELSTAITEFAN

Monday, July 27, 2009 5:45 AM

Welcome to the insanity, errr, the fanaticism.
You were lucky enough to see Serenity first. For the original airing, it was aired AFTER Fox had cancelled the show, Joss and Tim had rewritten some of the already aired shows/scenes, final filming had been completed, the entire cast had said their final goodbyes, and the show was wrapped on Dec 20, 2002, then everybody went home to find that Fox was finally airing the Pilot Serenity that night.
Pilot Serenity won the Emmy Award that season for Special Effects, and now most shows have copied the award-winning effects from that show.
The first aired episode was The Train Job.

Enjoy yourself.

If you haven't already, check out the deleted scenes or extended scenes from that Pilot episode. They should not detract from your enjoyment, and may add to it as you go through the rest of the show.

PIRATECAT

Monday, July 27, 2009 4:13 PM

FarScapeMan, Just a damn good show. Another one I liked for me was Special Unit Two. I like midgets on screen. Now I think after 9/11 people were not consumed with tv scifi. Everyone was into the fox network news.

"Battle of Serenity, Mal. Besides Zoe here, how many-" "I'm talkin at you! How many men in your platoon came out of their alive".

JONGSSTRAW

Monday, July 27, 2009 4:36 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by farscapeman:
Wow! I just watched the first show sernity. The action,humor, and drama are amazing. I have seen so many shows that have hooked me in in season 1. This show hooks you in in episode 1. I think Jane is my fav so far. I can't wait to see where the show takes you. I will post on here as I watch each episode and would love to hear spoiler free thoughts on each episode from all you experts out here. Does the show stay as good as this first one was? I liked the Star wars the future is dirty and western feel to it. Some one said mal was like han solo. I so see that! How show that starts off this well got cancelled is beyond me. Wow! I can't say enough. The ship felt so real.
I am glad JAne didnt turn on Mal. Anara seems like a future geisha or somthing. The speak chinese so I am guessing china takes over the world in the future is what they are getting at. The priest should alot to the story as well. I would like one spoiler answered. Is River really his sister?
THanks

I had a mini-marathon this weekend....watched all 4 eps. on disc 2, plus Objects in Space. It never gets old for me ....goin' on 3 years now, and it never gets old, it only still gets better. You always see different things, and you think about situations differently because of the posts that folks here write start you thinkin'!

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