Firefly movie greenlighted

[Luddite]

Since this seems to be a bit of a den of firefly fans;

http://slashdot.org/articles/04/03/03/2357214.shtml

Yeah, I know it's slashdot, but hey...

:D

[Parias]

Hooray! I could do with some good news, especially after Sam & Max 2 got canned.

[sauron1]

And that's after Full Throttle 2 got canned. There's no place in the world anymore for trash-talking unshaven cartoon characters. Except Homer Simpson. And Bender.

[Stephen Robertson]

It's great news!

I bought the DVD set a few weeks ago and I am completely in awe of the show.

And of course it reminds me in many ways of I-War/Edge Of Chaos, which is nice. :D

[Hot4Darmat]

YAY! I also loved this series, and am very happy to hear there's life after the networks. I kind of figured we hadn't seen the last of Capt. Reynolds and his motley crew. I'll be plunking down a few bucks to see it on the big screen for sure.

[Nightwatch]

I never liked firefly. I didn't like the premise, the universe or any of the characters. I guess I'm of the opinion that the wild west should stay in the wild west. A friend tried to convert me by siting me through several episodes on vidio and I never really saw the point. I guess I'll belive a band of fugitives when their ship bearly works. they cant bathe every day and they are not specialists in cool snappy lines.

In other words, I miss Farscape. :(

[jessica00]

wasnt a bad series...weren't bad characters..but the whole wild west thing can go. :)

[Aerothorn]

Nigh****ch, don't get your info from Firefly. It didn't do a good job of meshing them (just like it didn't do a good job as a whole, IMHO- Joss has decided that instead of having funny shows we should watch soap operas). See Cowboy Bebop as a much better sci-fi/western fusion- it's not really noticable. In Firefly, it stands out like a sore thumb, with all the logical holes and everything.

[Rurouni Storm]

Outlaw Star meshes it pretty well, too.

[Cougaris]

I dunno if I'd classify Outlaw Star as wild west themed. More frontier-like, but any massive semblance to cowboys and such gets buried under the hefty amount of science-fiction. Unlike Firefly, in which one episode involved a train robbery. How western is that?

Just my 0.02 though. :)

[Aerothorn]

I tried to watch Outlaw Star but just...it was soo.....ordinary? Cliche, I guess. It just bored me and was predictable and was just not engaging. I haven't tried any anime in a while- like all other TV, most of it sucks, and like all other TV, there is some great stuff. The bad thing is you can read about the domestic great stuff easilly- trying to figure out what anime is good is a lot harder, and I just eventually gave up. Cowboy Bebop is soooo awesome though.

Yeah Firefly was very western, and it didn't make much sense- why are they using 6 shooters in 2500? What's going on? But that wasn't my problem with it- it was not funny often enough to justify the times where it was so melodramatic me and my dad were just practiclly barfing.

[Rurouni Storm]

<--- Good current anime ;)

Agreed though, it's very hard to seperate the crud from the good anime, especially the domestic stuff lately, since companies will license ANYTHING these days.

Case in point: A reasonable "review" of Happy Lesson (http://www.hooverdam.net/crap/lesson/)

I really just liked Outlaw Star for the unique ship combat and the magic guns. It also has some really great ending episodes. Doesn't hold a candle to stuff like Bebop, Trigun and the like, though.