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Re:Show HN: 5000 best movies by philwelch on Saturday September 22, 2012 @03:29AM (#4557353)
Moral ambiguity is something that passes in and out of fashion, and it's something that Firefly never really delivered on. Where Firefly really shone was as a prototype for the naturalistic science fiction approach that Battlestar Galactica mastered.
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Re:Show HN: 5000 best movies by Alex3917 on Saturday September 22, 2012 @11:33AM (#4558035)
Yeah, it's unfortunate that Firefly never got the chance to deliver there. That said, if you pit the first season of Firefly against just the first quarter of Citizen Kane, which is really more fair in some ways, I'd go with Firefly any day.
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Re:Show HN: 5000 best movies by philwelch on Saturday September 22, 2012 @03:04PM (#4558685)
I don't think "the chance" is what it lacked. Firefly was relentlessly light and couldn't have sustained the darkness necessary for real moral ambiguity to work.
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