And the tragedy is...

[desperance]

I haven't even seen this. Yet. Not so much of a tragedy, really - but then, it's a meme. Things get out of proportion, y'know? Doing things like this can seem like a perfectly reasonable adjunct to working...

You scored as Serenity (Firefly). You like to live your own way and donât enjoy when anyone but a friend tries to tell you should do different. Now if only the Reavers would quit trying to skin you. </td> Serenity (Firefly) 94% Babylon 5 (Babylon 5) 88% Moya (Farscape) 88% Nebuchadnezzar (The Matrix) 81% Deep Space Nine (Star Trek) 81% Galactica (Battlestar: Galactica) 69% Bebop (Cowboy Bebop) 69% Millennium Falcon (Star Wars) 63% Andromeda Ascendant (Andromeda) 50% SG-1 (Stargate) 50% Enterprise D (Star Trek) 38% FBI's X-Files Division (The X-Files) 19% Your Ultimate Sci-Fi Profile II: which sci-fi crew would you best fit in? (pics) created with QuizFarm.com

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Yay! Farscape!

[(Anonymous)]

I'm also not working...

Simon

[gauroth.livejournal.com]

It's an ok series - Joss Wheedon calls it 'the Wild West in Space' - but like most tv/filum sci-fi(sic) it's not very original. Books are best.

*descends into wild-eyed rant about how the general public thinks that Science Fiction is the same as that Star Wars tripe*

[samarcand.livejournal.com]

To disagree with gauroth (Sorry, Gauroth), but I love it. I think it's some of the best SF I've ever seen - beating B5 into a very poor second. And, what's more, I can always lend you the DVDs! So you can judge for yourself. As long as you end up agreeing with me, of course.

[spaceoperadiva.livejournal.com]

I loved it too but I have bad taste in film/tv. I'm not certain that it's better than B5 though.

"Somebody tries to kill you, you kill'em right back!" Mal

[samarcand.livejournal.com]

Oh, I think it is. If you compare like-with-like (ie look at the first half season of B5 with the complete run of Firefly) I think you'll see that B5 didn't really take off until the second season, whilst Firefly pretty much came out of the gate fully formed. And, it has wonderful Joss Whedon-isms, as compared to some really pretty clunky JMS dialogue. And Firefly is completely original, whereas B5 is a sci-fi take on Lord of the Rings. It's still brilliant - one of the only other SF shows that I was really able to watch all the way through.

And, if we're quoting bad lines, how's this:

"Get the hell out of my galaxy" - Capt. Sheridan...

[spaceoperadiva.livejournal.com]

I agree that B5 took a while to get on its feet and then it staggered a bit at the end. Part of the charm for me I think is that I like aliens and alien cultural interaction and Firefly doesn't go there. I would, however, have Mal's baby if ever I was going to have babies again. :-D

[synedrian.livejournal.com]

You haven't seen Firefly? Oh, the horror. Borrow my copy.

I don't think you'd fit in on Serenity, though: the food there is appalling.

[spaceoperadiva.livejournal.com]

But the decorating in the galley is first rate.

[mantichore.livejournal.com]

While I love Firefly and love Bab 5 and would be hard pressed to say which one of the two is the best, because they are so completely different beasts, I tried that silly test and ended up fitting best on Star Trek: Deep Space 9, a show I thoroughly sneer and bite my thumb at.

I'm sure there's a perfectly good reason why I ended up there, but apart from poetic justice, and pure pettiness of fate, I just can't see it. Yeuchh. >:-((

[desperance.livejournal.com]

Hee. I suspect the 'perfectly good reason' is that all these quizzes are bollocks. And yet we do them anyway - but I am certainly not prepared to grant deep psychological insight (or even shallow psychological insight) to some fanboy who's shoved together some questions based on his understanding of his favourite SF shows...

Also, I have always loved your easy use of English idiom (he's French, guys) - but easy use of Shakespearean idiom is taking it all a step too far. Is there a French equivalent of biting your thumb, viz something from very long ago that only survives in a playtext?

Also, actually I didn't mind DS9. It's ST Voyager I detest and cannot watch (in part because it's boring, and part because I cannot abide Janeway's voice).

[mantichore.livejournal.com]

There are sayings that survive only in playtexts or poetry — Molière or La Fontaine have many of them, which, for the life of me, I absolutely can't recall any example of, right now — but I can't remember any instance of a gesture. I'll have to think about that. I've always been fascinated by that image of biting one's thumb at people. Seemed to fit the balance of the sentence above. Sorry for going too far. ^_________^

I hate DS9 for its pious homilies and pat wisdom about war (gee, war is so very bad, good people can get hurt in it, yessir.) I hate Sisko's terrible delivery of his lines (as if he's on stage, thundering to the last row, when he's in a tight little cabin, spitting in his co-players' face), I hate the smarmy Sinatra clone who's the fount of all wisdom, I hate the senses-shattering traumatisms which have been erased from everyone's memory by next episode, and I hate the way all interesting complexities that manage to float around for a while get simplified by the end, in order to reach a cozy climax where there's only Good and Evil punching each other in the face with big flames in the background. No, I'm not too keen on DS9. But I watched just about every episode, just in case it'd get good at some point. (It did, in a very few, far-between episodes.)

Like just about any ST series, Voyager goes through two very rough and very silly seasons (perhaps rougher and sillier than for any other show, except for Enterprise) before finding its legs. From then on, and while some uses of the reset button are very annoying, it's a lot of fun and the plots really try harder to do things beside rehashing the plots from Call of Duty.

Your mileage may vary! ^________^

[spaceoperadiva.livejournal.com]

I greatly admire your fortitude. DS9 was so regularly making me want to dryclean my brain (especially during the Kira Nerys soap opera stage) that I gave up on it and went back to ST:NG reruns.

[martyn44.livejournal.com]

When it comes to sf movies I'm hardbitten and cynical - NOTHING is better than Dark Star. However, I walked out of Serenity saying that I wanted to see the sequel RIGHT NOW. Not that there's going to be a sequel. Sigh.

Of course its the west in space. Look at Mal - belt and braces and riding boots and a Navy Colt. He's John Wayne straight out of The Searchers!

You mean, like sex? I mean. Screw this, I'm gonna live.

[mantichore.livejournal.com]

I liked the way Serenity brings a reasonably satisfying and neat close to the overall plot of Firefly. I was very miffed with what happens to one of my favourite characters at the end... :-(