Firefly Episodes nominated for a Hugo Award!
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UPDATED: Saturday, April 24, 2004 20:55
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The following episodes have been nominated for a Hugo Award!
Short Media Presentation
"Heart of Gold" — Firefly (Mutant Enemy Inc./20th Century Fox). Directed by Thomas J. Wright; written by Brett Matthews.
"Message" — Firefly (Mutant Enemy Inc./20th Century Fox). Directed by Tim Minear; written by Joss Whedon & Tim Minear.
The hugo award, for those of you who don't know, is the most prestigious award in science fiction. Good Luck Joss & team!
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What no 'Out of Gas'? I agree with 'The Message' but 'Heart of Gold' was one of the worse (but still good) of the Firefly episodes. Well, I guess if that wins then it will mean that even the worse of the Firefly is the best.
Oh, and play Cantr II at www.cantr.net.
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Out of Gas was broadcast in 2002, and therefore isn't eligible for the next round of Hugos; the two episodes that have been nominated were never broadcast, so their official date for Hugo purposes was the DVD box set release in December 2003.
But bless my soul, this has to be a Damn Big first; I've never heard of a tv show episode being nominated for a Hugo -- or anything else -- after the show has been off the air for more than a year. Pretty Gorram Shiny! 
I just wonder why Trash didn't get nominated. Great "caper show", and also inside the nominating envelope. Guess somebody just doesn't like YoSaffBridge...
("I shaved my beard for you, Devil Woman!")
Hey -- does anyone know what the competition is? Just what does Firefly have to beat, anyway?
"You can't enslave a free man. The most you can do is kill him." -- Robert A. Heinlein
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Hurrah!
As an avid aficionado of the genre, I've read the collected works of Herbert(s), Heinlein, The Three B's of Hard Sci-fi (Brin, Bear and Benford), and various works of countless others over the past 25 years. I typically read 2, 3 or 4 novels concurrently; I have no problem keeping them separate in my mind, and like the intermingling of angles and points.
As such, I consider myself a connoiseur of good sci-fi. I have always felt that Firefly rates with the best the genre has to offer, and that it was/is the best sci-fi TV has ever offered. Consider too, that as a 9-year old, I used to hide behind my father's easy chair to sneak watching the original "Star Trek". I daresay my dad knew I was there; but, it aired after my bedtime, and rules were rules. :)
The best sci-fi is more about how technology affects people and the society in which they live, than it is about warp drives and alien invaders. "Star Trek" was mostly about meeting aliens, then either killing them, or mating with 'em, as long as they were female and roughly humanoid. "Firefly" is more concerned with the ways in which the colonization of new frontiers and the subsequent unequal distribution of wealth, power and technology impacts the individual lives the author(s) show us. That's true sci-fi; not ray guns, teleportation and green dancing girls...
It's about time Firefly received this critical notice from the science fiction community.
Respectfully,
zoid
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Amen, brother!
Oh, and I would have voted for 'Trash' too.
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Originally posted by RocketJock:
Hey -- does anyone know what the competition is? Just what does Firefly have to beat, anyway?
Here are the nominees I found...
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Best Dramatic Presentation — Short Form (212 ballots)
"Chosen" — Buffy the Vampire Slayer (Mutant Enemy Inc./20th Century Fox). Written and directed by Joss Whedon.
"Gollum's Acceptance Speech at the 2003 MTV Movie Awards" (Wingnut Films/New Line Cinema). Written and directed by Fran Walsh, Philippa Boyens & Peter Jackson.
"Heart of Gold" — Firefly (Mutant Enemy Inc./20th Century Fox). Directed by Thomas J. Wright; written by Brett Matthews.
"Message" — Firefly (Mutant Enemy Inc./20th Century Fox). Directed by Tim Minear; written by Joss Whedon & Tim Minear.
"Rosetta" — Smallville (Tollin/Robbins Productions/Warner Brothers). Directed by James Marshall; written by Al Gough & Miles Millar.
Also, I discovered that "Serenity" was nominated last year in this category, but it lost... to Buffy's "Conversations With Dead People."
The year before that there was no "short form" or "long form" to this category, and "Once More With Feeling" lost out to "The Fellowship of the Ring." Gee, wonder why they split the category?
"Wacky fun..."
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Thanks BlazingBug. Well, I doubt Gollum's acceptance speech has a serious chance, and I'm not familiar with the Buffy episode; but the Smallville episode was actually quite good, and guest-starred Chris Reeves to boot, which will tighten the competition, not to mention splitting my daughter's loyalties...
But I'm glad they split the category; good as Firefly is, I doubt we could win against Return of The King!
"We have done the impossible; that makes us mighty!"
"You can't enslave a free man. The most you can do is kill him." -- Robert A. Heinlein
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alllllllllllllllllRIGHT!!!!!!!
bout time our gorram show got some attention :)
"I do the job... and then I get paid. Go run your little world."
-Malcolm Reynolds
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What do you mean? Firefly already won a Grammy. A Hugo Award to boot would make even better but I have that feeling that Gollum's acceptance speech will beat them all out just because it is LOTR.
Oh, and play Cantr II at www.cantr.net.
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Originally posted by rklenseth:
What do you mean? Firefly already won a Grammy.
Don't you mean an Emmy? It did win for best SFX last year, but did it also win a Grammy for its score?
wo men ren ran zai fei xing.
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