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Re: How does Firefly stack up?
« Reply #50 on: March 17, 2011, 04:56:09 PM »
Space: Above and Beyond

Good premise, effects, some eye candy but never really fun to watch IMO. All the stories were either depressing, ended in a down note or both.
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Re: How does Firefly stack up?
« Reply #51 on: March 17, 2011, 05:06:44 PM »
Quote from: StopTheGrays on March 17, 2011, 04:56:09 PM
Space: Above and Beyond

Good premise, effects, some eye candy but never really fun to watch IMO. All the stories were either depressing, ended in a down note or both.

I loved it anyway.


Quote from: bluestarlizzard on March 17, 2011, 02:37:54 PM
For I am the ultimate Firefly nerd and watched all episodes and the movie with commentary, all the special features and the easter egg...

Yeah, me too. Guess I don't remember that part. I'm not sure that would be such a great storyline, seeing as how Big Scary Corporation has been done to death.
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Re: How does Firefly stack up?
« Reply #52 on: March 17, 2011, 05:47:38 PM »
I wouldn't call out dark mood as a flaw of Space:AaA, though it had many, as noted. The story arc was an existential war after mass devastation similar to BSG. Hard to find a lot of cheer in that. If anything, its quality was hampered by the push for TV-friendly standalone plotting, and being too ambitious for its budget.
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Re: How does Firefly stack up?
« Reply #53 on: March 17, 2011, 07:35:15 PM »
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See:
Season 2, episode 208, Slaves of Las Vegas
Season 3, episode 315, Lady Heather Box
Season 6, episode 615, Pirates of the Third Reich (the freaky one)

Maybe I'll catch them as reruns when I staying out in CA.  Funny, I guess they filmed most of those a couple miles from where I'm working out there.
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Re: How does Firefly stack up?
« Reply #54 on: March 17, 2011, 08:18:04 PM »
Quote from: StopTheGrays on March 17, 2011, 04:56:09 PM
Space: Above and Beyond

Good premise, effects, some eye candy but never really fun to watch IMO. All the stories were either depressing, ended in a down note or both.


I forgot all about Space Above and Beyond. Spotty episode to episode quality, but I liked it overall. Another series that could have gone on to greatness had the network let it live. Available on Netflix.
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Re: How does Firefly stack up?
« Reply #55 on: March 17, 2011, 08:21:19 PM »
Quote from: Ben on March 17, 2011, 08:18:04 PM
I forgot all about Space Above and Beyond. Spotty episode to episode quality, but I liked it overall. Another series that could have gone on to greatness had the network let it live. Available on Netflix.

It had R. Lee Ermey, so it wasn't all bad.
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Re: How does Firefly stack up?
« Reply #56 on: March 18, 2011, 12:00:29 AM »
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Surprised that people laud BSG for it's acting . . . aside from Olmos as Adama, I thought the actors portraying rest of the characters - Tigh, the President, Baltar, Starbuck (especially Starbuck!), etc., were pretty bad.

Tigh- the guy was protrayed pretty well as an unstable, formerly great, drunk, I thought.

Baltar- creepy strange scuzzy dude vibe was pulled off real well. I was only screaming at the TV "Why are you fools trusting him?" Besides us knowing he was bad, you could simply tell he was a psycho.

Prez- I thought she did all right. Wasn't iron handed enough, too soft, as expected of a peace loving civilian who didn't quite realize what was going on at first.

Starbuck...eh, I agree. Not very spectacular.

Apollo- portrayed the "fighter pilot" swagger/attitude pretty well.


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Re: How does Firefly stack up?
« Reply #57 on: March 18, 2011, 01:05:34 AM »
I almost forgot the greatest sci-fi TV show of all....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0bnevbnyRd0&feature=related

....but then, I'm a little biased....  =D
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Re: How does Firefly stack up?
« Reply #58 on: March 18, 2011, 02:01:09 AM »
Quote from: seeker_two on March 18, 2011, 01:05:34 AM
I almost forgot the greatest sci-fi TV show of all....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0bnevbnyRd0&feature=related

....but then, I'm a little biased....  =D

1. That was horrifying.

2. Why are you biased? You're a mentally-challenged psychopath with a huge crush on Jason?
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Re: How does Firefly stack up?
« Reply #59 on: March 18, 2011, 03:57:13 AM »
Quote from: Fistful on March 18, 2011, 02:01:09 AM
2. Why are you biased? You're a mentally-challenged psychopath with a huge crush on Jason?

No, his name is Jason, if your were on FB you'd know that.   :P
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Re: How does Firefly stack up?
« Reply #60 on: March 18, 2011, 08:42:26 AM »
Quote from: seeker_two on March 17, 2011, 01:39:20 PM
BTW, are we including Manga in this?.....if we are, then I have to add Cowboy Bebop to my list.....
If we're including cartoons, then did anyone else catch Roughnecks which was an animated version of Starship Troopers? I think it ran for a couple of seasons. (Only caught a few episodes myself - it was almost good.)  Also remember a Japanese series - Star Blazers - in which they found the hulk of the WWII battleship Yamato, rebuilt it with ray guns and wings, and made it into a space ship to take on all manner of interstellar bad guys. (Best viewed when partaking of an adult BEvERage.)
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Re: How does Firefly stack up?
« Reply #61 on: March 18, 2011, 10:03:39 AM »
Quote from: HankB on March 18, 2011, 08:42:26 AM
If we're including cartoons, then did anyone else catch Roughnecks which was an animated version of Starship Troopers? I think it ran for a couple of seasons. (Only caught a few episodes myself - it was almost good.)  Also remember a Japanese series - Star Blazers - in which they found the hulk of the WWII battleship Yamato, rebuilt it with ray guns and wings, and made it into a space ship to take on all manner of interstellar bad guys. (Best viewed when partaking of an adult BEvERage.)

Roughnecks was better than the execrable movies, since it did have power-armor. However they still fought nothing like they did in the book.

Space Battleship Yamato (re-worked as Star Blazers for the U.S. dubbed version) just got the live-action movie treatment in Japan last year. The silly premise and the weirder tropes that infect anime inside, they stayed pretty true to the story. Even the uniforms are correct.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HXueApDZyhc&feature=watch_response
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Re: How does Firefly stack up?
« Reply #62 on: March 18, 2011, 10:17:36 AM »
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Re: How does Firefly stack up?
« Reply #63 on: March 18, 2011, 12:08:45 PM »
Quote from: AJ Dual on March 18, 2011, 10:03:39 AM

Space Battleship Yamato (re-worked as Star Blazers for the U.S. dubbed version) just got the live-action movie treatment in Japan last year. The silly premise and the weirder tropes that infect anime inside, they stayed pretty true to the story. Even the uniforms are correct.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HXueApDZyhc&feature=watch_response

I wanna see THAT!!!.....  :O

Quote from: Fistful on March 18, 2011, 02:01:09 AM
1. That was horrifying.

2. Why are you biased? You're a mentally-challenged psychopath with a huge crush on Jason?

Facebook much, Monkey Boy?.....  :P



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Re: How does Firefly stack up?
« Reply #64 on: March 18, 2011, 03:52:53 PM »
Quote from: Ben on March 18, 2011, 10:17:36 AM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-284O5nypgY&feature=related

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Re: How does Firefly stack up?
« Reply #65 on: March 18, 2011, 05:52:14 PM »
Quote from: seeker_two on March 18, 2011, 12:08:45 PM
Facebook much, Monkey Boy?.....  :P
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Re: How does Firefly stack up?
« Reply #66 on: March 18, 2011, 06:41:15 PM »
Quote from: Fistful on March 18, 2011, 02:01:09 AM
1. That was horrifying.

2. Why are you biased? You're a mentally-challenged psychopath with a huge crush on Jason?

My soul just died a little...


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Re: How does Firefly stack up?
« Reply #67 on: March 18, 2011, 07:01:20 PM »
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She totally destroyed me as a nine year old, it was the universe opening up and explaining itself to me, incredible

Ayap.  She was the ONLY reason me and my friends watched that show.  Our mom's thought it was because is was a Sci-Fi show.....ummmm not so much.....
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Re: How does Firefly stack up?
« Reply #68 on: March 18, 2011, 08:07:43 PM »
Quote from: bluestarlizzard on March 18, 2011, 06:41:15 PM
My soul just died a little...

Was it me, or Jason?
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Re: How does Firefly stack up?
« Reply #69 on: March 18, 2011, 08:22:19 PM »
Quote from: Fistful on March 18, 2011, 08:07:43 PM
Was it me, or Jason?

Its a facebook thing... You wouldn't understand.  =D
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Re: How does Firefly stack up?
« Reply #70 on: March 18, 2011, 11:45:34 PM »
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Its a facebook thing... You wouldn't understand.  =D

No, you wouldn't.....  ;)
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Re: How does Firefly stack up?
« Reply #71 on: March 19, 2011, 04:06:53 AM »
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Re: How does Firefly stack up?
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Re: How does Firefly stack up?
« Reply #74 on: March 19, 2011, 12:24:35 PM »
Another classic from the 90's:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W8DqLwdkgdk
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