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  papa

  3 months ago

  Nice to see you've started the series.
  
  One of my favorite aspects of Firefly is the dialogue. I love all the wonderfully colorful phrases that get written into the script. It's a really cool combination of old-school Westernisms and made-up colloquialisms. Definitely one of the highlights of the show.
  
  You're right about Mal being something like a Han Solo type.
  
  I really dug the Western angle. It struck me as fresh given all the sci-fi shows in which you have dudes in fancy uniforms and stuff all over the galaxy and spend a lot of time talking about the technology they're using (a la Star Trek). Fortunately the civilized counterpoint to the colonists and settlers and renegades is the Alliance. So there's a balance.
  
  The real question is...who do you think is the hottest crewmember? I'm a Kaylee fanboy in that dept through and through fwiw.
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  webomatica

  3 months ago

  Yep the dialogue is always amusing, and I've noticed more and more Chinese
  phrases snuck in there as the series continues.
  
  The western angle is growing on me, but I'm already cooking a "why did
  Firefly fail?" post. I think for new viewers the western angle likely had
  something to do with it. I could imagine chanel flippers being confused
  about what to expect. Maybe too unique / clever for its own good.
  
  Now as for hottest crewmember I'll politely abstain until I get through the
  series...
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  papa

  3 months ago

  The Chinese is amusing. Especially since they slip in swears and insults that they couldn't have done if they had used English. Of course, this technique is not new to sci-fi (hence the beloved made-up swears on BSG - FRAK!!!). I think the Chinese angle is not only cool from the standpoint that Asia is super populous and growing on the world stage, but also a nice tip of the hat to the fact that Asians also figure prominently in the history of the American West (what with the construction of the railroads, goldrush, etc). It's a cultural facet that often gets ignored by most tv/movie series.
  
  Certainly a show like Firefly could have survived on a cable station with more targeted audience and realistic viewership expectations. As a mainstream show on a mainstream network, yeah, I think sci-fi is a really, really tough nut to crack.
  
  On a related note (and you'll get to this when you review the feature length film), I think that naming the movie "Serenity" was a colossal marketing blunder. It was an excellent space/action/comedy and I think most of the movie-going public *might* have enjoyed it had they had any idea that a movie with the title of "Serenity" might be an awesome space/action/comedy.
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  Timmargh

  3 months ago

  Excellent series, loved every minute of it. Jayne's gotta be my favourite character, but as for hottest ... I'd go for Inara. It's a shame that Mrs. Reynolds isn't a crew member!
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  papa

  3 months ago

  Oh I forgot about Saffron! She was fine!
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  webomatica

  3 months ago

  I just noticed the actress who played Saffron (Christina Hendricks) plays an office manager in Mad Men.
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  webomatica

  3 months ago

  Yeah I think Jayne has been surprisingly compelling because he's been fairly
  unpredictable. It's easy to write him off as a back stabbing idiot, but he'd
  be easier to hate if he were smarter.
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  DaFerret

  3 months ago

  Hottest (female) crew member... I like all three of them, actually. Kaylee has that sweet "innocent" aura. Inara has elegant beauty. And Zoe... it's hard not to like a woman who knows what she wants and has the gusto to get it.
  
  I sure wish it had been revived. But, I guess sometimes we need these short bursts of creative excellence.
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  Azeemi

  3 months ago

  i Love series and this really very good series i like Jayne's character. thanks for post it.
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