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Edited by burritosenior:
5/25/2014 9:09:30 PM
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Firefly
Five days ago, on the 20th, I started watching the show 'Firefly' on Netflix. As I'm sure almost all of you know, this is a Space Opera Western that didn't do too hot when it aired in the early 2000s but years after was rediscovered by Science Fiction fans and hailed as on of the great travesties of the genre. It was not a tragedy because it was bad though- it was a travesty because it is called one of the greatest Science Fiction shows ever to be produced and it was cancelled in its prime. There are only 14 episodes.
Yesterday, I finished those 14 episodes. The 14th episode resolved relatively little, so there was zero conclusion to the ongoing story. I imagine fans at the time were flabbergasted. I know I would have been.
Today, though? Today I watched on Netflix... Serenity. The movie produced three years later. And I can't help but feel obligated to post... wow. I cried, I laughed, I sat on the edge of my seat... though the movie did not do too well when it first came out, I cannot help but feel this was one of the best movies I've ever seen.
Firefly is a show that people rave about, and I went in skeptical. Surely something praised so unanimously must be because of blind follower-ship, right? Boy was I ever wrong. It is a great thing to see something held in such a high regard live up to the hype that it was given by years of fans spouting about its greatness. Normally this leads to cynicism. While I was initially skeptical as I said earlier though, this faded even by the very first episode- and with the movie just now I feel like I have some degree of closure.
I also wanted to mention how Bungie loves Nathan Fillion, using him in games and bragging about he returns their phone calls and all that jazz. And now I'm a Nathan Fillion fan for more than just his job as Buck in Halo 3: ODST. He was astounding in this show.
So yes. I wanted to share my thoughts on this show I just watched. And while I'm sure you're all heard of the show as I had... if you haven't gotten around to actually watching it yet? Do so. It's on Netflix now, and if you're at all a fan of Science Fiction, you will adore this take on the genre. I cannot encourage people enough. I've been converted.
Discuss Firefly, things that lived up to hype, cult classics, and all that jazz.
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8 RepliesEdited by DTL: 5/26/2014 8:55:30 PMI think the movie was a travesty. Not because I was butthurt over.. things that happened.. but because I didn't feel the movie focused on the parts of the story I actually cared about. I felt that the series didn't have time to develop the story behind the Reavers to a point that I wanted more of them. Up until that point.. all we really knew was that they were some super scary bad guys that everyone feared. You could tell that they were supposed to be a much larger part of the show eventually, but they hadn't gotten that far yet. So having the movie focus so heavily on them was a major disappointment. I would have been far happier if the movie spent its time fleshing out the back stories we spent the first episodes building. Though I can see how that would be a bit anticlimactic in the end.
