While I like Firefly, a lot better than just about anything else on at the moment, - it can be slow at points. I think over time it would have grown on me. Because to be honest? I wasn't that fond of either BTVS or ATS in their first seasons, got incredibly bored at times. The second seasons? Took off. I honestly think Whedon is one of those tv show-runners who needs time to build a series - he needs time to fiddle with the characters, feel them out, play - then whammo! Brilliance.
I agree. One interesting thing happened in my family at Christmas--my nephew got my sister and her husband completely into Firefly, watched all 14 eps, I think. She has never shown any interest in Buffy, Angel, or any fantasy that I know of, except LOTR which saw but did not read, so I was happy. Meanwhile my son who originally got me into Buffy still has not seen Firefly. Very strange.
But back to my point--this sister and I were discussing a possible Firefly movie, and her reaction--I was delighted to hear--was that a movie would be nice, but it really still needed to be a long-term series, to develop the characters. I have to say that I fear that a Firefly movie might, just might, wind up going as the Buffy movie did. I think JW's mind is probably best suited to the long, slow, unwinding over time, the separate episodes each a module in the whole. And a movie's not like that.
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Date: 2004-01-10 10:38 am (UTC)I agree. One interesting thing happened in my family at Christmas--my nephew got my sister and her husband completely into Firefly, watched all 14 eps, I think. She has never shown any interest in Buffy, Angel, or any fantasy that I know of, except LOTR which saw but did not read, so I was happy. Meanwhile my son who originally got me into Buffy still has not seen Firefly. Very strange.
But back to my point--this sister and I were discussing a possible Firefly movie, and her reaction--I was delighted to hear--was that a movie would be nice, but it really still needed to be a long-term series, to develop the characters. I have to say that I fear that a Firefly movie might, just might, wind up going as the Buffy movie did. I think JW's mind is probably best suited to the long, slow, unwinding over time, the separate episodes each a module in the whole. And a movie's not like that.
The pity, the pity.