And the Lurker's Guide for the win, best fansite EVAR. It's not the flashiest, but it is the most complete, centralized resource on a given genre I have ever seen. Poor Midwinter.com got so slashdotted they had to mirror it not once but twice... once overseas.
Well, there's my bias from the *earliest* days of the net -- I'm not interested in how flashy (or, indeed, how Flash) a site is, I'm interested in how easily it puts interesting information in front of me. How easy is it to navigate, how easy is it to find the data I want? If you look at my own website, it's fairly plain, but it serves its purpose, IMO, which is to put the interesting stuff in easy to find places, and then gets out of the way.
I'm superimpressed with the Lurkers Guide website. I havent' explored it fully, since I'm trying very hard to avoid spoilers where possible, but I've been carefully reading along with our watching to pick up some of the notations along the way. I can definately see why this would have been the reource of choice at the time the show as on the air.
Tolkein wrote the first big saga of the modern SF era. Lucas did it on the big screen. (And should've quit at three.) JMS did what those two august gentlemen did in their media, but he did it on the little screen, on the cheap and without a whole hell of a lot of support from other than the fans. Even Joss didn't manage that, though what he did was damn good.
I don't think you *can* meaningfully compare Firefly to Babylon Five. B5 justly deserves every acolade that it's been given, from all I've seen, but Firefly was strangled in the crib, and there's no way to know how good it might have been if it had been given the opportunity to find its audience. (I'll still stand by my statement that the first dozen Firefly episodes equal if not surpass the first dozen episodes of B5, but beyond that, one can only speculate at what might have been.)
I don't think we'll see the like - a full five-year story arc of this quality - again anytime soon. Alas.
Yeah, that's really too damn bad. TV *ought* to be this good.
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Date: 2006-10-02 08:31 pm (UTC)Well, there's my bias from the *earliest* days of the net -- I'm not interested in how flashy (or, indeed, how Flash) a site is, I'm interested in how easily it puts interesting information in front of me. How easy is it to navigate, how easy is it to find the data I want? If you look at my own website, it's fairly plain, but it serves its purpose, IMO, which is to put the interesting stuff in easy to find places, and then gets out of the way.
I'm superimpressed with the Lurkers Guide website. I havent' explored it fully, since I'm trying very hard to avoid spoilers where possible, but I've been carefully reading along with our watching to pick up some of the notations along the way. I can definately see why this would have been the reource of choice at the time the show as on the air.
Tolkein wrote the first big saga of the modern SF era. Lucas did it on the big screen. (And should've quit at three.) JMS did what those two august gentlemen did in their media, but he did it on the little screen, on the cheap and without a whole hell of a lot of support from other than the fans. Even Joss didn't manage that, though what he did was damn good.
I don't think you *can* meaningfully compare Firefly to Babylon Five. B5 justly deserves every acolade that it's been given, from all I've seen, but Firefly was strangled in the crib, and there's no way to know how good it might have been if it had been given the opportunity to find its audience. (I'll still stand by my statement that the first dozen Firefly episodes equal if not surpass the first dozen episodes of B5, but beyond that, one can only speculate at what might have been.)
I don't think we'll see the like - a full five-year story arc of this quality - again anytime soon. Alas.
Yeah, that's really too damn bad. TV *ought* to be this good.