Curse your sudden but inevitable betrayal!
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OG firefly: anti-federalist, individualist, honor amongst thieves, family finds a way
Disney space smuggling show: Feds are your friend, having your own ship is racist, all thieves bow to their black superiors, your brothers and fathers are silly and incompetent
calling it now
SIMPing hard for an arrogant and stupid whore. Magic-voodoo stronk Mary Sue super-soldier.
There were 3 good episodes, and only if you fast-forward thru the SIMPing and bluepill bullshit. But, for those cumulative 45 minutes or so, there was some pretty decent writing and world-building.
It'll be way more pro-China.
please god no....
Apparently The Alliance won in real life too.
"getting awfully crowded in my sky"
They are really rebooting Firefly? Zero originality. Honestly since they want to be woke just adapt the garbage that wins awards like the Hugo and Nebula nowadays
Please, no. You already ruined star wars and tee’d up a LOTR abortion. Can you please stop ruining everything that I enjoyed?
This is fucking heresy
I still haven't seen Firefly and even I know this warrants Exterminatus.
Fuck. The first season was bluepilled just about as much as it could be. Guess it's time to diversity it up.
When you search for older TV shows and movies usually the new version that's been written to support their culture tops all of the results. Maybe this is just a media strategy. In a decade or two the kids won't even know the older version exists, and think it's obviously not as good - it's an old-person show. Only boomers watch old shows.
It's interesting to consider the OG cast and crew these days.
[Sensitive] Joss Wheden: SJW/male feminist who was outed as the creep they always are after cheating on his white during the filming of Buffy with the young actresses he always wrote to be barefoot because he's also a footfag.
Shepard Book: Dead.
Jane: Literally coined "Gamergate". Was in Chuck as an all-blooded American caricature.
River: Waiver thin
mintgirl who was ironically compared to 'an albatross' in Serenity then went on to be just that in every other show she went on to be part of: The 4400, Alphas, Sarah Conner Chronicles. Summer Glau was a sure sign a show was getting cancelled if she suddenly showed up on it.Inara: "Jumped on the Stargate gravy train" as I remember someone once describing her. She was only really in the latter half of the 10th season but ended up a very significant character and one of the final antagonists for SG-1. Was also in Homeland or a similar show regarding national security.
Kaley: Also "jumped on the Stargate gravy train" after a brief cameo as a human-wraith hybrid when she was cast in the recurring role of Stargate Atlantis' chief medical officer after they killed off the OG one.
Zoe: Hasn't really been in anything that stood out? Much like most of the cast there's a lot of VA work but out of the lot Gina Torres is probably the one I've seen "in person" the least. Apart from her work as Superwoman in one of the Justice League animated movies and some other VA work I've not really encountered her much.
Wash: Wacky fun. Perhaps one of the most successful out of the group and very often a remarkably versatile actor who can do an impressive range of roles. His role in Dollhouse [another Whedon show] alone showed how well Tudyk can fool audiences with his acting. Also honourable mention as "Steve the Pirate" from Dodgeball. Yarr.
Simon: Showed up in Arrow as part of the CW version of the Suicide Squad, was the one that tried doing a runner and got his head exploded for it. Later literally came out as gay and bitched about things as is the standard practice now.
Mal: Castle. Which ended up a giant clusterfuck after Stana and Nathan fell out. The Rookie, a show I managed until the first episode of the second season when Nolan's superior was recast/replaced because the original stronk, black woman was fired after making false accusations against one of the side characters, also played by a black guy. The new one literally shows up, takes out a full automatic rifle, and fires it [til it clicks] at a group of gang bangers. Not only was this picked apart because the rifle she used doesn't work like that, but it in no sane world would be a move anyone could make without being fired so fast they would feel the Doppler Effect.
So while modern remakes/reboots/whatever quite often cast legacy actors in to the show in some form I can't see that working too well this time.
There is no way in hell SJWs will let the "hwite male" who coined 'Gamergate' anywhere near the show and in most "discussion" they side with Stana vs Nathan regarding the fallout from Castle. Whedon doesn't even need considered, he's easily persona non grata after his dirty launder was aired along with his atrocious writing for Avengers: Age of Ultron.
At this point I'm just going off on a tangent so everything from here on can be skipped relative to Firefly.
Smallville was legendary for guest stars from both legacy media as well as connected characters.
Christopher Reeve appeared as a wheelchair bound scientist who was searching for Kal El.
Margot Kidder was cast as the assistant to Reeve's character. Both are now dead, Reeve understandably so after his paralysing accident left him in a condition he wouldn't last very long anyway and Kidder committed suicide in 2018 by overdose.
Additional movie castings also included Helen Slater as Lara, Kal El's biological mother. Marc McClure, the original Jimmy Olsen, played Dax Ur at one point. Terrence Stamp who played Zod in Superman II was the voice of Jor El throughout the show, although the character was played by several different actors including Julian Sands at one point for his original mortal body back on Krypton.
Clark's human father in Smallville, Johnathan Kent, was played by John Schneider who played 'Bo Duke' in "The Dukes of Hazard" (1979-1985). In one particular episode Tom Wopat guest stars as one of John's oldest friends. Wopat played the part of Luke Duke next to Schneider for the run of The Dukes of Hazard.
Linda Carter played Chloe's mother.
Teri Hatcher played Lois' deceased mother, appearing in a video tape she had left for her daughter.
Dean Cain appeared in a one off episode and was for all intents and purposes Vandal Savage, playing an immortal who could be "killed" just not permanently. It was one of those moments during the episode something was abundantly special about Cain's character as within moments of threatening Lex and Chloe the response by Lex was to pull a handgun and empty it into Cain's character. A high profile casting like a former Superman experiencing such an extreme event just screamed foul play and rightly enough it turned out the bullets didn't properly kill him.
As a side point high profile casting like this can often give away a new character has significance. When Ramsey Snow first appeared as "Reek" in Game of Thrones anyone that had seen the UK show 'Misfits' would have instantly recognised him as 'Simon' heavily suggesting he was playing a far more important role even without knowing what the truth about Reek was in the books.
She has a minor role in the Hannibal TV series, as Jack Crawford's wife.
Did some of those cameos in Smallville happen in the very late seasons? I used to watch it quite enthusiastically but stopped when they graduated to college. I especially don't recall seeing the last two, the stars of Lois and Clark.
Speaking of that, aren't they currently remaking that show? I think I've seen it in the program guide.
In order:
Reeve was in seasons 2 and 3 although his character affects things in others significantly. Reeve himself died after season 3.
Kidder was in s4.
Slater was in seasons 6, 7, and 10. McClure was in s7. Stamp voiced Jor El from s1 onwards.
Wopat was in s5.
Carter was in s6.
Hatcher was s10.
Cain was s7.
Should also be mentioned that Annette O'Toole who played Martha in Smallville also played Lana Lang in Superman III in 1983 although she was a main cast member rather than an infrequent guest star as the others were.
As for a remake, there's currently "Superman and Lois", a show in the CW universe that centers around Clark and Lois raising their two teenage sons. It's had better reviews than most of the DC CW shows but still drifts into woke cringe at times due to some of the characters' historic moments such as Lois Lane quoting the wage gap despite her earning a Pulitzer and out earning everyone else at the Planet.
It was okay the first time around. Nothing ground breaking or really exciting. This is just to save money by using old west settings and cheap CGI.
It was the characters, the chemistry of the cast, and some really good writing that made it amazing. The new one won’t have any of it.
Honestly, I'd like to see what someone else could come up with, something with less feminist girl power, less bitch-boy Mal. Tired of every white man in these shows being a bumbling idiot, even when he's a badass, he's nothing compared to the women in his life.
There was definitely a lot of "girl power" on the show, but I didn't get the vibe that Mal was outclassed by anyone except by River, who as a character obviously traded a normal human personality for her abilities.
He was the leader of the group, and it seemed clear to me that they would have fallen apart without him. It was a very campy show though. Everyone took turns doing goofy/embarrassing shit, including the women.
He was badass, but very rarely on his own. It was mostly, he has a gun but he is always shown up by others just because he is straight and white. Jayne got it worse, but Mal was always getting the "I got you, bad gu...whoops, dropped my guard, now I am caught, guess my women will save me." They did get the women right. Even Inara was great, and I hate whores.
Ah yeah I know what you mean now! Especially when it came to that one female villain. Mal was basically helpless against her and always out maneuvered, so you needed Inara to come in with her feminine instinct to save the day.
Somehow a woman can become a mechanic or a soldier equal or superior to any man, but a man can never overcome the sexual powers of a woman lol.
The quiet wife he 'accidentally married' that everyone derided him for even though she drugged him and he didn't know anything. Loved how they all thought he was basically a rapist.
Is not about making money, is about ruining franchises that guys like.
What's next? Farscape?
I had seen bits and pieces of Farscape and dismissed it as incoherent trash. Recently started watching it from 1/1 and it makes a whole lot more sense.
From when Crichton puts on the uniform at the end of season one to the...uh...incident in season 3 is hands down the best scifi television ever made. His speech at the end of the miniseries is pretty incredible, too.
I liked it a lot, at least the first 2 seasons, 4'th season was kind of bad. I liked John do to how flawed and human he is, he does not know much of anything, he is not as physically capable as the aliens but he does save the day. He is very flawed and likable, not like this mary sue characters modern day movies have.
FUCKING STOP CANCELING AWESOME SHOWS WHEN THEY ARE IN THEIR PRIME
this show doesn't need a reboot, it needs to not have been cancelled
you can't improve upon it, you can only fuck it up
it was awesome, but because of so many reasons that I'm sure will be missing soon.
Considering that with the movie it has an end, the show for me is complete. I do not need either a reboot or a continuation.
indeed. agreed.
It was also shown out of order when originally broadcast because execs felt the original pilot/first episode wasn't action-y enough.
So they showed the train heist episode first.
i was blessed to watch it after production was done and saw it in the right order.
Is it still written by the cuck feminist “ally?”
He has turned out to be a sex pest and got some (less publicized) me too allegations so I doubt he'll be back.