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Title: Firefly
Post by: Bdoomed on November 05, 2008, 07:10:31 AM
I know there's a topic elsewhere... i dont care :P
Just watched the show on hulu.com (great site, check it out if you dont already know about it)
my GOD why'd they cancel this?!
my roommate hadnt seen it either but claimed it was a piece of crap from what he had heard.  he's become enamored with it

i love the indifferent disregard for life, especially in the first episode where the captain casually kills the alliance man holding river hostage, and again when he kicks the thug into the jet engine.
so good!

And the last episode was hilarious, so disappointing that they got rid of it!
Title: Re: Firefly
Post by: Zathras on November 05, 2008, 02:14:50 PM
The cast and crew knew that it was their last episode when they filmed bringing home the body. 

I'm not sure how long Firefly could have run, but it would have been at least 3 years.
Title: Re: Firefly
Post by: stePH on November 05, 2008, 02:16:54 PM
I know there's a topic elsewhere... i dont care :P
Just watched the show on hulu.com ...

i love the indifferent disregard for life,

What about my indifferent disregard for Firefly?  ;D
Title: Re: Firefly
Post by: wintermute on November 05, 2008, 02:30:07 PM
I regard your indifferent disregard with indifference.
Title: Re: Firefly
Post by: Russell Nash on November 05, 2008, 06:17:20 PM
whatever

Title: Re: Firefly
Post by: CGFxColONeill on November 05, 2008, 06:36:15 PM
I am actualy watching it in my free time on hulu lol
Title: Re: Firefly
Post by: DKT on November 05, 2008, 06:59:28 PM
I don't think Firefly was the greatest show ever, but I do really like it, and I'm sad that it didn't get a longer run.
Title: Re: Firefly
Post by: Zathras on November 05, 2008, 07:20:17 PM
I don't think Firefly was the greatest show ever, but I do really like it, and I'm sad that it didn't get a longer run.

I thought of it as a "fun" show.  Don't worry too much about the details, just suspend your disbelief and enjoy the ride.
Title: Re: Firefly
Post by: DKT on November 05, 2008, 07:22:58 PM
Exactly. It was a great, fun ride.
Title: Re: Firefly
Post by: spetznatz on November 05, 2008, 08:19:21 PM
netflix has the film...  its cult
Title: Re: Firefly
Post by: Bdoomed on November 05, 2008, 08:23:19 PM
Never said it was the greatest, but i reeeeeally enjoyed it
not as wild about the movie
Title: Re: Firefly
Post by: Russell Nash on November 05, 2008, 08:30:19 PM
The movie is much better if you watched the series first

Title: Re: Firefly
Post by: Bdoomed on November 05, 2008, 08:59:25 PM
well i started to watch the movie again and i got to when they get to Miranda and remembered the rest, didnt feel like watchin it :P gets too zombie-like and i wasnt in the zombie mood
Title: Re: Firefly
Post by: deflective on November 05, 2008, 09:41:26 PM
you can't just charge into the zombies every time and expect it to work out, sometimes you need a little zombie foreplay.

maybe some mood lighting (eg, flickering florescents) and a nice meal would set the scene. try to set aside a full evening and make sure that the zombies understand they're there for you, not just your brains.
Title: Re: Firefly
Post by: Zathras on November 05, 2008, 10:18:06 PM
you can't just charge into the zombies and expect it to work out every time, sometimes you need a little zombie foreplay first.

maybe some mood lighting (eg, flickering florescents) and a nice meal would set the scene. try to make a full evening out of it and make sure that the zombies understand they need to be there for you, not just your brains.

brainzzzzzzzzzzzz
Title: Re: Firefly
Post by: stePH on November 05, 2008, 11:53:31 PM
I regard your indifferent disregard with indifference.

I disregard your indifference to my indifferent disregard.


(Your turn.  ;D)
Title: Re: Firefly
Post by: Bdoomed on November 06, 2008, 04:42:38 AM
i regard everyone's indifference with indifferent disregard, and am so indifferent to it, that N-sh himself cannot fathom the indifference, he just gets too bored and indifferent before he can.
Title: Re: Firefly
Post by: Roney on November 06, 2008, 10:38:47 PM
meh
Title: Re: Firefly
Post by: DarkKnightJRK on January 10, 2009, 01:57:39 AM
Yeah, I'm definately a pretty big fan of the show. Definately the best of Whedon's work so far. :D
Title: Re: Firefly
Post by: MacArthurBug on February 04, 2009, 05:28:55 AM
I am amoung the geeky few who did not catch this until it was too late. The little bit of time that the telivision is on at my house, it's usually on for one of my children or it's on for vidio games. Usually I catch up on prerecorded favorites, or watch stuff online. So- when Firefly came out It flew beneath my radar. I was sorely dissapointed I was so far away from the fact that I couldn't even properly morn the passing of the tihing. Truly awesome show, fun, witty, sexy, and just a-freaking-mazing.
Title: Re: Firefly
Post by: Talia on February 04, 2009, 08:17:56 AM
I am amoung the geeky few who did not catch this until it was too late.

actually im retty sure that puts you in the majority. If people had realized how great the show was BEFORE it was cancelled.. maybe it would have had more of a chance.

:(
Title: Re: Firefly
Post by: stePH on February 11, 2009, 04:18:16 AM
I'll be checking out Dollhouse since it follows Terminator: TSCC this Friday.
Title: Re: Firefly
Post by: MacArthurBug on February 11, 2009, 04:26:27 PM
I will also be giving Dollhouse a chance. Here's hoping a) It's good stuff and b) it gets to run long enough for us to see where Joss is taking it.
Title: Re: Firefly
Post by: Anarquistador on February 23, 2009, 01:42:42 PM
Definately the best of Whedon's work so far. :D

Isn't saying much, in my opinion.

Whedon's a very clever writer, good with interesting concepts and dialogue. I thought Firefly was an interesting curiosity, but I wasn't really a fan. That damned pseudo-cowbooy dialogue got on my nerves real fast. And as a born and bred Yankee, I found the Civil War parallels unsettling.