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Upcoming Firefly Movie Behind-the-Scenes Photos
browncoat1 writes "A Firefly Mod for Neverwinter Nights is available, based on the cancelled FOX Television show Firefly (by Joss Whedon, of Buffy, Angel, and Titan A.E. fame). The guy who wrote the mod just posted some secret behind-the-scenes photos from the set of the upcoming movie Serenity, based on the show and starring the actors and actresses from the show. It should be a must-see for fans of Firefly or sci-fi TV in general."
I'm guessing the cruising around in space-part?
Spaceships, terraforming, and psychic powers aren't sci-fi to you? Okay then.
And sadly, if anything is making people desperate, it's the depths that both Star Wars and Star Trek have fallen to.
Uh...durrr... what's secret about your soon to be slashdotted photos? And if they don't get hosed, which marketing agency do you work for?
Who's Matt? There's no Matt on Firefly. Maybe you meant Mal.
And I find River to be a much better comparison for Trance, being the mysterious outsider girl with hidden powers.
That's just my take based on old Andromeda eps, though. I gave up on the show after the first season. Firefly did much better than most other scifi, and with only half a season.
It's like saying shows are same because they both have characters in them.
Andromeda's main premise is an attempt to (re)build a huge empire. It is highly political (and not in a smart, B5ish way) and highly idealistic (tada - everything is "Good Vs. Evil" like Star Trek and other idealistic "sci-fi")
Firefly's main premise is to keep flying and stay below radar, noone is good or evil, just people who can help and people who can hurt. Main theme is survival.
I think survival is something more people can relate to and makes for a much better science fiction (as opposed to "sci-fi")
-Em
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For anime, the closest match is obviously Cowboy Beebop, but the feel of the two shows and the setup are quite different. As for the Andromeda fans, try doing a compare of Firefly to Star Trek:
Mal - Kirk
Zoe - Spock
Wash - Scotty
Kaylee - Chapel
Shepherd - McCoy
Jayne - Chekov
Inara - Rand (yeah, I know, Rand and Chekov were never on at the same time)
This is because episodic television (indeed, all episodic fiction) is by its nature formulaic: you look for ways to balance your ensemble, and the chief balances seem to be around the hero. First you create your hero, then you look to his friends (in Trek, the emotionally balanced Kirk has McCoy, the sympathetic one, and Spock, the logical one; in Firefly, you have Zoe, the professional, and Shepherd, the sympathetic), then his love interest (Rand, Inara), then the inept male comic relief (Chekov, Jayne), then the socially inept female comic relief who has a crush on someone (Chapel, Kaylee), and don't forget Mr. Fixit. Of course, since supposedly Andromeda was based on an idea by Roddenberry, structural similarities between Andromeda and Star Trek would make sense (look at the structural similarities between ST: TMP and *Encounter at Farpoint* some time - Decker:Riker::Deltan Ilia:Betazoid Deanna), but I think you could probably look at any other team-based episodic television series and find many common elements.
Ooh - I get the first chance to say -
Fox is Evil and Bad for canceling Firefly. It's a great show.
"One touch of Darwin makes the whole world kin." George Bernard Shaw
Dark Angel (a quality show)
You mean the post apocalyptic show where technology was destroyed by EMPs, but everyone had working, brand bew SUVs (with a bit of mud swiped on the hood to make it look post apocalyptic), cell phones, Macs, motorcycles, etc?
The one with freakin' Vincent from Beauty and the Beast?
The one with the genetically enhanced girl that can inexplicably leap over a 20ft fence? Who's rent-a-womb mother (with no genetic link to her) looks exactly like her?
The show with a hot chick that goes in heat?
That wasn't a quality show, that was a hot chick vehicle, there's a difference. The chick was hot, the show was not.
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