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Firefly and/or Joss Whedon
BlueMark:
--- Quote from: DoomMagnet on 01 Mar 2011, 14:18 ---Point taken, though I've never seen firefly nor am I multilingual so I shall take your word for it.
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Oh you lucky lucky bastard.
Go out and get the Series DVD set. And watch them straight though in their proper order. Followed by the movie Serenity.
No excuses, just do it.
Lucky lucky bastard.
DoomMagnet:
--- Quote from: Carl-E on 01 Mar 2011, 18:57 ---
--- Quote from: DoomMagnet on 01 Mar 2011, 18:12 ---I Frequent TV Tropes ...
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Willingly?
Really?!?
:laugh:
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Yes willingly, and yes really. Its interesting stuff. Good time waster.
--- Quote from: BlueMark on 01 Mar 2011, 19:16 ---
--- Quote from: DoomMagnet on 01 Mar 2011, 14:18 ---Point taken, though I've never seen firefly nor am I multilingual so I shall take your word for it.
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Oh you lucky lucky bastard.
Go out and get the Series DVD set. And watch them straight though in their proper order. Followed by the movie Serenity.
No excuses, just do it.
Lucky lucky bastard.
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Is it okay to simply download them? My friend obsesed over them for a small, though he has had some bad taste so... how good/bad is it?
mllerustad:
--- Quote from: DoomMagnet ---
--- Quote from: BlueMark on 01 Mar 2011, 19:16 ---
--- Quote from: DoomMagnet on 01 Mar 2011, 14:18 ---Point taken, though I've never seen firefly nor am I multilingual so I shall take your word for it.
--- End quote ---
Oh you lucky lucky bastard.
Go out and get the Series DVD set. And watch them straight though in their proper order. Followed by the movie Serenity.
No excuses, just do it.
Lucky lucky bastard.
--- End quote ---
Is it okay to simply download them? My friend obsesed over them for a small, though he has had some bad taste so... how good/bad is it?
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If you must, but they're worth paying for. Some of the best characters and writing ever seen on television. Hopefully after watching you will agree. :)
Odin:
--- Quote from: mllerustad on 01 Mar 2011, 22:24 ---
--- Quote from: DoomMagnet ---*crap about Firefly*
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If you must, but they're worth paying for. Some of the best characters and writing ever seen on television. Hopefully after watching you will agree. :)
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They are not worth paying for. The show features some of the worst cliched writing ever by Joss Whedon and the only reason anyone still thinks the show is good is because it was canceled long before the normal idiocy Whedon pulls in every single thing he writes had a chance to crop up (seriously, Google up and check some of the concepts for the show Whedon was planning on before it got canceled, like the quasi-incest sub-plot in Season 2 between Simon and River *shudder*).
The show survives purely on the magnificent casting job that was done for each character and the acting chops they each brought to their roles. I mean, you have Adam Baldwin basically reprising his Animal Mother role from Full Metal Jacket IN SPACE, which is pretty funny, but still not worth buying.
Borrow it or rent it, don't buy it.
frogfactory:
--- Quote from: Odin on 02 Mar 2011, 04:39 ---
--- Quote from: mllerustad on 01 Mar 2011, 22:24 ---
--- Quote from: DoomMagnet ---*crap about Firefly*
--- End quote ---
If you must, but they're worth paying for. Some of the best characters and writing ever seen on television. Hopefully after watching you will agree. :)
--- End quote ---
They are not worth paying for. The show features some of the worst cliched writing ever by Joss Whedon and the only reason anyone still thinks the show is good is because it was canceled long before the normal idiocy Whedon pulls in every single thing he writes had a chance to crop up (seriously, Google up and check some of the concepts for the show Whedon was planning on before it got canceled, like the quasi-incest sub-plot in Season 2 between Simon and River *shudder*).
The show survives purely on the magnificent casting job that was done for each character and the acting chops they each brought to their roles. I mean, you have Adam Baldwin basically reprising his Animal Mother role from Full Metal Jacket IN SPACE, which is pretty funny, but still not worth buying.
Borrow it or rent it, don't buy it.
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+1. I found it pretty much unwatchable. Whedon's typical pseudofeminism and squicky approach to gender politics are turned up to eleven on this show. He writes a lot of strong female characters, and no female strong characters (see: http://www.overthinkingit.com/2008/08/18/why-strong-female-characters-are-bad-for-women/). It's like he's never actually met a woman, judging by his writing.
One of the things I like about QC is that Jeph doesn't fall into this trap.
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