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So everyone from friends to slashdot to total strangers I've spoken to at (admittedly geeky) social gatherings have been telling me about Firefly; How it's the best sci-fi to ever grace the television screen, how terrible it was that it got canceled, etc etc etc.
Damn, they're right.
Early last week disc one arived via netflix. Late last week the series boxed-set arrived via amazon. We have one disc to go. We would've gotten through it sooner but we keep oscilating between wanting "more! more! more!" and just not wanting it to end. I'm almost (almost) tired of exclaiming "that's so cool!" in the middle of an episode. The writing so far, especially the episodes by Wheedon, Minear and/or Edlund (which is all but two), is fantastic. The acting is such that I can't point to a single weak link in the cast.XanderWash's non-stop "look how witty I am!" quipping gets a bit irritating at times, but that's the closest thing to a complaint that I have and it's still a believable facet of the character.
I find it suprising how closely my feelings about Firefly having been cancelled mirror my feelings about the presidential election. Obviously there's no comparison in terms of importance but both seem to denote a fundamental difference between what appeals to me and what seems to appeal to the majority of the country. Or maybe it's not the rest of the country's fault at all. If the airdates shown (prominently, so I think Mr. Wheedon was trying to make a point) on the back of the discs are to be believed... wtf was Fox thinking? They aired the pilot, which explains why everyone is there in the first place *after* everything else?? If that's the case then no wonder it never caught on. Chalk up one more reason to love Fox for taking on great new shows and then hate them destroying said shows, wondering why nobody's watching and then replacing them with more proffitable things-- like Fear Factor reruns. Grr.
--Brad (continuing his proud tradition of getting in on trends two years after the fact)
Damn, they're right.
Early last week disc one arived via netflix. Late last week the series boxed-set arrived via amazon. We have one disc to go. We would've gotten through it sooner but we keep oscilating between wanting "more! more! more!" and just not wanting it to end. I'm almost (almost) tired of exclaiming "that's so cool!" in the middle of an episode. The writing so far, especially the episodes by Wheedon, Minear and/or Edlund (which is all but two), is fantastic. The acting is such that I can't point to a single weak link in the cast.
I find it suprising how closely my feelings about Firefly having been cancelled mirror my feelings about the presidential election. Obviously there's no comparison in terms of importance but both seem to denote a fundamental difference between what appeals to me and what seems to appeal to the majority of the country. Or maybe it's not the rest of the country's fault at all. If the airdates shown (prominently, so I think Mr. Wheedon was trying to make a point) on the back of the discs are to be believed... wtf was Fox thinking? They aired the pilot, which explains why everyone is there in the first place *after* everything else?? If that's the case then no wonder it never caught on. Chalk up one more reason to love Fox for taking on great new shows and then hate them destroying said shows, wondering why nobody's watching and then replacing them with more proffitable things-- like Fear Factor reruns. Grr.
--Brad (continuing his proud tradition of getting in on trends two years after the fact)
