Any Firefly fans?

[Flowers4Heisman]

I had heard it had a cult following, so I started watching it today on the second computer screen while I worked.

 

Holy cow, that's one EXCELLENT series. It brought me back to the days when I was hooked on the old Battle Star Galactica -the original. Just great storytelling with people you care about.

[charsibb]

Browncoat here.

 

One of the best series ever made. Make sure you watch them in the right order. Fox really screwed up this series and didn't order them properly. Then watch the Serenity movie right after Objects In Space. Buy the DVD and watch the commentaries, etc.

 

http://www.amazon.com/?_encoding=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&linkCode=ur2&tag=bulliesusfbul-20

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firefly_%28TV_series%29#Broadcast_history

 

I just rewatched them all last month in a marathons session for maybe the 5th time.

 

Shiny!

[Flowers4Heisman]

Browncoat here.

 

One of the best series ever made. Make sure you watch them in the right order. Fox really screwed up this series and didn't order them properly. Then watch the Serenity movie right after Objects In Space. Buy the DVD and watch the commentaries, etc.

 

http://www.amazon.com/?_encoding=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&linkCode=ur2&tag=bulliesusfbul-20

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firefly_%28TV_series%29#Broadcast_history

 

I just rewatched them all last month in a marathons session for maybe the 5th time.

 

Shiny!

 

Thanks!

 

One of my favorite lines: "I hope the hoors look better than the hoorhouse!" 

 

(Yes, I know how to spell that word.)

Edited August 11, 2013 by Beta4East1989

[Flowers4Heisman]

http://science.discovery.com/tv-shows/firefly/videos/surprise-guest.htm

[charsibb]

http://science.discovery.com/tv-shows/firefly/videos/surprise-guest.htm

 

Very shiny! Brought a little tear to the corner of my eye

 

One of the coolest things from the commentaries was the comment that the cast would hang out in the kitchen whenever they weren't on camera. You can really see how close the cast were and how much they really loved each other.

Edited August 11, 2013 by charsibb

[Flowers4Heisman]

I overdosed on the whole series and the movie in one day, so my brain's been trying to digest it all.

 

Anyway, what made me love it so much is that it is as if somebody made a series out of Star Wars -the concept of Han Solo, Luke, Leia and a few others as they carry illegal cargo from one planet to another.

 

None of the Star Treks could achieve this, and I've seen them all.

 

Leave it to Fox to destroy television art.

[charsibb]

And leave it to fandom to resurrect a cancelled show.

 

Here's an example of how much some folks loved the show. $10,000 worth of Lego pieces to build a 7-foot-long Serenity.

 

http://io9.com/5931903/seven+foot-long-minifig+scale-serenity-model-is-a-lego-masterpiece

 

 

Found here. A great source of trivia

 

http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Series/Firefly

Edited August 13, 2013 by charsibb

[Apis Bull]

It does have a similar feel as Star Wars.  While it's technologically advanced, it feels like it happened a while ago.

[charsibb]

Wheedon said he wanted to include the past and the future to make it feel like the present, or something like that.

 

Ten years after cancellation, the Browncoats are stronger than ever. Says a lot

[Flowers4Heisman]

For me, this is why Firefly works and the new Star Wars movies (post-Empire Strikes Back) stunk for me; the characters drive the story and not the technology. Plus, the odds are always heavily against them but they keep going.