The return of .... Firefly

[BluBerry]

Babylon 5

is the chit.

[Volron]

is the chit.

 

[Arlo]

He's a fan of that show. 

[BluBerry]

Jesus Volron, Arlo is one dusty fart away from the grave and your like 15 years old, how did he get that before you. Get with it.

[pipz]

is the chit.

Word is born.

[Arlo]

Jesus Volron, Arlo is one dusty fart away from the grave and your like 15 years old, how did he get that before you. Get with it.

Fairy tales can come true, it can happen to you
If you're young at heart.
For it's hard, you will find, to be narrow of mind
If you're young at heart.

You can go to extremes with impossible schemes.
You can laugh when your dreams fall apart at the seams.
And life gets more exciting with each passing day.
And love is either in your heart, or on it's way.

Don't you know that it's worth every treasure on earth
To be young at heart.
For as rich as you are, it's much better by far
To be young at heart.

And if you should survive to 105,
Look at all you'll derive out of being alive!
And here is the best part, you have a head start
If you are among the very young at heart.

[Zoney]

I didn't watch Firefly when it was on (it aired in the same time slot as FarScape, and FarScape > Firefly) but did enjoy it when I finally got around to watching it on DVD. Still prefer FarScape, though. @#$%ing SciFi channel...

Heresy, burn the witch.

[Rogue9Volt]

Heresy, burn the witch.

Thou shalt not suffer a witch to live!!!

[Rich46yo]

B-5 season one "Mind War" is maybe the greatest sci-fi single episode ever. I have the movie "In the Beginning" and its great too but the thing about B-5 is it could have 3 or 4 great stories woven into one episode. I remember that great quote at the end of Mind War, or at least found it. I think I'll rent it tonight on Amazon.Anyway after G'Kar sent a heavy raider to save this womans life.....

Catherine Sakai: Ambassador! While I was out there, I saw something. What was it?

G'Kar: [points to a flower with a bug crawling on it] What is this?

Catherine Sakai: An ant.

G'Kar: Ant.

Catherine Sakai: So much gets shipped up from Earth on commercial transports it's hard to keep them out.

G'Kar: Yeah, I have just picked it up on the tip of my glove. If I put it down again, and it asks another ant, "what was that?",

[laughs]

G'Kar: how would it explain? There are things in the universe billions of years older than either of our races. They're vast, timeless, and if they're aware of us at all, it is as little more than ants, and we have as much chance of communicating with them as an ant has with us. We know, we've tried, and we've learned that we can either stay out from underfoot or be stepped on.

Catherine Sakai: That's it? That's all you know?

G'Kar: Yes, they are a mystery. And I am both terrified and reassured to know that there are still wonders in the universe, that we have not yet explained everything. Whatever they are, Miss Sakai, they walk near Sigma 957, and they must walk there alone.

[Saxman]

Thou shalt not suffer a witch to live!!!

Bring it!

[Volron]

Jesus Volron, Arlo is one dusty fart away from the grave and your like 15 years old, how did he get that before you. Get with it.

 

So you didn't find Sheridan's little dive a tad on the humorous side?

[Tilt]

B5 and Farscape ended poorly as series IMO.........

Firefly never made the UK Terrestrial channels.......... Serenity I enjoyed.......

but then I go back as far as Blakes 7 which at the time was great stuff but positively  dated dog poo now............

[Wiley]

Always liked B5 but never got 'into' it at the time.  Farscape and Firefly were both good in their own right, but I don't consider them really comparable.  Farscape just had a completely different tone, it felt more like space fantasy as opposed to space western like Firefly.  Both good, but different types of shows altogether.

Wiley.

[Saxman]

B5 and Farscape ended poorly as series IMO.........

The problem with FarScape's ending is that the series had been renewed for a 5th and 6th season before season 4 completed production. However midway through the 4th season (and after production wrapped), SciFi inexplicably cancelled seasons 5 and 6 without warning (in fact they did it during the mid-season hiatus, which SciFi LOVED putting the series on without warning or even indication of when it would return). They cited ratings, however it was performing VERY strongly for a cable TV series at 7pm on a Friday night c. early-2000s (hell, even TODAY its ratings would have been solid) so they weren't fooling anybody. About a week or two after the season 4 finale (which was NOT altered by the showrunners as a protest against SciFi, thus maintaining the original cliffhanger ending) SciFi announced the BSG remake to fill the need for "an edgy and sexy space-based scifi drama." Y'know, EXACTLY THE SAME THING THEY HAD JUST FRELLING CANCELLED. The PK Wars essentially compressed the plans for the 5th and 6th seasons into a TV movie (sorry, but two 1.5-hour episodes does NOT a miniseries make), and I agree it was a poor sendoff for the series, particularly as there were a LOT of plot threads from previous seasons left dangling. The REAL disappointment is that feeling of "What Might Have Been," knowing that they compressed some 44-48 episodes into 3 hours.

What REALLY happened is FarScape most likely fell victim to network politics. The timing of the BSG announcement and the similarities between the two shows (particularly the "edgy and sexy" bit, both used abundantly to describe FarScape in comparison to other SciFi dramas of the period) strongly suggests someone high up at the network demanded room on the schedule be cleared for their personal pet project, and FarScape fell on the chopping block because it would have been too similar and potential competition.

Incidentally, FarScape got a comic continuation much like Firefly. However now THAT has wrapped, too. And coincidentally, it's been about two years since the TPB collection of the first half of the War for the Uncharted Territories arc was released, and NO WORD WHATSOEVER about the TPBs for the remaining issues. Even in comic form FarScape is getting screwed over by the networks/publishers.

[lunatic1]

Anybody ever watch SPACE-ABOVE AND BEYOND?????????????????????