Which is kind of appropriate, when one takes a minute of two thinking about it..Originally Posted by Tex_Arcana
Which is kind of appropriate, when one takes a minute of two thinking about it..
Where they spent well was in casting: I found MOST of the characterizations to be engaging and very well done.
The only truly "weak" character (imo) is Alak. But even that is a qualified "weak". As the character is a bit if a spoiled, first-born.
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It's not the bullet with my name on it that worries me. It's the one that says, "To whom it may concern".
Quite true, I agree completely. I was just making a comical stab at similarities between the show's (small) budget, and the game's (small) budget..
Firefly --- Cowboy/space/frontier survival mash-up.
Defiance --- Cowboy/space-age/frontier survival mash-up.
Malcolm Reynolds --- Space-age cowboy war veteran type with a heart of gold.
Joshua Nolan --- Space-age cowboy war veteran type with a heart of gold.
Firefly --- Genre mash-up that only survived one season and is now the single greatest cult classic in the history of television. Horrendously misunderstood by Fox Network.
Defiance --- Genre mash-up that has staggered for three seasons; durability yet to be determined. SyFy had big plans and failed outright to carry through on any of them.
And I could sit here and hold forth at length about character comparisions, but it's late in the afternoon here and I've got to pick up my kid from school.
So tell me dabs---in your infinite wisdom---what did I miss?
I stand by my assertions. You're dismissed, troll.
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Wait, which show is Firefly 2.0? Defiance lasted three full seasons before the writers decided to put the main character on a bus. Dark Matter and Killjoys are being renewed for second seasons. Firefly didn't even get to finish its first season before the network killed it. If any show deserves the distinction of being "Firefly 2.0", it's Jake 2.0 (no pun intended), which I strongly recommend watching if you haven't seen it.
They did it right by bringing in at least a couple of faces that were familiar to sci-fi genre fans, in the form of Jaime Murray, Julie Benz, and Mia Kirshner (who I remember from "The Crow: City of Angels). Graham Greene was probably intended as the older-range actor and cast anchor, in a manner similiar to Edward James Olmos and Mary McDonnell in "Battlestar Galactica". I personally didn't know anything about Grant Bowler before the show, but I do now; he was much bigger in Australia than he was here. I remembered Tony Curran from "League of Extraordinary Gentlemen" and the second "Underworld" movie. Didn't know anything about Jesse Rath, Nicole Munoz, or Trenna Keating.
I do now...
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See my post above.
EDIT: Jake 2.0? You mean that one about the teenager with a computer inside his head? That's been done before too---John Schuck ("MASH" motion picture and the Klingon Ambassador in a couple of the "Star Trek" movies) had a one-season only series in the early '80's with that concept. Your comparison is so far out in left field you're not even in the ball park anymore. Try again.
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Really? My Dark Matter crush is Five, the stowaway. For one thing, I like girls with obviously unnatural hair colors. But more importantly, she's a medical and tech genius, and I LOVE smart/nerdy girls.
It wasn't resolved until the end of season 2.
I think you mean season 3
I'm sorry but you can't list "cowboy" and "frontier survival" as two different things. Also, Defiance was post-apocalyptic, not space-age. They couldn't even fly aircraft above a certain altitude because of how screwed-up the atmosphere had become. In this sense, Defiance is far more comparable to Revolution (complete with an Evil Republic as a major antagonist) or The Walking Dead (complete with a Sheriff as the main character).
Casey's caustic replies aside: There are lines that can be drawn from Firefly to the shows we are discussing left,right and centre.
My only true comparison for Defiance is the similarity between Joshua Nolan and Malcolm Reynolds.
There is no other true correlation imo.
What Joss Whedon DID introduce into the genre with Firefly/Serenity, was that you can have multiple characters with compelling histories to be explored.
This little device alone can give a well written show extra legs...if the writers are up to the task.
We could go on, and on with comparisons between different shows; but ultimately that's a fool's game.
While this present crop of "B" level sci Fi is entertaining, there is plenty of fare out there of even higher calbre.
Humans really got my attention, and Orphan Black remains a big favourite.
As a matter of fact: I think I'll watch Farscape: The Peacekeeper Wars again...while building a bike.
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It's not the bullet with my name on it that worries me. It's the one that says, "To whom it may concern".
LOL no, I mean the one with the NSA agent with nanites in his bloodstream.
Except for the vaguely "wild west in the future" theme, and what you say next:
Nah, that had been around at least as far back as Star Trek: TNG.
Farscape ceased to be worth watching by the time the opening credits started to play on "Self-Inflicted Wounds, part 1". That was the exact moment at which it simply stopped making any sense whatsoever and went into full Damon Lindelof mode. Replacing zen plant girl with irritating princess ***** didn't help, either.
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