Samizdata quote of the day

September 30, 2005
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Samizdata quote of the day

Michael Jennings (London) Science fiction • Slogans/quotations

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Take my love, take my land, take me where I cannot stand.
I don't care, I'm still free. You can't take the sky from me.
Take me out to the black. Tell 'em I ain't comin' back.
Burn the land and boil the sea. You can't take the sky from me.
Have no place I can be since I found Serenity
But you can't take the sky from me.

- Joss Whedon

Comments

Great series, shame it got cancelled.
Looking forward to the forthcoming movie.

Posted by Steve P at September 30, 2005 12:41 AM

This show made me wish for a space frontier in a way that no other show has done before. It's actually painful for me to watch because it makes me long for that type of freedom so strongly.

Posted by Alfred E. Neuman at September 30, 2005 02:48 AM

Too bad about that whole relativity thing. I love the space elevator and all, but it will be difficult to evolve that kind of space frontier when going from one star to the next takes lifetimes for those not travelling at your speed.

Here's to hoping we're effectively braindead about our knowledge of physics!

Wicked sick show though...

Posted by Ivan Kirigin at September 30, 2005 03:29 AM

They've just started showing Firefly on Foxtel in Australia, the first episode showed 2 nights ago. Looking forward to the rest of the series.

Posted by Yobbo at September 30, 2005 05:24 AM

Take my love, take my land
Take me where I cannot stand
I don't care, I'm still free
You can't take the Net from me

Take me to pajama-town
Tell MSM I won't back down
Fisk them all from sea to sea
You can't take the Net from me

There's no place I can't be
Since I found the blogospheeere
You can't take the Net from me

(One of the current attractions of this week's Carnival of the Vanities, penned by yours truly)

Posted by Alan K. Henderson at September 30, 2005 06:53 AM

Anybody who hasn't seen this show should buy the DVD set - it's excellent value for money, and includes the episodes in the correct order and indeed all the episodes seeing as Fox in their infinite stupidity cancelled the show.

And go see the movie next week.

Believe me, you WON'T be disappointed!

Posted by David B. Wildgoose at September 30, 2005 08:23 AM

Shiny!

Posted by James at September 30, 2005 09:26 AM

I'm told Sky are doing a Firefly weekend this weekend - not sure what channel or exactly when, though... I'm waiting to borrow the DVD from a friend. I've heard people describe the idea of a western in space as a bit odd, but it makes perfect sense to me! I'm looking forward to seeing this one.

Posted by Rob Fisher at September 30, 2005 01:09 PM

We may not be able to travel to other stars, but it should be possible to so spread throughout our own system that much of the content of that show might still be possible... Imagine a future with literally hundreads of thousands of colonized asteroids, a terra-formed mars, and decent ships that can cross the whole thing in say 6 months... You can still have your libertarian space utopia.. :)

Posted by Tony Di Croce at September 30, 2005 03:16 PM

It's the Sci Fi Channel that are doing the Firefly Weekend (the channel that showed it originally in the UK). Starts at 1:00pm (12:00 on Sunday) & runs 'til 8:00pm both days.

Very well worth seeing.

Posted by JuliaM at September 30, 2005 07:22 PM

Does no one besides me think "Firefly" owes more than a passing debt to "Blakes 7?"

Posted by Joshua at September 30, 2005 09:13 PM

Has someone here been reading Dean's World? http://www.deanesmay.com? We're rather fond of Firefly, and also of England, over there.

Posted by Bill Dooely at October 1, 2005 02:28 AM

Words to live by, those.

Been engrossed in the series in the last few months since they started reshowing it on SciFi. Got the DVD set now.

Its an amazing time when so much quality can be put onto such few disks.

Even if the spaceships aren't ever possible, we know that kind of freedom is.

Posted by James at October 1, 2005 03:17 PM

> it's excellent value for money

Off point, but nevertheless, I love that phrase. I never hear it over here, but it makes the point so well, so perfectly and concisely. Perhaps our revolution divorced us too far from the Mother Tongue. Youse guys still got a way wid it.

Posted by Bill Dooely at October 1, 2005 05:45 PM

Just got back from the movie. Loved it! Ya gotta see it.

Shiny indeed.

Now where do I get the DVD set of "Firefly"

Mike

Posted by Mike Borgelt at October 2, 2005 01:21 PM

Shiny indeed.

Tis indeed, but a trifle sad, also...

Time to watch another episode....

Posted by James at October 3, 2005 05:01 AM

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