Following more on.. Best Sci-Fi

[chrissie1]

Or was that Following on more..., Following on The Sequel..., Following on The Next Level..., Following on Doom II... ...

Oh well.

1. Star trek Voyager
2. Stargate SG1
3. Andromeda
4. The 4400
5. Star-Wars (six films counts as a series)




Christiaan Baes
Belgium

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[sleipnir214]

Well, according to

http://www.laconiv.org/2006/hugos/nominees.htm

, the nominees this year in this category were "Batman Begins", "The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe", "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire", "Serenity" and "Wallace & Gromit in the Curse of the Were-Rabbit". I've seen all of them, and were I elegible to vote, I'd have probably vote for "Serenity", too.


I disagree that you had to be a fan of "Firefly" to enjoy "Serenity". When I saw "Serenity" for the first time (admittedly on cable), I had never seen a single episode of "Firefly". I knew what "Firefly" was about in a very general way, but knew nothing of the characters or anything deep. I enjoyed "Serenity" very much that first time, particularly the deliberate anachronism between the tech-level of the Firefly universe and the language the main characters used. I'll have to admit that I've watched it several times when I noticed while channel-surfing it was playing.



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[Dagon]

Serenity was decent if you were a firefly fan (or like me had at least seen the show hoping it would be good in those post B5 days) but for anyone walking in cold, the movie would have made very little sense.

I saw the film before I'd seen the series and had no trouble understanding it.

 

[Dagon]

Oh, no .. they nominated "Father's Day". That is my least favourite new Dr Who episode yet. It was like watching an episode of Eastenders with rubber monsters (you might have to be from the UK to know what Eastenders is).

 

[Lunatic]

Hmm... maybe its just me then... I watched FireFly when it first came out (call it a desperate search for anything post B5) so I had some background.

It just seemed to me that there were tons of references to the show. The doc's and mechanic's romance, the flashbacks to River's rescue and the whole history between the doc and River and the rest of the crew. The tension between the captain and the inter-galactic escort.

I just thought that each of these was rushed and expected some prior understanding of the realtionships between them.

It just seemed too rushed to me.

 

[sleipnir214]

Yeah, it didn't take the time to plumb the depths of and explore the sublte nuances of all the relationships between all the characters. But then, it's a 119-minute movie, not a 14-show season of an hour-long T.V. drama.

Not having seen "Firefly", I have no idea of the exact nature of the relationship between the Mal and Inara. But when Mal can correctly guess some kind of trap from the fact that he and she do not fight during a 60-second equivalent to a phone call, but he's going to her side anyway, I've been told everything I need to know.



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