Posted on 04/26/2005 1:19:53 PM PDT by Brian Mosely
Many of us Sci-Fi fans have been waiting on this one. Universal bumped the release date to September due to "The Interpreter" being released this past weekend. But the trailer is now online and may be shown with "Hitchhikers Guide" this Friday. Enjoy!
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I loved that show. I think that they took it off because the good guys actuallu killed people.
VERY kewl!!
They took it off air because short sighted network executives realized it was cheaper to program with knockoffs of good reality shows like Super Nanny and Extreme Makeover. Which came back to bite them, as they're being sued for it. I bet they wish they would have kept it on air, now.
Probably the best Sci-Fi show on TV in the past four or five years; certainly the best since Babylon 5. Only the new Battlestar Galactica comes close to its quality. I had the DVD set with me when I travelled to Sweden last month for work; the guys in the office there had never seen the show, and now they are addicted too.
Maybe I was just reading something into it, but it seemed to have a little right of center subtext in it.
They also got great ratings. I was really surprised to see a show like that on network TV. It was very well done all they way around. I have never been statified by the explainations for the cancellation.
It was certainly better than some of the stuff made for the SciFi channel.
The movie looks like they kept the exact same feel, though one cannot tell much from a trailer/
Whedon himself is a lib; held a big pro-Kerry rally last fall in LA, so I am sure the subtext was more a result of the western influence, not from Whedon's direction. Lib or not, he madea good show.
They used real bullets.
They are, not incidentally, genres with wide resonance in the American psyche.
Perhaps that merging of the two is what gave it a punch.
And yes, I suppose the western almost always brings a right of center point of view. Westerns tend to be about the native morality of the individual faced against some sort of group.
I think one can date the beginning of the fall of Hollywood to the "deconstruction" of the Western that began in the 1960's. True, it gave us some great westerns, but in the end the socialists in Hollywood stopped making "heroic myths" and began to make effeminate socialist propaganda.
Now we have gotten to the point that there is no one left in Hollywood that could even attempt to depict real life, let alone the American mythos (and logos, I guess.)
Just a thought... (holy smokes! I sound like so LitCrit socialist, don't I...)
While the ratings were good they weren't good enough for what the show cost. Good scifi is often very expensive to produce (that's the true success of B5, great scifi for dirt cheap) and that has an unfortunate tendency to kill it before it's time. Same thing happened to the original Galactica, it had great ratings but each episode cost almost as much as a full made for TV movie and there was just no way they could fit enough commercials in to pay for it. And, let's not forget, Fox has a long tradition of bouncing shows around in the schedule and damaging their ability to build a proper following and then pulling the plug in great haste. Hopefully the return of Family Guy (which they killed the same way, and the DVD sales convinced them that it really did have an audience if only that audience knew when it was going to be on) marks Fox finally learning to stop doing that... but I have my doubts.
I understand the incredible sales of the Firefly box set convinced the Suits to give this film a greenlight.
Rumor has it that the original pitch was to Lucasfilm as a Star Wars TV show, and that only when that failed did Firefly take on its present form. You can definitely see how certain elements would have been treated in that environment: Browncoats/Rebels, Blue Sun/Black Sun, etc.
I do like the utter lack of aliens in this show. No forehead disease, no Muppets...
I loved the show too. I thought it was probably the most realistic depiction of what the colonization of space would look like.
There were some episodes of the classic Star Trek that hinted at a rough frontier life in a colony, well maybe only one, Mud's Women is the only one I can think of.
I thought it was brilliant, and at least it wasn't Foxed after only three episodes.
I don't really know what this trailer alert is for, I don't really keep up too much on all the online stuff for my favorite shows, but I'll check it out.
I saw the trailer.. It looks good. You right it is more of a realistic vision of space colonization... That is what I like about this show.
One of the issues that I think it was taken off the air was that bankers didn't like the depiction of people purchasing/bartering for goods using hard currency (platinum coins) as it would eliminate the need for banks to issue controlled electronic or paper currencies.
That was my love of the show. Seeing a day to day bartering system going on for goods and services.
WOW. I didn't know they were making a movie!! :-O
I'm looking forward to this one.
I've never seen Firefly myself (It was very short lived and I was a late-comer to the Whedonverse), but after 7 glorious (or should it be Glorificus? Ha Ha) years of Buffy the Vampire Slayer-- the best written show in TV History-- I'm willing to follow Joss Whedon just about anywhere.
Is it true that Nathan Fillion, the actor who played the vicious and demonic "preacher" Caleb during BtVS's final few episodes, is going to be one of the leads in this movie?
That's be pretty cool.
Nathan Fillion is the captain of the ship...and has the most speaking parts in the trailer. Check out the DVD box set.
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