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Official Firefly Movie Web Site Launched
The Orange Hatter writes "The official Universal Pictures web site for the Firefly Movie 'Serenity' is up. It includes a blog, message board, opportunites to get point for Firefly swag, and lots of other fun stuff. Check it out."
And of course the mods miss the blaitant spam. Submitter is getting points for every slashdot clickthru.
Non spammy link in 3..2..1...http://www.serenitymovie.com/
symetrix. We are building a religion, a limited edition.
But the time travel, unless we are traveling in time and not space, is the overused plot device of the past ten or 15 years. Enterprise sucks because that is the basis of the whole show, and hopefully they can compensate for the mistake. B5 was nearly fatally wounded by it's misuse of the time line.
But Firefly concentrates on the basics. The relationships. The flawed characters. The goal of living life the best you can. You don't have people floating willy nilly in and out of time. You don't have have people going back and forth in time so that the writers can cowardly destroy a ship at the beginning of the episode only to have it resurrected at the end. All you have is a totally unbelievable ship floating throughout a totally unbelievable universe with totally unbelievable characters. Just like real life.
This is also why Battlestar Galactica was so cool.
"She's a scientist and a lesbian. She's not going to let it slide." Orphan Black
Shockwave required before you can see anything on their worthless page. Same with the "Ghost in the Shell 2" page.
How hard is it to design a page that is usable by EVERYONE? Not hard at all and yet here we have examples of two groups that couldn't pull it off. Are web designers like these born stupid or do they learn it in school?
"I once preached peaceful coexistence with Windows. You may laugh at my expense - I deserve it." Be's Jean-Louis Gass
When was the last time you waited for a movie to come out and it was good?
Doesn't it make you feel good to know that our freedoms are protected by politicans, lawyers and journalists.
Seeing it out of order really destroyed the experience for me. My biggest complaint was that it was rather disjointed. I really wasn't a big fan until I watched it on DVD. Personally I'd rather watch the FireFly DVD again than anything Fox is currently showing.
IANALBIPOOGL (I am not a Lawyer, but I play one on GrokLaw.)
The series seemed to confuse the NeuroTypicals out there. I read a review in the Oregonian (Portland, OR newspaper) where the critic completely focused on what he felt were technological inconsistencies ("they've got spaceships and bullet trains but most people use horses?") and uterly failed to understand the backstory at all (of a Centralized "galacticazation" trade group that kept the core rich and the outlying planets poor, quite an interesting social commentary there about the power of corporations in cahoots with governments). It just went right over his head. And I know that reviewer, read his TV reviews quite often, I'd put him slightly above normal intelligence; so obviously the great number of boobs who would fall for "Joe Millionaire" and other Fox Reality shows just weren't smart enough to get Joss Whedan. And thus we're stuck watching the idiocy they CAN understand.
SJW: a person who perceives an injustice, and while correcting it, commits a greater injustice.
And it's Cowboy Bebop that has the cookie-cutter characters, not Firefly. Firefly's characters are among the deepest I've seen on any television show, ever. That's why it's audience has grown--even as FOX railroaded it off-the-air.
I highly recommend a second viewing of the show on DVD, starting with the proper pilot episode, which never aired. You need to give this show another chance.
You say you're "calling it right now" and that this is going to be a "flop of titanic proportions"? Whew! I'll take that bet as far as you like. This movie may not reign supreme at the box office, but it will outperform on DVD, just as the series has.
See above post on why the NeuroTypical just don't get the show. The whole point was a centrally controling military/industrial complex wins a big war and makes the rest of the world poor, including a part of itself. Replace planets with Europe/Canada/United States (after WWII) or the North in the Civil War, and you've got the REAL plot line. The rest is just surface story to bring out the deeper character development and commentary on the evil corporatists who seek to turn even human life itself to their goals (not sure what those goals are yet- I've yet to watch the DVDs but caught every episode Fox broadcast. WHY did they need to rip away that girl's ability to shield herself emotionally? What purpose did that serve?)
SJW: a person who perceives an injustice, and while correcting it, commits a greater injustice.
Criticism of the mix of high tech space stuff and low tech western stuff strikes me as silly, when all you have to do is look around in the real world, and you'll see a far wider range in technology levels on just this one planet than they showed in the whole Firefly galaxy.
Firefly is not a nerd-science sci-fi show, there is no techno babble, just really good scripting, and real characters.
Don't go into it thinking its all about space ships, technobabble and special effects, its not.
Its a set of really good stories,(think the good the bad and the ugly in space) told against a backdrop that happens to be sci-fi.
In fact I think that is the mark of good sci-fi, (at least in print, most film adaptations suffer somewhat), the story is the important thing, the science part is just a way of looking at the human conditon through a different lens, and enabling new and interesting questions to be asked.
I think it is probably the best science fiction series that has been aired on tv... which was probably why it was canned so quickly
What's wrong with these people?
sic transit gloria mundi
>Criticism of the mix of high tech space stuff and low tech western stuff strikes me as silly..
I agree. Think about it this way: Imagine if you were going to colonize another planet, that was earthlike in enviromnent. Which would you rather bring with you: A car, or a horse? A car requires a replenishable source of gasoline, a mechanic, new tires now and then, belts, hoses, wiring... a car is not viable outside a civilization that can support it. A horse, on the other hand, just needs some room to run and some plants to graze on. In the same token, would you rather have a knife or a laser pistol that runs on Duracells?
I think Joss Wheadon was right on when he predicted that colonization would result in a return to older technologies... or at least not throwing away the tried and true.
all the relationships are strained and uncooperative
Ywah, that guy and his sister, what a strained and uncooperative relationship! Or the flirty thing he had with the mechanic! Whoa! Thalk about animosity there! Like cats and dogs!
Oh! Or the preacher and the merc, training together, with the talking and joking around, boy, that was brutal! And that married couple? Now there's hate at its purest form! Or the captain and the mechanic, she loves her captain and he treats her like his daughter...I'm surprised they didn't kill each other in the first shows! Etc.
Sheesh.
Plus, you get the added bonus of knowing without a shadow of a doubt that they're never, ever going to kill off a character until they've run a few seasons
When the show was cancelled, Inara had just told the captain she was leaving the ship...
Whedon is the only writer out there not afraid to kill off his characters. Go troll some other thread now.
You can't take the sky from me...
Cars are only useful where there are roads.
Horses can navigate a FAR greater range of terrain than any wheeled vehicle.
And a pair of horses can produce more horses.
As for the technology divide in the show, I think it's right on. We have places on this planet where people ride from village to village with a satellite phone and make money allowing others to make calls.
- Jasen.