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Serenity, Best Lines!

by storiesbywilliams on May 2, 2012 in Best Lines, Movies and tagged science fiction, Sci-Fi, book, history, psychic, Persephone, miranda, malcolm reynolds, serenity, firefly, reavers, the alliance, mr. universe, the operative, river tam, simon tam, zoe washburne, inara serra, hoban washburne, jayne cobb, kaylee frye, heist, shepherd book, ariel, reader, space western, chinese pinyin, firefly movie, serenity movie, captain reynolds, buffybot, joss whedon, fox network, core worlds, american frontier, manifest destiny, white man's burden, substance pax, fanti and mingo, shiny, pulse beacon, sword, assassin

And we come to the final installment at last. Given the sheer kick-ass nature of the show’s writing, it took me three whole posts to get all the best lines from the single season that the show produced. And it was not even a full season! But of course, honoring Whedon’s criminally under-appreciated sci-fi creation […]

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Cool Ships!

by storiesbywilliams on April 29, 2012 in Cool Ships, Movies, Sci-Fi, Series and tagged Alien, aliens, b5 crusade, Babylon 5, Battlestar Galactica, book, building better worlds, cache weapons, captain sheridan, cat, chewi, cheyenne dropship, cloaking device, colonial marines, commander adama, companion, conestoga-class, corellia, corellian ships, cylons, deep space nine, defiant-class, delenn, drakh, dropship, firefly, firefly-class, han solo, hegazi, hell-class weapons, hoben washburne, ilia volovya, inara serra, interstellar alliance, j michael straczynski, jabba the hutt, jayne cobb, kaylee, kessel, kessel run, lighthugger, lister, malcolm reynolds, melding plague, millennium falcon, mimbari, phasers, president roselyn, quantum torpedoes, red dwarf, religious caste, revelation space, rimmer, river tam, romulans, sajaki, secret compartments, serenity, shepherd book, simon tam, spice, star trek ds9, Star Trek TNG, the alliance, the borg, the defiant, the dominion, the empire, the excalibur, the galactica, the pegasus, the rangers, the sao paolo, the twelve colonies, the valiant, the victory, the white star, ultranauts, ultras, uss nostromo, uss sulaco, wash, Weyland Yutani, white star destroyers, white star fleet, xenomorphs, zoe, zoe washburne

God, what an obvious extension of the whole conceptual sci-fi thing, I can’t believe I didn’t think of it sooner! After all, what is a sci-fi franchise without some cool spacefaring vessels? Sometimes, these come in the form of exploratory ships that chart the unknown regions of the galaxy. Sometimes they are battleships which kick […]

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Firefly Best Lines (cont’d)

by storiesbywilliams on April 28, 2012 in Best Lines, Series and tagged alliance planet, apple grenade, ariel, Best Lines, book, browncoats, companion, core planet, core world, cortical electrodes, firefly, griswald, hoban washburne, inara serra, independents, jayne, jayne cobb, jaynestown, kaylee, kaylee frye, mal, malcolm reynolds, mudders, New Casmir, niska, out of gas, river, river tam, serenity, simon, simon tam, the alliance, the councilor, war stories, wash, Xiang Yu, zoe, zoe washburne

Last time, I dedicated an entire post to the best lines out of the Firefly series, and only got halfway through its first and only season! I can’t imagine how many posts I’ve going to have to divide this into to make them all fit and not be totally overwhelming to read! Best estimates put […]

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Firefly Best Lines!

by storiesbywilliams on April 26, 2012 in Best Lines, Series and tagged atherton, badger, book, browncoats, bushwacked, firefly, hoban washburne, inara serra, jayne, jayne cobb, kaylee, kaylee frye, mal, malcolm reynolds, Our Mrs. Reynolds, river, river tam, safe, saffron, serenity, shepherd book, shindig, simon, simon tam, sir warwick harrow, the alliance, the independents, the train job, wash, zoe, zoe washburne

Part of what made Fireflythe best show to ever get cancelled by the Faux Network was its many, many awesome lines. Depending on the tone of things, they could cheeky, witty, smart-assed, or just downright hilarious. And after giving the show a review, I thought I might dredge up some of the better ones that […]

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Firefly and Serenity or “How I Realized Fox Sucks!”

by storiesbywilliams on April 20, 2012 in Movies, Reviews, Series and tagged alan tudyk, bounty hunters, brigdet, browncoats, Christina Hendricks, companion, derrial book, firefly, gina torres, gorram, gun slingers, heist, hoban washburne, inara serra, independents, jayne cobb, Jubal Early, kaylee frye, mal, malcolm reynolds, miranda, mr. universe, nathon fillion, objects in space, Our Mrs. Reynolds, out of gas, pax, Persephone, reavers, river tam, safe, saffron, sean maher, serenity, shepherd, shindig, simon tam, smuggling, So me and mine gotta lay down and die... so you can live in your better world?, summer glau, terraforming, the alliance, the blue sun, the operative, trash, unification war, wash, westerns, zoe washburne

Yeah, I know I’m hardly alone in loving the cult-hit Firefly, nor am I alone in censuring Fox for its inept and inexplicable decision to cancel it after its first season. But then again, that seems to be their thing. What is more lamentable is the fact that after years of maintaining a following worldwide, […]

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