Firefly’s biggest weakness/strength is the dialog. It was wholly done in the Joss Whedon style and cadence. Every member of the main cast was “the snarky one”, every conversation was a series of verbal setups- and if it was against antagonists they’d be completely witless and walk into verbal traps, and every classic verbal trope would be lampshaded.
If you’ve watched enough of his previous shows it is very easy to predict how a conversation in Firefly will sound.
Back in the day that style of dialog was still somewhat novel, especially to people who weren’t big Buffy/Angel fans. Nowadays this is the baseline MCU style of dialog, which means it is absolutely played out.
I did like that style of dialogue, at the time, so idk if that was the problem for me.
It’s been a long long time since I saw it, so I don’t remember details only general impressions:
I remember thinking that every characters weren’t really differentiated. They were all just kinda amorphous, until an opportunity for their single defining trait had a change to come out for a bit.
I really wanted to like Firefly, but the characters felt too silly and two dimensional.
Firefly’s biggest weakness/strength is the dialog. It was wholly done in the Joss Whedon style and cadence. Every member of the main cast was “the snarky one”, every conversation was a series of verbal setups- and if it was against antagonists they’d be completely witless and walk into verbal traps, and every classic verbal trope would be lampshaded.
If you’ve watched enough of his previous shows it is very easy to predict how a conversation in Firefly will sound.
Back in the day that style of dialog was still somewhat novel, especially to people who weren’t big Buffy/Angel fans. Nowadays this is the baseline MCU style of dialog, which means it is absolutely played out.
I did like that style of dialogue, at the time, so idk if that was the problem for me.
It’s been a long long time since I saw it, so I don’t remember details only general impressions:
I remember thinking that every characters weren’t really differentiated. They were all just kinda amorphous, until an opportunity for their single defining trait had a change to come out for a bit.
Did you watch the one where the people die?
I only watched an episode or two. I don’t remember what order.