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Favorite Cult Classics (Part The First)

by storiesbywilliams on October 6, 2012 in Movies, Sci-Fi and tagged AI's, Akira, anime, army of darkness, arnie, Arnold Schwarzenegger, ash, Blade Runner, boomstick, bruce campbell, captain malcolm reynolds, cimmerian, commando, conan, conan the barbarian, conan the cimmerian, cult classics, cyberpunk, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep, evil dead, firefly, Harrison Ford, hyboria, indiana jones, james earl jones, Katsuhiro Otomo, manga, miranda, neo-tokyo, netflix, nuclear war, Philip k dick, post-apocalyptic, Predator, reavers, replicants, Ridley Scott, river tam, robert e howard, sam raimi, serenity, spiderman, Star Wars, the alliance, the operative, Thulsa Doom, wwIII, xena warrior princess

It might be that I’m feeling nostalgic, or it might be that since my wife and I sprung for Netflix, I’ve been finding my way back to several of my favorite old movies. Hard to say exactly. All I know for sure is, I want to talk about the cult classic movies that I like […]

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Worlds of the Firefly Universe

by storiesbywilliams on August 4, 2012 in Movies, Series, Worlds Of and tagged 34 Tauri, ariel, badger, bai hu, battle of serenity valley, beaumonde, bellerophon, bernadette, black tortoise, blue dragon, border planets, brown dwarves, captain malcolm reynolds, dozens of planets and hundreds of mooons, dyton, earth-that-was, Eavesdown Docks, elder gomman, fanty and mingo, firefly, firefly movie, georgia, greenleaf, harvest, haven, heinelin, hoban washburne, huang long, jaynestown, jiangyin, kalidasa, londoninium, mal, miranda, mudders milk, niska, niska's skyplex, Our Mrs. Reynolds, pax, Persephone, qing long, reavers, regina, river tam, robert a heinlein, safe, saffron, serenity, shadow, shepherd book, sihnon, simon tam, sino-anglo alliance, the alliance, the blue sun, the brown coats, the central planets, the independents, the mudders, the operative, the red pheonix, the rim, the train job, the unification war, the verse, the white sun, the white tiger, trash, triumph, whitefall, xuan wu, yellow dragon, zhu que, zoe washburne

It’s been forever since I did a post about the various planets that make up a sci-fi universe. And I got to admit, this is one I’ve been holding out on simply because the sheer volume of info made it seem just the slightest bit intimidating. I am, of course, referring to The Verse, also […]

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Cool Ships (volume VI)

by storiesbywilliams on May 11, 2012 in Movies, Series, Cool Ships and tagged Star Trek, Star Wars, Battlestar Galactica, lightsaber, Star Trek TNG, homeworld, halo, Covenant, jedi order, corellia, boba fett, sith wars, firefly, reavers, cortana, star trek ds9, cloaking device, cylons, millennium falcon, dominion war, romulan empire, klingon bird of prey, cylon raider, slave I, the ebon hawk, star wars kotor, KOTOR, klingon empire, corellian freighter, revan and malak, taris, event horizon, gravity drive, lewis and clarke rescue ship, mothership, Kushan fleet, Kharak, homeworld war, pillar of autumn, flood, forerunners, forerunner installation 04, the scimitar, star trek nemesis, shinzon, reaver ship

Back yet again with a sixth installment in the Cool Ships series. Like last time, I took this opportunity to tackle some overlooked examples, and some new ones as well. In addition… You know what? Screw the introductions and final thoughts, let’s just get into this! Bird of Prey: There’s nothing like a classic, and […]

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Serenity, Best Lines!

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

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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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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