Comments on: TV Tonight

By: ben

ben — Wed, 24 Jan 2007 00:56:45 +0000

Firefly is SO much better than the SOTU.

Have you seen Serenity? It picks up a few months after the series leaves off (so you might wanna see the series before the movie, if you haven’t already)

I posted a link to the SOTU drinking game, if you are willing to go ahead and watch it…

By: VelvetVoice

VelvetVoice — Wed, 24 Jan 2007 01:40:14 +0000

OMG Firefly is teriffic!!!! Fox… is run… by … crack monkeys!!!!

By: Joel

Joel — Wed, 24 Jan 2007 02:00:22 +0000

“A western/ sci-fi, who would have thought, but it works.”

Back when you were still haploid, bos, this was already tried:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wild_Wild_West

As a viewer at the time, I assure you that it worked very well.

By: SuperT

SuperT — Wed, 24 Jan 2007 02:25:52 +0000

oh god - we are HUGE firefly fans. it’s the most awesome series - stick with it. the first episode is a little rough with the acting and such, but it turns into an awesome series. stupid fox screwed the series over by putting it on fridays at 9pm, then airing only 7 or 8 episodes out of order. god, it will be so good to have someone else to discuss this series with. enjoy! let us know what you think!

By: Robin

Robin — Wed, 24 Jan 2007 03:42:45 +0000

Love that show. Enjoy it. Serenity ain’t half bad either.

On a side note, anyone else watching Battlestar Galactica?

By: LissaKay

LissaKay — Wed, 24 Jan 2007 04:15:30 +0000

Heh heh … another Browncoat in the making! Let me know when you want to see Serenity … I have it, along with the DVD season set up here. And some books. And a Jayne Cobb hat … Shiny!

By: timsan1

timsan1 — Wed, 24 Jan 2007 04:39:47 +0000

Dude, this is an awesome series. Don’t forget to watch the movie — Serenity.

By: marladusa

marladusa — Wed, 24 Jan 2007 13:38:21 +0000

I guess I’m in the minority here. I rented the series through Netflix. I don’t think I even made it through three episodes.

By: VirginiaGal

VirginiaGal — Wed, 24 Jan 2007 14:00:44 +0000

Love it! One of the few shows I made sure to watch on a weekly basis (Mythbusters and Eureka are the only others to be given that honor).

By: Atomictumor

Atomictumor — Wed, 24 Jan 2007 14:18:08 +0000

See, I must admit, BJ and I didn’t make it through the first episode, and eventually deleted it from the computer to save space.
Sigh.
I guess I need to try it again. I’ve never heard anybody tell me it does anything but kick ass.

By: Dean

Dean — Wed, 24 Jan 2007 14:20:37 +0000

My wife doesn’t even like sci-fi and really enjoyed Firefly. Go ahead and plan on renting Serenity afterward because it wraps everything up from where it was so rudely interrupted. Someone told me Firefly was based on the anime Cowboy Bebop. (http://www.sonypictures.com/cthe/cowboybebop/)

By: The Bosphorus

The Bosphorus — Wed, 24 Jan 2007 15:27:13 +0000

I rented Serenity a month ago and liked it quite a bit. It is good entertaining fun.

I haven’t run across any connections w/ Cowboy Bebop, though. What caught my interest at first was the connection between Firefly and the book the Killer Angels. Evidently served as inspiration for Joss Whedon who created the Firefly series.

By: Atomictumor

Atomictumor — Wed, 24 Jan 2007 16:25:17 +0000

Love me some Cowboy Bebop.

By: DebbieS

DebbieS — Wed, 24 Jan 2007 19:26:47 +0000

Firefly is awesome, awesome, awesome. I didn’t watch it until after it was canceled (I saw it on DVD so at least the episodes were in order) and I just couldn’t believe it was canceled. The first episode was rough but I promise, it gets better!

By: Zapaper

Zapaper — Thu, 25 Jan 2007 12:30:02 +0000

I gotta add my vote to the “loved it” category, though some of the acting is sort of bad, and ALL the Chinese is REALLY bad. But who would notice, right? For most people it might as well be Klingon. I got some laughs and chuckles though. Yeah, it has problems. But it also has the quality that a good comic-book has, the sense that you’re never quite sure what’s going to happen the next minute.

If you have trouble getting into it, trying watching the movie first instead?

By: Zapaper

Zapaper — Thu, 25 Jan 2007 12:34:17 +0000

Ha, it never occurred to me that there was a connection between CBebop and FF. But now that I think about it, I can totally see it.

By: Joe P.

Joe P. — Thu, 25 Jan 2007 17:29:44 +0000

Thought there were many similarities between BeBop and Firefly. Both are shows I can watch at anytime and be muchly pleased.

The Serenity movie nicely finishes up the storylines of Firefly (with one or two mysteries remaining, especially with that preacher-man.)

And Serenity made the last 2 Star Wars movies look like crap. I’m a bona-fide Whedon-maniac, yeah.