The Firefly Theroy
POSTED BY: FemaleJayne
UPDATED: Sunday, July 4, 2004 22:51
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The opinions expressed by me in no way reflect my employer, my co-workers, my family or anyone but me. But they should.
Firefly is great because of the witty dialog and believable characters in its stories. Because the Firefly crew resemble a family, and most folks have met folks, or would like to meet just like just the members of her crew. Because despite Joss's own self profesed lack of a scientific education, it is believable.
It has elements that harken back to America's frontier, and once you think about it, the final frontier will have some commonalities with America's last one. It is familiar in ways that stories taking place in a galaxy far far away don't.
It does not preach some utopianist pipe dream, where folks have evolved beyond money, power, greed, hatred or hard heartedness, (in a scant few centuries). Lets face it, without such factors, stories become boring all too quickly, and one has to go back in time, or reverse age in order to keep viewer interest. It shows sex in a more positive and realistic light than has been seen before. It is thought provoking as only science fiction can be, yet familiar and easily understandable to most folks who have actually seen it.
It avoids trying to depict aliens, which in most attempts come out as either one note caricatures of human, or equally as bad, monsters to be slain. It avoids many science fiction cliques, blaster pistols being one example. And when it does depict such technologies, it does so with an inventive twist.
The crew are ordinary joes, just like you or me. Not paragons of virtue, nor important and highly trusted military or political elites. That makes them more believable and more accessable to their target audience.
Why Fox canceled it is simple. They had no idea what they had. So they shoved it off on a Friday night, when most of their target demographics was out dating and not home watching TV. They pre-empted it for baseball games, and thereby undercut any efforts to garner a fan base.
Some have suggested malice on the part of the Fox network. I think it is more a case of stupidity, of simply not watching their own programing.
"Wash, where is my damn spaceship?"
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Thanks to everyone who has given me their thoughts. I have enough thoughts to have a theroy but... A theroy with out any evidence is only a opinion. When enough people agree, opinions become fact (at least to those when agree)
Thanks again!
If you have anymore ideas please share them!
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I have a theory about onions, but no evidence 
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Well the show has great writing, flawed and human characters and the chemistry is high level.
The best thing is a great show is mmade greater when the actors enjoy what they do, for it shows across in how they interact.
The cast are very much in tune to each other and one can see that they feel a connection with the characters as well as each other...a show like that comes along once in a blue moon
Remi is here to save the day...
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It's pro-liberty, pro-individual-responsiblity, pro honour; anti-government, anti-mysticism, anti-political-correctness, and is therefore completely unlike 99.999% of everything else in today's art and media.
Add its fundamental joy at being alive (in more ways than one), along with a tinge of existential terror, wrapped up with wonderful writing and performances, gorgeous visuals and music, and presented according to the overriding, consistent vision of one person... how could anyone not love it?
Thankyou Joss!
We are not in the 8th dimension! We're over New Jersey!
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Well, my theory, for all that it's worth, is that this series was just so good because it was about us normal peeps. Just about getting by, paying the bills (if you can), trying to do the right thing (again with the if you can), even though there may be some (not actually harmful to people) ducking and diving on the way.
What this series clearly illustrated was that most of us live this way. Not because we are worse people, or because our social contributions, views and values are morally lower than those lucky enough to be higher up the tree, but just because that is the nature of the world. Darn it!
I have recently exposed my ex (a dear friend, but an SF-phobe), to this frankly outstanding series. Oh, how he laughed at my commitment to other series..."What, a vampire with a soul? How lame is that?"! Oh, yes, I am sure you can just gauge my mirthful response to that straight lift from a Buffy script, but not my point here. He has latched onto Firefly immediately and with no reservations, because it is about people who feel real. And he loves them. As do most of the people I know. Even my mother. And believe me, that is going some.
So a big hussah to Joss and all involved for creating what I really think was, for all it's short lifespan, the best TV proggy ever seen. Ever. And I have seen a lot of TV!
As for the cancellation? It clearly involved numpties. Indeed, I am convinced that a great deal of non-TV-quality-controlling, look-at-my-shiny-suit-it-is-very-fine and oh-blimey-my-brain-has-been-swapped-for-a-lump-of-Emmental numptiness may have been a major contributing factor to this. Bleedin' execs!
By the way, what a darn fine ship! Luvverly!
Greetings to all.
Nummy (as I have just chosen to be known).
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