On the one hand, sure. On the other hand, on what Martian sattelite feed are you getting shows that don’t resemble terrible B-movies?
In fact, most shows aren’t serials at all. They consist of episodes, with continuity, but those episodes are fairly independent and could for the most part be shown in any order. Even in serials, it is common for individual episodes not to advance the overarching plot. Buffy may have left you high expectations, but two episodes is a hell of a sampling to start complaining about continuity.
How about his heavy-browed staring? I mean, that’s the captain’s job, right? To be strong and sensitive? He’s doing a swell job.
You and I both know that’s not how this works. If you stop watching the show, you can’t complain about it. Instead, what you want to do is watch every episode, and then log in to say how it’s the worst one yet.
So far it’s holding my interest. I worry about Fox though- Friday night in the death slot on fox (since they moved X-Files).
Amusingly enough, I like the following Joe Doe show a little better. Don’t ask me why. Oh well, Fox will just cancel them both right after the season 1 cliffhangers, because, well, they are Fox.
In my opinion, episode 3 was the best yet. More with the funny, more with the character development. The dialogue sparkles a lot, and now I’m aching to see what they do with Jaynestown.
According the voice over at the start of each show, after the Earth was used up, they a found new solar system (note the singular) and then terraformed hundreds of new Earths. The central planets formed the Alliance, and so on. We’ve also had several references to “the system” in the dialog.
A solar system with hundred of planets? Yes, in a large universe, anything could be possible, but this seems taking the number of planets in a single system a little far.
Yeah, I noticed that too; but they don’t have sound in a vacumn, they have ships rolling in relation to each other, they have space suits. They do stuff pretty well.
As Fr. Debosier told us in English class regarding Lost Horizon, “Mr. Hilton didn’t write the crap on the back of the book. Some idiot at the Publisher’s wrote the crap on the back of the book.”
And their spaceships’ artificial gravity systems must never fail - because entire ship appears to be designed to function only if gravity is on, e.g. storage, the medical room, cargo.
So far, I’m really enjoying this show. That last episode was outstanding. I laughed like crazy, there was a good mystery, and a satisfying conclusion.
And it’s really refreshing to see solutions to problems that don’t involve trekkian techno-babble. When that ship loomed over them with the big ‘web’, they didn’t solve the problem by inverting the phase of the molecular field coils, thus creating a substace rift that caused an energy fluctuation that overwrode the enemy controls - they went outside the ship with guns and shot the hell out of the thing. MUCH more satisfying.
That was excellent; but if I were in the business of killing folks and swiping their stuff, I’d be expecting something like that. If I couldn’t come up with something, I’d go into a different line of work. or armour my windows.
Maybe most folks they prey on don’t have guns? Don’t know about them? Oops, ought to be past tense.
Early in the show, didn’t they show the crew of that ‘web’ ship talking specifically about how they were out picking up ‘junkers’?
I think the analogy is like modern-day pirates who prey on small private sailboats and the like. THey are rarely met with resistance, and certainly don’t expect to run into a trained crew who knows how to use weapons really, really well. They all looked pretty shocked when the shooting started.
Well, they have made a point before of mentioning the fact that the Serenity is unarmed. Maybe they make a point of attacking unarmed ships and didn’t expect the crew to be armed?
I loved that detail, though it went by pretty fast. They had to open up the airlock to fire at the thing, but Jayne points out that the weapon needed oxygen to fire. It uses gunpowder, after all. The captain has already thought of this – they put the gun in a spacesuit. Beautiful.
Beautiful detail, but wrong. Guns don’t need air to fire. The oxidizer is in the powder. It has to be - there’s no way that just ambient air could sustain a fast enough explosion. Without an oxidizer in gunpowder, you’d just get a flammable powder, not an explosive.
If anything, a typical gun would work better in a vacuum than it does in an atmosphere.
Oh well. You can’t expect them to get everything right. The important thing is that they are trying. What I hated about the later Star Trek series is that they were just so LAZY. The writer’s didn’t even try to make the techno-babble consistent. Often, the scripts wouldn’t even say what it was. There’s just be a placeholder that said, “Geordi explains <INSERT TREK SPEAK>”. Bah.
