Wednesday, March 5, 2008

FireFly is the Underbelly of our Future


Dare I say, millions of viewers will never forget the artistic and intellectual crime perpetrated by Fox executives when they canceled Joss Whedan's FireFly series. I for one, thought it was a good approximation of our far future, as long as one took into account that the "Alliance" of planets was a synonym for the "Federation" from Star Trek the Next Generation.

So did I brake out in a cold sweat when I read this article from the News Tribune which ran in last month's Washington Express about "Cultural Translation"? More than a little. Get your Chinese on by checking out the children's program. And face the facts that in 500 years, English will be the new Spanish.

By the way, if you are not sure you should get into FireFly, just watch the Fruity Oaty Bar commercial from the movie "Serenity". That should clinch it.

1 comment:

  1. 2 things:
    First, please, please do not sully my love of Firefly with a comparison to Star Trek.
    Second, really 500 years, i'd say 250 is a conservative estimate. Although China is going to have some serious, serious environmental/health problems so they might not make it.

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