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Firefly is real, it’s a space western in the Whedon style (he of Buffy fame). It is very good. It is a shame they didn’t make more and it’s also a shame that they decided to make the first ten minutes of the movie a giant exposition bomb for folk that had never seen the show.

One of the reasons it’s so beloved is that it’s funny. One of the reasons it’s so missed is because it has this run on episodes late in its first season which were brilliant, each better than the last.

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Is it on netflix?

Not sure. It was on Prime, but not anymore. 15th Anniversary edition BluRay can be picked up quite cheaply.

It is on Prime but you have to pay for it…

Then it’s not really on Prime :wink:

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It is a modern show.
I got a boxed set VHS at HMV in a sale only about 10 years ago.

Prime is starting to piss me off because they’re slowly increasing the amount of content that you have to pay for.

Not that I mind paying for something I really want to watch, but some of it is like trying to choose something from what was left in Blockbuster on a Saturday night.

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Is that because of the free delivery thingy link?
We didnt gave Amazon in UAE but could subscribe to Prime. Ditto here.
Dont have it as 90% content here is Polish (in Dubai about 75% was Bollywood so never renewed it)

Yeah UK membership comes with free delivery and originally,100% Prime video

You never got all of it, iirc.

I’ve bought loads of things because they weren’t on Prime.

I actually own a copy of The Whoopee Boys. There was a time when I didn’t think that possible.

Perhaps it was because there was so much choice and quality in the free to access stuff that I didn’t notice the stuff you could purchase.

I think they’ve always been a bit devious on that front. When it first span up, they’d produces thumbnails for each season of a show.

I’m not super-arsed. Prime isn’t just about the Video.

Amazon confirm they have ordered the 6th & final season of The Expanse.
Yay! It will have a proper ending not another cancellation!

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Hmm. I’ve never read the books so I don’t know how long they go on for.

Last season was probably my least favourite. Appreciate that they did something different, but it ended up feeling like a 12 episode away mission, mixed with a bit of Bobby and ChrisJen.

I enjoyed it. Got they wanted to expand the alien-ness on That Planet.
But with such an enormous canvas they spent such a long time on ā€œpoliticsā€, which is, actually the real storyline to date.
So I put up with it.

Apparently the whole of the 4th book was set on Ilus and there was no Bobbie and OPA storyline…

The Expanse books are set to go to 9 volumes…

Yeah, they pilfered the Draper stuff from some novellas, I believe. Not sure it worked.

All I hope is that it has an ending.
Not a Battlestar Galactica moment, an ending.

Fine have a new Universe to explore, new crews, new stories but dont go all Stargate SG1 never ending on us

Meh. The new BSG had a much better ending than the original.

Theirs was called Battlestar 1980.

This gave me a couple of good chuckles :lou_lol:

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