I've just seen the pilot to Joss Whedon's Firefly. I have to say, I hope this show gets better than the pilot. It was terribly disjointed and full of awfully cheesy dialogue.
There were a few funny lines but not as many as I've come to expect from Joss. There was a bit of an overdose of exposition too - I know they had a whole universe to set up, but as every writing teacher in the universe says "Show, don't tell!" The Western trappings aren't well integrated either.
I'm gonna stick with it for a couple more episodes and see if it improves, but if I wasn't such a huge Buffy fan I'd be giving up now. At least the acting was better than the community theatre stylings you usually get on tv science fiction.
Looks like there's gonna be horror content given the description of the Reavers. But the biggest horror moment was the theme song. Uurgh!
So far it makes sense that it got canned, and NO sense that they've made a big-budget movie version. We'll see how things progress.
Posted by pearce at October 19, 2004 11:14 AM