Author Topic: Firefly (Read 1424 times)

Gunslinger · « **Reply #30 on:** April 27, 2005, 07:44:42 PM »

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Originally posted by Gunslinger
it's called quicktime alternative. Just like quicktime but it doesnt cancer into your operating system.

Oh my the world will end soon. I find myself agreeing with sholzy and not laz

Farscape:

GtoRA2 · « **Reply #31 on:** April 27, 2005, 09:50:09 PM »

jeez this thread has been turned into a skank fest or a tranny pic thread!! (is the dark haired one really a man?)

Never seen farscape, nor will I now that you have posted the "eating disorder" pics.

How old is that dark haired one? like 50?

GtoRA2 · « **Reply #32 on:** April 27, 2005, 09:54:05 PM »

No. just not in to skin and bones/eating disorder type women with un atractive faces.

GtoRA2 · « **Reply #33 on:** April 27, 2005, 10:04:46 PM »

Can't tell from that shot, if she is or isnt and it is a better shot, she is ok, but has nothing on any of the chicks from Firefly.

DiabloTX · « **Reply #34 on:** April 27, 2005, 10:16:49 PM »

Inara is way hotter. Although not as hot as LtCol. Sarah McKenzie.

GtoRA2 · « **Reply #35 on:** April 27, 2005, 10:20:13 PM »

is it all out on DVD?

Since I have watched Magnum PI season 2, two times now I think I need another show.

lol

It's not like Startrek were they rip you off at over 100 bucks a season I hope! lol

Gunslinger · « **Reply #36 on:** April 27, 2005, 10:53:29 PM »

For some reason, wich I can't figure out, she really does it for me. Maybe it's the lips?

Swoop · « **Reply #37 on:** April 28, 2005, 06:37:11 AM »

My best mates younger sister looks just like her, the resemblance is really uncanny. The only difference is that Sharon (my mates sister) has longer hair.

lazs2 · « **Reply #38 on:** April 28, 2005, 09:42:59 AM »

well.... it is a rare day that I throw any woman out of bed and the women on farscape beat a lot of the women I have ended up spending time with but...

they are not in the same class as the womanly women in firefly. Plus... they are either some strange color or skin tempreture or they are anorexic and weird colored or just plain homely. farscape is simply.... another tv show with puppets and aliens.

The stories in farscape are stupid. the puppets are stupid and all the silly blue people and lizard people and whatever are dumb tricks to hide plot flaws.

There are so many less quaotable lines or scenes in farscape than in firefly that it is insane.

and... the guns in farscape make no sense.... they are less useful than a black powder blunderbus and more complicated than a supercomputer.

Nothing in the series makes sense so they just say.."well... things work different here".

farscape is a firefly for poor gay people.

lazs

lazs2 · « **Reply #39 on:** April 28, 2005, 10:22:13 AM »

sholtzie... didn't see those things in the war scenes but.. if you were on a planet with very spotty (or no) parts delivery or spotty ammo quality and very dirty economicaly depressed area..

What gun and vehicle would you choose? A semi auto? You do want a repeater right? A lever gun is easy to repair and couldn't care less about ammo quality and is not that fussy about dirt.

even today... a single action revolver is the very fastest gun you can own for getting from the holster to that fairly important first shot... A horse gets you around the small place and uses the landscape for fuel.

farscape... they use guns that shoot fireballs that seem to have no recopgnizable trajectory. you can allmost dodge the hi tech rounds (and they often do) The rounds leave black marks on organic spaceships when they hit. Anything strange is simply explained as .. well... that's the way people from that planet are/do things/have the ability.

firefly has no aliens... Humans are complex enough.

lazs

Swoop · « **Reply #40 on:** April 28, 2005, 10:54:17 AM »

I agree with Lazs yet again.

That seems to be happening far too often lately.

Thrawn · « **Reply #41 on:** April 28, 2005, 11:32:05 AM »

GScholz, the planets that they visit are on the periphery of civilisation. Think of planet's societies as kind of like cargo cults and it makes perfect sense.

lasersailor184 · « **Reply #42 on:** April 28, 2005, 11:32:10 AM »

Wow, I'm surprised no one had picked up on this.

Those weren't really guns. They were laser guns. There are many laser guns (in the Firefly universe) that were designed and built as such. However, most of the guns are the antique guns (the ones we actually have now) that have been updated to be laser guns.

I.E. Mal's gun is a straight laser gun, while his lever action is an updated gun.

Btw, I'd be willing to bet that Book was an admiral for the Federation, but not as far as saying he was at serenity valley.

Thrawn · « **Reply #43 on:** April 28, 2005, 11:56:23 AM »

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Seen many lever action guns in Africa lately? Naw, it's all AK's and technicals.

What does Africa have to do with cargo cults?

Thrawn · « **Reply #44 on:** April 28, 2005, 02:05:13 PM »

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Nothing, but it does have a lot to do with "on the periphery of civilisation".

So, I'm talking about a specific case of a society (or class of societies "cargo cults") that are on the periphery of civilisation. You then over generalise about a different case of a society on the periphery of civilisation.

http://www.nizkor.org/features/fallacies/red-herring.html