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posted by Dopefish on Sunday February 23 2014, @04:00PM   Printer-friendly
from the we-want-netflix-to-reboot-firefly dept.

TBNZee writes:

"Mainstream television has, for a long time, under-served the science fiction loving segment. But with declining production costs, there seem to be two potential sources of alternative production/distribution: digital content (e.g. Netflix, Hulu) and crowd-funded projects. There's still not a lot of science fiction shows that are being produced by the major streaming services, but we'll probably see more with the success of Hulu's exclusive U.S. distribution of Misfits or Netflix's Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Doctor Who. On the other hand, you have many enthusiastic upstarts on Kickstarter that look novel and engaging while having a surprisingly professional look to them.

Which do you think will ultimately be more successful? Do you have any recommendations for other good material out there, or is there something you would like to see?"

 
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  • (Score: 5, Insightful) by soulde on Sunday February 23 2014, @04:11PM

    by soulde (27) on Sunday February 23 2014, @04:11PM (#5199)

    Ok, ok. The question is: When Firefly will come again? :D

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  • (Score: 2, Interesting) by Spottywot on Sunday February 23 2014, @04:16PM

    by Spottywot (2784) on Sunday February 23 2014, @04:16PM (#5201)

    I nearly responded then but realised you are having a little jest:)
      I personally would love to see a film or even series of Iain M Banks stuff. I guess the ship to ship communication would have to be 'adapted' somewhat, but done well the 'Culture' universe would look fantastic on the screen.

  • (Score: 4, Funny) by Jaruzel on Sunday February 23 2014, @05:11PM

    by Jaruzel (812) on Sunday February 23 2014, @05:11PM (#5227) Homepage Journal

    Ok, ok. The question is: When Firefly will come again? :D

    Never. I heard that Captain Reynolds retired and became a famous Crime Writer...

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  • (Score: 3, Interesting) by OGbear on Sunday February 23 2014, @07:13PM

    by OGbear (2675) on Sunday February 23 2014, @07:13PM (#5281) Journal

    See Browncoats:independence war ( http://www.browncoatsuniverse.com/ [browncoatsuniverse.com] ) Comming to a ComicCon in San Diego this summer.

    OGBear

  • (Score: 2, Interesting) by lennier on Monday February 24 2014, @04:16AM

    by lennier (2199) on Monday February 24 2014, @04:16AM (#5524)

    I guess I'm the only geek who was fairly underwhelmed by Firefly?

    Yes, I watched all the episodes. On DVD. In the correct order. Then the movie. But I'm sorry to say it just didn't do that much for me, and I loved Buffy.

    There's one thing I loved about Firefly (and pretty much all Whedon material) and that's the dialog writing. But the lack of... for want of a better word, 'social geography' * in the Firefly universe just left me cold.

    * Like, I can forgive glaring wrong-even-for-19th-century scientific inaccuracies like the old "Earth got used up" chestnut which is not how ecology OR space colonisation works, confusing systems and galaxies (handwaved in post with The Verse as a single system), and spaceship battles being fought at ranges of tens of metres rather than thousands of kilometres. But it was the world not fundamentally making sense as a society that bugged me. People are poor dirt farmers, but can afford interplanetary spaceships? The setup is a complete duplicate of the US Civil War as told by the South, with Reavers as politically correct Indians, but there no slaves? So what was the war over then? People don't get mad enough to kill their brothers without there being disagreements. See, if you want to go the "literal, and I mean literal, Wild West in Space" route, there could at least have been robots with the North, er, Alliance granting them human citizenship being the catalyst for the war. But that would've been uncomfortably close to reality. So it was a civil war about nothing other than ALLIANCE PURE EVIL, but getting all the emotion of the 1860s for free. And that was one of many things that come from porting the 1800s into the future that didn't work for me.

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    • (Score: 2) by tangomargarine on Monday February 24 2014, @03:39PM

      by tangomargarine (667) on Monday February 24 2014, @03:39PM (#5880)

      wrong-even-for-19th-century scientific inaccuracies like the old "Earth got used up"

      IIRC the line (in Serenity) was "Earth-That-Was could no longer hold our numbers; we were so many..." (paraphrased), which is debatably not really "using it all up."

      confusing systems and galaxies (handwaved in post with The Verse as a single system)

      Yes, it was handwaved as a single "system" with 3 or 4 stars and planets and moons orbiting each, which seems to stretch the definition of a system somewhat...and make navigation a real bitch.

      and spaceship battles being fought at ranges of tens of metres rather than thousands of kilometres

      Hey, at least they didn't have shields or sound in space :) Although IIRC the only major battle was in Serenity, and that was because of the atmospheric crud they never explained keeping the Reaver fleet hidden until it was right on top of the Alliance, so they never had a chance to open up at long range (which they undoubtedly would have done since the ships had missiles).

      People are poor dirt farmers, but can afford interplanetary spaceships?

      The majority couldn't. In the first episode, they find that one ship that would barely make it to the frontier one-way, and there were 14 (?) families on it. Presumably they all chipped in to scrape together the money. Or probably taken out a loan or something, I guess.

      The setup is a complete duplicate of the US Civil War as told by the South, with Reavers as politically correct Indians, but there no slaves? So what was the war over then?

      States' rights, apparently.

      there could at least have been robots with the North, er, Alliance granting them human citizenship being the catalyst for the war. But that would've been uncomfortably close to reality.

      Considering how much effort the show made to seem based in reality, this sounds like it would have been much worse to me.

      I just had the thought the other day that we didn't actually see Badger on the viewscreens of their dead friends in Serenity, so I'd like to think that that's a possible avenue for them to bring it back: Badger lost his organization and is on the run, but due to freak luck is still alive, and the show follows him around.

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      • (Score: 1) by tangomargarine on Wednesday February 26 2014, @03:30PM

        by tangomargarine (667) on Wednesday February 26 2014, @03:30PM (#7335)

        The majority couldn't. In the first episode, they find that one ship

        Oops--I meant to say the third episode, "Buckwacked." They were also pilfering stuff off a ship in the pilot but we never saw them go inside.

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