November 27, 2004
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This whole week I re-watched all 15 episodes of the TV series Firefly on my DVD box set.
I think I’m going to start a thanksgiving tradition by doing this every
year, because I love this show so much that I’ve got to thank it’s existence by watching it. It’s easily in my top
five most favorite TV series of all time. It also easily has one
of my most favorite TV characters of all time too. I’m still
overly disappointed that they canceled it (two years ago now), because
I would love to have seen more seasons of this well made show. What’s
ironic is that ever since it was released on DVD, I now start to hear
more and more people talk about what a great show it is and such. The
first question that comes to my head is “why weren’t you watching it
when it was still on TV?!”Back then, the people (like me) who were fans when it was still airing
would try and get people to watch Firefly, but what did we get? Fanboys
bitching and complaining about the show’s quality, in how they don’t
really like the whole western bit, in how they don’t find it
compelling, how it’s not comparable to Star Trek or Cowboy Bebop. Damn
idiots don’t know what they were talking about. It’s not just
them either, since it’s FOX that’s really to blame for not giving Joss
Whedon the support he needed to keep the show running.There’s a quote in what would be the final episode of the show that
touched me in a different way than it was probably intended. I
took the quote as it describing the fate of the show being represented
by the ship “Serenity,” and the doctor as it’s creator Joss Whedon.
“I like the way the walls go out. Gives you an open feeling.
Firefly’s a good design. People don’t appreciate the substance of
things. Objects in space. People miss out on what’s
solid…… It’s not your moment, Doctor.”*sigh* at least I’ll be getting a Firefly movie Sept 2005, now simply titled Serenity. It’s
still a long ways from now, but it’s still better than nothing. If by
chance the movie does really well, maybe they’ll make a TV series of
the movie.
