Firefly - The Complete Series

Pros: The show itself.
Cons: That it was canceled and this is "the COMPLETE" series.

Growing with Battlestar Galactica and reruns of the original Star Trek series and the Transformers cartoon and Star Trek: TNG and Robotech and a host of others, I came to cull an acute understanding of what makes good science fiction. Reading Asimov and ...

Pros: It has the perfect mix of suspense, comedy, action and underlying romance.
Cons: Canceled after one season so you're left hanging when it's over.

This is the story of a group of people from different walks of life (a preacher, a bandit, two military soldiers, a pilot, a mechanic, a doctor, a glorified prostitute known as a companion and a government research experiment), coming together to travel ...

Pros: original, brilliant, outstanding, talent everywhere, a revolutionary series.
Cons: it was canceled

You may or may not have noticed the trend in television of canceling good shows before there time. One of the best examples in recent times is Firefly. An outstanding and original show that was canceled after only eleven episodes (fourteen were made, but ...

Pros: Unique take on society in the future. Great characters, well written, and interesting.
Cons: No cons for my part. I just wish there were more episodes.

It was the eve of Hurricane Rita. We were right in the track of the storm. The TV cable had gone out but the electricity was still on, so my son suggested I view his DVD of the Firefly series. I have to preface this review by saying I am not a ...

Pros: Absolutely fabulous all around.
Cons: There is only one season! I need about ten more.

This is one of the best shows I have ever seen. Every episode is well-written and entertaining. I have probably watched this on DVD over ten times. It's one of those shows that you can watch over and over and it never gets old. You often pick up new ...

Pros: This is smart and funny and quite a unique take on the future.
Cons: It wasn't given the chance it deserved since it should still be on.

Firefly was sadly short lived on TV because of the idiot network that put it on at the worst possible time and kept putting it on and taking it off and bringing it back until it was completely gone. That left the fans with a serious void in the viewing ...

Pros: Vibrant, alive characters, fascinating world, classic Whedon dialogue.
Cons: Far too short.

I didn't watch Firefly when it first aired on FOX in 2002. In 2002 I was thirteen years old, barely even watching primetime TV. I did hear of it, as I was at the time a budding Buffy fan, and I recognized Joss Whedon's name on the half dozen ads I saw in ...

Pros: Six star television all the way.
Cons: It died of abuse by the network

Firefly: The Complete Series (2002) By Joss Whedon. Take my love, take my land Take me where I cannot stand I don't care, I'm still free You can't take the sky from me Take me out to the black Tell 'em I ain't comin' back ...

Pros: One of the best TV series ever, that nobody saw
Cons: Cut down in its prime

After Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel became huge successes on The WB, 20th Century Fox Television realized the guy behind those shows was on their payroll (the original BtVS movie was a 20th Century Fox film, so they owned the show, too, even though ...

Pros: Two genres are freshened up in one series, great characters, new situations...
Cons: 15 episodes wasn't enough for the network to save it...

Cowboys, outlaws, preachers and hookers: all of the elements of the Old West that made it "Wild." All of these plus horses, pioneers, and savages are all present in spades in Joss Whedon's big failure, "Firefly." A true Western set in outer space, it ...

Pros: Lots of special features, all episodes in their proper order, great commentary
Cons: Blooper reel is way too short and there should have been many, many more episodes!

One of the nicest things about the popularity of DVD sets of television series is being able to watch your favorite shows over and over again - especially favorites you missed some episodes of. In the case of Firefly, 3 episodes were never aired when Fox ...

Pros: Cast, storylines, action, premise...
Cons: None... seriously, none.

This past year, the boy bought me the Firefly series for my birthday, seeing as we already own every other Joss Whedon-created show. Knowing that the series was cancelled, we let it sit around for a while before starting it. Silly, silly ...

Pros: Good script, great characters, originality
Cons: Don't show this to elderly Chinese, they might get offended by the language

Sci-fi series today are about as predictable as daytime soap operas. Running the gamut from the formulaic script involving human-alien wars to the nameless guy who dies from a seemingly harmless console explosion. Then there is Firefly, which I ...

Pros: Believable & Complex Characters, great story and environments, Movie coming soon!
Cons: er... hmmm... left wanting more is about all I can think of.

Intro I opened a surprise Christmas gift from my wife to find it was Firefly, the complete season. Oh yeah I remember that, me wife works for Fox and had brought my attention to it as she knows I am a scifi nut. I watched the first show and ...

Pros: NO monominded aliens, Technobabble, straw men, Pure Good or Evil. JUST good stuff.
Cons: Too much potential to fit into a Hollywood or Network TV formulaic mindset.

When I first saw the intro. I thought,"Oh God! Beverly Hillbillies in Spaaaaaaace!" I reckon, I was dead wrong. The characters were people (and family) I could identify with. Whedon took some classic stereo-types of characters and setting and added ...