“You can’t take the sky from me.”
Unless you’re Fox.
A few days visiting my parents, which I spent being ill, became an introduction to Firefly – space opera from Joss Whedon, the dude behind Buffy and Angel. I’m sure I’m coming a bit late to this, but it’s brilliant.
And it got cancelled. There’s only fourteen episodes. And that’s just wrong.
Hit Amazon. Hit Play. Go to Tesco and buy a copy. I can recommend taking a day and watching it in one go. Trust me. You’ll thank me for it.
May 6th, 2004 at 6:12 pm
haha. i clicked your link and this review was the first thing i saw!
“Don’t waste your time
This was one of the most poorly conceived and written shows I’ve ever seen. I doubt it will hold any interest for anyone older than 8 or 9. Of course, that may be the target audience for this literal western in space.
In five hundred years, humans haven’t been able to develop anything better than 20th century shotguns and four wheelers.
Spielberg’s “Earth 2″ did a much better job of updating the western genre for the science fiction market.”
…but you know me. i never quite got sci-fi.
May 6th, 2004 at 7:05 pm
:-)
That is rather funny.
Although, the comments on tech and stuff do demonstrate a distinct lack of actually watching the show!
I thought the old-fashioned stuff was quite clever and appropriate – a moon gets terraformed, but then it’s populated in the cheapest way possible, hence the frontier-style wooden buildings and low-tech equipment. The posh, ‘sci-fi’ gear is all present and correct, just in the hands of characters with money.
But it’s not sci-fi. It’s a western through and through. Not an alien in sight, and only a couple of lasers. One of the things I loved about it.