Firefly Premieres Tonight 688
fm6 writes "Firefly, Joss Whedon's 'anti-Trek drama' premieres tonight, on Fox, 8 E/P. I normally despise hypespeak, but this time it's the only language that fits: this is groundbreaking, mind-boggling, totally original. I've seen a bootleg of the pilot (which, unfortunately, the network is holding back) and I promise you this is the most geek-friendly SF you've seen in a long time. Yes, more so than Star Trek and B5, and way past Star Wars. I've never seen the future so skillfully, realistically, and lovingly portrayed. Here is the Official Site and a leading fan site." This is the single new show this season I have added a season pass for to the old Tivo. But I'll probably watch it live. This looks like it could be as good as we hope.
Malcolm's Seven? (Score:5, Informative)
Not that this is a bad thing; you can only churn out so many episodes with shiny happy future people like Trek has.
Re:Malcolm's Seven? (Score:1, Informative)
But a heavily Americanized version.
I wonder how many people here even remember Blake's 7.
Hey, the fx will be better
Only on Slashdot (Score:2, Informative)
Ahem.
It's on FOX at 8:00 PM EST, 7:00 Central. Or check your local listings [tvguide.com].
Fan Site? (Score:5, Informative)
Re:Fan Site? (Score:5, Informative)
Re:Had me sold... (Score:3, Informative)
http://us.imdb.com/Name?Baldwin,%20Adam [imdb.com]
HAND!
Re:Malcolm's Seven? (Score:4, Informative)
Was that anything like the other Brit Sci-fi's? Y'know Dr. Who and Red Dwarf?
Less funny than Red Dwarf, more serious than Dr. Who. Production values were similar to Dr. Who at the time (late 70's/early 80's) with lots of blinking lights and spaceships that on screen were obviously models. Plots were often very slow, often made tolerable only by good dialogue from Avon, one of the B7 crew (well...in name at least), or Commander Servalan, the villian of the show who's always trying to recapture Blake and the rest. As I recall, Avon was the only one of the 7 that had any common sense at all, the rest would blindly walk into the most obvious traps. Avon wasn't a very sympathetic character though, but very well acted by (...short trip to imdb...) Paul Darrow.
If Firefly is like B7 it may have some promise but I doubt it'll be enough to replace Farscape (damn you Sci-Fi channel).
Paul
Re:Fan Site? (Score:3, Informative)
00918 is in Puerto Rico. Odwana doesn't seem to be a town anywhere.
Remember other Fox Fridays? (Score:3, Informative)
Millenium (3 seasons)
Strange Luck (17 episodes)
Brimstone (12 episodes)
and of course Harsh Realm which was hyped to death and cancelled *3 days* after the pilot aired. I think they ran 1 more episode.
What else am I missing?
Write your own stuff, man (Score:5, Informative)
Yes Fan Site (Score:4, Informative)
I'm actually sort-of-friends with Haken, the owner of fireflyfans.net. He hacked it together from ASP and other ActiveX technologies. I agree he did a very good job. People are often suprised when they find out he built it from scratch -- if using standard web components counts as "from scratch".
By contrast the official site is a simplistic HTML/Javascript/Flash thing, obviously done by a total newbie working sparetime and using FrontPage or something similar. If Fox or Mutant Enemy were going to spend a lot of money on web presence, I think they'd start by hiring a proper webmaster for their own site, before branching out into bogus fan sites.