Joss Whedon's TV Shows in Amazon's Deal of the Week

Quote from travathian : Do NOT buy Firefly or ever watch it. It will just make you angry and hateful towards Fox for how bad they screwed up in debuting the show on tv and then canceling it!!! *rawr*

He (she?) has a point. Every time I watch firefly I feel that way.

Quote from Samwise Gamgee : I'm not a Whedon fan. I never caught onto Buffy the Vampire Slayer. In fact, I probably purposely avoided it because Sarah Michelle Gellar was on it. But, I did get Firefly because of the many folks on SD who said it was good. It was a good purchase. It's good entertainment. So, that's my piece on this. I then later got Serenity too, and did not regret purchasing that either.

If you enjoyed 2 different Whedon shows why not give Buffy a chance ? SMG wasn't even close to being the best thing on that show. Spike was the star IMHO.

nice one

I just spent several weeks watching all 7 seasons of Buffy for free via Amazon Prime on my Roku - love that show. Hard to believe it ended more than 10 years ago. Just starting on Angel now (also free to stream if you have Prime). It's much darker than Buffy, and if I remember correctly, it sort of jumps the shark when they go into the alternate dimension. However, the characters are well developed and the writing can be excellent.

This is probably the 20th time i've counted this going frontpage ever since I started using slickdeals. Come on, I know the show has a cult following, but so did the Adventures of Brisco County Jr., we might as well have a 24/7 Firefly tracker on SD.

Quote from magnovox00 : When I was 15 i would watch any scifi that came on tv, but after watching Star Trek TNG, DS9, Star Wars, and others, the bar has risen up. Never combine western with scifi. Westerns does not belong in scifi(star trek enterprise theme). Its a cheap way to make a scifi and it shows.(There are exceptions that squeezed by(BacktoFutre3, Wild,wild west(original))). Firefly captain was an ass. In Serenity, the whole 12 episodes leads to the answer, that the retard girl is actually Bourne Identity, wow original.

Winner:

For the most idiotic thing I've read this year. And I read a lot of dumb stuff...

Wish I could find a Series similar to either Jericho, Lost or Walking Dead.

Trying to get into Firefly now.

Quote from avocet : Interesting this came up now, we just started streaming Firelfy from netflix and are 5 episodes in at this point. So it's just those 14 episodes right, that was it? And on the last episode (without giving away any spoilers) do they mostly wrap up the story lines or do they leave you hanging?

The episodes end abruptly, no resolution to anything.

The movie (Serenity) wraps all the big stuff up in a good way though. There is a little bit they left open to expand on just in case they got picked up for another movie, but you will feel satisfied with the ending when the movie credits roll.

Quote from Hov34 : Winner: For the most idiotic thing I've read this year. And I read a lot of dumb stuff...

I was trying to find a way to say this more diplomatically, but I pretty much agree with you.

The concept of combining low-tech with sci fi isn't unique to Firefly. I can think of at least three authors that I've read that detail colonization of planets, in which the colonists resort to low(er) tech in order to deal with resource issues while settling the world they've chosen to inhabit. Many sci fi authors include the economics of technology as part of their story, and it often takes colonists generations to return to the same level of sophistication. It seems many authors include the inner planets vs. outer planets story Whedon developed for Firefly. It makes sense, since it's likely worlds would be colonized in (more or less) a circular fashion, and the wealth and power would probably be concentrated in the inner hub.

Regarding his criticism of Malcolm Reynolds, I suppose it's fair to say he had a rather strong personality. Many of the fans of the show, myself included, enjoyed the character for this very reason. Tastes vary, of course.

I don't need to address the comment about Angel, other than to say there isn't much in the way of logic involved with that statement.

I liked Dollhouse, especially season 1.

Firefly: Complete Series DVD - $14.99 @ Amazon [amazon.com]
Firefly: The Complete Series [Blu-ray] (2008) - $18.49 [amazon.com] (thanks TofuVic)

The Blu-ray version costs $18.49 shipped.

This is a great television show. It's the number one show that I wish I could bring back.

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