Space Opry

[Spinward Scout]

So I keep reading those TV Tropes (yeah, thanks alot Easterner9504 ) and I keep seeing the term Space Western applied to Firefly. Now I thought about this and I think with the comedy/slapstik and the Robin Hood-ish stories Firefly could be termed Space Opry. An offshoot of the Space Western combined with the Grand Ole Opry.

Here's a quote:

the Opry showcases a mix of legends and contemporary chart-toppers performing country, bluegrass, folk, gospel, and comedic performances and skits.

Kinda like the mix of everything in Firefly.

Space Western (and Space Opera) just seems too serious, to me anyway.

Space Opry just sounds more fitting.

What do you think?

 

[hunter]

Great...now I have a mental picture of the HeeHaw gang aboard a spaceship.

Thanks.

 

[Dragoner]

lol

Just spent too much time at tvtropes as well, I have to laugh at the "proud warrior race" trope because I have seen that very expression written in some descriptions of planets, aliens, etc. .

 

[DonM]

Space Opry makes me think of a musical...

Think Oklahoma and State Fair combined, but set in space.

Rodgers and Hammerstein songs...

"Our Far Trader is a great Far Trader..."

 

[Spinward Scout]

Great...now I have a mental picture of the HeeHaw gang aboard a spaceship.

Thanks.

Yeah, and now I do too. :rofl:

 

[Blue Ghost]

Great...now I have a mental picture of the HeeHaw gang aboard a spaceship.

Thanks.

It could happen; http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=or-ZGtg3BPM

 

[Dragoner]

This thread is becoming accidental nightmare fuel.

 

[Thanos]

This thread is becoming accidental nightmare fuel.

Yes. Please stop.

 

[Easterner9504]

So I keep reading those TV Tropes (yeah, thanks alot Easterner9504 )

See I've kept you out of pool halls and away from negative moral turpitude. I deserve an award.

 

[hunter]

See I've kept you out of pool halls and away from negative moral turpitude. I deserve an award.

You led us to space hillbillies.

You either deserve an award or to be shot.

Or both.

:devil:

 

[Blue Ghost]

* dueling banjos plays in the background...*

 

[Dragoner]

"In space, no one can hear you squeal..."

 

[aramis]

"In space, no one can hear you squeal..."

Now now... Don't get "Pigs in Space" into my "Space Hillbillies"...

 

[Rigel Stardin]

Now now... Don't get "Pigs in Space" into my "Space Hillbillies"...

...That would be "Barbecue in Space"...

 

[Madarin Dude]

...That would be "Barbecue in Space"...

That would be until the militant K'Swine come to war with those barbequing space hillbillies. We are in big trouble.

 

[BytePro]

Let 'em come... hillbillies are fond of their shotguns and pitchforks... shredded pork with that BBQ sauce, anyone?

Hmmm... moonshine would have a more literal meaning...

 

[aramis]

Let 'em come... hillbillies are fond of their shotguns and pitchforks... shredded pork with that BBQ sauce, anyone?

Hmmm... moonshine would have a more literal meaning...

The glisten of sweat upon a bared buttocks, yes?

 

[BytePro]

o: Er... was thinking more along the lines of illegal hooch actually made on a moon!

 

[Rigel Stardin]

The glisten of sweat upon a bared buttocks, yes?

Only if it was Ellie May's back side

On another note, those moonshiner would be the wealthiest traders in space...

 

[Blue Ghost]

o: Er... was thinking more along the lines of illegal hooch actually made on a moon!

Regolith hooch?