XPost: alt.startrek, alt.tv.star-trek, alt.tv.star-trek.enterprise   
   XPost: rec.arts.startrek.current   
   From: sjek@cox.net   
      
   Jaxtraw wrote:   
   > 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.   
   >   
   >   
   > There are a number of reasons that the Trek movie franchise fails to shine.   
   > One thing it consistently ignores is Jim's opening speech- "these are the   
   > voyages of the starship Enterprise..." The ship is a star of the show. Kirk,   
   > Spock, McCoy and the Enterprise. She's an icon for a reason. Let's look at   
   > the evidence-   
   >   
   > TMP: Enterprise looks beautiful, but does nothing much at all;   
      
   this is what killed Enterprise as a star of the movies - that 10 minutes   
   sojourn around the outside of the ship in the first movie was terribly   
   turgid and became a point of ill-humor..   
      
      
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