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Hyrax Attack! posted:Does Buffy have much of a fanbase anymore? Seems for a while although nothing at trek or SW levels maybe had Dr. Who levels of popularity? Guessing that’s fell off as (some) existing fans would be embarrassed & new ones wouldn’t want to watch a Joss product. I consider myself a Buffy fan but there isn’t much to talk about and it was a miracle it was good the first time I doubt they can do it again.
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BAGS FLY AT NOON posted:Joss can’t write anything that isn’t about a Chosen waif with latent superpowers. Like his entire pre-Marvel career is just rewrites of Buffy. Angel was actually pretty decent especially later on when he was more hands-off and the other writers gave it its own feel. Angel was cancelled for dumb reasons, and they had to rush to put an ending together for it. https://screenrant.com/angel-season-5-joss-whedon-cancelled-end-reason/
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I enjoyed the Buffy musical episode. It was fun. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FmLSjwam26E https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wEZSupETl-E The Bible fucked around with this message at 01:27 on Jun 2, 2023 |
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AcidCat posted:I enjoyed Firefly, knowing nothing about Joss Whedon, I never watched a single episode of those Buffy shows as they looked incredibly lame. Then the Dollhouse show came out and I'm like, oh the Firefly guy made a new show I should check that out. I think I managed like three episodes and it was probably the worst show I'd ever seen and that was the last I cared about old Joss. I found Dollhouse hard to watch because it felt less like the author's fetishes sneak in every once in a while and more like an author's fetish is the whole premise. But then if you look past that and just accept the premise, you find that the show is just not good.
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Jun 2, 2023 01:37
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his head has enough mass that gravity is beginning to warp it into a roughly spherical shape
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Jun 2, 2023 01:44
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StrangersInTheNight posted:people ITT thinking that space cowboy tropes started in the late 90s with boobalicious Outlaw Star Yeah, it definately started before that. I vaguely remember this, first episode was 1987. They released a feature length film a year later, with the tagline "An Indian cowboy with magic powers saves the planet of New Texas from robot monsters." I rented it on VHS and even as a kid I thought it was a bit more violent and risque than usual Saturday morning cartoons. I really need to go look it up again. 
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Jun 2, 2023 12:41
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Is rocket robinhood a space cowboy or does it belong to a much smaller subgenre of space medieval bandit
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Jun 2, 2023 14:06
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It got cancelled because Joss Whedon was going around threatening to do poo poo like this:quote:In the Science Channel ten-year reunion special "Firefly: Browncoats Unite," Minear shared Whedon's initial pitch to him: https://www.slashfilm.com/1012337/joss-whedons-grim-first-firefly-pitch-was-probably-better-left-unfilmed/
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Jun 3, 2023 09:23
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Honestly though whenever I see someone complaining about Firefly’s cancellation these days I just assume they parrot whatever opinion the internet tells them to have. I can understand people being upset when it happened but what I can’t understand is why anyone would be so up in arms about this 20 years later and yet you still see it get brought up. I think almost everyone who likes it these days got into it knowing full well it was cancelled anyway. Its like an Emporer’s New Clothes situation where they all think they’re supposed to love it and be upset that its gone since they want to identify as a nerd.
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Jun 3, 2023 09:31
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Chrs posted:Honestly though whenever I see someone complaining about Firefly’s cancellation these days I just assume they parrot whatever opinion the internet tells them to have. I assume tone deafness might play a role, too. Seriously, that goddamn theme song is terrible.
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Jun 3, 2023 09:35
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Didnt read anything past page 1 but just had to say The Expanse loving blows and i watched Season 1 as space detective Miller seemed cool even though his whole obsession was loving dumb as hell, but they zipped up that arc and the rest is just James Holden doing his loving FACE for 9 seasons, having mental breakdowns and crisis of faiths every 10 minutes. And that United nations lady with the voice. She might as well have sat down and read straight from the script and used the first take for all her emotional range. Alex Kamal should've been cancelled as soon as he got on the martian uniform becouse drat he loved being in with the fascists (basically) but also for the sexual allegations yeah. Firefly was allright i think.
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The let's read expanse thread is really opening my eyes that it isn't very good. I liked it when I was younger but now it just seems to ooze nihilistic reddit smugness. Heh, you thought people could work through their differences, but humans can't, this is the very real truth of the universe that only very smart undergraduates like me can comprehend. Aren't we all just monkeys defending our tribe, maaaaan?
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Hyrax Attack! posted:Does Buffy have much of a fanbase anymore? Seems for a while although nothing at trek or SW levels maybe had Dr. Who levels of popularity? Guessing that’s fell off as (some) existing fans would be embarrassed & new ones wouldn’t want to watch a Joss product. Seems to be more of a nostalgia thing. I saw a Buffy one-man show the other week (it was better than that sounds) and everyone was of a "certain age" and a particular breed of nerd.
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Strategic Tea posted:The let's read expanse thread is really opening my eyes that it isn't very good. I liked it when I was younger but now it just seems to ooze nihilistic reddit smugness. I enjoyed the books, but Three Body Problem was definitely far superior.
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Jun 3, 2023 12:39
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Chrs posted:It got cancelled because Joss Whedon was going around threatening to do poo poo like this: we discussed this at length already but thanks
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Jun 3, 2023 13:28
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i was in like a board game group for a metropolitan area. And we had an e-mail list to sort of sort out when we would play games and stuff. Anyway, there was a guy whose e-mail signature was basically 3 paragraphs of quotes from Firefly and then sort of a note from him about how it was the greatest show ever made. Whatever. But then one time I was at a competition for this game and I saw someone who had quotes from the opening theme song on his forearms in the same font as the show. FWIW I liked the show but also found it annoying at times, like the dialogue was a bit forced. But I thought it served as a counterpoint to Star Trek's melodrama (I use that as a technical term, out of love), as an attempt of verisimilitude. I also think the visual effects out kicked their coverage, they were quite good at times. I always liked Jewel Staite's delivery of 'look, look where I'm pointing', which is a weird thing to fixate on, but I use it in real life if I tell someone to 'turn that' and I'm pointing and they look confused. Glad it didn't drag on, though. I think my wife and I will watch Buffy at some point in the near future.
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Jun 3, 2023 13:53
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bollig posted:I saw someone who had quotes from the opening theme song on his forearms in the same font as the show. 
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Jun 3, 2023 15:19
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SilvergunSuperman posted:Lamenting it as some underappreciated masterpiece is lol. literally every person who has recommended i watch firefly has this attitude about it. one person insisted i borrow their dvds of the show and they just sat there for a year until finally they asked me to return them and i gave them back covered in dust.
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Jun 3, 2023 15:24
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Hell Yeah posted:one person insisted i borrow their dvds of the show and they just sat there for a year until finally they asked me to return them and i gave them back covered in dust. That was a friend trying to share and make a common point of reference with you. But alas.
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Jun 3, 2023 15:58
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Leper Go-getter posted:That was a friend trying to share and make a common point of reference with you. But alas. nobody needs friends like that
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Jun 3, 2023 16:17
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“hey i just want us to have some common frame of reference so he’s my favorite pet euthanasia and abusive rape porn videos”
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Jun 3, 2023 16:18
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What a horrible theme song Lol No wonder I only watched this for 2 episodes before stopping forever
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Jun 3, 2023 16:18
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If people want to watch a space western, the Mandalorian does a great job without Confederate sympathy. And the theme song actually matches the setting.
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Strategic Tea posted:The let's read expanse thread is really opening my eyes that it isn't very good. I liked it when I was younger but now it just seems to ooze nihilistic reddit smugness. The shows that have huge fandoms tend to never meet expectations and in the case of Rick and Morty make people want nothing to do with it. People find flaws not because there's anymore than the average show but because they are looking for them.e Edit: Firefly is alright. Duck and Cover fucked around with this message at 21:44 on Jun 3, 2023 |
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I tried to watch this show a few years ago because I like sci fi and I like Westerns. I remember the most annoying guy in my undergrad classes would wear cowboy boots and camo jackets and talk about Firefly a lot. I couldn’t deal with the dialogue at all and the bizarre made up swears were extremely jarring every single time. “Captain, the bad guys have killed and raped an entire ship full of orphans.” “Those gorram minguses! What a bunch of absolute plonking bodgers! This is horrible. I’m so gorram mad.”
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Leper Go-getter posted:That was a friend trying to share and make a common point of reference with you. But alas. i don't need a point of reference of this type, thank you. i'm my own friend
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Jun 3, 2023 21:35
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The X-man cometh posted:If people want to watch a space western, the Mandalorian does a great job without Confederate sympathy. Season 1 is good, 2 was real fun, 3 is optional if you’re really enjoying it. Avoid book of Boba Fett.
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True story, I went with a couple people to go see the movie, Serenity. I had no idea it was related to a cancelled TV show, and neither did my date. We’d never heard of Joss Whedon. It was a pretty decent stand alone flick. A few years later I saw a few episodes and thought they were okay, but I’d forgotten the movie existed entirely until someone told me about the whole campaign to get a movie made after the show’s cancellation. I think Joss Whedon tries way too hard, thinks he’s a lot smarter than he really is, and uses shallow feminism as a cover for his massive pile of sexual hang ups and insecurities. And he’s got a stupid name
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Jorts Weedon
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The Expanse is a much better space show that ended too soon. IMO, "what if space, but actually space?" is a better premise than "what if space, but cowboys?" and the internet's space nerds should obsess with that, instead. Plus, hey, if we get another season or two a decade down the line and all the actors look old as heck, it'll work with where they left off.
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Jun 4, 2023 02:51
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The greatest trick the devil ever played was making everyone think Joss Whedon was a genius by cancelling Firefly while it was still good.
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Jun 4, 2023 03:15
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Whedon would be gone and forgotten by now if his haters weren't keeping his name alive. People act like he invented putting jokes in action movies. It's ridiculous. He didn't even define the vibe of the MCU. The entire package was already present in Iron Man.
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Joss really is a dumb fuckin' name. I don't care how much Disney gives you. That's an awful name. I wouldn't name a dog Joss.
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Joss the tip
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I listened to the theme song just because gall said its bad Yeah it's bad. Also jofn wadden is a loving dou
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Joss is short for Jossiah, a venerable name
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NoiseAnnoys posted:“hey i just want us to have some common frame of reference so he’s my favorite pet euthanasia and abusive rape porn videos” The gently caress is this
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it was a cool show and kind of progressive for its time but society caught up and exceeded the show so now the show is kind of problematic yeah i’m talking about the wife episode
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