Sound like the beginning of a joke? It is, and it's called Firefly.
Let's start with the Reavers. A group of Jeffrey Dahmers. GROUP of Dahmers. That kind of person isn't social, you'll never find a society of humans like that. They just don't work together to accomplish anything at all, let alone OPERATE A SPACE SHIP. That's a team effort, intellectual, coordinated, sophisticated, structured thing. Not a depraved killer's cup of tea by a long shot. Just imagine for a second what's happening on the bridge of a Reaver ship. Yeah, ridiculous if you think about it.
The idea that prostitution will be seen as classy in the future and a prostitute would travel with a spaceship on completely unrelated business is beyond absurd. What gave Whedon this idea? Looks like the direction humanity is headed in, right? No. It's impossible to accept that Earth's future generations' cultures will evolve in this direction, it isn't logical. Let's be frank though, the purpose was to have the pretty girl hang out around the ship. On bad eps, at least you'll have... that same exact girl to look at. I could get into TOS's fun sort of shamelessness of a similar variety, but this thread isn't about that, I won't argue for now why that's acceptable and this isn't. Figure it out.
The psychic power chick and her doctor brother don't fit here. Neither does the preacher for that matter. For one thing, the chick and her brother are douchebags, and the chick is the most random character of any show I can think of. They especially don't mix with the 2 main characters, which I'm moving onto now.
The "old cowboy" attitude of the captain and the moron (you know who) is out of place. Same for the Wild West look of a lot of the characters they meet. It's lame and unbelievable. I think Whedon took the word "frontier" from ST a bit too literally here. Those who fly spaceships are likely to be more scientific and less cattle-ranching/bull riding. What are these guys doing in space with a prostitute, a psychic, and a preacher? Randomly, of course, as the episodes that brought them together on the ship clearly indicate.
The bad episodes are less forgivable b/c there are so few episodes. The dialogue is good though. The plots are sometimes good. Some of the characters INDIVIDUALLY are good, but together they're just the butt of a joke and the locations are also badly suited for them.
I saw an old thread in which ppl were ranking this poorly conceived crap above TOS and TNG and I had to get this out. It isn't even sci-fi, really. Tell me what's so new about anything done here. No clever ideas, no imagination, no forward thought process, no new technology... no sci-fi. The premise hadn't been done before b/c no one would do it. It doesn't make any sense. The Reavers are an atrocious enemy and the show doesn't get much better than when they're around.
Let's start with the Reavers. A group of Jeffrey Dahmers. GROUP of Dahmers. That kind of person isn't social, you'll never find a society of humans like that. They just don't work together to accomplish anything at all, let alone OPERATE A SPACE SHIP. That's a team effort, intellectual, coordinated, sophisticated, structured thing. Not a depraved killer's cup of tea by a long shot. Just imagine for a second what's happening on the bridge of a Reaver ship. Yeah, ridiculous if you think about it.
The idea that prostitution will be seen as classy in the future and a prostitute would travel with a spaceship on completely unrelated business is beyond absurd. What gave Whedon this idea? Looks like the direction humanity is headed in, right? No. It's impossible to accept that Earth's future generations' cultures will evolve in this direction, it isn't logical. Let's be frank though, the purpose was to have the pretty girl hang out around the ship. On bad eps, at least you'll have... that same exact girl to look at. I could get into TOS's fun sort of shamelessness of a similar variety, but this thread isn't about that, I won't argue for now why that's acceptable and this isn't. Figure it out.
The psychic power chick and her doctor brother don't fit here. Neither does the preacher for that matter. For one thing, the chick and her brother are douchebags, and the chick is the most random character of any show I can think of. They especially don't mix with the 2 main characters, which I'm moving onto now.
The "old cowboy" attitude of the captain and the moron (you know who) is out of place. Same for the Wild West look of a lot of the characters they meet. It's lame and unbelievable. I think Whedon took the word "frontier" from ST a bit too literally here. Those who fly spaceships are likely to be more scientific and less cattle-ranching/bull riding. What are these guys doing in space with a prostitute, a psychic, and a preacher? Randomly, of course, as the episodes that brought them together on the ship clearly indicate.
The bad episodes are less forgivable b/c there are so few episodes. The dialogue is good though. The plots are sometimes good. Some of the characters INDIVIDUALLY are good, but together they're just the butt of a joke and the locations are also badly suited for them.
I saw an old thread in which ppl were ranking this poorly conceived crap above TOS and TNG and I had to get this out. It isn't even sci-fi, really. Tell me what's so new about anything done here. No clever ideas, no imagination, no forward thought process, no new technology... no sci-fi. The premise hadn't been done before b/c no one would do it. It doesn't make any sense. The Reavers are an atrocious enemy and the show doesn't get much better than when they're around.
