You said "Joss Weldon has skirted around the fact that Firefly is based on Traveller."
The "fact" is that he supposedly stated in an online interview that has (conveniently) long since been taken down that Firefly was influenced by a roleplaying game he played in university. People then took that and made a lot of deductions and claimed that he clearly played Traveller, and so Firefly was based on Traveller. He hasn't "strongly hinted" about it since or indeed said anything about it at all.
Never mind the fact that hardly anything in the show resembles Traveller, and that he's officially stated that the main influence for it was a book about the US Civil War:
"Whedon developed the concept for the show after reading The Killer Angels, the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by Michael Shaara chronicling the Battle of Gettysburg during the American Civil War. He wanted to follow people who had fought on the losing side of a war and their experiences afterwards as pioneers and immigrants on the outskirts of civilization, much like the post-American Civil War era of Reconstruction and the American Old West culture.[26] He intended the show to be "a Stagecoach kind of drama with a lot of people trying to figure out their lives in a bleak pioneer environment".[27] Whedon wanted to develop a show about the tactile nature of life, a show where existence was more physical and more difficult.[11] After reading The Killer Angels, Whedon read a book about Jewish partisan fighters in World War II that also influenced him.[26] Whedon wanted to create something for television that was more character-driven and gritty than most modern science fiction. Television science fiction, he felt, had become too pristine and rarefied.[28]" - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firefly_(TV_series)#Origin http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firefly_(TV_series)#Origin
---In , <captnchuck67@...> wrote :
I never said fact. If you read and hear what Joss has said he hints very strongly that it is based on it. He never comes right out and says it for obvios reasons but he hints at it a number of times.
Wherever you go there you are-Buckaroo Banzai
We sleep soundly in our beds because rough men stand ready in the night to visit violence on those who would do us harm. (Winston Churchill)
When in doubt I think of the immortal words of Socrates when he said:"I just drank what?"
On Sun, Jul 20, 2014 at 4:42 PM, evil_dr_ganymede@... evil_dr_ganymede@... [Traveller_TNE] < > wrote:
I really wish people would stop claiming that Firefly is based on Traveller. It's not a "fact", it's wishful thinking based on circumstantial evidence.
The "fact" is that he supposedly stated in an online interview that has (conveniently) long since been taken down that Firefly was influenced by a roleplaying game he played in university. People then took that and made a lot of deductions and claimed that he clearly played Traveller, and so Firefly was based on Traveller. He hasn't "strongly hinted" about it since or indeed said anything about it at all.
Never mind the fact that hardly anything in the show resembles Traveller, and that he's officially stated that the main influence for it was a book about the US Civil War:
"Whedon developed the concept for the show after reading The Killer Angels, the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by Michael Shaara chronicling the Battle of Gettysburg during the American Civil War. He wanted to follow people who had fought on the losing side of a war and their experiences afterwards as pioneers and immigrants on the outskirts of civilization, much like the post-American Civil War era of Reconstruction and the American Old West culture.[26] He intended the show to be "a Stagecoach kind of drama with a lot of people trying to figure out their lives in a bleak pioneer environment".[27] Whedon wanted to develop a show about the tactile nature of life, a show where existence was more physical and more difficult.[11] After reading The Killer Angels, Whedon read a book about Jewish partisan fighters in World War II that also influenced him.[26] Whedon wanted to create something for television that was more character-driven and gritty than most modern science fiction. Television science fiction, he felt, had become too pristine and rarefied.[28]" - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firefly_(TV_series)#Origin http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firefly_(TV_series)#Origin
---In , <captnchuck67@...> wrote :
I never said fact. If you read and hear what Joss has said he hints very strongly that it is based on it. He never comes right out and says it for obvios reasons but he hints at it a number of times.
Wherever you go there you are-Buckaroo Banzai
We sleep soundly in our beds because rough men stand ready in the night to visit violence on those who would do us harm. (Winston Churchill)
When in doubt I think of the immortal words of Socrates when he said:"I just drank what?"
On Sun, Jul 20, 2014 at 4:42 PM, evil_dr_ganymede@... evil_dr_ganymede@... [Traveller_TNE] < > wrote:
I really wish people would stop claiming that Firefly is based on Traveller. It's not a "fact", it's wishful thinking based on circumstantial evidence.