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Firefly and Dr. Who

POSTED BY: TIGHTPANTS
UPDATED: Sunday, June 27, 2004 13:45
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Sunday, June 27, 2004 4:27 AM

TIGHTPANTS


So this may be stretching it a bit but has anyone noticed the similarities between Firefly and some of the old Dr. Who shows (the ones with Tom Baker)

- Irreverent attitude
- Usually getting into trouble with the authoritarian governments he dropped in on
- A brown coat!! ;)
- Ship that was always held together with duct tape and a prayer
- An outcast from his society

I just wonder if Joss was a fan way back when and borrowed some of the ideas from that series and fused it with others that he had. After all, originality is usually nothing more than the art of not reveling your source



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Sunday, June 27, 2004 5:13 AM

PURPLEBELLY


Quote:

Originally posted by TightPants:
After all, originality is usually nothing more than the art of not reveling your source


It would be good to think that Whedon was a fan of Chris Boucher, too; script editor/writer on Dr Who, Blake's Seven and the strike-hit Spacecops.

But does God play knuckle bones with the 'verse?

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Sunday, June 27, 2004 7:40 AM

SHINYSEVEN


Firefly is a LOT like Blakes7 (officially there's no apostrophe in the title), a fact that I'm exploiting by writing crossovers. However, there are no scenes in Firefly in chalk quarries, unlike either Dr. Who or B7.

The main similarity with B7 is that it never does go smooth in either of them, and they have to spend a lot of time undoing things that they took infinite trouble to do shortly before. Someone here mentioned the name of the Alliance ship the Dortmunder and queried the Donald Westlake connection--stealing the same emerald over and over again is something that could easily happen to either the B7 or the Firefly characters.

"Sadistic crap legitimized by florid prose"

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Sunday, June 27, 2004 9:02 AM

PURPLEBELLY


Quote:

Originally posted by shinyseven:
Firefly is a LOT like Blakes7 (officially there's no apostrophe in the title),


I'm afraid that I'm so old, I went to a Grammar School

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Sunday, June 27, 2004 11:12 AM

DEBBIEBUK1


"However, there are no scenes in Firefly in chalk quarries, unlike either Dr. Who or B7. "
(sorry if I got the quoting stuff wrong)

But there does seem to be a lot of fairly scrubby desert which is probably the western US equivalent.

Similarity - Blake had a great concern and care for his crew. Difference - Blake was fighting a fairly active battle against the bad guys, I think Mal is just trying to make a living.On the other hand B7 was a long time ago so maybe I'm remebering wrong.

When's Servalan going to appear that's what I want to know, she got into Farscape didn't she (Grayzia? or something like that).

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Sunday, June 27, 2004 11:17 AM

PURPLEBELLY


Quote:

Originally posted by debbiebuk1:
When's Servalan going to appear that's what I want to know


Maybe Simon will forgo the big black moustache and put on the high-heeled sneakers instead

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Sunday, June 27, 2004 1:45 PM

SHINYSEVEN


There could be a Casablanca scenario where Mal returns to the cause of fighting for freedom because of his encounter with a Viktor Laszlo-esque Blake.

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