mlg-t888
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I'm not totally sure why I am reviewing this long dead TV series. I guess, since it is extremely well known (and controversial) even to this day among science fiction fans. So it is my duty to say what I think about it I guess.
Where to begin, where to begin, I guess I would say that the best way to describe this show is an interesting concept gone very very wrong. In an attempt to make something fresh and original Joss Whedon attempts to combine old-style westerns and space operas together. What could have been subtler more gentle marriage of two different genres ended up being clunky and jarring, like two different blood types that can't mix together.
The story opens on a battle-field scenario with panicked soldiers in a losing battle. The scene immediately feels like a weaker version of battle trauma scenarios in well known war-films, though this is excusable as it is a TV show. As the episode progressed the viewers are introduced to the cowboyish (there is reasoning for this) members of the spaceship "Serenity". They are quickly attacked by the "Alliance", the galaxy's ruling power, who look unforgivably like the Empire in Star Wars.
Then came the title sequence, which played music that you would otherwise only hear in westerns. I was so taken aback, I couldn't put these two genres together, it just simply didn't work. Everything about this series screamed space-opera, but the soundtrack screamed western. Throughout the rest of the show, otherwise scholarly sounding characters would throw 'ya'll' or something along those lines into their sentences to sound like cowboys. It was really quite ridiculous.
It's quite sad really, the only thing that defined this series was it's original mix of western and space-opera, but instead the two genres just felt like they were fighting for control of the show. Without this original bit it really just becomes a generic space-voyaging show.
Unfortunately the show died young and never really got the chance to move past it's awkward phase.
So there you have it, I do encourage anybody reading this to go and watch the show yourself since opinions on it seem to vary widely, don't judge it based on my views.
Where to begin, where to begin, I guess I would say that the best way to describe this show is an interesting concept gone very very wrong. In an attempt to make something fresh and original Joss Whedon attempts to combine old-style westerns and space operas together. What could have been subtler more gentle marriage of two different genres ended up being clunky and jarring, like two different blood types that can't mix together.
The story opens on a battle-field scenario with panicked soldiers in a losing battle. The scene immediately feels like a weaker version of battle trauma scenarios in well known war-films, though this is excusable as it is a TV show. As the episode progressed the viewers are introduced to the cowboyish (there is reasoning for this) members of the spaceship "Serenity". They are quickly attacked by the "Alliance", the galaxy's ruling power, who look unforgivably like the Empire in Star Wars.
Then came the title sequence, which played music that you would otherwise only hear in westerns. I was so taken aback, I couldn't put these two genres together, it just simply didn't work. Everything about this series screamed space-opera, but the soundtrack screamed western. Throughout the rest of the show, otherwise scholarly sounding characters would throw 'ya'll' or something along those lines into their sentences to sound like cowboys. It was really quite ridiculous.
It's quite sad really, the only thing that defined this series was it's original mix of western and space-opera, but instead the two genres just felt like they were fighting for control of the show. Without this original bit it really just becomes a generic space-voyaging show.
Unfortunately the show died young and never really got the chance to move past it's awkward phase.
So there you have it, I do encourage anybody reading this to go and watch the show yourself since opinions on it seem to vary widely, don't judge it based on my views.
I am going to be brief about this horrifying series, let me begin by stating I am a Christian, so I hold no kind of vendetta against the morals portrayed.
Let me explain my feelings about this show in one sentence: This is an awfully acted, horrifically directed, terribly written, atrociously misinformed, horrendously uninspired "series" that deserves to have a warning on it to keep unsuspecting families from renting it.
That is my one sentence review, there you have it.
NOTE: This series does not reflect what Christians enjoy to watch, quite the contrary really.
Let me explain my feelings about this show in one sentence: This is an awfully acted, horrifically directed, terribly written, atrociously misinformed, horrendously uninspired "series" that deserves to have a warning on it to keep unsuspecting families from renting it.
That is my one sentence review, there you have it.
NOTE: This series does not reflect what Christians enjoy to watch, quite the contrary really.
