Date: 2005-07-29 06:15 pm (UTC)
Sorry - it's not a sudden craze with me. I have been a fan since day 1. The reason it's being talked about more recently is probably because there is a Firefly movie coming out, called Serenity. It opens in September - but they have had several advanced screenings over the last summer, which many people on my f-list have been to. Plus, they are airing the show, in order, on Sci-Fi. Fox botched things up by airing the episodes out of order and showing the pilot last.

I've seen the first half of the first season of Farscape on DVD and didn't see that many commonalities other than maybe an oppressive government and spaceships. From what little I saw (which was probably an equal number or episodes of each show) Farscape is about an Earth astronaut thrown into another world who hooks up with a bunch of escaped prisoners - and Firefly is about a group of people struggling to get by after being on the losing side of a war. And things getting complicating after accidentally taking some passengers on, who turn out to be a genius who had experiments performed on her by the Alliance (ie, the oppressive government), and the brother that rescued her.

Thematically the shows seem different to me. As do the characters, and the settings.

And no, I'm not trying to convince you otherwise or give you a wonderful review of the show, but just to try and answer why there is a sudden Firefly craze, and to explain why I don't think it is a Farscape ripoff.


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