GKarsEye
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Ok so I started Netflixing (yes it's a verb now, I say so) Firefly and watched the first episode... er, double episode.. whatever.
My question- did a 15 yr old come up with this thing? Having cowboy-type archetypes, imagery, settings and music but setting the thing in space reminds me of junior high-school looser-corner-of-the-cafetaria discussion about who kicks more ass, ninja or pirates?
Seriously, I bet this show is or was gonna have ninja and pirates at some point. I don't mean people who pirate things and are technically "pirates," I mean Captain Hook style "Arh matey!" with a goddamn parrot on the should pirates.
Whenever two of the men talked to each other, the fake machismo was so thick I was just waiting for them to whip 'em out and compare sizes, winner take whore.
Ah yes there's a whore. And a chick engineer but she's a total ditz. Great female role models. The whore is hot, though, but the engineer is way cuter.
Everything looks cool- the way the ship moves and the horses- horses!- are.. well, just there.. and, um.. guns. Those are like some sort of futuristic retro space revolvers. Totally stupid but I'm a Western fan and the sharp camera turns (amateuristic homages of copies of homages to Leoni which aren't even as smooth as the slightly-less amateurish copy of homages in Tombstone).
I hope I get to see those supposedly scary and evil zombie cannibals they were so afraid of.
"Some people call me the space cowboy..."
So it was entertaining and I'll watch the rest and see the movie but unless it develops something beyond "dude, that's totally like cowboys 'n' shit!" I won't understand the devotion that sci-fi fans have. It's "cool" but as soon as I would turn my brain in I would start laughing. Like porn.
My question- did a 15 yr old come up with this thing? Having cowboy-type archetypes, imagery, settings and music but setting the thing in space reminds me of junior high-school looser-corner-of-the-cafetaria discussion about who kicks more ass, ninja or pirates?
Seriously, I bet this show is or was gonna have ninja and pirates at some point. I don't mean people who pirate things and are technically "pirates," I mean Captain Hook style "Arh matey!" with a goddamn parrot on the should pirates.
Whenever two of the men talked to each other, the fake machismo was so thick I was just waiting for them to whip 'em out and compare sizes, winner take whore.
Ah yes there's a whore. And a chick engineer but she's a total ditz. Great female role models. The whore is hot, though, but the engineer is way cuter.
Everything looks cool- the way the ship moves and the horses- horses!- are.. well, just there.. and, um.. guns. Those are like some sort of futuristic retro space revolvers. Totally stupid but I'm a Western fan and the sharp camera turns (amateuristic homages of copies of homages to Leoni which aren't even as smooth as the slightly-less amateurish copy of homages in Tombstone).
I hope I get to see those supposedly scary and evil zombie cannibals they were so afraid of.
"Some people call me the space cowboy..."
So it was entertaining and I'll watch the rest and see the movie but unless it develops something beyond "dude, that's totally like cowboys 'n' shit!" I won't understand the devotion that sci-fi fans have. It's "cool" but as soon as I would turn my brain in I would start laughing. Like porn.