Since people seemed to like my Buffy preview/reaction thingy, here is what I wrote about Firefly.
Um, well, we listened to aggressively cheerful music sung by people chosen for their ability to dance. Then we ate cookie dough, and talked about boys.
Giles ,'Get It Done'
Firefly Spoilers
Discussion of all Firefly episodes, including "Trash", "The Message", "Heart of Gold", and any movie news.
Jessica - Sep 18, 2002 9:20:01 am PDT #3 of 1424
If I want to become a cloud of bats, does each bat need a separate vaccination?
jengod - Sep 18, 2002 9:00:57 pm PDT #4 of 1424
edit: moved to the main FF board.
candyb - Sep 19, 2002 6:21:37 am PDT #5 of 1424
Thanks for the early reviews, guys.
scifi.com has one up:
http://www.scifi.com/sfw/issue282/screen3.html
they gave it an A-
Jessica - Sep 19, 2002 7:40:49 am PDT #6 of 1424
If I want to become a cloud of bats, does each bat need a separate vaccination?
The wierdo pro-Confederacy, anti-government, anti-Establishment vibe. I know they're like, small-r rebels, not big-r rebels, but I feel like I showed up at an early NRA convention. "States' rights! Now and forever!" I don't know about you, but I'm glad the Union won the Civil War.
Yeah, I got that vibe too. It helps to think of it as The Empire/Republic. (Complete with snarky antihero™! Antihero comes with dusty brown clothes, slacker attitude and held-together-by-duct-tape ship. Princess in need of rescue sold separately.)
candyb - Sep 20, 2002 6:32:09 am PDT #7 of 1424
Tom Shales didn't much care for the first ep of Firefly.
I don't have links, but USA Today and that guy from TV gUide that loves Buffy gave the first ep decent-good reviews.
Jessica - Sep 20, 2002 7:46:32 am PDT #8 of 1424
If I want to become a cloud of bats, does each bat need a separate vaccination?
I've read one review (can't remember where, or I'd link) that said Firefly was better than BtVS because the characters are more accessible. (Now, personally, I think they were heavy into the monkey crack when they wrote that, but it does bode well for the popularity of the show.)
candyb - Sep 26, 2002 4:26:49 pm PDT #9 of 1424
Herc on AICN said:
The Reavers, said to be modelled upon the Old West’s more bloodthirsty Native American tribes, remain phantoms in “Firefly.”
Anyone know anything more about these scary guys?
P.M. Marc - Sep 29, 2002 9:03:45 pm PDT #10 of 1424
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
Blah blah blah...
Soooo....
Any one know if Doug Savant will be back?
Michele T. - Sep 29, 2002 9:10:33 pm PDT #11 of 1424
with a gleam in my eye, and an almost airtight alibi
Apparently, episode #4 is Ben Edlund's first, and it's a Jayne-centric episode.
Matt the Bruins fan - Sep 29, 2002 9:19:52 pm PDT #12 of 1424
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
Is it pigeonholing to expect much in the way of whimsy and ironic character twists?