Rumour has it that the fabulous sci-fi flop Firefly may be headed for the big screen. Normally I wouldn’t bother reporting a rumour, but the primary source of this rumour is Nathan Fillion – who, as the star of Firefly, presumably has inside info.
At the least, we Firefly fans can look forward to the DVD, which will include the three episodes that were never broadcast.
In other news, before Buffy ended Bean and I had to record Gilmore Girls (also broadcast at 8pm Tuesdays) so we could watch both series. There’s a very slim connection between Buffy and Gilmore Girls – both series were created by former Roseanne writers (Roseanne being yet another favorite show of mine).
Now there’s another, more direct connection – according to janeespenson.com, Jane Espenson, one of the better Buffy writers, will be joining the Gilmore Girls staff, as a “consulting producer” for GG and a writer for the spin-off show.
I’ve finally gotten around to seeing Farscape – we borrowed season one on DVD from the library. Geez, does that show stink! I mean, it eventually got good (about two-thirds into the season), but it took a while. Still, the muppets were good, and so were several of the actors. And I’m told that season one is the weakest season..
Whedon’s also mumbled about movies and Fireflies.
Yes, season one (mostly) stinks. It still has some lovely spins on standard SF tropes, and some hints of the inventiveness to come; the parallel universe episode, with the three colors, and the three “effects” in each, is a great example of an SF show firing on all cylinders to boot you into another world.
But. You need the set-up of the first season to properly appreciate a jaw-dropping episode early in the second season that is hands-down the ballsiest re-write of a show’s prehistory I’ve ever seen–and from there on out it gets good, in the soapy, melodramatic, let-it-all-hang-out sense of the word “good.” The third season of Farscape I’d rank with the best of Buffy. Inventiveness, wit, emotional commitment, world-building, and amazing growth and depth to (most of) the characters; it’s all there, in spades. –You will get dizzy.
But. Yeah. Firefly. When’s that DVD street date?
Farscape swam on land.
Watching the beginning and middle of Farscape, I was beginning to think that most of my friends were just hopelessly weird geeks for liking it. Of course, I usually think that most of them are weird geeks — you know, all that liking Star Trek, Star Wars, Harry Potter, Lord of the Rings, RPGs, and all those other geeky things that I never understand why people like :-p — but this was just really bad.
But, by the end, I began to see why people liked it so much, and now I just want to get to Season 2 to find out what happened in the cliff-hanger ending of Season 1.