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Firefly is the Best Sci-Fi Show. Bar None.
I never watched Firefly when it was aired on Television. It is probably a good thing too, because then when Fox cancelled it I probably would have cried for days. Or snapped. Anyways, this show is absolutely fantastic! Whoever was over casting did an incredible job. Everyone plays their role to perfection, and the humor mixed in makes the show very memorable. I go to college, and since watching this show with some friends, we have been quoting several lines from it every day. This show is golden. It is one of the great tragedies that Fox cancelled this show. Even if you are not a sci-fi fan, you'll love this show. I promise. Buy it and be entertained for the weekend!

No DVD Collection Is Complete Without Firefly
I have never really watched any other of Joss' work. I never watched Buffy or Angel. I never even watch this show when it was aired. I just asked my girlfriend to get me the boxset for my birthday, because I had read that some random guy on the internet,whose webpage I frequent, said it was good. I popped the first disc in. After the first episode, I was addicted. I then watched the show for a good 5 hours before finally deciding to go to sleep. This and 24 go on my list as the most addictive shows I have ever seen. The DVD boxset is superb. It is a pure tragedy that Fox cancelled this show. They dropped the ball on this one. So anyways, buy it. It's great, it's fantastic, it will keep you entertained for a weekend.

Excellent SciFi - Hopefully 'To Be Continued'
I won't repeat what's been amply stated here - a great series abruptly and stupidly cancelled, etc. But with Whedon developing a motion picture version I expect the series to be resumed if the movie is even moderately successful. I hasten to emphasize that this is my pie-in-the-sky expectation, not some fact-based insider buzz. I could just as easily be spectacularly wrong - I am, however, both an optimist and a firm believer that genuine quality sells.

There is a wealth of positive elements in this series, most notably the dual slam-dunks of excellent casting and writing of the all-important Captain character, and a refreshing if perhaps unintentional libertarian-oriented root premise.

Nathan Fillion is a virtual unknown - at least to me - and that's generally a plus in casting. He plays Reynolds with an abrasive authority reminiscent of Ford's Solo, and the character is written with a subtle but refreshingly uncompromising finality.

Jeff Shannon's assertion in the lead editorial that Firefly's characters have an "amoral" agenda is off-base - a reflection of the notion that commerce per se is amoral, that trade is but a crude, pragmatic matter separate from higher ideals (the false mind-body dichotomy in philosophy.) One of Firefly's strengths is its linkage of trade and property to survival, therefore to rights (a reflection of an often-evaded truth in real life,) and its clever inversion of ethics vs "law".
The principle characters fought on the losing side of a prior war of "Independents" against the victorious "Alliance," the latter a vaguely sketched statist/collectivist regime of an unjust, bureaucratic and oppressive nature. Given the fact that the regime in charge is ethically bankrupt, the practice of trade in defiance of the Alliance (rhyme, sorry,) which is therefore de jure smuggling, becomes ethical action. The further ethical questions within that political context remain the inescapable responsibility of the individual players - which questions, as well as the inversion of law and ethics, offer a multitude of intriguing plot scenarios.

I haven't yet gotten to the episodes dealing with the sinister Blue Sun corporation and its collusion with the Alliance, but if it comes across as an oblique argument for a separation of economics and state, I'm all for it.

The negatives are minor and debatable:

- Theme music that's memorable but horribly incongruous. Whedon was clearly making an overt link between SciFi and the classic Western, but a theme song heavy on twang and fiddle is a bit overboard on the latter. (He should've gone to Ronnie Montrose and asked him to morph one of the spacy tunes off of "Mutatis Mutandis" into a theme song, but that collaboration will have to remain the stuff of fantasy...)

- A cargo hold - the backdrop for much of the action - that looks too much like a Los Angeles warehouse and too little like the interior of a spacecraft;

- Plot lines that are at times pedestrian and derivative. This is perhaps an unfair criticism due to the inherent limitations of the series format, but the comparisons to Farscape, Babylon 5, TNG and many other SciFi series are inevitable.

Overall a must-see for any SciFi fanatic, maybe even an instant classic. I just have a hard time believing that this series will be left as a single season and a single motion picture. It's far too good for that abbreviated life when far lesser series (the awful "Lexx" springs immediately to mind,) have been allowed to continue in defiance of all logic.

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