Firefly Lives - New Comics in 2008 117
gambit3 writes "'Serenity: Better Days' will be released as a 3 part comic in early 2008. The series is a step back in time to the early years of the Firefly crew, and the fledgling gang's turbulent attempts to cope with success after they pull off their first successful heist. It features the same creative team as Those Left Behind, with the story by Joss Whedon and Brett Matthews, art by Will Conrad, and Adam Hughes providing all three covers this time." Ironic, considering today's brand-new poll.
Irony ? Coincidence (Score:0, Informative)
A coincidence is not ironic. An airplane pilot who's afraid of heights is ironic.
Re:Irony ? Coincidence (Score:4, Informative)
Re:Meh! (Score:1, Informative)
Re:I bet you really didn't see the series (Score:2, Informative)
My theory is that most fans just really like Whedon's characters, cliches and style of dialogue. If you don't know what that is, you can see it repeated exactly in Angel, Buffy and Alien:Resurrection. Examples: no one can say anything straight, it's all got to be "witty". Martial arts are for some reason the greatest power in the universe. Every character is "bad" but would do all sorts of heroics to save a kitten (while cursing reluctantly of course... because they are bad!!), etc.
Basically, there's nothing particularly wrong with Firefly. It just lacks any sort of brilliance. The series ends up coalescing into a bland, insipid whole.
Re:I bet you really didn't see the series (Score:3, Informative)
I agree-- buy the DVDs. Best DVD set evar, and great commentary (I love that they brought the costume designer in for a couple of them). But still, don't oversell its presentation of the storyline. It's pretty much the same as you saw on TV (right down to the resolution, since FOX didn't do full HD back then, only widescreen 480p), with a couple extra episodes.
Re:I bet you really didn't see the series (Score:2, Informative)
(Wikipedia provides the air dates here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Firefly_episodes [wikipedia.org])
By putting episodes in the right order, the DVD set improved things considerably.
comics already exist... (Score:5, Informative)
The characters were drawn as the actors, and it was very well done, with a forward by Nathan Fillion.
Obviously not as good as the return of the show, but so long as the series makes profit off the air there is a chance it will return in some form or fashion.
Check it out [wikipedia.org]
Christina Hendricks on AMC's Mad Men (Score:4, Informative)
Most slashdotters are probably aware that Morena Baccarin showed up on Stargate SG1, and that Jewel Staite is the new doctor on Stargate Atlantis, and some might even be aware that Summer Glau did a stint on CBS's The Unit, but the one who really caught my eye was Christina Hendricks, as the ne'er do well called "Saffron":
http://www.entil2001.com/series/firefly/season1dvd/ff1-6p2.jpg [entil2001.com]
So if you liked her work on Firefly, then you might be interested to learn that she's now got a gig as "Joan Holloway", the head of the secretarial pool, on AMC's "Mad Men":
http://weblogs.variety.com/photos/uncategorized/2007/08/31/joan.jpg [variety.com]
Let's just say that she's everything you remember from Firefly and then some.
Hubba. Hubba.
Re:Is Firefly the only SF show you've seen on TV? (Score:1, Informative)
I have. I've also bought the DVDs of Blake's 7. You should, too. You'll find an interview with Paul Darrow, I think somewhere in the Series 4 discs, which is rather fascinating. He's specifically asked about the attempted resurrections of the series, and he replies that it has already been done and it was done much better than "they" could have done it, in the form of Firefly.
You're not being unfair, as much as you are ignoring some basic facts. The original Star Trek was little more than a western set in space. Hell, Roddenberry even sold it as such. "Wagon Train to the Stars" sound at all familiar?
Hendricks getting work on "Life" too (Score:2, Informative)
Re:SImilarity to cowboy bebop series. (Score:3, Informative)
Little pointed out because it's also completely wrong. Firefly borrows from lots of things; Cowboy Bebop is one.
I'll accept it's in the same genre (subgenre?) as Bebop, but, for example, where'd Inara come from? I know Jayne was inspired by a character from Alien, for instance. And the box River was in? Taken straight out of the first episode of Outlaw Star.
What sets Firefly apart isn't that it's revolutionary at all, but that it's so well done.