blog 9

Blog 9: Prospectus

I will focus on the Wild West qualities of the show Firefly and how they add to the overall quality for my prospectus.

Cowboys, gunfights, rogue fugitives; the Wild West was a wildly exciting time. To survive during that time took a tough, willful and smart character. These aspects of the genre can be sure to always be a fertile topic for movies and stories for a long time. Joss Whedon, creator of Firefly, concocts an entirely unique show using this genre. He began with a basis of a future based in the year 2517 in a new galaxy and blends it with the crazy and entertaining world of the American wild west of the nineteenth century.

Whedon makes gunfights a regular occurrence in the world of Firefly. The gunfight is one of the main characteristics of the Western genre. They are exciting and people simply love to see them. The gunfights of the show are very similar to one you might see in any wild west movie out there; there's a good side and a bad side, and one side always begins the fights with guns a-blazing wildly and many casualties can be expected.

The dialect of Firefly is another Western-genre aspect of the show. The main characters speak almost in a cowboy type, Texan accent and use limited vocabulary, as one could expect of people during the time. Horses are also used in almost every aspect, which is a staple of the Western-genre.

Whedon combines two very popular genre's, the Western and the Future, to create a fun and exciting show.