It's like calling the Statue of Liberty 'a pretty trinket that fans of macaroni art will enjoy' by Tiger

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It's like calling the Statue of Liberty 'a pretty trinket that fans of macaroni art will enjoy'

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UPDATED: Tuesday, December 16, 2003 09:41
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Tuesday, December 16, 2003 6:18 AM

From the Detroit Free Press in a review of new DVD releases:

Quote:
For the fan you know will buy the newest "Dawson's Creek" box when it's released, you should feel safe catching "Firefly — The Complete Series" (Fox, $49.98). In this handsomely produced and short-lived show created by Joss Whedon, the sparks fly and comets collide when a lot of good-looking young people go into space on a salvage ship called Serenity in the middle of an intergalactic civil war.

Jesus, Dawson's Creek is the best comparison he could make? And 'good-looking young people go into space on a salvage ship ' is what he thinks the show is about? When I saw this was from a local paper I was deeply shamed. He very conveniently gives his email at the link below if anyone else would like to politely inform this TV critic about Firefly.

Link to full article:
http://www.sunherald.com/mld/sunherald/entertainment/special_packages/
holiday_movies/7450480.htm

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Tuesday, December 16, 2003 6:30 AM

SHEWHOHATHAPEN

Not only is he making an absurd comparison and a bad, bad, bad recommendation (the only couple on the show who gets any sort of closure is the married one, something that wouldn't appeal to fans of DC I don't think) but he can't even get his facts straight.

First off, the intergalatic civil war is frigging over. That's a huge part of the plot, the fact that our main character was on the losing side.

Then later he posts this wonderful piece of misinformation:

The four-disc box restores the shows that aired to their proper chronology; Fox originally replaced the pilot episode with what they considered a stronger entry called "The Big Train," which is in fact one of the best of the 14 produced before the ax fell.

Uhm... "The Train Job", guy.

Also, really, it's not one of the best episodes produced. If for no other reason than the obscene amount of clunky exposition that Tim and Joss were forced to toss in there. That messes up the flow of the episode. Now, lacking that burden, sure it could have been a par for the course episode (With par being damn good). As it is, it's on the lower end of the spectrum (with the lower end of the Firefly spectrum being good stuff).

If people would just do a little tiny bit of research and fact-checking before they wrote articles.

I mean, sure the whole Dawson's Creek thing could be opinion... stupid, ill-formed opinion, but still opinion. And the whole thing about the quality of the Train Job could also be opinion. But not getting the title of the episode right?

If you ask me he just took a look at the DVD boxset cover art, then gave the episode titles and descriptions a quick onceover.

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"I'm very sorry if she tipped off anyone about your cunningly concealed herd of cows."

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Tuesday, December 16, 2003 6:57 AM

FREMDFIRMA

>>If you ask me he just took a look at the DVD boxset cover art, then gave the episode titles and descriptions a quick onceover.<<

Oh, that's likely exactly what he did.

The Detroit "free" Press (hahaha!!!) is a rag, not quite as bad as some, but might I remind you that this is a paper who's crew thought American Idol and Survivor were the best thing since the wheel.

"When you speak with idiots, expect idiocy."

-frem
diefuxdie

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Tuesday, December 16, 2003 7:14 AM

SERENITYSSON

Well, I just fired off an Email to him that hopefully will make him take a deeper look at the series. I can not believe for a moment that his article was based on anything other than the pictures on the DVD box. I doubt he even loaded in a disc before that comparisson. He might as well build himself a Saddam hole when the Browncoats come knocking.

Also... I can kill you with my brain...

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Tuesday, December 16, 2003 7:20 AM

HJERMSTED

Now if he had compared Smallville to Dawson's Creek he would have definitely been on to something...

Smallville = 3 parts Dawson's Creek; 1 part Buffy

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Tuesday, December 16, 2003 9:41 AM

CHANNAIN

i DO aim to misbehave

uh boy...well, they ARE good looking, and on a ship in space called Serenity. JW did create it, the production was indeed handsome and the series was short-lived. after that it kind of reads like a sci-fi/fantasy romance novel jacket, doesn't it?

maybe the Free Press can't afford to pay somebody enough to make it worth their while to do a little research in time to make deadline? worse, he probably thinks Firefly is so obscure, no one would care if he wrote a review or not. persoally, I'd rather have no review than an inaccurate one.

feel for ya, Tiger. My small hometown newspaper, the Starbuck Times, has so much info about the next small town to the west that my brother calls it the "Cyrus Gazette."

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