The Extremist
Tuesday, November 14, 2006
The best little sci-fi series that was
I actually wrote this this morning (around 0033) but figured I'd publish it when I got to campus. The Internet is faster there. Dial-up sucks. I was waiting for my simulation to finish and felt like writing. Haven't felt like writing in quite some time. The sudden urge could have something to do with my new diNovo notebook-style keyboard.
Inbetween trying to work yesterday I finished the last episode of Firefly, a sci-fi television series on DVD. Probably the best sci-fi I've ever watched or read. I'm not a great connoiseur but I have read Asimov and a little Orson Scott Card. I've watched Stargate (pretty much all of it).
Before watching the last episode I went on Wikipedia to discover why the series was cancelled. I suppose I could understand people's reservation to watch it. A space western? With horses and hats and six-shooter style guns? LAME. But then you watch it and realise that Joss Whedon and his team of writers were amazing. They stayed true to their characters and the show was always about the characters and not the plot.
Another of Google's little toys, (Google) Web Comments pointed me towards the strangest blog which, in turn, pointed me to this strange little piece of fanfiction. I can't quite fathom whether it was intended to be a joke or if the author just wrote it because s/he could. I've only read the first 8 chapters (of 30+, a daunting electronic read by any standard) and it promises to be... odd... Not badly written but just as critics called the science fiction premise Firefly was based on a bastardisation for the sake of being different, I'm wondering if this story doesn't take it one too far.
I'm going to read it until it gets bad or becomes boring. Join me.
Inbetween trying to work yesterday I finished the last episode of Firefly, a sci-fi television series on DVD. Probably the best sci-fi I've ever watched or read. I'm not a great connoiseur but I have read Asimov and a little Orson Scott Card. I've watched Stargate (pretty much all of it).
Before watching the last episode I went on Wikipedia to discover why the series was cancelled. I suppose I could understand people's reservation to watch it. A space western? With horses and hats and six-shooter style guns? LAME. But then you watch it and realise that Joss Whedon and his team of writers were amazing. They stayed true to their characters and the show was always about the characters and not the plot.
Another of Google's little toys, (Google) Web Comments pointed me towards the strangest blog which, in turn, pointed me to this strange little piece of fanfiction. I can't quite fathom whether it was intended to be a joke or if the author just wrote it because s/he could. I've only read the first 8 chapters (of 30+, a daunting electronic read by any standard) and it promises to be... odd... Not badly written but just as critics called the science fiction premise Firefly was based on a bastardisation for the sake of being different, I'm wondering if this story doesn't take it one too far.
I'm going to read it until it gets bad or becomes boring. Join me.
Labels: fanfiction, Firefly
