I always had faith in Firefly. The setting may be ludicrous to high-minded LitWits but I'm sure given the chance now to see it on DVD, they will change their minds. It's the relationships that make it worth watching. Great storytelling. I'm glad Mr. Card feels the same. Thank you Joss Whedon for always surprising us. MO
--- Pukey the Hedgehog <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > http://www.hatrack.com/osc/reviews/everything/2005-01-16.shtml > > It's in "Uncle Orson Reviews Everything," for 1/16/05, if you haven't seen it > already. The Firefly part is below. -Mike > > > > It only lasted one year on Fox, but Firefly was, in my opinion, the best > space-opera sci-fi series ever on television, and you can get the whole > season now on DVD. > > > > I was stunned by the stupidity of the bad reviews this series got. I suppose > if you think television should be Desperate Housewives or Felicity or some > other thing that passes for "edgy," Firefly won't look good to you. > > > But the writing is witty, just a little tongue-in-cheek, and keenly aware of > what good science fiction is supposed to be. > > > Though I could make a good case for Firefly being the best western on > television since Maverick. > > > It's fun even as it's tense, and it's smart all the time. So smart that some > reviewers have no clue what they're seeing. > > > The actors are wonderful, though a couple of characters can be annoying, > especially at first (couldn't Jewel Staite have occasionally stopped smiling > idiotically during the early episodes?). > > > Adam Baldwin, whose career began in the great high school movie My Bodyguard > back in 1980, finally has the role of his career. > > > Gina Torres, a survivor of the Matrix sequels, is boldly credible as > soldier-of-fortune Zoe; Morena Baccarin is luminous as the "companion" (i.e., > really expensive prostitute) Inara Serra; and Alan Tudyk, a hit in A Knight's > Tale, is equally charming as the pilot, Wash. > > > Delightful as Ron Glass was on Barney Miller and The New Odd Couple, I think > he's got his best role here as the enigmatic preacher. While Sean Maher has > recovered from the debacle of the remake of Brian's Song to play a truly > complicated (and really cute, my wife tells me) character. > > > And Nathan Fillion rises out of nowhere -- small forgettable parts where he > was little more than a pretty face -- to show that he has the strength to > carry a tv series. > > > They're making a movie called Serenity, to be released next September, and > the whole cast will appear in it. Count on it getting bad reviews; go anyway. > And prepare for it by buying or renting the Firefly DVDs. > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around > http://mail.yahoo.com ===== Mo Starkey, an artist's space; http://www.mostarkey.com __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Meet the all-new My Yahoo! - Try it today! http://my.yahoo.com
