Tools used for the Firefly

Semiotics for Firefly.

The big thing you can notice in the show is the "culture." When a show decides a background for itself, most of them don't have much change. Or usually only one background exist in a show. However, in this show named Firefly, two different culture coexist. Well, that might be considered as "one culture" if the audience considers it as a "mixture of cultures." Then, what do you think is the semiotics or signs of the background in this show? First of all, the main character can speak BOTH Chinese and English. The more interesting thing is that he's not the only person speaks both languages. Also this series is set in the year of 2517. That means in the future, English would be the first language of people which means we need to be fluent, and Chinese would be the second language. If you watch more, you will find that western people are wearing Chinese custumes. They not only just speak Chinese, but they also are used to the culture. That would mean the "mixed culture" will be OUR future. I think I need to start learning Chinese as well. :)

 Genre for Firefly
Well, the genre for this show is SF, and since I don't watch the whole show, I cannot tell there are more genres. I thought this show is very silmilar to the movie Star Wars; the effects, the color of their clotehs, etc. However, I couldn't tell that it was SF drama at first. I thought it as a western cowboy movie or something else. By the holographic window, I was little confused. However lastly, by the spaceship, I could tell that it was a SF show. I think guessing what kind of show was it was kind of fun. But in my opinion, the effect for the spaceship wasn't so good even though the show was filmed in 2002. And the science related words was very hard to understand - this helped me to realize that the show is really a SF drama.




P.S.  Professor I thought I did publish this post, but it was saved as a draft. I'm really really sorry :(....
And you were gone for a week!! I hope everything is fine... I will drop by your office!!