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Unique and refreshing appeal
During the course of it's television run, I probably was only able to watch three or four episodes, but yet, I still spent $40 on the DVD, and couldn't really explain. I found it as a unique and refreshing series, and I was drawn in buy the whole space-western atmosphere. I just wanted to know more about the characters as quickly as possible. I think its great to see a futuristic show that doesnt necessarily have to include aliens or the sterile effect of Star Trek, but instead shows the opposite qualities of man on the frontiers of space. The biggest attraction that keeps people watching is the creation of a different world. Its almost like one big inside joke, that fans can watch episodes and pick up on the little extras embedded in each scene. Also, viewers can appreciate the structure of each epidose, and how it shows short, middle, and long term story lines, which is rare in TV today.
For first time viewers, if you can bear the initial, overwhelming experience of hearing chinese blurbs and new words ("shiny" and "gorram"), and can enjoy the western dialect and clever dialogue, then you can sit back and let the story do the rest. Everything, from the music, to the characters, and even the ship, make for an enjoyable experience.It's really not hard to enjoy Firefly once you can believe in the world.

Bittersweet Viewing
Knowing that Fox had squashed this particular "Firefly" made viewing these DVDs particularly bittersweet. Joss Whedon's and Tim Minear's writing, character creation and casting for this series was the best yet. Despite a couple of technical issues -- some lengthy pauses when shifting from the Main Menu to individual eps, and waiting for the "play" button to be enabled (Fox obviously didn't spend a lot of money on packaging this, but, hey, that's okay!), the DVD content was fantastic. Special features are excellent; wait till you hear Joss and the cast talk of how the fan support for the series helped them through some pretty "dark nights of the soul." I was one of those fans, as I'm sure many of the 500+ reviewers on this site are, and if ever the grassroots viewers of a series like this -- true art -- can form their own production company and raise the funds to greenlight the *quality* stuff, I'll be right there at the front. Share this DVD with your friends who're learning to write for TV or film or stage. Schedule a Firefly viewing party. Honor some truly great genre masters. And get ready to rally behind the next Whedon project that hits any sized screen. And Amazon, thanks for giving us another venue to show our support for Firefly. Ee-hah!

Once you've been to Serenity, you never leave.
The hero of sci-fi, the man they call Joss, wrote a great story but got screwed by Fox.
My girlfriend bought me this DVD set for my birthday. I had forgotten just how much I liked the series until I sat down and watched the first six episodes without stopping. I lost way too much sleep last week, and I still haven't seen the special features. I'm just glad the girl knows me better than I know myself.
You can hate science fiction, and you can hate westerns (both of which I love), but it's impossible to hate the characters Whedon has created for Firefly. Each and every character has such a well-developed back-story that you can't help but find them all incredibly interesting. Combined with the wicked sense of humor possessed by the writing team, this made for some great television.
This has been discussed by other reviewers already, but I would like to address what happened with the programming of the show. As with other popular shows that have been ruined by programming execs (think Titus), it's hard to get a following when viewers don't know from one week to the next when the show will air. On top of that, showing the pilot halfway through (or what wound up being the end of) the season tells me that the execs were never really committed to the show. Whedon is an established writer who is great at long-term plot development, and they should have gone with his sequencing. Instead, the network Foxed up everything from the get-go. That's okay, though. Ain't no power in the Verse can stop us from likin' Mal Reynolds and his crew.

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