stranger on the net

Well, I gave it another shot. People’ve been raving about FireFly for a while, and even though I didn’t quite “get” the first few episodes I caught a while back, with the current pause in new TV programming it was time to look at something old.

I can probably say this is the best series I’ve seen that got canned so quickly and undeservingly. Sure, the first episode wasn’t that great (The Train Job) in my opinion, but from reading on the net I understand FOX made Whedon (creator of the series) do that episode instead of the pilot to have a more action oriented start for the series. (Note to fans, I did watch the series in their correct order as presented on the DVD set not in Broadcast order).

There were some episodes that were more or less good than others – but I hardly think there is any TV show that escapes this peculiar phenomen. At the End though I really craved for more – and I’m now looking forward to the Serenity movie – though my real wish would be that Sci-Fi Channel bought the rights to this and continued production with Whedon at the helm.

As with Buffy it’s got a quirky off-beat humour – I especially loved the Jaynestown episode and “Hero of Canton” written by Ben Edlund (creator of another fun character… The Tick!), and the setting is rather unique… Welcome to the Wild Wild Space – where there are no Aliens, people fire beefed-up black-powder guns and lasers are extremely rare.

This entry was posted on Monday, November 7th, 2005 at 10:52 and is filed under soapbox.