Why Firefly is not good Science Fiction
POSTED BY: cljohnston108
UPDATED: Friday, May 9, 2025 03:51
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Originally posted by Kayna:
I just have to point out a nitpicky thing I noticed in his post. He compains about the scene where Early jumps from his ship to Serenity and sits on the hull "like it's not going anywhere". He's seems to be annoyed by the fact that Early isn't having trouble holding on or being flattened by the wind or some such. Guess what. There's no air in space!!! And therefore, no air resistance. It makes perfect sense to me. All he has to do is match his course to Serenity's and he's good. I'm sure he's clever enough to do that.
Hehe, good catch! :) What a goof. No wonder the Sci-Fi looks off to him. :) Maybe he should concentrate a little more on the Sci before he starts trashing the Fi. :)
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I agree that the reviewer hasn't looked beneath the surface of the series. The point about consistent social representation on each planet was sort of what the show was about: how the Alliance had forced their influence everywhere. Only the Outer planets were visibly different: drylands, basically, compared to the fertile "America-like" climate (as described by the reviewer) of the Central planets. Their lack of fertility is why they are Outer planets. These are the terraforming problems. The Alliance is powerful enough to have weeded out most of the problems with terraforming at this stage of the game, except where they want to, as shown with the epidemic on that planet in the Train Job. There are still black rocks, as Miranda was thought to have been one; for the most part, the Alliance was able to fix the problems that took, which, knowing the Alliance as well as one can, does not surprise me.
As for the point about religion, Mal's switch from Christian in the very first scene of the show to atheist through the rest is dynamic enough. Book is a preacher, and thus, I believe, has a responsibility to preach. River is taking religion into question. Even Book after the first episode sees the line between belief and religion; though legally he is a man of God, he doesn't follow fundamental Christian principles as he had in that first episode. Helping fugitives, occasionally taking part in a heist, shooting kneecaps... Book still speaks of a "special" hell when Saffron gets on the boat, but tones down his overall preaching on religion specifically quite a bit.
And um one mention of gay rights? One? In the whole series? There's eleven plus hours of Firefly, and maybe five to seven minutes with any mention of homosexuality. I would therefore conclude that it is not of significant influence on the series.
I won't even go into the whole Inara bit about sex. That was more than a little off-base. But I've said too much already. To each his own opinion, I guess.
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every body's so mad
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as River would put it: his conclusions were fallacious...
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Strange how Firefly was seen as Left and gradual got seen as more classici Conservative 90s early 2000s scifi
how tastes change
and Cult Classics keep their staying power
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