How superb is this?
I’ve got to say that I have seen Serenity four times so far and failed to even remotely enjoy it. I just could not see what the big deal was about this film until I recently purchased the HD-DVD version, with its extras. I watched the film a fifth time and began to understand bits, so I watched again and began to like it. Serenity is a follow up to the huge cult US TV series Firefly, which was sadly cancelled after just a single season - mainly due to the TV network making a screw-up upon airing the episodes.
Curious as to why Firefly is so well regarded in the sci-fi community I downloaded the first three episodes of the series. Inside 20 minutes of the pilot episode I was completely hooked. How the hell did I manage to even miss this? This morning I ordered the 4 disc DVD boxset from Play.com for just £12.99, so I can’t wait for that to arrive!
Firefly was possibly the best TV show FOX developed alongside X-Files. It had an old school retro western quality to it, with horses, spaceships, and pistols. It was a unique mix of these elements that made Joss Whedon’s (creator of Buffy & Angel) show such a massive hit. A brilliant cast of lovable actors, great episode plotlines and comical humorous bits just make it a joy to watch. Whilst FOX can argue that the show never had decent viewing figures, they can’t ignore the fact that the DVD had immense sales that put a lot of premiere titles completely to shame. Firefly is a show that deserved to stay alive to shine like Buffy and Angel did. Sadly during the time of it’s ‘phasing out’ a lot of shows were being wrongly cancelled due to various reasons and it seems to be a very popular trend even now.
lol, I told you this when I bought the series on DVD.
I paid £17 for it in July 2005!!
Next you will be buying the Star Trek Deep Space Nine series!
The sickening thing is, FOX are likely to heap praise on it and not blame themselves for the **** up they made over it, even more so that it got voted the greatest TV series of all time.
I bought mine years back like a good little boy (and as you know, I am a TV series whore). Between this and the X-Files we have them both covered on our blogs lately ;).
FOX have just cancelled another show called ‘Drive’ which had a lot of potential, it also starred Nathan Fillion, unfortunately it’s only 6 episodes now when a 13-24 episode series would have been more of a benefit. Try getting your hands on it :).
I’ve never somehow got round to watching Firefly. Despite my housemate last year having it, I just kept forgetting to see it and ended up seeing hundreds of CSI episodes with her. Maybe your post will try to remind me to try it sometime!
A great tv series that I used to love watching. I never liked Serenity because it killed off one of my favourite characters
PR "Next you will be buying the Star Trek Deep Space Nine series!" Oh HELL NO. I’m not that sad! DS9 is and always will be pooh, although I did really like the latter 2 or 3 seasons. Voyager/Janeway FTW \o/
Haly, deffo try and watch Firefly when you get a chance. I’m just worried that the last episode will be a cliff hanger, which we’ll never get to see.
That’s how the superb TV series Surface was cancelled too. It suffered the same fate, even though it was brilliant. Quick plug SaveSurface.com
Firefly is a great series, screwed by a useless TV company. Then again, Farscape was cancelled and is now back in production so you never know.
It’s the best scfi show eva! Great mix of characters, great music and the setting is perfect!!!11