(along with great characterization, wonderful acting, and really funny dialogue).
Jaynestown also had the song. :)
Firefly, on the other hand, is on some level very predictable, but it tells stories in such a way that to not come to those expected conclusions would feel wrong.
That is a really good point. Firefly does a lot by the book, although I suspect that would have changed if the show had more time to grow. There are very few episodes that have plot twists that are at all surprising (and even those times you knew something was going to happen), but it's always leading somewhere, both in terms of the episode's story and the larger story. That's the joy of the show for me, knowing that it was all going somewhere (and while we didn't get to see where it was supposed to lead, we at least end at a nice rest stop along the way).
But being enough of a Joss fan to know the rhythm his shows fall into, I wouldn't have been shocked if I had started to be shocked more often as time went on. Which, actually, that's kind of how Farscape played it really early on as well...
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Date: 2005-08-17 05:25 am (UTC)Jaynestown also had the song. :)
Firefly, on the other hand, is on some level very predictable, but it tells stories in such a way that to not come to those expected conclusions would feel wrong.
That is a really good point. Firefly does a lot by the book, although I suspect that would have changed if the show had more time to grow. There are very few episodes that have plot twists that are at all surprising (and even those times you knew something was going to happen), but it's always leading somewhere, both in terms of the episode's story and the larger story. That's the joy of the show for me, knowing that it was all going somewhere (and while we didn't get to see where it was supposed to lead, we at least end at a nice rest stop along the way).
But being enough of a Joss fan to know the rhythm his shows fall into, I wouldn't have been shocked if I had started to be shocked more often as time went on. Which, actually, that's kind of how Farscape played it really early on as well...