Buffy and Firefly

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Am I the only Buffy/Angel fan that doesn't like Firefly? :drunk:
I bought the complete series and watched it and I found
it so completley dull and boring that I sold it back to the store
where I bought it, haha :nod:. But everyone seems to love it....

Do you know what I mean...
 
i wasnt interested in watching it for a loooong time. At all. No way. too sci-fi. until i watched it...last year? the entire series and LOVED IT. and was really surprised.

so not, i dont dislike it, but i was sort of turned off before i gave it a chance.
 
yeah, see I felt the same way at first.
But when I finally watched it I was like wtf.

So I don't know, different strokes for different folks!
 
To each his own, but...

I watched Firefly before I watched Buffy. Loved it. Actually, I think Firefly is a better show than Buffy. I just love Buffy because it lasted longer and I can really sink my teeth into an all-out obsession. I'd justify this opinion, but it would require me to write an essay. lol.
 
I am a sci-fi/fantasy fan so when I got into Buffy and Angel, I was definitely up for watch Firefly. However, I just couldn't ever get into it. I mean there's some great one-liners and the same humor that is in Buffy and Angel, but Firefly just never reached me. It has too many conventions of the Western genre and I think that's what puts me off. For some unexplainable reason ever since I was little I've hated anything slightly Western-ish.
 
Oh yeah. The Western thing might also explain why I love Firefly.

I LOVE Westerns. Love, love, love them. For ages, I've been saying that Western and Sci-Fi are practically the same genre, anyway, and that someone should figure out how to combine the two. When Joss did it, I was hooked. And also, I wished I'd been the one to write it. lol.

The Western and the Sci-Fi are both about exploring and testing boundaries -- physical, technological, and cultural. The characters in a Western press forward out into the uncharted reaches of their world. They encounter alien peoples and alien technologies. They encounter new and terrible weather and/or geographic conditions. They either struggle to build something resembling their society from the ground up or they struggle to resist the encroachment of a new rival society. These experiences grant them insight into themselves as well as into the human condition in general. All of the same things can be said of Sci-Fi characters. I mean, in a Sci-Fi, the space ship crew = cowboys and alien peoples = Indians. The point of both genres is to get your characters out there on the edge of human society and experience so that they can challenge established parameters. Firefly, I thought, did an excellent job of using the conventions of both genres to accomplish this goal in a unique way.
 
I had to watch a few, then I really dug it. It could be fun living that life, apart from the constantly getting shot at and lack of food.
 
Wasn't interested in Firefly for a long time. I loathe Westerns, first of all. Secondly, I much prefer horror/fantasy/supernatural to straight out sci-fi. But when I finally gave Firefly a chance, and Serenity, I enjoyed it a LOT, however it doesn't really come close to BtVS and Angel for me.
 
I looooved Firefly. I saw serenity first and I was watching it going "this is odd" and I wasn't sure at first if I was bored or interested. By the end, I felt this weird feeling, it was love! I really enjoyed the movie and got the series and started watching. Loved it also and now the spouse is watching, and loving it. I am sad you don't like it. But, it's not meant to rock everyone's world I guess. It's like, I don't like Veronic Mars and people think I am nuts cause they love it. But I don't click with it, or how I met your mother, lol. Anyways, so you don't click with this show, no worries. 🙂
 
I watched Serenity before I heard about Firefly, and I fell in love with the characters. I got a basis of what Firefly is about, because I did some research on the show and the episodes and what not. I got Firefly on DVD a year ago, and I haven't touched it since. I'm not too big a fan of it, it starts off kind of slow. At least in my opinion. I have yet to watch all of the series, but I like what I have seen, it just needs some more spice.

But I would rather watch Angel then Buffy and Firefly anyday. :3
 
I think that as a Buffy/Angel fan you kind of have an obligation to watch (at least part of) Firefly. So I did. Unfortunatly, I began watching in the FOX air-order, but Faldor (another member here) corrected me and told me that this way I started out with the worst. So I stuck with it and it definitely got better. I watched Serenity in a theather and I bought it on DVD. I think it was a good series, but not as great as Buffy or Angel by a long shot. I'm a quite optimistic person myself and the defeatist attitude of some of the characters just bugged me. I can appreciate a dark tone in a TV series and I love Angel, even if he's brooding, but Mal just took it a little bit too far for my taste. Also the space/western isn't quite as new as browncoats sometimes make you believe. There were already parts of that in Star Wars and the setting for Firefly is very reminiscent of anime series like Trigun and Cowboy Bebop.
 
Good point about the space western.

My hubby, roommate, and I were watching umm... one of the Star Wars movies. The one in which Luke gets his arm cut off... and we were like, "Wow. Mal is really kind of a Han Solo Rip-Off, isn't he? How did we not notice that before?" lol.
 
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