{"id":9,"date":"2006-05-16T01:00:47","date_gmt":"2006-05-16T08:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vocaro.com\/trevor\/blog\/2006\/05\/16\/firefly-finally\/"},"modified":"2009-06-02T12:59:50","modified_gmt":"2009-06-02T19:59:50","slug":"firefly-finally","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vocaro.com\/trevor\/blog\/2006\/05\/16\/firefly-finally\/","title":{"rendered":"Firefly&#8230; finally!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I must be the only geek in the English-speaking world who&#8217;s never seen even a single second of the <a title=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Firefly_(television_series)\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Firefly_(television_series)\">Firefly<\/a> TV series. (My excuse: I was in <a href=\"https:\/\/vocaro.com\/trevor\/japan\">Japan<\/a> when it first aired.)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Firefly\" src=\"https:\/\/vocaro.com\/trevor\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/05\/_wikipedia_en_e_e0_Firefly_box.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Firefly\" hspace=\"0\" vspace=\"0\" width=\"385\" height=\"475\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I finally fixed that problem by renting the series on DVD from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.greencine.com\/\">Greencine<\/a>. I just watched the first episode this evening, and I was quite impressed. Some notes:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Exciting story, interesting characters, fine acting, great special effects (especially for a TV show), solid pacing.<\/li>\n<li>All-around top-notch production quality. Bonus: It appears to have been shot in HDTV. Very progressive for a 2002 show!<\/li>\n<li>Firefly is one of the few (only?) sci-fi shows that is set in outer space but has no aliens. (Not in the first episode, anyway.) I&#8217;m not sure if I like that or not.<\/li>\n<li>Whenever the camera cuts to a wide angle from space to observe a ship blasting off, there are absolutely no sound effects. This should make those who complain about realism in <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Physics_and_Star_Trek#Flaws_in_Star_Trek_science\">certain other sci-fi shows<\/a> very happy.<\/li>\n<li>Why is it that whenever a spaceship visits some far-away planet, it happens to possess an Earth-like atmosphere and bear a striking resemblance to southern California?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">THE FIREFLY CREW VISITS THE PLANET OF SAN BERNARDINO<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Firefly in southern California\" src=\"https:\/\/vocaro.com\/trevor\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/05\/DVD%20PlayerScreenSnapz004-1.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Firefly in southern California\" hspace=\"0\" vspace=\"0\" width=\"450\" height=\"252\" \/><\/p>\n<p>All in all, this is a series no self-respecting sci-fi fan should miss. I wish I had gotten around to seeing it sooner.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I must be the only geek in the English-speaking world who&#8217;s never seen even a single second of the Firefly TV series. (My excuse: I was in Japan when it first aired.) I finally fixed that problem by renting the series on DVD from Greencine. I just watched the first episode this evening, and I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews","category-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vocaro.com\/trevor\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vocaro.com\/trevor\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vocaro.com\/trevor\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vocaro.com\/trevor\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vocaro.com\/trevor\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/vocaro.com\/trevor\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":163,"href":"https:\/\/vocaro.com\/trevor\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9\/revisions\/163"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vocaro.com\/trevor\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vocaro.com\/trevor\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vocaro.com\/trevor\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}