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Sep. 23rd, 2005
Firefly Amazon Review
Sep. 23rd, 2005 02:39 pmI was following a link from someone's LJ to a different Firefly review (because I'm [Rygel voice] bored! bored! bored![/Rygel voice]. Anyway, nothing to say about the review that was linked. But another review caught my eye because it's part of what ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
thedeadlyhook and I discussed just the other day in this post.
I'm copy clipping part of the review which is found here (I know I shouldn't copy-clip, but... well if the reviewer is offended, SORRY!)
Wonder if this reviewer ever read the original Jossian script for Alien Resurrection? Honestly, as I said tothedeadlyhook, after reading the original script I discovered that, as an Alien fan, the parts of Alien Resurrection that I loathed were Whedon's. (Insert mini-rant on the shallow misuse of the Frankenstein plot.) When I finally (belatedly. I didn't discover it until Season 5 BtVS) connected that Whedon wrote Alien Resurrection, it made so much sense because he did the same poorly executed, shallow treatment of Frankenstein in Season 4 BtVS.
Although I'm curious why the reviewer bothered mentioning that there were no other aliens in Alien. There have never been any other aliens in the Alien franchise (well, until they did that Alien Vs Predator crapola)
thedeadlyhook and I discussed just the other day in this post.I'm copy clipping part of the review which is found here (I know I shouldn't copy-clip, but... well if the reviewer is offended, SORRY!)
Review:
I have to mention, also, because I just read all 158 reviews here on Amazon, and not a single one of mostly enthusiastic supporters managed to say: This is basically a re-do of Joss Whedon's "Alien Resurrection" plot minus, of course, the copyrighted Aliens. Honest.
I always thought that "Alien Resurrection's" crew of the freighter "The Betty" had some kind of backstory that never made it to the screen. Unfortunately due to the demands of the Alien franchise, half of the Betty crew gets eaten...and early on. I think Whedon always wanted to develop this idea, and "Firefly" was his big chance.
Don't believe me? Re-rent "Resurrection". The Betty is also a small, dirty unregistered freighter running slightly illegal operations, occasionally smuggling or doing mercenary work in a ragtag universe. Just like FIrefly, aside from the famous "Aliens" (who are unknown to most of humanity) there are no other extra terrestrials (ala Star Trek) in this universe. Despite being set 500 years in the future (just like Firefly), the sci-fi setting looks contemporary and industrial...no fancy high tech anything. And it's very dirty. The Betty originally had a crew of 8 (cut down in the final shooting script to just six) and the Serenity has a crew of 9.
The Betty captain is crude mouthed, morally ambivalent but is basically a decent guy, who thinks of the crew as a kind of family -- he calls the ship the "family wagon" and its constantly out of food or supplies. While he isn't exactly married, he is clearly in a long-term romantic relationship with the ship's pilot. The ship's mechanic is a fiesty, cute young girl, just out of her teens. There a "muscle man", who is big and burly but a nice guy underneath it all. The ship's female pilot and second-in-command is a tough cookie who is just as smart and strong as the guys.
I can only guess that this is an idea Whedon just can't get out of his system...he was reportedly VERY unhappy with the final shooting script and production of "Resurrection", as were most hardcore Alien fans.
Wonder if this reviewer ever read the original Jossian script for Alien Resurrection? Honestly, as I said to
thedeadlyhook, after reading the original script I discovered that, as an Alien fan, the parts of Alien Resurrection that I loathed were Whedon's. (Insert mini-rant on the shallow misuse of the Frankenstein plot.) When I finally (belatedly. I didn't discover it until Season 5 BtVS) connected that Whedon wrote Alien Resurrection, it made so much sense because he did the same poorly executed, shallow treatment of Frankenstein in Season 4 BtVS. Although I'm curious why the reviewer bothered mentioning that there were no other aliens in Alien. There have never been any other aliens in the Alien franchise (well, until they did that Alien Vs Predator crapola)
Firefly Amazon Review
Sep. 23rd, 2005 02:39 pmI was following a link from someone's LJ to a different Firefly review (because I'm [Rygel voice] bored! bored! bored![/Rygel voice]. Anyway, nothing to say about the review that was linked. But another review caught my eye because it's part of what thedeadlyhook and I discussed just the other day in this post.
I'm copy clipping part of the review which is found here (I know I shouldn't copy-clip, but... well if the reviewer is offended, SORRY!)
Wonder if this reviewer ever read the original Jossian script for Alien Resurrection? Honestly, as I said tothedeadlyhook, after reading the original script I discovered that, as an Alien fan, the parts of Alien Resurrection that I loathed were Whedon's. (Insert mini-rant on the shallow misuse of the Frankenstein plot.) When I finally (belatedly. I didn't discover it until Season 5 BtVS) connected that Whedon wrote Alien Resurrection, it made so much sense because he did the same poorly executed, shallow treatment of Frankenstein in Season 4 BtVS.
Although I'm curious why the reviewer bothered mentioning that there were no other aliens in Alien. There have never been any other aliens in the Alien franchise (well, until they did that Alien Vs Predator crapola)
thedeadlyhook and I discussed just the other day in this post.I'm copy clipping part of the review which is found here (I know I shouldn't copy-clip, but... well if the reviewer is offended, SORRY!)
Review:
I have to mention, also, because I just read all 158 reviews here on Amazon, and not a single one of mostly enthusiastic supporters managed to say: This is basically a re-do of Joss Whedon's "Alien Resurrection" plot minus, of course, the copyrighted Aliens. Honest.
I always thought that "Alien Resurrection's" crew of the freighter "The Betty" had some kind of backstory that never made it to the screen. Unfortunately due to the demands of the Alien franchise, half of the Betty crew gets eaten...and early on. I think Whedon always wanted to develop this idea, and "Firefly" was his big chance.
Don't believe me? Re-rent "Resurrection". The Betty is also a small, dirty unregistered freighter running slightly illegal operations, occasionally smuggling or doing mercenary work in a ragtag universe. Just like FIrefly, aside from the famous "Aliens" (who are unknown to most of humanity) there are no other extra terrestrials (ala Star Trek) in this universe. Despite being set 500 years in the future (just like Firefly), the sci-fi setting looks contemporary and industrial...no fancy high tech anything. And it's very dirty. The Betty originally had a crew of 8 (cut down in the final shooting script to just six) and the Serenity has a crew of 9.
The Betty captain is crude mouthed, morally ambivalent but is basically a decent guy, who thinks of the crew as a kind of family -- he calls the ship the "family wagon" and its constantly out of food or supplies. While he isn't exactly married, he is clearly in a long-term romantic relationship with the ship's pilot. The ship's mechanic is a fiesty, cute young girl, just out of her teens. There a "muscle man", who is big and burly but a nice guy underneath it all. The ship's female pilot and second-in-command is a tough cookie who is just as smart and strong as the guys.
I can only guess that this is an idea Whedon just can't get out of his system...he was reportedly VERY unhappy with the final shooting script and production of "Resurrection", as were most hardcore Alien fans.
Wonder if this reviewer ever read the original Jossian script for Alien Resurrection? Honestly, as I said to
thedeadlyhook, after reading the original script I discovered that, as an Alien fan, the parts of Alien Resurrection that I loathed were Whedon's. (Insert mini-rant on the shallow misuse of the Frankenstein plot.) When I finally (belatedly. I didn't discover it until Season 5 BtVS) connected that Whedon wrote Alien Resurrection, it made so much sense because he did the same poorly executed, shallow treatment of Frankenstein in Season 4 BtVS. Although I'm curious why the reviewer bothered mentioning that there were no other aliens in Alien. There have never been any other aliens in the Alien franchise (well, until they did that Alien Vs Predator crapola)
Firefly Amazon Review
Sep. 23rd, 2005 02:39 pmI was following a link from someone's LJ to a different Firefly review (because I'm [Rygel voice] bored! bored! bored![/Rygel voice]. Anyway, nothing to say about the review that was linked. But another review caught my eye because it's part of what thedeadlyhook and I discussed just the other day in this post.
I'm copy clipping part of the review which is found here (I know I shouldn't copy-clip, but... well if the reviewer is offended, SORRY!)
Wonder if this reviewer ever read the original Jossian script for Alien Resurrection? Honestly, as I said tothedeadlyhook, after reading the original script I discovered that, as an Alien fan, the parts of Alien Resurrection that I loathed were Whedon's. (Insert mini-rant on the shallow misuse of the Frankenstein plot.) When I finally (belatedly. I didn't discover it until Season 5 BtVS) connected that Whedon wrote Alien Resurrection, it made so much sense because he did the same poorly executed, shallow treatment of Frankenstein in Season 4 BtVS.
Although I'm curious why the reviewer bothered mentioning that there were no other aliens in Alien. There have never been any other aliens in the Alien franchise (well, until they did that Alien Vs Predator crapola)
thedeadlyhook and I discussed just the other day in this post.I'm copy clipping part of the review which is found here (I know I shouldn't copy-clip, but... well if the reviewer is offended, SORRY!)
Review:
I have to mention, also, because I just read all 158 reviews here on Amazon, and not a single one of mostly enthusiastic supporters managed to say: This is basically a re-do of Joss Whedon's "Alien Resurrection" plot minus, of course, the copyrighted Aliens. Honest.
I always thought that "Alien Resurrection's" crew of the freighter "The Betty" had some kind of backstory that never made it to the screen. Unfortunately due to the demands of the Alien franchise, half of the Betty crew gets eaten...and early on. I think Whedon always wanted to develop this idea, and "Firefly" was his big chance.
Don't believe me? Re-rent "Resurrection". The Betty is also a small, dirty unregistered freighter running slightly illegal operations, occasionally smuggling or doing mercenary work in a ragtag universe. Just like FIrefly, aside from the famous "Aliens" (who are unknown to most of humanity) there are no other extra terrestrials (ala Star Trek) in this universe. Despite being set 500 years in the future (just like Firefly), the sci-fi setting looks contemporary and industrial...no fancy high tech anything. And it's very dirty. The Betty originally had a crew of 8 (cut down in the final shooting script to just six) and the Serenity has a crew of 9.
The Betty captain is crude mouthed, morally ambivalent but is basically a decent guy, who thinks of the crew as a kind of family -- he calls the ship the "family wagon" and its constantly out of food or supplies. While he isn't exactly married, he is clearly in a long-term romantic relationship with the ship's pilot. The ship's mechanic is a fiesty, cute young girl, just out of her teens. There a "muscle man", who is big and burly but a nice guy underneath it all. The ship's female pilot and second-in-command is a tough cookie who is just as smart and strong as the guys.
I can only guess that this is an idea Whedon just can't get out of his system...he was reportedly VERY unhappy with the final shooting script and production of "Resurrection", as were most hardcore Alien fans.
Wonder if this reviewer ever read the original Jossian script for Alien Resurrection? Honestly, as I said to
thedeadlyhook, after reading the original script I discovered that, as an Alien fan, the parts of Alien Resurrection that I loathed were Whedon's. (Insert mini-rant on the shallow misuse of the Frankenstein plot.) When I finally (belatedly. I didn't discover it until Season 5 BtVS) connected that Whedon wrote Alien Resurrection, it made so much sense because he did the same poorly executed, shallow treatment of Frankenstein in Season 4 BtVS. Although I'm curious why the reviewer bothered mentioning that there were no other aliens in Alien. There have never been any other aliens in the Alien franchise (well, until they did that Alien Vs Predator crapola)
Battlestar Gallactica
Sep. 23rd, 2005 09:48 pmHoly FRAK!
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Well, I was willing to give this "finale" a "meh" up until the last ten minutes. But the last ten minutes were awesome. It was a very good cliffhanger. I'll definitely be tuning in January.
( Read more... )
Well, I was willing to give this "finale" a "meh" up until the last ten minutes. But the last ten minutes were awesome. It was a very good cliffhanger. I'll definitely be tuning in January.
Battlestar Gallactica
Sep. 23rd, 2005 09:48 pmHoly FRAK!
( Read more... )
Well, I was willing to give this "finale" a "meh" up until the last ten minutes. But the last ten minutes were awesome. It was a very good cliffhanger. I'll definitely be tuning in January.
( Read more... )
Well, I was willing to give this "finale" a "meh" up until the last ten minutes. But the last ten minutes were awesome. It was a very good cliffhanger. I'll definitely be tuning in January.
Battlestar Gallactica
Sep. 23rd, 2005 09:48 pmHoly FRAK!
( Read more... )
Well, I was willing to give this "finale" a "meh" up until the last ten minutes. But the last ten minutes were awesome. It was a very good cliffhanger. I'll definitely be tuning in January.
( Read more... )
Well, I was willing to give this "finale" a "meh" up until the last ten minutes. But the last ten minutes were awesome. It was a very good cliffhanger. I'll definitely be tuning in January.