I was thinking that just the other day. The Mal costume might need altering if he wheels it out again this year!

Fringe has completely passed me by, I must confess. Maybe I'll get round to it at some point. I tried to watch the first episodes The Event recently but gave up pretty quickly, I dont think I have the patience for ubertangled story arcs and Lost-esque-haphazard plot development any more.

I read something a while back that noted the decline in audiences for shows like Lost is due to the fact that today's generation of TV consumers prefer self-contained episodes and don't have the patience or commitment for anything more complicated.

I'm probably partially in that camp now, which is why I enjoy shows like Castle and The Office. There are running themes, and some light plot continuity, but you can drop in and out or watch the odd episode out of sequence without wondering what the hell is going on.

Whedon sci-fi like Firefly, Dollhouse and even Buffy also seem to be primarily of this style. There are some underpinning story-arcs, but episodes are principally stand-alone entities.

Sometimes, of course, it's worth the effort with a more complex construct, as per BSG, although even there I loved the more contained installments like Scar.

I'm currently trying to decide whether to bother with a Blu-Ray player to watch some of these old favourites afresh, or just to skip it entirely - I think the days of physical media are rapidly drawing to a close.

With the shapeshifters yea I am lost because it shows 2 different worlds, I really need to see it from the beginning.




Bullet

I think "Scar" is the best of all of the BSG stand-alone episodes. Other ones like "Dirty Hands", "Black Market" and "The Woman King" were average. As for me, I gravitate much more towards shows that have long going mytharcs/storyarcs but I also enjoy shows that consist mostly of stand-alone episodes like the original Star Trek and ST: Next Generation. I'm also a huge X-Files fan and I much prefer the mythology episodes than the "monster of the week" ones even though there are quite a lot of the stand alones that I think are great.

You can't stop the signal. Cancel it? Sure. But stop it? No way. Brief as it was, Firefly has legs. Long ones. Hands down the best sci-fi show (heck, one of the best shows of any genre) I've ever seen (even though it didn't get a chance to develop and deepen like say BSG, there was the odd bum episode like Heart of Gold, goofy laser "pew pew" sounds for some regular guns, and somewhat too literal an emphasis on the frontier/settler theme- they didn't literally have to dress as much like cowboys as they did to convey that), and I'm one of "those people" who considers Serenity the peer of Alien and Blade Runner as the best scifi movie ever made, and Firefly/Serenity by far and away Joss Whedon's best work. To quote Tyrell, "the candle that burns twice as bright burns half as long."

Aside- It took me until last year to get over mourning the apparent death of the Firefly/Serenity franchise via watching the cast in substandard fare (Morena Baccarin in V, Nathan Fillion in Castle, Summer Glau in Dollhouse- though I did think Terminator was a pretty good and watchable show) in a futile effort to recapture some of the charisma that they imbued Firefly/Serenity with. Stupid bean counters at Fox.

I hope fox networks burn down, hell torch the hertics,lol. Seriously I really enjoyed Firefly and it pains me to see them in other fluffy shows, Morena in Stargate and a few others. Intersting I do not watch Castle. I actually watched V, I hope it just takes time for it to mature, that is if it is coming back.



Bullet

I wonder if Jewel and Morena recognize what crap Stargate is compared to Firefly (Okay, perhaps a bit harsh, though I do think that, but the Stargate franchise basically a mediocre tv show that doesn't seem to aspire to more than light entertainment/fluff. Nothing wrong with that, of course.), and feel like they are slumming a bit, quality wise? I guess they are just happy to be working. I would be. Still, once you've been on Firefly/Serenity, that sets the bar a lot higher than other tv sci-fi shows (except BSG) seem capable of or even interested in reaching.

Morena went all naked in a movie so she can do whatever she wants.

V will definitely be back next year with 10 new episodes.

This.

My educated guess is that deep down inside, Morena and Jewel know that what they had on Firefly was special and there's a very good chance that they wont ever work on anything in the future that will match it. However, most actors are just like every day people like us here on SimHQ and there's no doubt they are happy to be getting a paycheck.

This seems appropriate for this thread.