{"id":32595,"date":"2025-03-14T17:11:03","date_gmt":"2025-03-14T21:11:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/orionscoldfire.com\/?p=32595"},"modified":"2025-03-14T17:11:03","modified_gmt":"2025-03-14T21:11:03","slug":"critical-drinker-discovers-firefly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orionscoldfire.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/14\/critical-drinker-discovers-firefly\/","title":{"rendered":"Critical Drinker Discovers Firefly"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s been over twenty years since Firefly was even a distant memory of a television show.\u00a0 That excellent sci-fi series that struck a decidedly anti-elitist, pro-freedom, anti-&#8220;surveillance state&#8221; chord with its rag tag crew of space smugglers and other nonconformists in their chronically malfunctioning space ship Serenity.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Firefly - We Didn&#039;t Know How Good We Had It\" width=\"783\" height=\"440\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/DJIIaN7Z2L0?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m glad to see that the next generation is coming to recognize what a great show it was and just how much better it was than the current crop of fantasy and science fiction shows that have not a hundredth of its creativity and heart.\u00a0 Kudos to the Crtical Drinker for saying so.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s been over twenty years since Firefly was even a distant memory of a television show.\u00a0 That excellent sci-fi series that struck a decidedly anti-elitist,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[237,4,244,240],"tags":[48,38,1355,44,309,2313],"class_list":["post-32595","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews","category-sff","category-sff-tv-reviews","category-tv-reviews","tag-firefly","tag-review","tag-reviews","tag-sci-fi","tag-sci-fi-tv-review","tag-serenity"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v20.4 - 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