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Firefly DVD Set Released
Richard M. Nixon writes "As previously reported the DVD set for Joss Whedon's ill fated Western/Space Opera is now available. The DVD has all 11 episodes that aired, 3 episodes that didn't air, commentary on 7 episodes, and lots of bonus features including Joss singing the Firefly theme. It would make a nice Christmas gift for any Whedon fan who has not already run out and bought it. If DVD Sales are good enough, could we see a second season?"
Nope, it's by far the worst non-reality show ever to disgrace the airwaves. Not only is it not funny, but the timing of the show is so miserable that it makes me sick... after every 'joke' there is a 20 second pause as the camera focuses on the actor and plays the laugh-track. Every one stays frozen for 20 seconds or so as this continues. It's horrible. And the jokes are never funny.
Example: A girl walks in with a pretty red dress, raymond say "You look like a prostitute" and the laugh track plays for 20 seconds as the camera stays focused on Raymond (it might shift over to the girl in the dress to show her outraged face for 10 or 15 seconds afterwards). How this show can stay on tv baffles me.
I think people watch this show and think it's sophisticated and intelligent because it has piano music as the theme song. It must be sophisticated if that's the case....
Stupid people make stupid things profitable.
The "honorable rebel" is neither new nor politically daring. They are almost always universally cheered. How many people do you know that *like* the government? How often are films about *embracing* the status quo rather than challenging it?
Even in Star Trek, Kirk and Picard went against the Federation's wishes quite often ("looks like we have to violate the prime directive for the umpteenth time"). Which side were you rooting for?
People look to authority for protection, but people don't like it. Criticizing authority is only politically daring if that authority will repress you for doing so.
The implication, therefore, that people didn't watch Firefly because they disagreed with its anti-government stance is ridiculous. It's more likely that people either didn't know about it or didn't find it compelling enough to watch.
wow are there any shows that you do like other than the gay niggers of America padgent. and when i was talking about dumb guys wanting to bone silicone injected bimbos i was referring to the who wants to marry and hook up with ??? shows. i don't watch mainstream TV too much (mostly the science and history channels, so I'm surprised that i only got one show wrong. as for idiot well look at my bio and see what i do for a living, and well see who has what acumen.
you don't get it, do you?
these shows don't exist to belittle men. they do that, but it's secondary - and only done so far as is necessary to further the primary agenda.
the primary agenda is to *normalise* the behaviour of these slovenly fucks, to normalise and promote the patriarchal hierarchy within their antiquarian families. these shows teach the great unwashed masses just how their lives should be run, how they should inter-relate with each other, i.e. they illustrate the Natural Order Of Things (as decided by conservative old farts).
in short, these shows are regressive propaganda promoting an archaic and conservative agenda....and you've bought into it if your yearning for 1950s style trash is anything to go by.