Since people seemed to like my Buffy preview/reaction thingy, here is what I wrote about Firefly.
Xander: Am I right, Giles? Giles: I'm almost certain you're not. Though, to be fair, I haven't been
listening.
'Sleeper'
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?