XPost: alt.startrek, alt.tv.star-trek, alt.tv.star-trek.enterprise   
   XPost: rec.arts.startrek.current   
   From: sjek@cox.net   
      
   ToolPackinMama wrote:   
   > ToolPackinMama wrote:   
   >   
   >> ben_jones@Jonesin.org wrote:   
   >>   
   >>> On Tue, 23 Jan 2007 01:57:16 GMT, Al Smith  wrote:   
   >>>   
   >>>>>> "Firefly" was the most over-hyped series that's ever been on   
   >>>>>> television. The fact is, it wasn't that good. People didn't like   
   >>>>>> it very much, which is why the series and the movie both failed.   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>> the movie was pretty successful. the show obviously flopped.   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>> but quality? this was the best sci-fi space opera since year 2 of   
   >>>>> deep space nine.   
   >>>   
   >>>   
   >>>> You may want to compare "Firefly" with the original "Battle star   
   >>>> Galactic" or maybe with "Lost In Space" but don't compare it with   
   >>>> "Deep Space Nine." I saw the movie. It was retarded, and it was not   
   >>>> all that successful in the theaters. It opened strongly but after   
   >>>> two or three days faded away. Some of the stuff in that film made me   
   >>>> cringe, it was so unscientific.   
   >>>   
   >>>   
   >>> Worse than holosuites and bizarro world alternative universes?   
   >>>   
   >>   
   >>   
   >> Please, let's not fight,   
   >   
   >   
   > FWIW, although I am a fanatical Trek fan, I thought Serenity was a   
   > better movie than any Trek movie, ever.   
   >   
   > 1) I cringed through every damned Trek movie ever offered.  The reasons   
   > why would fill a library.   
   >   
   > 2) The Firefly movie Serenity was a masterwork that was in every way   
   > true to the show, and also not boring, self-reverential crap.   
      
   yes, a very good film. not sure i'd rate it much higher than the 1991   
   trek movie ("undiscovered country"?) or the 1996 one ("first contact"?).   
      
   whatever techie-trekkie flaws they might have had, they were quite   
   entertaining.   
      
      
      
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