Shiny!
You know, it's about gorram time that this happens. I'll be first in line, as I'm sure will many others. I was late in coming to the 'verse, but it's well worth it.
Like Capt. Mal Reynolds stumbling in after a bar fight, the short-lived but much beloved sci-fi series Firefly will soon make an unexpected return, not as a TV show, but as a massively multiplayer online game.
Now that's shiny.
Multiverse, maker of a free
MMO-creation platform, plans to announce Friday morning that it's
struck a deal with Fox Licensing to turn the show into an MMORPG in the
fashion of Star Wars Galaxies or Eve Online.
What does this mean? It means that I'll have to start scheduling things better. Now, it won't be out for a couple years, so I should be done with grad school or close to it by the time the game releases.
Wait, do you even know what I'm talking about? Firefly, and it's motion picture successor Serenity, was created by Joss Whedon. Airing in 2003, it was cancelled after only 11 episodes, though I'm not sure why. The show is a sci-fi western. Think Star Wars meets Gunsmoke, but with better characters. The dialog was spot on all the time, and there isn't a single episode in the 14 on the DVD set that is not worth watching.
There were several great things about the show. One, there was no sound in space. No whooshing, no laser blasts, just silence. Just like real space. Second, no aliens. It's set 500 years in the future, where the Earth was abandoned and humans moved out into other star systems to colonize. They didn't find aliens, they just found more space. It's a wonderful series and movie. I watched on of the episodes the other night in fact. Great stuff.