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Firefly, The Hindenburg Of Television June 1, 2004
I'm just plain tired of reading 5-star reviews from the maybe 1000 Firefly fans that actually exist. Someone has got to get things strait before too many innocent customers fall into a trap, courtesy of The Joss Whedon Fan Club.
Let me start off with the premise and back-story for the show: A bunch of Rebels resiting an evil, domineering entity a.k.a., The Alliance. Hmm, nope, never heard of anything like that before. How about this: the captain figure in the show is a swaggering, fast-talking, shoot-first-ask questions-later kinda guy. Nope, sounds like a completely fresh and original character to me.

The acting and dialogue in this show leave somthing to be desired. For some reason, the characters can't seem to carry on a normal human conversation. Instead, they use little puns that are supposed to make the audience laugh but left me feeling sick like the way people get when they hear a bad joke.

After all, that's what the series amounted to, a bad joke.

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An Insult to Science Fiction Television! May 8, 2004
I bought the series on DVD after being reccomended it by a Sci-Fi geek friend of mine, and I regretted doing so after watching about two episodes. I found that for the most part the plots were worthless, the dialogue was dull and unoriginal, the characters were flat and stereotype, and much of the material was totally unaccepptable for science-fiction television, that is to say, most of the material in Firefly material belongs in a lousy reality T.V. show, not Sci-Fi! Please, do not purchase this show! A far better alternative is Star Trek: The Next Generation, which delves into some real awsome subject matter and explores issues in a way Firefly could never hope to.

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Originally posted by Malicious:
RLK,

My friend purchased it at my insistence. He said to me today, "It was ok! I didn't hate it. It was cheesy and the fight scenes could have been choreographed better, but it was ok."

Bad news for him, but good news for me, because he is giving me his DVD set! Yay!

Mal-licious

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Originally posted by BrownCoat1:
Secondly her need to right more than one scathing review...

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Originally posted by BC:

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Originally posted by BrownCoat1:
Secondly her need to right more than one scathing review...

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Should read as 'her need to write'. People who live in glass houses...

P.S. "criticism"

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Originally posted by manwithpez:
While I accept that everyone is entitled to their opinion, I'll never understand why people who didn't like something will try to dissuade other people from making up their own minds.

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Originally posted by patsrule:

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Originally posted by manwithpez:
While I accept that everyone is entitled to their opinion, I'll never understand why people who didn't like something will try to dissuade other people from making up their own minds.

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That's the whole point of posting reviews. If you think something is a waste of money, you can stop them from wasting their money as well. I want to read the positive reviews and the negative reviews when I am on the fence whether or not to buy something. I look at which views make sense, and seem to fit my way of thinking.

I bought a charcoal grill at Amazon.com, and wasn't sure if it was what I wanted, and there were a ton of positive reviews, so I went looking for the negative reviews. The only negative review I found complained that the grill didn't come with charcoal, it didn't come assembled, and after he finally got it up and running, he put his chicken on, and left it cooking and came back two hours later, and the chicken was burned to a crisp, so the grill didn't work right. I just laughed it off, and bought it anyways.


And as for a comment from somebody else...yes if you are going to criticize someone for not spelling something right in a review, you best be damned sure that your criticism is spelled correctly. I don't care if you are a fan of firefly or not, it kills your argument.

Set to go, snap. ball down, kick up, its on the way and, it, is...good! It's good! It's good! Adam Vinatieri booms a 48 yard field goal! And the game is over, and the Patriots are superbowl champions! The best team in the national football league!

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Originally posted by Delia:
I'm not sure why we do this every time a bad review is posted. I have loved things everyone else has loved, loved things everyone else has hated, hated things everyone else has hated, and hated things everyone else has loved. I have been the single negative review in a sea of positive on Amazon (not for Firefly, of course, or I wouldn't hang out on this board). That's just the way life goes. This woman is entitled to her opinion. We don't have to like it, or agree with it, but she's still allowed to have it and express it. Vote that her review isn't helpful or write your own if you want, and then just let it go.

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Spike: Why don't you rip her lungs out? It might make an impression.
Angelus: Lacks... poetry.
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Does that criticism apply to run on sentences & lack of capitalization?

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Originally posted by patsrule:
I criticize critics who are critical of criticisms, but do the same thing in their critique that they were critical of in the critique they were critiquing.

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Originally posted by straybat:
I looked her up when I read her review of Pandora's Star (great book, btw) in which she did a capsule summary of the book, praised it in dust-cover terms, and tried to give away the ending (luckily she evidently hadn't read it, so she got the ending completely wrong).
Stray

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You made my brain hurt!

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You made my brain hurt!

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Sorry...didn't mean to cause any harm to anyone. In that case, I am glad I didn't throw in the end part, about "especially when the criticism of the critique pertains to an item that isn't critical to the original criticism, but is critical to the critique of that criticism." If I had added that, it might have become a little confusing, and that would not be good.

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