Re: this is a first... Firefly

>This is one I have not heard of before.
>
>Can anyone give me a brief review / overview of the quality of firefly?
 Is
>it well acted and has it got good SFX?
>
>Thank you
>R

As Roger mentioned, we had a bit of a chat about it around early-mid 
December, and I posted an overview then. I can repost it if you can't 
find it in the archives, or direct email it to you if you want.

It's VERY well written and acted, the SFX are good (but surprisingly 
unimportant in most episodes!), and it was quite possibly far too 
clever for the TV execs who pull the strings, which is probably why 
it got cancelled ("That's not Science Fiction! There are no people 
with rubber bottoms stuck to their foreheads! And the spaceships 
aren't blowing each other up!! And they're not trying to save the 
Galaxy either!").

It's probably the closest thing to life on a "Traveller" free trader 
that we'll ever see on TV......

Watch it. You'll like it.  ;-)

Jon (GZG)

>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Ground Zero Games" <jon@gzg.com>
>To: <gzg-l@csua.berkeley.edu>
>Sent: Thursday, January 01, 2004 10:39 PM
>Subject: Re: this is a first...
>
>
>>  >On Thursday, January 1, 2004, at 09:54 AM, Michael Llaneza wrote:
>>  >
>>  >>It's post-Xmas, so I'm watching my Firefly DVD set. Mmmm mmmm
good.
>>  >>I'm on disc four, and have now seen two of the unaired episodes
and
>>  >>one I missed first time around. Damn this show was good.
>>  >
>>  >Anyone know if there are any plans for a Region 2 version of the
DVDs?
>>
>>
>>  Apparently due "sometime in 2004, probably", according to SFX.....
>>  make of that what you will.
>>
>>  I simply got the region 1 version via playUSA.com - £27.99 inc
>>  shipping - because I didn't want to wait (and I have a multi-region
>>  player).
>>
>>
>>  Jon (GZG)
>>
>>  >
>>  >(Not that it'd get watched that fast as I've still got half of
>>  >season 2 and the whole of season 3 of Robin of Sherwood to work
>>  >through).
>>  >
>>  >Cheers,
>>  >
>>  >Dom
>>  >
>>  >-----------Dom Mooney---------cybergoths_at_dsl.pipex.com----------
>>  >"We tell the tales of heroes to remind ourselves that we too
>>  >can be great" - John Wick, 7th Sea
>>  >http://www.cybergoths.u-net.com   http://www.bits.org.uk/
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