Yes, after smaller feedback, I realized that the english language wasn't maybe such a bad idea, so, we're back to english, and no change anymore.
So today, this post will be dedicated to one of the best series that died a few years ago, I'm talking about Firefly.
It was an american science fiction and western tv show that aired from September 20, 2002 to December 20, 2002. Fox canceled it and never gave it a second chance. (They still made a movie, we'll come back to that later). So, then you're wondering, why am I talking about a dead tv show like that ?
Well, first of all, it's not because it's dead that you shouldn't watch it. Friends is dead, but it still my favourite tv show in comedy. And in science fiction section, this one takes first place.
The story talks about a crew (picture below) that try to survive in the world they live in. Two of them, the captain (former sergeant) and his secund in command Zoe, fought together in the war for indepedance, war that they lost. The last place they fought was the valley of Serenity, hence the name of their ship (which is technically called a firefly), a battleground they were supposed to hold, but their own army decided to stop the war and left them to die in the valley.
Anyway, during the new 6 years, the two of them (on the right) decided to buy a ship and hire a crew and they became transporter. And smuggler on the side......And....actually anything they would do to survive. And one day, they decide to take a few people in the boat, just honest transport, but what they don't know is the nature of the different people they are taking. 2 fugitives. From then on, a lot of things will happen to them.
This tv show is a great one. Why ? Because first of all, this is not a tv show where they promote a character and they make him a beautiful hero, ready to do anything to protect, completely honest and all that. No. For example, on the picture below, the guy on the left dreams to become rich, and he'd really like to become the captain, the guy who is on his chair is a goddam pilot, but not a warrior at all, timid, quite the regular guy actually. The captain is ready to do what it takes to save his crew but he can be a thief, he is ready to have some bar brawls whenever you want, doesn't want to talk about religion, completely clumsy, and the woman on the right is quite cold blooded and is not a hero also.
So yeah, they are not heroes, they are not villains, they are jsut people, and that makes them real.
This is what I feel most about this show. All along the episodes, you have people that are very real. Fighting for a cause, making a living. Even though the tv show is set in a science fiction world, with people talking in mandarin, what it's about, it's very real. What happens to people after they went through a war, what are people ready to do to survive in a hostile world, what they would do under a scary goverment.
But it's not always sad. Sometimes, you burst into laughs, sometimes you feel a tear at the corner of one your eyes (that happened to me at the end of the episode "The Message")
I saw this tv show last summer, and when I finished it, I cursed the Fox with some mandirin insults, because, it was a gorramn tv show Joss Whedon made.....
Why did it fail ? Well, FOX didn't truely give its chances to this show. The different episodes were not aired in the proper order, (The pilot was aired as the last episode), and a lot of time, there were some big events such as the superball. So yeah, pretty much a fail. And then, the tv show was cancelled and we heard no more of it. Despite all the people trying to save it, from wikipedia, this quote:
" The original fans first organized to try to save the series from being canceled by Fox Broadcasting Network. Their efforts included raising money for an ad in Variety magazine and a postcard writing campaign to UPN.A number of fan groups and charitable organizations[8] were created by browncoats across the globe. Notable charitable groups include Austin Browncoats,[9] California Browncoats[10] and Southeastern Browncoats."
But it did not end there. Little by little, a lot of people started talking about this show, and it became, and still is, what some people would call a cult tv show. And then fans asked for another season, and they insisted so much that FOX decided to make a movie in order to end things definitely.
The movie was not better than the tv show, (still good though) but people understood that it was over.
Until last december, Nathan Fillion posted this tweet:
"Hmm. Hmmmmm. HMMMMMM. http://tiny.cc/wnba9"
The link he gave was this article:
http://bernardin.tumblr.com/post/14182869809/could-netflix-bring-firefly-back-from-the-dead
So, flans were teased to the extreme on the sudden question, could firefly come back ?
The question was not answered to my knowledge, but I can tell this thing though.
Nathan Fillion, the main actor, is currently in Castle, and he really likes this tv show, (as do I), and the people working there, so it would be a huge suprise to see him come back for Firefly, which would on the same time end Castle (which is a very good tv show also). So, I personnaly don't think this will happen, but hey, one never knows.
In the end, I really advise you to see Firefly, and the movie Serenity. Both are extremely good, and it won't take you a long time, unfortunately.
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