The characters on Firefly felt very real to me in a way TV characters often don't. It's funny how these things work because Whedon's characters, like RTD's characters, always feel a little cartoon-y to me (thought I like Whedon's better than Rusty's, on the whole). But you've certainly got a lot of company in your perception of them.
Like, a lot of shows get messy or lose track of themselves if they go on too long, and I guess Firefly ended in a place that felt okay. That's a good point. What we have works--in that way that British tv shows tend to have that have planned for a limited run. Admittedly, some shows have to "loose" themselves before they ever become good and maybe Firefly would have developed into something really amazing from there . . . but what we have does work by itself.
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Date: 29 Jan 2012 01:33 pm (UTC)It's funny how these things work because Whedon's characters, like RTD's characters, always feel a little cartoon-y to me (thought I like Whedon's better than Rusty's, on the whole). But you've certainly got a lot of company in your perception of them.
Like, a lot of shows get messy or lose track of themselves if they go on too long, and I guess Firefly ended in a place that felt okay.
That's a good point. What we have works--in that way that British tv shows tend to have that have planned for a limited run. Admittedly, some shows have to "loose" themselves before they ever become good and maybe Firefly would have developed into something really amazing from there . . . but what we have does work by itself.