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."

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Of course

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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/

no time travel

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That says it all. That is why i think firefly is a better that the late incarnations of Star Trek and B5. Don't get me wrong. B5 is a wonderful story that is more ambitious and make a better effort to be technically accurate than practically any other sci-fi show. And Star Trek is great, it is the Granddaddy.

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.

Re:FireFly DVD set is great - why did Fox cancel?

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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.

Re:FireFly DVD set is great - why did Fox cancel?

[Marxist Hacker 42]

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.