johnnyreevesbass
I loved this show back in the day!!! Things I think everyone would enjoy is that it is character driven the story is great and with all of this Fox canceled it. I attend so many cons through out the year and meet so many Browncoats (Major fans). Even meet a very cool bass player at NAMM that named his bass Serenity. I got to say if you haven't seen it your really missing out on a very good show.
MVictorPjinsiste
Space western show about a bunch of smugglers, fugitives, outcasts and whores trying to make a living in a age of space colonisation - the new frontier. Comparisons can easily be made with the conquest of the American West after the defeat of the Confederacy, with a strong veneer of oriental culture, like there would be in the 1850's San Francisco: The character of Inara, for exemple, is closer to a traditional geisha rather than a common brothel worker. Curse words are wisely uttered in chinese (I don't know which form). But it doesn't take part in the XIXth century, rather in the XXIVth. The show's change of setting can be surprising when they enter a core planet and a more typical sci-fi environment, but it's done with a certain grace and no contrasts are too violent. The premise is about as acceptable as that of Star Wars, where backwater colony worlds rub shoulders with ecumenopolis, if narrower in scope in Firefly.The vilain are not the Alliance itself, represented as a slow, bureaucratic and rules-heavy version of passive facism and neo-liberalism, but rather free entrepreneurs, ruthless ranchers, greedy governors, rival bands of smugglers, shifty underworld bosses and rogue military/scientific outfits. Sometimes it's the main characters themselves. The show carries a "shades of grey" outlook, but the values it favours are quite traditional and the good sides usually wins.Among the most pleasant aspects are the chemistery between well-directed actors, sharp dialogues and the fact that it doesn't take itself too seriously (qualities inherent to every JW production), which makes it agreable to see. There's also some action of the heist-kind, but it isn't just an explosions and CGI spectacle. It's pretty clean - no blood nor sex, althought there are references a plenty and some gore as part of scenery rather than as a result of on-screen violence.The less pleasant aspects include the inability to do things "out of the box" and offer something really new - but that's the prviledge of just a handful of great shows, historic ones. We can't ask for a masterpiece in every production. The other one is more subjective - it's Nathan Fillion as the captain. I just can't put the finger on what hicks me in his performence (the word "square" comes to mind), but if a huge enough part of the people think like me, that might have stole some thunder from the show. He isn't bad - in fact he is even good. But I just don't think I would have chosen him to be the star of my show - furthermore besides Morena Baccarin. The sets are somewhat bland.The lesser sides are quite minor, as you can see. From there, it's a matter of tastes, but western aficionados will be better served than hardcore sci-fi ones. The fact that this serie was cancelled way before it matured makes that many of the subplots that were growing their course here and there will never be explored, but still, everybody will have a great time watching this promising effort, so bring out the wife and the kids.
jason hall
The best TV show of the last 20 years, and they canceled it after 1 series!! Please please please please do the fans justice, make more firefly!!!! It has it all drama, comedy, action, so well written it really is a shame we can't enjoy more, in my opinion the best sci fi show since quantum leap!! It combines two great genre's sci fi and western and the chicks are hot too
