Second time I hear, watch, and fall in love, and then I enter comment to a series that was eventually canceled by Fox (first was Futurama).. Surely Fox, the biggest and greatest and most pompous production company on Earth, know creators, writers and actors need them for work, so why care about the audience? -This awful truth was resurfaced by Matt Groening when he was asked if he was angry that Fox canceled Futurama, and I am just trying to live with it-
OK, Firefly is a ship, named Serenity, have an old captain who was hero of a war that he lost, a tough lady who fought with him, her husband the mad pilot, henchman with the care and sensitivity of an oak, and a young but awfully brilliant and cute mechanic.. They have some passengers on board who are a little weird: a priest with James Earl Jones voice and a foggy past, a brilliant aristocrat doctor who left it all behind to save his darling sister from mad scientist of the Alliance, and of course his mad sister. And what do you think they would do in a galaxy that was ruled by those who won the war? They smuggle...
Firefly answers the question "what if South won the US Civil War and right after that they were given tons of spaceships?".. It's a space western, that's for sure.. To be exact: a great mix of western, George Orwell's 1984 and some action packed episodes of Star Trek:TNG. And when a man like Joss Whedon mixes them it just gets tastier. Cast is perfect: Fillion becomes a great unbalanced captain, Adam Baldwin (my favorite) is a perfect fit as well, Alan Tudyk brings the fun and not to forget: there are plenty of beautiful ladies (Summer Glau is great with that "wamp" look that phases in and out) Ron Glass being a perfect clergyman. All stories are well written and quite entertaining, just like the characters. The Chinese implementation was certainly interesting..
Sadly, Firefly was canceled, which seems to be the tradition down at the Fox for shows that started on and after 90's, but the exception being is that this time they thrashed a beautiful series after 15 episodes, 3 never aired! Surely they are making a movie of it, which kinda makes us feel better, but on the other hand every episode had the deepness of a movie..
To summarize: anyone who don't despise new and more realistic-pessimistic future (more like "adventures of Han Solo" at a galaxy not that far) then Firefly is just perfect, and since complete series are being sold on one pack with a very reasonable price (over 10 hours of fun) anyone who apply the requirements must not hesitate to buy it, and watch it. A+
OK, Firefly is a ship, named Serenity, have an old captain who was hero of a war that he lost, a tough lady who fought with him, her husband the mad pilot, henchman with the care and sensitivity of an oak, and a young but awfully brilliant and cute mechanic.. They have some passengers on board who are a little weird: a priest with James Earl Jones voice and a foggy past, a brilliant aristocrat doctor who left it all behind to save his darling sister from mad scientist of the Alliance, and of course his mad sister. And what do you think they would do in a galaxy that was ruled by those who won the war? They smuggle...
Firefly answers the question "what if South won the US Civil War and right after that they were given tons of spaceships?".. It's a space western, that's for sure.. To be exact: a great mix of western, George Orwell's 1984 and some action packed episodes of Star Trek:TNG. And when a man like Joss Whedon mixes them it just gets tastier. Cast is perfect: Fillion becomes a great unbalanced captain, Adam Baldwin (my favorite) is a perfect fit as well, Alan Tudyk brings the fun and not to forget: there are plenty of beautiful ladies (Summer Glau is great with that "wamp" look that phases in and out) Ron Glass being a perfect clergyman. All stories are well written and quite entertaining, just like the characters. The Chinese implementation was certainly interesting..
Sadly, Firefly was canceled, which seems to be the tradition down at the Fox for shows that started on and after 90's, but the exception being is that this time they thrashed a beautiful series after 15 episodes, 3 never aired! Surely they are making a movie of it, which kinda makes us feel better, but on the other hand every episode had the deepness of a movie..
To summarize: anyone who don't despise new and more realistic-pessimistic future (more like "adventures of Han Solo" at a galaxy not that far) then Firefly is just perfect, and since complete series are being sold on one pack with a very reasonable price (over 10 hours of fun) anyone who apply the requirements must not hesitate to buy it, and watch it. A+