TBNZee writes:
"Mainstream television has, for a long time, under-served the science fiction loving segment. But with declining production costs, there seem to be two potential sources of alternative production/distribution: digital content (e.g. Netflix, Hulu) and crowd-funded projects. There's still not a lot of science fiction shows that are being produced by the major streaming services, but we'll probably see more with the success of Hulu's exclusive U.S. distribution of Misfits or Netflix's Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Doctor Who. On the other hand, you have many enthusiastic upstarts on Kickstarter that look novel and engaging while having a surprisingly professional look to them.
Which do you think will ultimately be more successful? Do you have any recommendations for other good material out there, or is there something you would like to see?"
(Score: 2) by tangomargarine on Monday February 24 2014, @11:39AM
IIRC the line (in Serenity) was "Earth-That-Was could no longer hold our numbers; we were so many..." (paraphrased), which is debatably not really "using it all up."
Yes, it was handwaved as a single "system" with 3 or 4 stars and planets and moons orbiting each, which seems to stretch the definition of a system somewhat...and make navigation a real bitch.
Hey, at least they didn't have shields or sound in space :) Although IIRC the only major battle was in Serenity, and that was because of the atmospheric crud they never explained keeping the Reaver fleet hidden until it was right on top of the Alliance, so they never had a chance to open up at long range (which they undoubtedly would have done since the ships had missiles).
The majority couldn't. In the first episode, they find that one ship that would barely make it to the frontier one-way, and there were 14 (?) families on it. Presumably they all chipped in to scrape together the money. Or probably taken out a loan or something, I guess.
States' rights, apparently.
Considering how much effort the show made to seem based in reality, this sounds like it would have been much worse to me.
I just had the thought the other day that we didn't actually see Badger on the viewscreens of their dead friends in Serenity, so I'd like to think that that's a possible avenue for them to bring it back: Badger lost his organization and is on the run, but due to freak luck is still alive, and the show follows him around.
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(Score: 1) by tangomargarine on Wednesday February 26 2014, @11:30AM
Oops--I meant to say the third episode, "Buckwacked." They were also pilfering stuff off a ship in the pilot but we never saw them go inside.
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