Getting ahead of myself. Sadly, it only took me almost two decades and a worldwide pandemic to get me to comply. I'm glad I did. Firefly is both the name of the sadly ONLY 1-season series, but also the make of the ship this crew calls both "Serenity" and home. It's years into the future and we pulled a Wall-E to many more "Earths.
Despite being "criminals," they're lovable! I mean, we're supposed to, and do, root for them. Just consider the Old-West Space-Theme. While I love the majority of the crew, mostly the awesome, adventurous, deep, hilarious and cute Captain Mal, coming in a close second is the Companion, Inara, not only beautiful and brave, but also brilliant and a great, well, companion, to the Captain. I also really like the second in command, Zoe, mechanic Kaylee and the "Shepherd" Derrial.
The remaining crew is fun and serviceable with the exception of the show's weakest links: the Doctor and his sister, the aforementioned, River.
Aside from an incredible theme song and score, another great reason this show worked so well was the chemistry between the crew - enough to bring me to tears at times. Even the Doctor and River have some chemistry, but mostly between the other Serenity originals. If you knew what she'd become, thanks to the movie, you'd agree with me on how frustrating it was to see her, episode by episode and wish we'd see the River from the movie. Alas, we don't, so think of her as an extremely annoying caterpillar in the series to her beautiful and bountiful butterfly in the movie.
Alas, the powers that be made a grave mistake here. I will say, as much as I liked the series, the episode that made me sit up, cheer, get emotional and almost love the entire series was Episode 8: Out of Gas.
I somehow knew, right then, the series peaked and I was right. The show went on with some more good episodes, it never reached that quality or feeling or depth as Episode 8's Out of Gas. The episode truly made you feel how close everyone was and how great the person, the Captain, is.
Now, that said, the second-best episode happened to be the last, Episode Objects in Space. Not only was it a solid episode with a fantastic bounty hunter character thrown in, it was deep and finally explored the potential of River that, my guess, would've become the Movie's version in the second season had the morons-in-charge not cancelled this. The special effects - OUT of the ship mind you, are fairly bad, EVEN for the year , but I'd still highly recommend this series based on the characters, journeys, comedy and Western-in-Space subgenre.
I wrote a review back then on it and I won't re-read that until I see the movie again. I wonder if I'll have the same reaction now that I've actually seen the show. More Final Thoughts: Man, I cannot get that theme song outta my head every time it played and It is NOW probably one of my all-time favorite theme songs.
Now, that said, each episode seemed to have an inconsistent two, three or four openings and I'm not sure if that hurt the series: 1 The infamous "Previously on FeastMode 18 August Watched 6 episodes, mostly on 2. ThomasDrufke 11 March If you were to pitch me a movie or a T. Sadly this show never lived up to my expectations. I was also very late to watching this show, so my complaints about the special effects are irrelevant, but it's still worth mentioning that nothing in space in the show seems real.
The Pilot Wash never does a good job at making us feel like they are navigating through space. But on to the good stuff, the dialogue in this show is consistently fun and hilarious. Whedon always does a great job at defining each character differently and making sure we are invested with each individual relationship.
But the main problem with this show is there is no ongoing story arc. Great T. I never felt this way, because every episode felt the same. They have a job, something goes wrong, and then someone is there to save the day.
I just feel like this shows premise could have been turned into something much more exciting. Which it very well may have, if it hadn't been cancelled. I am still going to watch the movie and give it a shot, but I'm just overall disappointed with what I have seen from the crew of Serenity.
Firefly has a huge cult following, and I can see why. Had it been allowed to grow and develop, it could have turned into a fantastic series the way Buffy did whih actually had a much weaker first season than this. As it is though, it's just really good, although it does hit greatness various instances. The characters are pretty fantastic and episodes in you really feel a sense of family, something Whedon has always been great at doing.
It also helps that the cast is up to par, there's no weak link to be found and makes ranking them that much harder. I still have yet to see the film but I hope it doesn't disappoint, and I hope Netflix does something to bring this back.
Firefly is a terrific television series with very well written episodes and a stellar cast. The set up of the series immediately had me hooked, as it brings us something similar to that of Star Trek, but bringing in a western tone that differentiates it from other science fiction. My biggest issue is the fact that it never got a chance to really build on its potential, there is a sense as you watch it that something big and exciting is to come, but we are ultimately left disappointed after Fox cancelled the beloved series after one season.
The ensemble cast is certainly what makes this series, Nathan Fillion shines as Mal Reynolds, a flawed captain who we support all the way through, he has great chemistry with other talented actors such as Alan Tudyk, Morena Baccarin, Adam Baldwin and Ron Glass. Several characters are left feeling underdeveloped, particularly Shepherd, an intriguing character who starts off seeming important and eventually, sadly, gets pushed to the side.
Great adventure, well developed stories and top notch chemistry all around, Firefly is an enjoyable series that is definitely worth the watch for Sci-Fi fans. A renegade space crew work for several organisations around the galaxy in order to stay alive. Finally I took time and watched the whole "Firefly" at once. I am not disappointed, I enjoyed every episode, but still, I think it is very overrated.
It is space western that gathers a team of good actors in an original and entertaining story. Still, I fail to see what quality makes it stand out from a bunch of other Sci-Fi shows, except by fact it is space western It is good, but cult status and rating over nine out of ten are a mystery to me. The show was canceled after only fourteen episodes and it seems they did it on purpose. The official reason was lack of audience, but low ratings were obviously caused intentionally because the show was aired on Friday nights when they always had lowest ratings, episodes were aired in wrong order and marketing for the show was terrible.
Shame, it could grow into something really great. My recommendation for those who did not see it is to forget about its reputation and watch it without any expectations and you will surely enjoy it. My favorite episodes are 6th and 7th. Intelligent, original, well played and with a nicely balanced amount of good humor. I won't spend any time here discussing the horrible way this show was marketed and broadcast--resulting in an early cancellation--except to say that I was one of the original viewers and I felt betrayed.
The basic premise bears some resemblance to "Star Wars", but FF does it better. The music is great, the production values are great, the set of the ship is fantastic.
The cast is terrific. But what really makes this show is the writing. The characters are truly developed and nuanced, far from one-dimensional. The plots are intriguing and different. The universe of FF expands throughout the first season. The guest stars deserve special mention. There were many portrayals worthy of Emmy nods hello, Christina Hendricks!
Joss Whedon had created such a wonderful first season, if the show had continued, there were so many story lines to build on. I think FF would have been an Emmy factory. Well, Firefly is not bad at all, but it's not the absolute masterpiece that others hype it up to be. I think the unwarranted cancellation caused the fans to put this series up on a pedestal and glorify it.
The setting and character team make a good basis for the series, and I enjoyed it, but it's not amazing. At first it looks and sounds light and even amateurish, and then you understand it is fully positioned on another level. It is a mixture of several genres within the frame of a science-fiction film entirely contained in , and around, a special spaceship called Serenity, a spaceship that is a firefly, a bug, a burning insect.
The first genre is the functional and psychological happenings within a team of nine people who are together for both the best and the worst, in order to transform the worst into the best, or at least the better by being together.
The team is limited to nine people, a perfect diabolic and satanic number, and no manipulation like Serenity is the tenth character will take that dimension away.
Nine is perfect because you always have at least one who is totally set apart from the regrouping of people into couples or pairs. And in the end you wonder who is the one who is really apart, who is totally odd, alone because of the various and subtle compositions with only one couple that is really defined as such and all the others being transient, multiple, varied, changing, shifting at various levels of possible realization.
In a way it is Star Trek revisited but without all the hullabaloo that goes along with the soldiers, the mechanics, the petty personnel of a flagship. The second genre is of course, recurrent and varied too, the western but in many realizations too.
Of course we have the very traditional space western or space cowboy film, like in the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, seen from the point of view of the driver marooned on the side of the road after having been forced to lend his car.
But there is more. We can think of other models: Dead or Alive, Bonanza even , Mad Max, a vague allusion to Star wars with the Alliance, a lot of Jules Verne, William Gibson and a few others, even at times, though they might not know it, Ron Hubbard, and the bordello in the desert is so close to some Indian bordello in some Bollywood classic.
We do not have John Wayne and the Indians, but we can afford not to have that genocidal side of the western. The next genre is more trendy and modern with some kind of loose and yet very emotional sensual, erotic even, life or imagination. Many allusions, visual or linguistic, and even here and there an allusion to gay people, slack, as they come up like in one episode, though this side of personal life is warded off nicely, and the allusion to crazy, insane and yet envisaged incest was purely rejected from the series and is a supplementary scene, meaning, a censored one, even if self-censored.
We could go on for ever with that game. But what is important is that the film or the series is highly original in the end. It is deeply human and humane, deeply attached to justice and fairness, even with someone who trips into treachery for a slight moment, or one episode.
At the same time it is ruthless and even maybe cruel by indifference like when bringing the millionaire to the easy lady he had made pregnant and whose child he had tried to steal knowing that he was going to be shot blank on the spot by the mother, or also when they get rid of the bounty-hunter by just pushing him into space where he is going to die slowly, except of course if he shortens his life himself and commits suicide.
The series is also highly imaginative and each episode really has a knack and appeal of its or their own. We enter the episode and we will be released only when the case is concluded. Each episode is perfectly self-contained, even when what is announced in one episode does not take place in the next one because the announcement is the punch line of the concerned episode and it would unbalance the next episodes if it were made true.
So they whirl around with a pirouette, when they bother, or they just forget, or they think of it and discard it to the supplementary scenes. Self-containment is the best quality of each of these episodes. In other words quite a successful series that, it is true, found its magic achievement in that final symbolic metaphoric blending of Serenity and River, of the escaping spaceship and the mentally disarrayed girl.
Then the team is one and the odd shot of that team becomes the heart and soul of it in this final blending. The route has been run from the beginning to the end and the final harbor has been reached beyond all the deserts and dangers possible.
They can live happily ever after. There is a certain fairy tale dimension in this series, and it is one of its stronger assets. Tweetienator 29 September A great show, a fantastic universe, a fine cast and production, lots of adventure and action, a space opera like it should be. Thumbs up - still worth your time. I watched this when it was on FOX. I couldn't understand why the cancelled it.
When rumors of cancellation began circling, E! Unfortunately, fan opinion would do nothing to resolve the problems Firefly was facing. Despite its well-known producer and star-studded cast, Firefly got off to a rough start.
According to ScreenRant , the episodes were accidentally aired out of order. They kicked things off with the second installment, and the pilot was the last episode to debut. This was undoubtedly confusing for viewers and may have contributed to the fact that the series was canceled after only eleven of its fourteen recorded episodes had made it to air. Characters Zoe and Wash are in a healthy marriage throughout the series, a fact that Whedon was satisfied with. Unfortunately, Fox was hoping for a little bit more drama.
Firefly in the lead! To this day, Browncoats everywhere continue to hope for its triumphant return and even Fox seems open to the idea of a Firefly revival. The film gave audiences closure, but most fans still wanted more - though star Nathan Fillion feels one season was enough.
Fox was clearly hoping for the next Buffy the Vampire Slayer or Angel , and when Firefly failed to deliver that, the network lost faith pretty quickly. Thankfully, Whedon refused to budge on the issue. Firefly was not off to an auspicious start, with Fox choosing to air the series on Friday night, which was considered a death slot. This might not be an issue for all networks, but Fox has canceled more than 30 shows that played on Friday evenings.
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