RE: Firefly (was: Re: this is a first...)

Giveth us a comparison of Friefly to B5, John! I didn't watch it here in
the 
states for the sam reason below.  R/Robert

>From: Ground Zero Games <jon@gzg.com>
>Reply-To: gzg-l@csua.berkeley.edu
>To: gzg-l@csua.berkeley.edu
>Subject: Firefly (was: Re: this is a first...)
>Date: Sun, 14 Dec 2003 12:23:15 +0000
>
>>--- Ground Zero Games <jon@gzg.com> wrote:
>>>  Having just got the Firefly DVD set and watched some of the extras,
>>>  Zoe (Gina Torres) springs obviously to mind in this context.... 
;-)
>>
>>I never heard of Firefly when it was on, only seen ads for the DVD.
>>
>>Is it any good?
>>
>>I am suspicious of any sci-fi from the man who brought us "Buffy the
>>Vampire Slayer" :)
>>
>>J
>
>
>Well, personally I think Firefly is excellent. It depends how you like
your 
>SF to be; this is a character-driven series where the personalities and
the 
>dialogue are FAR more important than the whizz-bang effects. There are
no 
>rubber-forehead prosthetics - in fact there are NO aliens (sentient or 
>otherwise) at all. There are also virtually no space battles (Serenity
gets 
>shot AT a couple of times, but she doesn't even have any weapons to
shoot 
>back with....).
>
>The background is lots of sparsely-settled human frontier colonies, all

>grubby and mostly low-tech. The crew are a mix of realistically flawed 
>characters, each with their own agenda which may or may not match any
of 
>the others. The "Western in Space" (actually, more 
>"post-ACW-reconstructionism in space") elements are perhaps a little
heavy 
>at times, but I think they work. I'd certainly rate it as the
best-written 
>TV SF I've yet seen.
>
>If Star Trek is your vision of how TV SF should be, Firefly will be a 
>culture shock... but I'd recommend giving it a try!
>
>Jon (GZG)
>
>

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