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Tiny Times review of Firefly

POSTED BY: BLUEBANRIGH
UPDATED: Tuesday, September 17, 2002 18:46
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Tuesday, September 17, 2002 6:20 PM

BLUEBANRIGH


Found a tiny article the Times had on Firefly, I don't know if there is a link out there on the net, cause it was in a news database somewhere.

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James Poniewozik
23 September 2002
Time Magazine, 78 (I'm assuming this is the page number), Vol. 160, Issue: 13
(Copyright 2002)

For a "sci-fi western" set 500 years in the future, whose pilot cost more than $8 million, Firefly is most noteworthy for what it doesn't have. There are no aliens, no teleporters and no lasers. And sadly--given creator Joss Whedon's track record with Buffy the Vampire Slayer--no laughs or thrills. There seems to be an interesting back story: the crew of a salvage spaceship scratches out a living just after a bitter galactic civil war. (An alliance of Americans and Chinese won--and they're the bad guys.) But to locate it under the sleepy heist plots is beyond your TV's primitive technology. --J.P.




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Tuesday, September 17, 2002 6:46 PM

MILLERNATE


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Found a tiny article the Times had on Firefly, I don't know if there is a link out there on the net, cause it was in a news database somewhere.



I don't think there is a link either. At least not one that you can find through "google". This also isn't a good sign when the first legitimate critic that sees the show *really* doesn't like it. Not good, not good at all...

Nathan
"It's not pessimism, its the way the world is."

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