What is Sic-Fi
Sic-fi is more like fantasy and looking into the future and
aliens all that weird stuff. Firefly is not your usual SF show, it strays away from
the original SF shows we are used to like star trek and all those weird shows. It
seems that they wanted to get a different feel using the concept of SF and
topping it off with western added to it. It does have the SF concept because it
is looking into the future and has to do with outer space and spaceships, like In
the jes battis article they state that it is about human expansion and
exploration and interaction in the farthest of space.
What does Sci-fi and Western do and mean
In the Jes Battis article it was stated that it lacks aliens
but the creation of science fictional future has much power that it goes into
the future so that many viewers view it as SF, but at the same time lacking
aliens many viewers question if it is SF. The fact that humans are up in space
and really ties it to SF. In the article they also stated that they used the western
genre because they wanted to bring all the mythos of old western to the show so
that the “western action” can fuse with Sic-Fi.
What Firefly falls under more or less and y…
What genre does firefly fall under western, SF, has some
romance and action? Sic-Fi is science fiction and fantasy. When many people think
of SF they think of aliens, outer space, and or the far future that is most
made up through fantasy. In the shows there are no aliens but there are so that
could represent the outlaws, which there are many outlaws in the show. Even
though Firefly has that western background to it, it still has a lot of
fantasies/SF/ background to it also. I think it could be SF just because it has
that “fantasy” feel to it like looking into the future of what it might be. I feel
that the western part of it has a lot to do with the start of the story line.
Why? Well for one in the story they said something that the earth was really
bad so some of like maybe the higher class or outlaws live in space in spaceship.
I think I does not matter to much that there I the western background because
in the movie Cowboys and Aliens there
were cowboys on horse but yet there was still the aliens trying to get gold so
the come to earth. In Firefly there are fugitives and outlaws space ship
alliances that are crossed so if has both western and SF.
That is interesting that you pointed out that it is kind of SF because it is such a fantasy world, I did not even think of that, but it makes a lot of sense. Also, I think that the Cowboys and Indians reference is pretty spot on.
ReplyDeleteI love how you kept pointing out that they are weird shows jeje.. I also did not think about how it is not like the SF we are use to seeing, but I also think that it takes a lot of main ideas from them, like life in different planets, the space ships and like I mentioned in my blog a little like "Cowboy Vs. Aliens".
ReplyDeleteIsabel I totally have to agree with you in the fact that Firefly is just a fantasy because no one even knows if the future can end with that crazy science fiction of weirdness. I actually see how you say that the show is actually not a normal SF, because they do try to keep away from the norms of all other SF shows, which I believe is what make this show go on, although it didn't live for so long. Great point of view Isabel.
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