Firefly 1 of 10 Most Influential Space Western
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According to SPACEWESTERNS.COM, 'Firefly' is #5 of the ten most influential space westerns.
I would have put 'Firefly' as number one, but that's just me. 
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http://www.spacewesterns.com/articles/116/
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THaty was the strangest piece of writing I think I've ever read. Babylon 5 a Space Western? Aliens?
Just about the most specious connections possible.
Can't agree with much of what I read there.
FIREFLY truly was a space western and made no bones about it. Traders and smugglers on the edge of civilization, terrible enigmatic enemies in the Reavers, authority trying to bring them under their thumb. Yeah I can do that.
And done with grace, skill and really great writing. Along with a defined character ensemble, it just don't get better'n that.
IMHO of course.
"She's disturbing my calm."
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I do not agree with the rating Firefly got. But I bet Fox is behind it. They rigged the vote. Just like they did in Afganistan.
Vote Josh for President of Fox
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Where was Cowboy Bebop?
-e
I pray for one last landing,
on the globe that gave me birth.
Let me rest my eyes on the fleecy skies
and the cool, green hills of Earth.
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Star Wars and Star Trek are the only ones on the list that really belong. I'm not familiar with Star Craft, so maybe, but Alien was Space Horror, BSG was based on religious allegory, and B5 based on cold war intrigue. Cowboy Bebop definitely should have been considered, along with Outlaw Star.
wo men ren ran zai fei xing.
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Originally posted by greendaale:
Vote Josh for President of Fox
Josh who?
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Originally posted by Haken:
According to SPACEWESTERNS.COM, 'Firefly' is #5 of the ten most influential space westerns.
I would have put 'Firefly' as number one, but that's just me.
View the full list here:
http://www.spacewesterns.com/articles/116/
That's gotta be the dumbest review I've ever read, LOL. Aliens a space Western?? "Aliens directed by James Cameron, follows a much more obvious classic Western pattern. A group of homesteaders disappear and the cavalry is called in." So, now every complicated escape and rescue op is a space Western? Babylon 5 a space Western?? Battlestar Galactica a space Western?? Firefly a space Western?? (Oh wait! Yes, it is). And the only other real space Western that leaps to mind, Outland, isn't even mentioned!
Double dumb-ass on you, Lilly!
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Originally posted by DMI:
Where was Cowboy Bebop?
-e
I pray for one last landing,
on the globe that gave me birth.
Let me rest my eyes on the fleecy skies
and the cool, green hills of Earth.
Yo, a shout out to Heinlein in your sig. Caught just a flash of it, hadda come back and see who-- thought you mighta been EC...
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Originally posted by DMI:
Where was Cowboy Bebop?
-e
I pray for one last landing,
on the globe that gave me birth.
Let me rest my eyes on the fleecy skies
and the cool, green hills of Earth.
Yo, a shout out to Heinlein in your sig. Caught just a flash of it, hadda come back and see who-- thought you mighta been EC...
Hell yea. Green Hills of Earth is more of a space western than most of the stuff on that list. lol
-e
I pray for one last landing,
on the globe that gave me birth.
Let me rest my eyes on the fleecy skies
and the cool, green hills of Earth.
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No Outland?
Egregious , outlandish oversight...
Makes more sense than a lot of stuff on that list...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outland_(film)
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SHOCKED ! by this :
'...On August 18, 2009, studio Warner Brothers announced that director Michael Davis had been hired to direct a remake of the film from a script by Chad St. John. No casting or start date information was announced.'
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