I Apologize for Being too Snooty for Firefly

I don't talk about you guys behind your backs about it, but yes, I will readily admit it now: I was a little snooty about the idea of Firefly. I should have gotten the suggestions that it would be good: the cult praise (which "Freaks and Geeks" had), the fact that Ben Edlund produced, the fact that I liked the movie Serenity... yes, I thought I was too good for a sci-fi series. But hear me out, people!

Can you blame me? I mean, you do know what sort of trash is out in terms of sci-fi series, right? I barely got into Voyager when I was younger and more innocentignorant and was turned off when it felt like Seven of Nine was being used as a showboat feature for the series. Hercules was atrocious, Xena was cool before I realized how annoying standalone episodes really were, and the stuff that Sci-Fi puts out now? I tried Farscape and it was liberally doused with science fantasy. Uh uh, sorry, Lucas already pushed it for me, and I refuse to go into a level of creative thinking that matches one too many nights of absynthe binges. Most of the other shows felt like fanservice built on more hokey science fantasy mounted with double-d cups to hide the shame of it all. Hell, even Heroes is sucking bad with redundant concepts from what I've heard and this is before the writer's strike.

Granted, I probably would have liked Smallville for the cute revisions (yes, I thought the ones I read on IMDB were cute revisions), but it's too much damage done. Now that I have seen Firefly, I have to admit that it's admirable: everything fits into traditional holes of one medium while still working in another simultaneously. I actually abhored the concept of a sci-fi western due to how flagrantly the concept would defy any attempt for common sense, and yet this does not. To say it impresses me is understated flattery especially when I was expecting to get something along the lines of another Starship Troopers, which I considered a nice background concept wrapped with steaming shit and ribbon-dressed with a turd penny called Denise Richards.

So with that said, I apologize to you people out there that liked the series. No, I didn't mock you behind my back, but there was a tiny part of my brain that did think lesser of your opinions for all the remarks that were made about it. It'll still take time before I even think of accepting the other shows out there (Dark Angel still feels like eye candy, sorry Ben), but in the meantime I'll sit in the corner with the dunce cap for now, plotting my revenge by looking for some other neglected televised gem out there.

Oh, by the way, about that?

I Apologize for Being too Snooty for Firefly

I don't talk about you guys behind your backs about it, but yes, I will readily admit it now: I was a little snooty about the idea of Firefly. I should have gotten the suggestions that it would be good: the cult praise (which "Freaks and Geeks" had), the fact that Ben Edlund produced, the fact that I liked the movie Serenity... yes, I thought I was too good for a sci-fi series. But hear me out, people!

Can you blame me? I mean, you do know what sort of trash is out in terms of sci-fi series, right? I barely got into Voyager when I was younger and more innocentignorant and was turned off when it felt like Seven of Nine was being used as a showboat feature for the series. Hercules was atrocious, Xena was cool before I realized how annoying standalone episodes really were, and the stuff that Sci-Fi puts out now? I tried Farscape and it was liberally doused with science fantasy. Uh uh, sorry, Lucas already pushed it for me, and I refuse to go into a level of creative thinking that matches one too many nights of absynthe binges. Most of the other shows felt like fanservice built on more hokey science fantasy mounted with double-d cups to hide the shame of it all. Hell, even Heroes is sucking bad with redundant concepts from what I've heard and this is before the writer's strike.

Granted, I probably would have liked Smallville for the cute revisions (yes, I thought the ones I read on IMDB were cute revisions), but it's too much damage done. Now that I have seen Firefly, I have to admit that it's admirable: everything fits into traditional holes of one medium while still working in another simultaneously. I actually abhored the concept of a sci-fi western due to how flagrantly the concept would defy any attempt for common sense, and yet this does not. To say it impresses me is understated flattery especially when I was expecting to get something along the lines of another Starship Troopers, which I considered a nice background concept wrapped with steaming shit and ribbon-dressed with a turd penny called Denise Richards.

So with that said, I apologize to you people out there that liked the series. No, I didn't mock you behind my back, but there was a tiny part of my brain that did think lesser of your opinions for all the remarks that were made about it. It'll still take time before I even think of accepting the other shows out there (Dark Angel still feels like eye candy, sorry Ben), but in the meantime I'll sit in the corner with the dunce cap for now, plotting my revenge by looking for some other neglected televised gem out there.

Oh, by the way, about that?