Firefly vs. Buffy

POSTED BY: spaceshiplover
UPDATED: Wednesday, April 26, 2006 11:44
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WHISPER

Friday, April 7, 2006 4:25 PM

I agree with the previously stated... it's too hard to compare.

I have been a huge BtVS/ Angel fan since they both started airing. I only vaguely knew about Firefly when it aired but i never knew when it was actually on.

I love every series differently for they each deal with different issues that i can relate to. I can't compare. Now if we just compare the first season of each show, then of course Firefly wins by a longshot.

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GROUNDED

Friday, April 7, 2006 5:02 PM

I think it's almost impossible to compare the two, mainly because of their relative lengths. Firefly was canned before they had a chance to made a bad episode or bad plot decision or have a character/actor leave the show. Buffy ran for 144 episodes, the vast majority of which were of a very high standard. And anyone claiming the humour in Firefly is more 'advanced' or 'mature' than Buffy clearly didn't watch the latter with any degree of attentiveness ;)

Now I personally prefer the premise of Firefly to Buffy. But if I had to choose between 144 episodes of Firefly and 15 of Buffy or keep what we have now, I wouldn't be able to do it. Why? Because we can never know if those next 129 eps of Firefly would have retained the same incredible ep-by-ep level of quality that they managed for the first 15.

KAZE

Wednesday, April 12, 2006 4:04 AM

I read an article about Buffy before it came out and thought it sounded cool enough to make a note of when it would be on so i could watch it.

Buffy and Angel were 2 of my all time favorite shows. In fact i can honestly say that there's a really good chance that i wouldn't be the same person now if they didn't exist. I went through some rough times and was headed down a very wrong path for me and some stuff that happened in those shows kinda turned me around and pointed me in the right direction.

One little bit of dialogue in particular from an episode of Angel pretty much ensured that nothing in the verse could make me lose sight of myself again. Now i'd have sorted all this crap out on m own anyways eventually me being all smart and all but this was a huge timesaver.

All that being said I still like Firefly better.

USAGIVINDALOO

Wednesday, April 12, 2006 4:36 AM

I admit that I have only watched the occasional ep of Buffy and Angel, and though I often enjoyed what I saw, it never really yanked me in and grabbed me. For one, I find that I have to be a certain mood to handle the ANGST of that series; I mean, "Becoming" and "I Will Remember You" are not what one would call easy watching. While Firefly... well, I have it on DVD and can change easily between Objects in Space and Jaynestown depending on my mood. XD

Most people have already covered a lot of reasons Firefly is better, and subjectively I have one more that hasn't been mentioned.

NO OVERDONE FIGHT SCENES!

With Buffy and Angel, it was like some sort of contract that there HAD to be a fist fight, a set piece almost if you will. Of all the shows I saw of Buffy/Angel, I don't think I've ever seen one WITHOUT a fight sequence.

It got a bit much, I found. You could set your watch to them, you KNEW they were coming (because EVERY ep had one) and they usually went on for quite a long time. Not only that, but they were often telegraphed to an alarming degree, to the point of almost writing the plot for the sake of the fight scenes ("Right, now we'll have Riley and Buffy fight a demon... FIGHT SCENE! Now the evil professor will see the results of that battle and send Buffy off to... ANOTHER FIGHT SCENE!")

Now, I'm sure many of you liked the fight scenes, but I didn't. They never really excited me, and usually I was waiting for them to finish so they could get back to the plot and character development, which is what interested me. When fight scenes started, I usually rolled my eyes and turned my brain off until the episode "came back" as it were.

With Firefly, I NEVER had that problem. For one thing, I don't think every episode had a fight scene (I'd have to check that); heck, one of my favourite eps is Out of Gas, and besides the brief gunshot in the cargo bay and Mal getting shirty with Wash, there wasn't any fighting in that episode. Very often the fight scenes that were there were quickly executed while still being exciting (maybe BECAUSE they were quickly executed). They never seemed to drag and never seemed to be "unnatural set pieces" that the episode was written for. Rather, the episode, like the characters involved in the fight, wanted to get through the fight as an obstacle to the greater plot/mission/what have you. And I liked that.

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KAZE

Wednesday, April 12, 2006 5:14 AM

I enjoyed the fight scenes in both shows for different reasons. I would say taht the fights in Firefly were overall more believable and realistic although i feel both shows had very realistic fight scenes(this based on relative tv realism not real life realism). I do enjoy a good fight scene but i agree that Firefly definately had a way of getting to the point faster with the fights and getting back to the story. That could be why i always felt every Firefly episode was so packed with goodness.

ANGELOFMUSICVI

Wednesday, April 12, 2006 5:17 AM

I always liked Buffy ... but they're both Joss Whedon, so of course they'll be good. Still, Firefly rocks and it needs to come back.

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ELFIE

Wednesday, April 12, 2006 7:21 PM

I loved Buffy first and it was my favourite show....until I got into Firefly. Now I think I prefer Firefly but then maybe thats because so much more can be done with it, while Buffy, I think, at least reached an end (though I'd still love to see a Spike movie). Either way, they are both incredible shows and put everything else on TV to shame.

ANGELOFMUSICVI

Tuesday, April 18, 2006 10:06 PM

Now that is an interesting concept: A Spike Movie. That I would see. Because we all love the bad boys...well *I* do anyway. hehe...aside from that, I am anxious to see who will be playing Ms. Wonder Woman.

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VINTERDRAKEN

Wednesday, April 26, 2006 11:44 AM

First of all, so people dont get me wrong; I like Buffy and Angel.

To get to the heart of the matter, Firefly is much better, I often sit around watching Buffy with my roommate (who loves the show) and im always jokeing about the series general oddness, sometimes its sillines and generely making fun of the plots and the whole highschool thing (watching reruns att the moment). So generally people get the impression that I dont like the show, wich is far from true. I love spike, really like giles, willow, tara, and the rest. But somehow in my eyes Buffys is more of a comedy while Firefly has it all.

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