--- In [email protected], "authfriend" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In [email protected], TurquoiseB <no_reply@> wrote: > > > > --- In [email protected], TurquoiseB <no_reply@> 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." > > > > > > Babylon 5 (having now seen some episodes) is > > > almost unwatchable by comparison. It's boring, > > > pretentious, and insufferably humorless, with > > > one-dimensional characters who have not a spark > > > of humanity in them. > > > > > > Oh...that's probably why you like it. Never mind. > > > Different strokes for different folks. :-) > > > > More seriously, if I were to be asked whether > > I'd rather meet someone who loved Firefly or > > someone who loved Babylon 5, I wouldn't hesitate > > for a moment. I would know before I ever met them > > that the Firefly fan 1) has a sense of humor, 2) > > has an empathy for strong *human* relationships > > between people, and 3) has a sense of humor. All > > I would know about the Babylon 5 fan is that he > > or she takes life far too seriously. No hesitation > > at all... > > Barry complains mightily about what he perceives > to be a lack of compassion among TMers, about > their purported inability to deal with disagreement, > and their alleged tendency to "shoot the messenger" > by delivering ad hominem rather than addressing > the message itself. > > Yet here he is, so freaked out about a disagreement > over a *TV series*, for pete's sake, that he launches > a personal attack on Lawson designed to be as > insulting and hurtful as he can make it. >
Well, he DID ppickup on my veiled reference to him having the attention-span of a flea...
