Firefly nominated for a HUGO !!
POSTED BY: Eleri
UPDATED: Monday, June 9, 2003 12:43
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I guess I'll put my two cents in. I don't like buffy - think it's a stupid concept. Vampires? c'mon. I have never seen Angel. So I don't have anything to say about it. But regardless, they are out. Enterprise only had a few good episodes, not enough to win anything. Serenity is, hands down, the best. Maybe I should've given only one cent instead of two.
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Who's winning?
I can't really tell, they don't seem to be playing by any civilized rules that I know.
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My vote is definately for Serenity.
Maniac: Glad to see I'm not the only one who doesn't like Buffy. 
I don't mind the vamipre concept, but when I think vampires, I think Lestat / Louis / Marius (Anne Rice). So needless to say, Joss's vision and mine clash a bit. I never liked the idea that (not only in Buffy, but in other movies and shows I have seen) when they go into "vamipe mode" their faces change and they end up looking like bat-like monsters or something of that ilk. Not what I like to see. 
I prefer to see tham looking the same whether they are having a simple coversation or sucking your blood. Vampires have always had a gothic/romantic feel in my minds eye, and when they "change", it just makes that romance go out the window for me. 
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Holy crap Joss Whedon has three out of the five
nominations. Is it me, or is Joss one of the
most interesting writer/creators out there? If
Firefly does not come back it would be a damn
shame. I think it's the most interesting yet.
Anyways, I'm John Scott and my web-site is
www.johnscottband.com. Check it out please, and
rock on for the Sci-Fi scene, baby.
Love to all of you keeping the home
"fires" burnin'.
,John
JOHN SCOTT at www.johnscottband.com
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Why does everybody seem to slam "Enterprise?" They've done something no other tv show in living memory has ever accomplished: they manage to pack all the excitement and drama of a half-hour short into an hour-long episode. And they're consistent, too.
Genius, pure genius....
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. . . they manage to pack all the excitement and drama of a half-hour short into an hour-long episode.
Don't forget the two hour premier.
Sag
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Oh, I'm trying, Sag...I'm trying.
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Hey,
I see your from Vancouver, are you plannin' on comming to the Seattle Shindig? If not you should.
< This Public Service Broadcast courtesy of the Seattle Browncoats. We now return you to your regularly scheduled thread. >
Don't look back, som'thin' might be gainin' on ya.
Who let the pigs play poker?
Evo Shander was right!
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I'm not very convinced Buffy can be called Science Fiction.
It can't Buffy is Fantasy, it is a sad thing that people don't know the difference between the two. Science Fiction is a genre which includes what can happen, according to the laws of science. The definition includes the laws of science as they are known at the time, as well as alternate interpretations of them, and other things like that.
Fantasy is what can't happen and to make up for the fact that the impossible is happening new laws are put in place, usually in the form of magic.
Once again, Science Fiction is what can happen, Fantasy is what can't happen.
I would think people would notice that they are polar opposites, and not confuse the two.
On the other hand both take place in worlds unlike our own, and many authors of the work cross over between the two. The same happens with creators of shows, like Joss.
This has been a useless bit of information from an aspiring author of urban alien free science fiction.
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I love star trek, but I heard the latest one includes the Borg. That messes up the whole knowledge-of-the-borg timeline. They shouldn't have done that. What sell-outs!! 
I like real vampires too Koffee. Anne Rice rules.
And I am not sure, but I think the definition of "fiction" is something that is not true. "non-fiction" is probably what you were thinking of.
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Science Fiction is a genre which includes what can happen, according to the laws of science. The definition includes the laws of science as they are known at the time, as well as alternate interpretations of them, and other things like that.
This is an interesting definition, Chris, but I think you're just a trifle off-base. I think the basic difference between sci-fi and fantasy is not so much a strict adherence to the laws of science (or even interpretations thereof), but the attempt to make the machina deus look plausible to our modern-day sensibilities. As Arthur C. Clarke once said, "any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic," and once you start dealing with magic, you're in fantasyland. Why? Because magic is inexplicable...or at least remains unexplained by the author. FTL travel is not exactly plausible according to the tenets of modern science (even extreme interpretations thereof), but once we start talking about wormholes or hyperspace, it sounds good enough for me...and thus does the magic become technology, and fantasy become science fiction.
But that's just me....
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