Firefly

We finally finished watching Firefly!

You may recall, we never watched the series on TV, then I got excited about it when Serenity was produced.  We bought Serenity and watched that, which is not the preferable order IMHO, which totally sold us on Firefly.  We ordered Firefly, watched most of it, and when we got to the fourth DVD, it contained a second copy of the second DVD instead.

We eventually ended up buying an entire second copy of the series and checking the contents immediately.  When I get a computer built that has a DVD burner, we can fix the original set from the complete set and loan it out.  It’s “must watch” material for my father, brother, and if she never saw it, my sister.  Heck, it’s must watch for everyone!  It is some of the best television content ever produced.  It’s astonishing that it ever made it onto network television.

I refused to watch it when it first aired.  I was not a Whedon groupie.  I was a big fan of Dark Angel.  While the second season of Dark Angel was not what it could have been, Fox tossed it into the Death Slot in an effort to ditch the series, then canceled it explicitly to make room - oddly, in the same Death Slot right up front - for the Joss Whedon project.  I was irritated, but then the way the premise was phrased made the show sound like Lamest Thing Ever.  My friends loved it.  And despite my snit over Dark Angel, I still thought it was absurd the way they summarily tossed Firefly.

What’s weird is during the run of Firefly, once or twice I caught a couple minutes of some SF show that I thought was Firefly, which only affirmed my notion it was lame.  I have no clue what show I was seeing, but it wasn’t Firefly at all.  Still trying to figure that one out.

Anyway, highly recommended.  I could almost see actually reading Firefly fan fiction, and I’d watch a series or movie in a second if they started it back up or did another one.

Now we have the urge to watch Wonderfalls again… poor Tim Minear.

1. Dang, I’ll have to add that to my DVD wish list.

   Posted by Paul Burgess  on  05/07  at  08:24 AM  from 
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