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Firefly - The Complete Series Customer Reviews (22 - 24 of 83 Reviews)
A great show can find its audience on DVD
Ever since "Space, the final frontier" it's been a truism that many themes and plots from westerns can easily be adapted to the science ficiton genre, but no melding of the two has been more daring or more satisfying than Joss Whedon's Firefly about disaffected "Independent" Mal Reynolds, a man on the losing side of an interplanetary civil war 500 years in the future. With his one surviving platoon member, he buys a transport ship, puts together an odd assortment of crew and passengers, and scrapes together a meager living as a trader, smuggler, or whatever else comes along. It's a 'verse inhabited only by humans, colonists from "Earth that was," a culture in which American and Chinese language and customs predominate equally. All the characters are vibrant and complex, there is a perfect mixture of danger and humor, and there are big plot arcs a'brewin' concerning the powerful megacorporation Blue Sun.
FOX network had no idea how to market this intriguing hybrid, and they cancelled it after showing 11 episodes, including the two-hour pilot, which was only broadcast at the end of the series. The DVD puts the episodes in the right order and includes three others that were filmed but never shown. There are also commentaries from cast and crew and a poignant "making of" documentary. Check out Firefly and find out what you missed in 2002.
Most underrated Sci-fi series in history
I can't believe Fox have cancelled this series, we all sci-fi fans thought that Star Trek was underrated but it survived more seasons than Firefly. This a new and fresh approach to the genre, isn't for brainy hard-core sci-fi followers, just light and simple piece of entertainment.
The conception of other worlds portayed as an old-western may not be new and had nothing spectacular about it, but the writers and creator did a fine job changing some concepts in it, such as prostitution seen as some well-respected social status that hardly few people dare to touch even in a movie (BTW, Morena Baccarin was so gorgeous).
Emmy awarded visual FX are out of discussion and the cast, if not so well known, were pretty convincing at their roles (well, maybe Nathan Fillion seemed a little too good person for an outlaw and smuggler).
All in all the characters were well defined and the nice side stories and main plot could have had a good chance to evolve into an epic classic (just look at Whedon's Buffy).
Can't wait to buy this DVD. Sry for my english.
What is FOX's problem?!
Let me start by saying that I don't usually write reviews on Amazon.com. But I feel pretty strongly about this series.
I've noticed in the past year that there have been a few DVD sets of shows that FOX killed prematurely. "The Tick" and "The Ben Stiller Show" are the first two that spring to mind. Neither one was a masterpiece, but each showed real promise. You can tell by the last few episodes of each that they had reached their stride and were about to become something really good.
Now, "Firefly" is something altogether different. Joss Whedon's sci-fi/western found it's stride by the end of the first ten minutes of the first episode. Just the idea of having spaceships in an old west setting was a stroke of genius. But, this show was also brilliantly written and had characters you actually liked and related to. It's the perfect example of a network not recognizing a show for it's quality and giving it a shot. FOX obviously didn't give "Firefly" a chance from the beginning. Has anyone who bought the DVD noticed that the episodes were originally aired COMPLETELY out of order? How can you show the introductory episode 3 months after the series started?
At least FOX had the presence of mind to release a DVD that lives up to this amazing show. All 13 episodes (including the unaired episodes) and a ton of extras (that are actually worth watching) make for the type of DVD set more TV shows should shoot for.
Anyway, get it. It's more than worth it.
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