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Initial thoughts on Firefly
15/5/05 22:12Testosterone.
I am not a person who gets westerns. Or combat, or anything vaguely military. I did not see Star Wars until I was 12-ish because it was about wars. Really. And there was something about the first two episodes of Firefly that rubbed me the wrong way--too loud, too male, too something. The first couple minutes of the first episode, in particular, made me think, this is not something I'm going to get. I can't watch the original Star Trek because they seem to resolve every problem by punching people in the face, and Firefly suffers from the same issue.
Also, I don't like Mal. As matociquala noted, he's way too much the Han Solo "pretends he's such a rogue but never actually does anything bad" type, and the show takes him too seriously for his own good. But it's fairly typical to have a cast of very interesting supporting characters around one bland-to-annoying main character (which is also true of Buffy, I think), and it's such an ensemble show that one character I don't like is not a big deal.
For all that griping I do enjoy it. I think it's probably an excellent show made for a person who isn't me, and I can certainly enjoy it for what it is. The characters are so almost-universally likeable, and it really is a character-based show and not just a western in space with too many people getting punched in the face.
I suspect that's true of the original Star Trek, too, more than I give it credit for, but I really have no desire to find out.
I am not a person who gets westerns. Or combat, or anything vaguely military. I did not see Star Wars until I was 12-ish because it was about wars. Really. And there was something about the first two episodes of Firefly that rubbed me the wrong way--too loud, too male, too something. The first couple minutes of the first episode, in particular, made me think, this is not something I'm going to get. I can't watch the original Star Trek because they seem to resolve every problem by punching people in the face, and Firefly suffers from the same issue.
Also, I don't like Mal. As matociquala noted, he's way too much the Han Solo "pretends he's such a rogue but never actually does anything bad" type, and the show takes him too seriously for his own good. But it's fairly typical to have a cast of very interesting supporting characters around one bland-to-annoying main character (which is also true of Buffy, I think), and it's such an ensemble show that one character I don't like is not a big deal.
For all that griping I do enjoy it. I think it's probably an excellent show made for a person who isn't me, and I can certainly enjoy it for what it is. The characters are so almost-universally likeable, and it really is a character-based show and not just a western in space with too many people getting punched in the face.
I suspect that's true of the original Star Trek, too, more than I give it credit for, but I really have no desire to find out.