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quince: I want my parents to appreciate the TV I watch. Do I...

Asked 2 years ago

buy them the Firefly DVD set

jmorzins
Any brilliant advice would certainly be appreciated. Shameless advocacy is often good, too.
Schuyler
Is this even a question?
Brbrlla
I watched the Firefly with my folks and my dad loved it. He said that it was just like watching the <here, I have to groan> westerns like the dirty dozen, that he likes, but with that spacey kind of feel... Yeah, go for the firefly.
hawkeye
Depends on your parents
ChickenPotPie
Get them Firefly AND Serenity.

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buy them Battlestar Galactica miniseries/first season

alexrs
This partly depends on what your parents think of regular TV. Battlestar Galactica does a lot of the same things with tense drama that mainstream TV does, but does it better and smarter. On the other hand, Firefly is good in part because it shuns overused TV techniques. Battlestar Galactica is probably more approachable for someone coming from a mainstream TV audience.

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