Firefly Episodes nominated for a Hugo Award!
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And Nathan Fillion won a Saturn award for Firefly too, right? Don't know what that is, just remember hearing it on the commentary for Serenity.
I think Chosen was the series finale of Buffy. Solid ep, but too short!
IMHO there's never been a single ep of anything better on tv than The Message.
"What's sanguine mean again?"
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It is cool that there are two nominations for 'Firefly' and VERY cool that there are three nominations representing the Whedonverse!
But I would have prefered that 'Serenity' had been nominated (or is a two hour pilot too long?)
and altho the MTV clip of Gollum's acceptance was very cute, it really was just a couple of minutes long...so WTF???
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Originally posted by SBWatcher:
And Nathan Fillion won a Saturn award for Firefly too, right? Don't know what that is, just remember hearing it on the commentary for Serenity.
I think Chosen was the series finale of Buffy. Solid ep, but too short!
IMHO there's never been a single ep of anything better on tv than The Message.
"What's sanguine mean again?"
He won it for Actor of the Future. Joss joked that it wasn't for his performance on "Firefly", but his role on "Two Guys, A Girl, and a Pizza Place".
Harken: "Seems odd that you would name your ship after a battle you were on the wrong side of."
Mal: "May have been the losing side. Still not convinced it was the wrong one."
~ƒireƒly
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Originally posted by embers:
But I would have prefered that 'Serenity' had been nominated (or is a two hour pilot too long?)
Umm...it was, last year. The episodes nominated now didn't broadcast (in the UK, Canada, and Latin America anyway) until 2003.
Harken: "Seems odd that you would name your ship after a battle you were on the wrong side of."
Mal: "May have been the losing side. Still not convinced it was the wrong one."
~ƒireƒly
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KEWL!!!!
I'll be voting in the Hugos and attending the World SF con, aka Noreascon 4, in September in Boston.
http://www.noreascon4.org
http://www.worldcon.org
If you want to vote you can pay the supporting membership price of $35.
The Hugos are basically fan awards... so popularity is key ingredient to who wins. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire won best novel 2 years ago and LOTR:FotR won best dramatic presentation last year. So not always science fiction... which is a topic that has been debated.
2 Episodes of Babylon 5 and Star Trek: the Next Gen finale "all good things..." have won best dramatic award several years ago.
Jaymes
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For me its ironic that two of the best episodes were never aired in the USA, The Message and Heart of Gold, so I am very glad that both of them have been nominated. I think The Message might pip it to the post. Out of Gas was excellent too mind you, but can't nominate all of them!!!
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Newbie here, had loved the Firefly series, was bummed when it was canned, and recently got the DVD, almost done watching it. Have a comment about the Hugo nominations---of all of the episodes, I thought "The Message" was the weakest. Had some "sloppy" writing. (Understand that I say "sloppy" only in the context of comparing Whedon with Whedon: high standards, applicable to few other screenwriters.) There were some obvious logic holes that could have easily been patched but weren't. I assumed that was because they had just gotten "notice" and were hurrying with the script. But I'm surprised to see it nominated for an award. Anyone else have this reaction, or am I out in left field?
Nice Web site, BTW. Glad that Firefly is having a "resurgence" and hope that the movie will have the same quality as the series.
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Originally posted by SamuraiX47:
2 Episodes of Babylon 5 and Star Trek: the Next Gen finale "all good things..." have won best dramatic award several years ago.
Importantly, JMS withdrew episodes of B5 from voting (as I recall, one time he got 2 on the list) to avoid splitting the vote. I fear that Joss is likely to get the award for Chosen rather than Firefly for The Message - I forget, is this the script alone or the whole thing (IMO The Message is a cliched script, which somehow gets beyond that with the actors, direction and music - its one of my favourites).
And I didn't even think Chosen was a good episode of Buffy...
"I threw up on your bed"
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I love Chosen. I'd be super-happy if any of the 3 jossverse eps won.
~lissa, spwhore
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I love Chosen. I'd be super-happy if any of the 3 jossverse eps won.
~lissa, spwhore
My problem with Chosen was it felt like just another episode, rather than what it was, a big damn episode. It was functional for me, and that wasn't enough - then again, Joss already said goodbye to Buffy once in stunning fashion.
"I threw up on your bed"
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