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[Loves Bitch]

The BSG mini-series first aired on December 8th, 2003, which was only shortly after firefly was cancelled and before FOX stopped airing episodes. It's obvious from that then that the BSG mini-series had been picked up by Sci-Fi long before firefly even aired on TV. As far as the BSG series continuing the mini-series, I don't know how that was planned or anything, so I can't comment on it.

[skripka2]

Not quite: December 2003 was when the DVD set was first sold. Firefly was cancelled on December 13, 2002. footnote

This post has been edited by skripka2: Mar 8, 2006 @ 12:48 am.

[Spinland]

For us the comparison is just natural: two science-fiction shows with content that's actually worth a damn, for which we were convinced to buy the DVDs via strong word-of-mouth, and which even my very non-geek wife not only enjoys, but anticipates watching. They seem to be unique in the history of television programming in those respects.

[abigailn]

Any attempts at Farscape, Spinland? I actually think it has a great deal more in common with Firefly than BSG does. They have a similar jokey and romantic tone. If we were to draw a spectrum between Farscape grand operatic tone and BSG's grimness, Firefly would fall somewhere near the middle, but closer, I suspect to Farscape's end.

[zombygirl]

I totaly agree. It's the sense of humor that makes it great. It definitely falls closer to the Farscape end of the spectrum than the BSG end. Of coures, they are all three shiney as hell so.....

[Lady Agnew]

I haven't chimed in on the Firefly/BSG compare and contrast b/c I don't want to sound like a grumpy grump-ass (which I actually am, but whatever), but I do really prefer Firefly to BSG in all the ways I can count, and even if I had managed to make myself like BSG enough to be watchable (which, I sat myself down to a marathon of the first season eps sometime last year and got through about three of them before I gave up -- it's technically excellent and very wonderfully tense, but just not my cup of tea for about a million reasons, a lot of them having to do with not enjoying the type of dramas that are that heavily manipulative), I would still love Firefly over BSG just because Firefly puts character in front of story while BSG does the exact opposite.

[Spinland]

Hey, grump-ass is definitely cool by me. I'm generally so vocally anti-television even my like-minded wife is tired of hearing my rants. Our "television room" is relegated mostly to building jigsaw puzzles, reading, and sometimes tuning in The Weather Channel--except during baseball playoffs, where she's the rabid fan and I the amused by-stander.

Topic? Firefly is still the gold standard. If it were still an active show we'd be all set; alas, there's a limit to how many times a week even I desire to re-watch episodes (or the BDM), so when some rare thing pops up that piques our interest enough to turn on the telly, we take notice. I dismissed BSG out of hand until fairly recently, when someone finally wore me down enough to give it a shot. I found I loved it and, even more amazing, so did my wife. So there you have it. If I thought it might bring back the Big Damn Heroes I'd gladly burn my BSG DVDs and sign in blood never to watch it again, but methinks that's not a realistic possibility.

As far as other sci-fi shows, the radar screen shows blips for Farscape and B5. I'm just going to be as hard a sell as I was for BSG and, since that show was an ulooked-for hit with us, I have the mindset another long shot in terms of something we'd like is long odds, indeed. What I've read of them thus far seems kind of meh--but then again, that was how I reacted to research into BSG. It was word-of-mouth prodding that did the trick. I don't know any fans of those other shows.

Edited because gud speeling is nyce.

This post has been edited by Spinland: Mar 9, 2006 @ 9:06 am.

[SophiaD]

I finally read the recap! Thanks so much, Jacob. It was beautiful. Not enough Simon, but that was the movie's fault, not yours. ;-)

I tried to watch BSG, but I'm just not that interested in it. I don't like any of the characters that I'm supposed to like - I find the "good guys" weighty and dull. The bad guys are much more interesting, but blindingly stupid at times. It feels manipulative.

With Firefly villians, there's always the sense of some sort of ideology - Yo-Saff-Bridge is out for herself and only for herself, Niska has to keep things together, Early is a mystic and a nut case as well as a bounty hunter. What made them interesting is that you could understand why they were doing things, even when they were horrible things. The crew was more interesting as well, because they each had their own priorities (Mal: the ship, Simon: River, Zoe: Wash and Mal, Jayne: himself, etc.) and sometimes they clashed and sometimes, they worked.