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Firefly
OK, OK, I know it's not obscure or forgotten, but why has nobody done something similar since?
Literally my first thought when I opened this thread.
You talk about it as if it was revolutionary. The concept is a defined genre. Don't get me wrong, I'm a fan, but the concepts are not revolutionary at all. What makes the series great is the plots, writing, casting and acting. Oh, and you have the mix of frontier/tech in many current series, like Andor or Foundation, for example.
I didn't mean to suggest it was original or revolutionary. But despite that, there hasn't really been another series with that vibe since.
I liked Dark Matter a lot, and I think there were some similarities.
But they were very different.
I'm watching through it now and it is very similar but definitely not up to the same level.
Yes, I enjoyed that, true. But it wasn't at the same level as Firefly.
unpopular opinion: firefly failed because it was mediocre and uninteresting, and if its handful of viewers weren't the loudest most entitled people on the planet zero people would be talking about it today.