What were those idiots at Fox thinking?
Okay, I do have more to say. The show is good. It's not good in the way Babylon 5 was good, but rather it was good in the way Buffy the Vampire Slayer (the series, not the movie) was good. Of course, since the creator of Buffy, Joss Whedon, was the creator of Firefly, that's no surprise at all.
Firefly was a bit more serious than Buffy but it had its light moments. What it also had was clever dialog, engaging plots, very interesting characters, and a universe that provided almost unlimited storytelling potential, even when focusing on the crew of a single spaceship.
An example of dialog:
Wash: Psychic? Sounds like something out of science fiction.
Zoë: We live on a spaceship, dear.
Wash: So?
For those unfamiliar with the show, it is, quite literally, a space western. It takes place mostly on frontier worlds where people do ride horses, farm, and raise cattle since they're tried and true methods of surviving until the world is built up enough to support the more advanced technology. After all, what good is your robot farm implement if there aren't any repair shops for several parsecs?
Fox clearly didn't know what kind of a gem they had on their hands. They aired the episodes out of sequence, which is bad in this case since there is considerable continuity between them. Episodes of Star Trek: The Next Generation pretty much stand alone, with a few exceptions, but Firefly should be viewed in the proper order or there will be some confusion.
Fortunately, a feature film is in the works. The reaction to the show's cancellation, and the sales of the series on DVD no doubt got somebody's attention. I'm hoping that this leads to a resumption of the series, though it would probably fare better on UPN or WB, which both did a good job of handling Joss's other two series Buffy and Angel.
I'm not saying anything which hasn't been said before, though. For a much more thorough review, see this page.
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