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Never heard of it...

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It's certainly among the best SF series, and could have been the best if it had been longer.

B5 was better overall, but was flawed by the television process. It was a 5 year story that was going to be canceled in it's third year and so had to truncate the major tale. Then when it was picked up and revived for the full run it had to tack on two more season's with the main theme already revealed, and ended up not really making much sense

BG could have been good but was was overrated and spoiled by a truly awful ending. It was also just a little too dark, even for my tastes and the constant veiled references to the War on Terror were just a little much.

I think Lost may be the best in SF but I have to reserve judgement. If it turns out to be a big disappointment, like the Riverworld Series was in books, I will then have to go with The Prisoner, and yes, I realize The Prisoner was just as short as Firefly, but it was meant to be. Firefly had legs for 3-5 seasons at least.

The best television series of alll time or any genre remains, of course, the immortal Kung Fu. and NOT the second one, which was truly awful but had it's moments. The first was like nothing I've seen before or since.

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Definitely up there. Would likely have been the best if not for the short run.

Best ever? Probably not. Kung Fu was very good, but I'm a big fan of Gunsmoke.

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It was a dark series, but the writers really pushed the envelope in IMO. That's what kept me watching.


I agree. It had allot of potential and the geniuses at Fox cancelled it before the series could really get momentum. I really like the movie they made based on the series a few years ago.

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I love Firefly. However, I can't support it as best television series of all time. The original Star Trek series has to take that place for me. Second would have to be the first two seasons of Seaquest DSV.

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Firefly was great. Unfortunately, not a lot of people got the premise.

Every once in a while, I'll have a firefly marathon on my AppleTV.

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Me neither. Just googled it, apparently it was a "space western", whatever the fuck that is, lol..

I read a lot of sci-fi in my younger days, but never really got in to the sci-fi tv shows.

edit: just googled "space western", lol... now I get it, this is actually what the original Star Trek was all about... "Space, the final frontier..". TBH, I'd kinda forgotten about the different sci-fi sub-genres.

I dont know about all time, but damn it was a good show. Joss Whedon gets no love. Now Dollhouse is suffering. Did you notice all the Firefly actors on ABC now? 2 on V, Fillion on Castle, Im sure Jane is somewhere.

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Did you see the movie Serenity? That was the Firefly movie.

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"To take from one, because it is thought his own industry and that of his father has acquired too much, in order to spare to others who (or whose fathers) have not exercised equal industry and skill, is to violate arbitrarily the first principle of association, "to guarantee to everyone a free exercise of his industry and the fruits acquired by it."

-Thomas Jefferson

No, didn't see it. I'm not much in to sci-fi movies either.

I've heard of it but never seen it. A space western? Uh huh.....

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lol... it's not like "cowboys & indians" or anything. It's just a category name. BTW, I believe Star Wars is considered a "space opera"... grand story line, larger than life characters, good vs. evil, etc.

Space western in that on some planets they walk about with laser pistols on their hips and have fights at high noon. Its actually only the rebels that are western like. The 'empire' is very high tech. Most of the show takes place on a spaceship like the Millenium Falcon, with a random crew of smuggler types. Yeah, its hard to describe, great show though.

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"To take from one, because it is thought his own industry and that of his father has acquired too much, in order to spare to others who (or whose fathers) have not exercised equal industry and skill, is to violate arbitrarily the first principle of association, "to guarantee to everyone a free exercise of his industry and the fruits acquired by it."

-Thomas Jefferson

In my opinion all the Libertarians should love Firefly.

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