{"id":387,"date":"2005-08-26T06:24:36","date_gmt":"2005-08-26T13:24:36","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=387"},"modified":"2005-08-26T06:24:36","modified_gmt":"2005-08-26T13:24:36","slug":"firefly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arcanius.silverfir.net\/blog\/firefly\/","title":{"rendered":"Firefly"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Recently, both <a href=\"http:\/\/blu.silverfir.net\">Dan<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/moretti.silverfir.net\">Bob<\/a> insisted that it would behoove me to watch some episodes of <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0303461\/\">Firefly<\/a><\/em> &#8211; a one-season Sci-Fi wundershow that got canceled by Fox because no one watched it because no one knew about it. Having seen four episodes with the brothers Moretti on DVD, I think I have to agree with them. The show <em>is (was?)<\/em> good, on par with the best that <em>Star Trek: The Next Generation<\/em> had to offer. The stories are well-developed, the shows are fun, the characters are affable, the effects are wonderful, and the universe is believable even though the the idea of a Sci-Fi western &#8220;Space Opera&#8221; &#8211; in the fullest sense of each of those words &#8211; seems strange. Truly, <em>Firefly<\/em> was a masterpiece of television that never saw its potential fulfilled. And if the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fireflyfans.net\/\">active fan club<\/a> (brimming in anticipation of th release imminent release of the motion picture &#8220;Serenity,&#8221; based on the series) is any indication, Firefly might &#8211; just might &#8211; have grown to the vast proportions of popularity that Star Trek enjoyed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recently, both Dan and Bob insisted that it would behoove me to watch some episodes of Firefly &#8211; a one-season Sci-Fi wundershow that got canceled by Fox because no one watched it because no one knew about it. Having seen four episodes with the brothers Moretti on DVD, I think I have to agree with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2,13],"class_list":["post-387","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-everything","tag-movies","tag-recommended"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arcanius.silverfir.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/387","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arcanius.silverfir.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arcanius.silverfir.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arcanius.silverfir.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arcanius.silverfir.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=387"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arcanius.silverfir.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/387\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arcanius.silverfir.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=387"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arcanius.silverfir.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=387"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arcanius.silverfir.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=387"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}