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Date Posted: 14:18:40 10/13/02 Sun
Author: Isabel
Subject: Answers
In reply to: Cactus Watcher 's message, "With no episode, new or old, to talk about this week" on 07:49:34 10/11/02 Fri

1. Are you watching Firefly primarily because of
a. Joss' track record.
b. I like sci-fi.
c. I like westerns.
d. other (explain).

a. Yes; b. Yes; c. Yes.

2. Are you a fan of Star Trek? If so, what do you like and dislike about the franchise? Feel free to talk about individual series, and the movies separately or to lump them together.

Yes. I like the idea that in the future humans could have solved many of our major problems and get a chance to see how big the universe is. (Favorite show: Not sure. There's things I like in all of them. Maybe Next Gen. Favorite movie: Wrath of Khan, hands down.) I don't like the preaching soap-box episodes. (Like the Old one with the 'Yangs and the Comms' or the Next Gen one with the species that didn't allow sexual preference between its members.) I don't like the odd numbered movies. I hated that they brought back Spock. I thought his death was perfect in Wrath of Khan, but that doesn't stop me from enjoying The Voyage Home or The Undiscovered Country or the Next Gen movies.

3. Are you a fan of Star Wars? What do you like and dislike about it.

Yes. I love the adventure/romance of it, with deep mysticism thrown in for flavor. I don't like Lucas trying to use a physical scientific reason to explain something that he used mysticism to explain before. Short answer: Midichlorians make no sense! (Hmm, I sound like Andrew...)

4. Are you a fan of Babylon 5? Are all 'deep' sci-fi TV shows doomed to both low ratings, and to being pushed to the margins of broadcasting?

Yes. B-5 is my all-time favorite sci-fi show. I think the low ratings came about because it was syndicated and relied on the local stations to push the show on their own. One thing I didn't like about B-5, and the reason I resisted watching for a while was it was advertised as the 'Anti-Star Trek.' I have a dislike of advertisers, tv shows, political candidates etc. that bash their competition without telling you anything about themselves. It's like they can't conceive that someone can actually like Star Trek, Star Wars, and Babylon 5 at the same time, for their own merits and for completely different reasons.

Re: the "Margins of Broadcasting." I hated that. I think that is also because of the syndication thing. I hated having to tape it 1:00 AM on Friday, which I think of as Thursday night. I thought the Sci-Fi channel could have changed that. My mistake.

5. If you like sci-fi, what are some of your other favorites, TV, books or movies?

Dr. Who has been one of my favorites since childhood, although I consider it as much fantasy as anything. It's one that I quote consistantly in real life and nobody realizes. "The thing about computers is that they're really brilliant idiots..." and "Time and tide melt the snowman." People just think I'm weird. I almost forgot to mention The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai: Across the 8th Dimension. Wonderful. "What's that watermelon doing there?"

I like David Weber's Honor Harrington books. (His other ones too, but primarily Honor.) When I was a kid, I really liked Andre Norton's books, but I find I can't read them anymore. I also really like David Brin's Uplift books Sundiver, Startide Rising and The Uplift War as well as the sequel trilogy.

6. Westerns have mostly faded from the tv screen. Do you have any old favorites? Do you have any favorite Western movies? Do you think the genre is worn out?

My favorite Western TV show was The Adventures of Brisco County, jr. I liked it better than the X-Files and I was heartbroken when Fox cancelled it. When I was a kid, I liked Little House on the Prairie, but I can't watch it now. My family liked Bonanza and Gunsmoke, but I can't watch them anymore.

If it wasn't for Brisco, I might say that the genre was worn out, but as long as someone can come up with a different take on the genre, I'm willing to give it a try.

7. I would say that Buffy and Angel are about complex relationships and tearing down fixed ideas about good and evil. Assuming Firefly gets the chance to develop do you think it will follow the same pattern?

I think that's a tough one to say at this point. Definitely it's going to have complex relationships and fixed ideas will be torn down, but I don't think "Good" and "Evil" will have a huge place in the plots. I think it's going to be alot about ethical relativism and what you can live with yourself for. The Alliance isn't going to be the Evil Empire or the Benevolant Federation, it's going to have elements of both and our characters are going to have to learn to live with and without it.
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I thought the fate of the tatooed thug was hilarious and eminently logical, but it wasn't "Good" or "ethical" in any way shape or form.

8. Play Joss for a moment. Where do you think the meatiest potential parts of Firefly (sic) lie?

Hard to say, I can NEVER guess what he and his crew are going to do (with the exception of Connor, "he couldn't stay a baby for long" on Angel.) I think it's going to be the marginalization of refugees and the struggle to stay 'decent' in your eyes when no one around you respects the law. The changing of world views and the realization that there's nothing you can trust inherently. (River's torture by the Institution for a diabolical purpose, and do we think she's the only one? She's probably the only one to get out.)

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