--- In [email protected], TurquoiseB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> --- In [email protected], "sparaig" <sparaig@> wrote:
> >
>
> > Firefly is cute, but doesn't hold a candle to Babylon 5.
>
> Matter of opinion. I agree with Orson Scott Card,
> who called Firefly "the best science fiction TV
> series ever created...in many ways, the *first*
> good science fiction TV series ever created."
>
Heh.
> Babylon 5 (having now seen some episodes) is
> almost unwatchable by comparison.
Babylon had enough of a following that Stravinski could keep it going for the
full 5 years,
despite the fans having to follow it from network to network.
It's boring,
> pretentious, and insufferably humorless,
Yep, the episode where the bug-eyed alien was brought to trial in a lawsuit
involving a
kidnapping that took place over a hundred years previous ("his
great-grandfather
kidnapped OUR great-grandfather and we want retribution!") or the episode where
the
Centauri ambassador cheats at poker by using onr of his sex organs to swap
cards out of
the deck while no-one is looking, certainly don't reflect any attempt at humor.
And let's not forget the interstellar, interspecies Elvis Convention...
with
> one-dimensional characters who have not a spark
> of humanity in them.
>
True. One-dimensional characters who mature throughout the life of the series,
having to
cope with things like alcoholic lapses that result in the deaths of 10's of
thsouands, or, in
the case of Londo Molari, having to accept that casual remarks made in his
desire for
political power resulted in the near-instinction of an alien race.
A time travel story that takes 3 years of the series to complete and explains
dozens of
dangling plot threads in a single episode and creates a whole bundle of new
ones finally
resolved in books, TV shows and movies released over the next 10 years...
An ultimate evil bad-guy (who became so popular that an entire sub-series in
book form
was based on him) played by Walter Koenig whose character was tailor-made to
justify
Koenig dead-pan expression that resulted from the actor's stroke years back...
Yep, all one-dimensional.
> Oh...that's probably why you like it. Never mind.
> Different strokes for different folks. :-)
>
