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Firefly Premieres Tonight
fm6 writes "Firefly, Joss Whedon's 'anti-Trek drama' premieres tonight, on Fox, 8 E/P. I normally despise hypespeak, but this time it's the only language that fits: this is groundbreaking, mind-boggling, totally original. I've seen a bootleg of the pilot (which, unfortunately, the network is holding back) and I promise you this is the most geek-friendly SF you've seen in a long time. Yes, more so than Star Trek and B5, and way past Star Wars. I've never seen the future so skillfully, realistically, and lovingly portrayed. Here is the Official Site and a leading fan site." This is the single new show this season I have added a season pass for to the old Tivo. But I'll probably watch it live. This looks like it could be as good as we hope.
Really, is any sci-fi original anymore? I can think of little in sci-fi that hasn't been done already. Not to say this will be a bad series, but I've already seen a lot of what's in it in other places.
In fact, for some reason this show reminds me a lot of Outlaw star, just less cartoonish. Must be the girl in the box thing that makes me think of that particular Anime series. And the fact they are tooling around in a ship doing odd jobs for a living. And the fact that they have no real home port anymore after they have to blast their way off of the one place they called home.
You could also say they play the Hon Solo angle a bit as well other than the fact they have more to their crew than just a wookie.
I'll give it a watch regardless, it could be fun and maybe it will be surprisingly original, but I'll withold any hype or wild statements until I've actually seen the first few episodes.
--Won't that be grand? Computers and the programs will start thinking and the people will stop. - Dr. Walter Gibbs
People say, "After Columbine, do you feel a responsibility about the way you portray violence?" And I'm like, "No, I felt a responsibility about the way I portrayed violence the first time I picked up a pen."
Wow, I think that's just about the most intelligent and responsible thing I've ever read about the influence of culture on behaviour.
"Mind, as manifested by the capacity to make choices, is to some extent present in every electron." -Freeman Dyson
Dude, you're basing all of your complaints on the show's marketing. Stop and think for a minute. Does that really make sense?
Why don't you just sit down and watch the show. Or TiVo it, or whatever. Then you can bitch.
Besides, complaints about how it's not original will fall on deaf ears. Wasn't it Joesph Campbell who said there were only about seven stories? Most of 'em can be found in The Odyssey, if you just look. The theme of the story isn't what makes it interesting. It's the execution that matters. And none of us will know anything about that until 8:00 PM, Eastern and Pacific.
I fully agree. I mean it isn't the only one look at this one book I was reading:
Raskolnikov: Insane Student
Sonya Marmeladov: Kind Whore
Dmitri: Loyal Friend
Dunya: Close Sister
Alyona Ivanovna: Mean Crone
Lizaveta Ivanovna: Tragic Mistake
etc...
In short, don't be silly. Yes you can reduce them to simple cardboard cutouts, but that doesn't matter. It is like that old thing that there are only n (7, 28, 36 etc.) plots in the world. Well actually you can simplify it down to one plot: "Something happens". Reduction can make fools of anything, even the best work. So just watch the show, or wait for a review, don't complain because some intern wrote crappy copy for a website.
I'd do something interesting, but my server can't handle a slashdotting.