I don’t watch too much broadcast television these days. I mean, who has the time? When I’m lucky I catch something slick on a long weekend. Usually a marathon of Honeymooners epsiodes or something along those lines. Right now I am fucking with ‘The Office’ and the hardbody action series, ‘The Sarah Connor Chronicles’. The other sci-fi shit that C.S. just turned me onto is called ‘Firefly‘.
The Sci-Fi Channel ran a marathon this weekend and I almost watched every single episode in one sitting. It was good like that. I beg anyone that is a Star Wars fan to check for this series. It should be called ‘Han Solo: The Early Years’. The main character is a swashbuckling spaceship captain who owns a hunk of junk starfreighter. His first mate is a Black woman of course, just like Chewbacca, but instead of a howling apelike bear she is a hairy fox. In the literal figurative sense. These two run a ragtag crew of ne’er do wells and freaks as they jump across the galaxy taking on odd jobs.
The spacecraft and storyline are totally a ripoff from the Millenium Falcon and how Han and Chewbacca would contract their jobs. They have to stay under the radar of the Galactic Alliance who are just like the Empire except their costumes are worse. Give props to GEORGE LUCAS for making sure that the Imperial officers were always well pressed and well coiffed. The Galactic Alliance wears puffy berets that don’t really convey badass to me. Maybe at the end of the day the reason for the series being cancelled was that it was such a blatant swagger jack from Star Wars.
In any case, this shit is some good ass t.v. The head writer is the dude that who made ‘Buffy The Vampire Slayer’ such a megahit, JOSS WHEDON. In his bid to control his show totally he angered the bosses at Fox Broadcasting and the show was cancelled after only one season. As a matter of fact, Fox only broadcast eleven of the fourteen episodes. However ‘Firefly’ lived on in pop culture due to the 2005 movie ‘Serenity’ which brought back the same cast for a feature length film. The main character in ‘Serenity’ is a young girl who was smuggled aboard the starship. It turns out that she had her mind tweaked and she became a ruthless assassin.
Listen, have I ever steered you in the wrong direction? Okay, maybe once or twice, but not this time. NetFlix the first season of ‘Firefly’ and then request the movie ‘Serenity’ as a follow-up. Trust me. It’s good like that.
Note that the young ruthless assassin chick in Serenity is the young terminatrix from the Sarah Connor Chronicles.
I don’t know what it means. But it means something.
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Firefly’s great its got that Hercules / Xena production vibe to it (if you’ve seen it you know what im sayin’) the story lines ill and ur dead on about Chewbaca….bitch can chew on these fasho….she doeeeesss like the white boyzzz haha
I’ll check it out. I was a huge Buffy fan and am a giant Star Wars nerd. (Seriously, GIANT Star Wars nerd i.e. lightsaber tattoo)
No feckin with Star Wars over here and I really enjoyed Serenity. Haven’t caught Firefly before so can’t comment on the translation, but I was just thinking about this movie today. Chiwetel Ejiofor who plays the Operative with the Brit accent was Victor Sweet in Four Brothers that came on before the All Star game.
TNT does well broadcasting the action movies and has HD quality on par with just about any other cable channel.
Firefly was my shit and Serenity is one of my favorite flicks in recent years. It “borrowed” more from Cowboy Bebop and Outlaw Star (the “dead body” in the container (River/Private Iaintdead), a member of the crew with a secret past they never figured out (Ein/Shepherd Book), and the “special” little ship that was perfect for fighting and was mad fast (yeah, Millenium Falcon).
Supposedly, the studios are thinking about a straight to DVD sequel to Serenity since the series and new Serenity DVD’s sell so well.
One.
I did peep (and eff with) Serenity, but I didn’t get to see the marathon this weekend.
I wanna look like a hairy fox literally and figuratively simultaneously.
I’m a Buffy nut so it’s about time I checked out Firefly. Thanks for the write-up!