Firefly wins five awards, beating out Lost, Galactica and others... by Micronaut

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Firefly wins five awards, beating out Lost, Galactica and others...

POSTED BY: MICRONAUT
UPDATED: Friday, October 13, 2006 14:52
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Thursday, October 5, 2006 9:17 AM

Dunno if this has been seen already, but...

Firefly wins five awards, beating out Lost, Galactica and others...

Syfy Portal handed out awards to Firefly, which include Best Series, Best Lead Actor (Fillion), Best Supporting Actor (Baldwin), Best Guest Actor (Christina Hendricks), Best Episode (Trash)...

Not too shabby for a cancelled series...

http://syfyportal.com/news.php?id=2895

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Much work remains to be done before we can announce our total failure to make any progress...

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Friday, October 6, 2006 9:10 PM

REAVERINA1985RIVIERA

Browncoats: Doin' the Impossible (on a regular basis).

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Saturday, October 7, 2006 4:32 AM

SCORPIONREGENT

Quote:
Originally posted by Micronaut:
Dunno if this has been seen already, but...

Firefly wins five awards, beating out Lost, Galactica and others...

Syfy Portal handed out awards to Firefly, which include Best Series, Best Lead Actor (Fillion), Best Supporting Actor (Baldwin), Best Guest Actor (Christina Hendricks), Best Episode (Trash)...

Not too shabby for a cancelled series...

http://syfyportal.com/news.php?id=2895

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Much work remains to be done before we can announce our total failure to make any progress...

One more step on that great long road towards FF resurection. Hey we're all dreamers here, might as well dream damn big!

Scorpion Regent

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Saturday, October 7, 2006 4:38 AM

SHROUDED

Awesome, spectacular SHINY news here!

I'm gettin' all emotional again...

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Saturday, October 7, 2006 5:57 AM

FINN MAC CUMHAL

I’m not really that surprised. There’s really only one reason why Firefly retains any fans at all and that its quality as a science fiction show.

Battlestar Galactca is good science fiction also. But BSG suffers from one major problem that is likely to keep it from ever trumping Firefly in the scifi genre, and that is that its story is drawn blatantly from current political arguments with only indirect relation to a science fiction. BSG’s popularity is due largely to the broad misconceptions and political rhetoric that people are drawing from it, not the science fiction. In other words many people aren’t seeing BSG as the brilliant science fiction story it is, but rather as a story that helps them stroke their own political egos. They insist upon drawing simplistic and direct comparisons to current political misconceptions, instead of understanding the broader and more sophisticated philosophical themes.

Firefly, on the other hand, wasn’t muddied by such political nonsense, although there were attempts. People saw it for the complex sophisticated show that it was and being unable to force simple self-serving comparisons out of it, didn’t like it. That is why Firefly failed the popularity contest and BSG won.

I rarely watch Lost (having seen only the first season), so I can’t make many concrete comments on its particular reason for falling behind Firefly, though I suspect that from a science fiction stand point it lacks any kind of real focus. My perception is that it seems to be based solely on its capacity to maintain the intrigue, with little in the way of actual science fiction themes. In my perception, Lost is not good science fiction, and not likely to win many science fiction awards, but I’ve only seen the first season and maybe it’s improved.

Nihil est incertius vulgo, nihil obscurius voluntate hominum, nihil fallacius ratione tota comitiorum.

Nothing is more unpredictable than the mob, nothing more obscure than public opinion, nothing more deceptive than the whole political system.

-- Cicero

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Saturday, October 7, 2006 8:24 AM

ATIGDNG

This is so ruttin shiny! Gets more motivated... if that is possible!

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Saturday, October 7, 2006 8:47 AM

N0SKILLZ

Don't forget that Nathan and Summer came in 2nd for their roles in Serenity, and Serenity itself came in second for best Movie.

Firefly/Serenity practically won or came in runner-up in almost every catergory.

And to give Galatica credit, there aren't any shows that can keep up with firefly.

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Saturday, October 7, 2006 9:57 AM

JAYNESBOWIE

I don't think Lost is compleatly sci-fi. Thats the beauty of it, why are there Polar bears, what made the plane crash?

In the secound and third season were getting something a lot of shows never give, which is basically put, answers. We now know why the plane crashed, and last nights episodes basically causually told us why there are polar bears, but as old questions are answered new ones arise that lead us on into the show, trying to piece the puzzles togeather to come up with the true sectret of the Isalnd.

In other words, Lost if more of a mystery then a Sci-fi. As the show goes on new clues are given to the adience, not only about what the big answer will be but also what the heck the question was to begain with.

Yes, I like lost..... Not as much as Firefly though. :)

Jayne: "Testing, testing. Captain, can you hear me?"
Mal: "I'm standing right here."
Jayne: "You're coming through good and loud."
Mal: " 'Cause I'm standing right here."

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Saturday, October 7, 2006 2:12 PM

JKAIRIS

Glad to hear Firefly is still kicking butt and taking awards, even after not being on the air for a couple years. We all can hope that we get to see another adventure in the Firefly verse. Thanks for the news!

"She is starting to damage my calm" -Jayne Cobb

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Tuesday, October 10, 2006 5:04 PM

STOWEAWAY

I apologize for being late in the conversation (computer was dead for a week) but after looking at the results, didn't Firefly win or runner-up in every category in which it was nominated? I remember a few categories where there wasn't a Firefly candidate. So the fact that Firefly didn't win EVERY category is a bit deceptive. They were first or second wherever they made an appearance on the ballot.
Browncoats rock!!!

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Wednesday, October 11, 2006 2:11 AM

BROWNCOAT1

May have been the losing side. Still not convinced it was the wrong one.

Good to see Firefly continuing to win awards, and that Serenity is running a close second on a lot of the catagories. That info can be used to sway a lot of fence sitters into checking out the dvds.

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Wednesday, October 11, 2006 7:10 AM

WOLFEN68

I have the same complaint with both BSG and Lost (especially Lost):

It gets to the point where things slow down and I start to feel that I'm getting played to extend my couch time.

In Lost, the ongoing flashbacks which seemed to have minimal near-term relevance made me feel like the makers of the show were intentially holding me as long as possible so I would have to watch 20 more episodes just for something substantial to occur. BSG did this as well, in the first season Boomer and (Halo?) were escaping capture on the home planet...and it went on and on. Now we're in the woods, now we're shacked up in a barn, etc. while the same animated cyborgs march around stupidly.

I feel both shows are well done, but I need some occasional advancement in plot to hold my interest.

P.S. - I never felt this way in firefly. Every episode seemed to have an immediate endpoint, and a future promise of revealing "the big picture".

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Friday, October 13, 2006 2:52 PM

JAYNESBOWIE

True bout firefly of course. For me Lost is inresting because its like a big puzzle, which I find humerous in itself because I hate puzzles, but there you go. I would compleatly agree that many people wouldn't like the system they use, and I can see how it might get anoying, but at the same time that a preference, and as the above said, that doesn't mean the show isn't good.

Nothing will ever measure up to firefly I'm afraid...

(though a close secound would be either Galactica or Roswell.)

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Jayne: "Testing, testing. Captain, can you hear me?"
Mal: "I'm standing right here."
Jayne: "You're coming through good and loud."
Mal: " 'Cause I'm standing right here."

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