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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."
There are html, css, and 508 validators.
There should be a slashdot validator for pages: The likelihood that if slashdotted, your pages will take your server down for the count.
"Piter, too, is dead."
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/
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It appears the website appeared just in the nick of time. What do you suppose that makes the designers? Big Damn Heroes! Ain't they just?
I also reply below your current threshold.
And you people claim to be fans....
Slashdot brought the website down faster than Fox took down the tv show! Now I still can't get my Joss fix....
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How do you /. the web site of a major motion picture? You'd think they could afford the bandwidth/horsepower.
Can't wait for the movie, though. I've got to get my DVD set of the series back and watch it again. I've loaned it out -- doing my part to extend the fan base.
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It was fox that dropped the series ? See not a mozilla joke in sight
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No. They will not continue to record the series. The movie is all thats left, unfortunately. It was a terrific series.
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The current hope is that a successful movie run will get Firefly back on the air. Until then, get the DVD set already !
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Point yer browsin' gear here for news and discussion, including recent blogs by Nathan ("Mal") and Jewel ("Kaylee") from the set.
And by dint of shameless grovelling the webmaster has just wangled himself a part as an extra on the movie! Kudos.
I just want to know who dusty-whatever is so I can beat the stupid right out of him.
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I didn't watch any of the episodes on Fox because I hadn't even discovered Buffy yet. 6 seasons of DVD Buffy later (waiting for the 7th), we buy Firefly's DVD set and were really impressed.
Firefly, the series, has the usual Joss Whedan good characters interacting in interesting ways.
Apparently they didn't show the pilot first on Fox and I can't imagine how that could have worked. The 2 hour pilot (also called Serenity) is a must see and its CGI special effects are surprisingly good.
15 episodes (pilot + 13) + extras.
Strongly Recommended!
See title. All the summaries seem to point to that but that seems odd.
I'm not sure how I feel about that, either way.
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.
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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?
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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.
Maybe the answer is an entirely new distribution channel like Mark Cuban's HDNet. Whedon should not be burdened with product placements and FOX-style scorecarding.
Is finally being listed in the cast. I've always thought Book was one of the more interesting characters of the show.
Take my love
Take my land
Take me where I cannot stand
I don't care
I'm still free
You can't take the sky from me
Take me out
To the black tell 'em I ain't coming back
Burn the land
And boil the sea
You can't take the sky from me
Have no place
I can be
Since I found Serenity
But you can't take the sky from me
This is one of the catchiest show songs I have heard in a long time. I remember thinking it was kind of a weird song for a space show the first episode of Firefly I ever saw. Pretty soon I found myself singing along.
I can't wait to see the movie!!!
I think you have it all wrong. This was simply one of the best shows on TV period. Not simply best Sci-fi show, best show overall.
/. but I had to on this. Go see this movie. You won't be sorry.
I made several other people fans of the show by just letting borrow my DVDs. These are female, non-geeks who hate anything sci-fi who simply love the show and were shocked that it had been cancelled.
I don't know if you actually watched the show but it was the western motiff was just a small part of the show and only played a part in some of the episodes.
The dialog cheesy and cookie cutter characters? Come on!! The dialog is great and very original. The characters were also unique. We had a legal prostitute, former military soldier (low rank, not a general of anything) turned business man, gorgeous amazonian warrior, not entirely loyal hired muscle, former minister looking for his way, very feminine female mechanic, dorky, talented pilot who landed the amazon and a weakly, gifted
doctor who risked everything to save his sister.
I don't know about you, but that is an extremely original group of characters thrown together in a very plausible way. I have never watched Cowboy beebop so I can't comment on that. What I can do is comment on is the quality of this show.
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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?)
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I was at Universal Studios Hollywood on Tuesday. During the studio tour (where you drive around on the busses) we went through a "quiet zone" where they were filming several movies. Right beside the Jurassic Park ride was the set of Serenity, and who was right outside the set? None other then Nathan Fillion, the Captain himself.
Although I don't subscribe to the obsessive-fan mantra, being a huge fan of Firefly and seeing him, dressed in his usual captain garb, was the highlight of the day for me.
I really hope the new movie does well, but either way, we've kept flying.
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.
It's good that the site has such a short, easy-to-remember URL.
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If you can stomach anime at all, you'll probably like Cowboy Beebop. It's just similar enough in tone to Firefly to be interesting (but not enough to make Firefly "a ripoff").
Ever since I found out the cute engineer girl is married i lost all interest in the show. Sigh..
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If you're not outraged, then you're not paying attention.
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?
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Sounds like good future name for Phoenix, Firefly 1.0?
>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.
You just provided a bare link to fireflyfans.net. I'm not seeing anything obvious on the front page saying they won't consider renewing the series, so your "proof" is somewhat dubious.
That's what I was thinking.
i'll believe that Firefly is 100% dead when Whedon is made an offer by a studio to make a new Firefly series and he turns it down.
That would also depend on the terms thereof.
In the commentary for the DVDs Joss says that it was his favorite project of all the ones he worked on. As long as he maintained artistic control, all he needs is an executive producer to finance the show.
I suppose it is possible for HBO or Showtime to finance it like Showtime did with Stargate SG1. It might even be able to finance the show through DVD sales, and then syndicate the show on Saturday afternoons or something like we have with Buffy now.
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I tried all the DVD stores in Brisbane Australia. No Firefly released or planned to be released in Australia.
Firefly not released in Australia (Region 4). Store guy recommened downloading it off the intenet.
Anyone seen Region 4 DVD of the series available.
BTW; it has also not been shown on TV here either.
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If you're out of the X-Men loop, (or never in it in the first place), Issue 1 does a decent job of setting up the situation and characters, though it does make more sense if you've been following the recent story lines. Hopefully I'll get to check out Firefly soon, since his comic writing reflects well on him.
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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.
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Serenity Now!
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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.