Just an average show
POSTED BY: ladyhawk33
UPDATED: Friday, February 26, 2010 12:41
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I'm hanging out for "the Pacific". I have rewatched Band of Brothers many times with max satisfaction. I hope Pacific will be as rivetting.
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"Safety on?"
Have you SEEN Serenity?
Regardless, welcome aboard!
The laughing Chrisisall
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Coming out of Lurkerville to say this:
Best. Damn. Show. Ever.
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No, really. It hurts me to lessen my love for Stargate a bit by having a show surpass it, but it's true. I recently watched Farscape for the first time. I enjoyed it, but it was no Firefly. Then again, as I said to a friend in regards to this, nothing but Firefly is Firefly. She agreed, and we went on to conclude that once you watch Firefly you are forever and irreversibly changed. You are never the same again. Ever. And nothing else comes close to the level of love that is Firefly.
By the way, I'm no blind Whedon fan. I've never seen Buffy or Angel and thought Dollhouse was mediocre at best. But Firefly? Just. Pure. Love.
P.S.-troll!
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I've only just joined the site but, is this trolling a regular thing? Albeit a more sophisticated troll.
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Quote:Trolling on these sites is like getting a cold; it happens from time to time, just drink fluids & ride it out.
Originally posted by Gards:
I've only just joined the site but, is this trolling a regular thing? Albeit a more sophisticated troll.
AND, welcome!
The laughing Chrisisall
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Setting aside my own opinions about the show I have only one question for LADYHAWK33. Did you watch the series alone? I ask, because it does make a difference. If you did watch it alone, you should try watching it again with a room full of friends and let us know if it changes the overall feel of the show for you. I have noticed that it makes a difference for me. I really enjoy watching the show with a room full of people.
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Originally posted by boris:
I agree Rome was just mindless entertainment with soft porn thrown in but it was entertaining on a primal level.
I don't mind people posting who don't get Firefly. It's healthy to get an alternative opinion, and it encourages the rest of us to re-establish what we love about our show. It also reveals that there's an untouchable something that links us...links are good, save us from drowning.
See, I liked Rome quite a bit. I loved that you got to see the city more as it probably really WAS - a jumbled mess of structures built slap-dash and one on top of the other, the filth in the streets, the brutality and infighting - and I loved that for a great deal of the "facts" of the show, they actually did stick with real people who really existed and real events which really transpired. And you got a little bit better feel for HOW and WHY they happened the way they did.
I mean, Titus Pullo and Lucius Vorenus - those two men actually existed. They served in the Legion (but not the XIIIth as in the show; they were actually in the Xth, I believe); they are the only two soldiers that Julius Caesar is known to have written about by name.
In some ways, it's very similar to Band of Brothers, only about 1500 years earlier...
But yeah, not every show is for everybody.
Mike
Work is the curse of the Drinking Class.
- Oscar Wilde
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well congrats to the OP for creating a thread that produced some very solid response and descriptions of the magic that has been Firefly.
having raised 3 daughters, I've endured my share of chick flicks.. I can get through Tom Cruise heartbreaks right up to the line "you had me from hello"...ok..at that point I had to leave the room and go throw up..
but to the point...in the Firefly pilot..just after they "moon em" and run...still in episode opened segment...the script calls for Mal to respond "yeah...we win".
the series captured me right then and there. It summed it up. His delivery of that line excuses any sillyness or offhand acting/directing/scripting..any failures one might find with the show only serve to setup that one moment which captures the essence of the entire series of stories. Everyone is on that boat and willing to live off the grid, off the radar, for their own reasons and those reasons are great enough to make them work/live/bind together, risk everything, sacrifice and you know that they have perspective on it... they create a sense of family, they'll fight, bicker, do stupid things, loose more often than not, likely go to a special hell... but they'll do it with passion, humor, a twisted sense of irony, and a nobility that comes to men who choose liberty in the face of certain defeat.
folks here have explained it much better than I can...the story just hit me right in many ways...go back n watch it all again.. I double dag dare ya...you'll find yourself missing em all a lil bit more each time.
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Originally posted by Oldguy:
well congrats to the OP for creating a thread that produced some very solid response and descriptions of the magic that has been Firefly.
having raised 3 daughters, I've endured my share of chick flicks.. I can get through Tom Cruise heartbreaks right up to the line "you had me from hello"...ok..at that point I had to leave the room and go throw up..
but to the point...in the Firefly pilot..just after they "moon em" and run...still in episode opened segment...the script calls for Mal to respond "yeah...we win".
the series captured me right then and there. It summed it up. His delivery of that line excuses any sillyness or offhand acting/directing/scripting..any failures one might find with the show only serve to setup that one moment which captures the essence of the entire series of stories. Everyone is on that boat and willing to live off the grid, off the radar, for their own reasons and those reasons are great enough to make them work/live/bind together, risk everything, sacrifice and you know that they have perspective on it... they create a sense of family, they'll fight, bicker, do stupid things, loose more often than not, likely go to a special hell... but they'll do it with passion, humor, a twisted sense of irony, and a nobility that comes to men who choose liberty in the face of certain defeat.
folks here have explained it much better than I can...the story just hit me right in many ways...go back n watch it all again.. I double dag dare ya...you'll find yourself missing em all a lil bit more each time.
*sniffs*
That was beautiful, man...
King of the Mythical Land that is Iowa
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