Heck, I’m still pissed over the loss of Brimstone.
You can’t take the sky from me…
I don’t see how in the FUCK Fox could drop the ball on this one.
I love the way the writers on this show destroyed cliches. The bad guy holds one of the crew prisoner and threatens to kill her. Captain Mal enters the ship and BOOM. No drawn-out negotiations, no hubris, no angst, just dead bad guy.
Sorry guys, you can’t have Jewel Staite. She’s mine.
How can Firefly be so good and Angel be so bad?
My mom got the DVD for me for Christmas, after checking to make sure I hadn’t bought it myself in a rabid spree. I declare it to be the highest quality DVD set I own. Highly recommend it to anyone who likes Westerns and/or Space Operas.
But I’m really just posting to join the drooling over Kaylee. Femmes with toolbelts. Ahhhh.
Aye, laddy. Will ye be wantin’ that in unmarked twennies or hun’reds?
I am all about this box set. The only reason I don’t have it already is that I can’t get into the local Best Buy due to the massive shopping crowds. Damn them all. 
Watch for my Sci-Fi/Western, StarRiders, coming to a screen near you.
Actually its a screenplay waiting to be picked up.
When I first saw Firefly promos I thought, Oh No! :eek:
But they are way different from each other so I breathed a sigh of relief upon seeing it. Then I was hoping to ride the current it would hopefully generate for Sci-Fi/Westerns. Then it gets cancelled!
Angel is not bad.
Humph
Also, Tim Minear isn’t working on AtS any more (I think he’s working on a show called Wonder Falls for a midseason pick up, but I haven’t heard much about it lately…) and Joss’s input on the season is probably pretty small. David Fury is running things over in the AtS camp now…
I kept waiting for Firefly to settle down. It never quite did, in spite of flashes of brilliance.
But I wish, I wish, I wish I may, I wish I might…
Yes it is, and yes it is.
The other three are the raid on the hospital, the one where the ship breaks down in space, and the final episode, with the bounty hunter. The last one is my personal favorite.
Simon: Are you alliance?
Jubal: Am I a lion?
My recollection from the time was that FOX was unhappy with the pilot because it didn’t have enough action, so they decided to bump it and start with “The Train Job,” by no means the strongest episode, IMO. Although the pilot did a very good job of setting up the series, the broadcast episodes were well-enough written that you could get a fix on the characters, but the occasional holes in the audience’s knowledge did cause problems from time to time. Of course, when FOX finally did broadcast the pilot it became clear that they’d made a huge mistake – it’s true, there wasn’t a lot of action, but it wasn’t an action episode. It was a suspense/tension episode, and some of the best suspense directing I’ve seen on the small screen.
The only reason I don’t have the DVD’s yet is that I’m pretty sure I’m getting them for Christmas – I’ve been so excited about the prospect that last week I had a Firefly dream.
–Cliffy
As Jayne would say, “If wishes were horses, we’d all be eatin’ steak!”
I was just in a local Best Buy and couldn’t find the DVD!
Or, the one line from “The Train Job” that absolutely hooked me on the show…
Of course, they only said that AFTER I posted a somewhat negative review of that first episode, on the SDMB.
So, I have to live my life in the knowledge that I helped kill Firefly. 
Ah yes - I was watching the pilot this evening (Space has been showing them Mondays) and thinking how pleased I am with myself that I bought the dvd’s for the husband for Christmas. Now I have to wait until then to see the other half…
The rescue party finds Mal in a struggle with his torturer.
Zoë: Stay back. This is something the Captain needs to do himself.
Mal: [desperately] No, it’s not!
Zoë: Oh. [the rescue party shoots the torturer]
I was convinced that I was getting the set for Xmas, but during my annual present-prowling and box-shakery my parents revealed that they hadn’t gotten me Firefly. So I scampered off and picked it up myself knowing full well that I wouldn’t be spoiling any gifts. Which leaves the question of just what that suspicious present is… I’m thinking Family Guy.
I’ve only seen the first episode on the DVDs (I’m pacing myself), and the commentary’s pretty fun, if off topic. “Here’s where Wash is holding nothing! NOTHING! ::cackling::”
Greatest line ever!
Oh? And “Our Mrs. Reynolds” is what, chopped liver?
My grandchildren will get sick of listening to to me bitching about the demise of Firefly.
Burn the sky and boil the sea Ranchoth, but you can’t take the sky from me.
I almost never watch TV, yet I saw a bunch of promos for Firefly. It’s been awhile now, obviously, but IIRC, the promos ran extensively during the MLB playoffs in October 2002. Maybe that’s not the right target audience, but it isn’t exactly low-visibility promotion either.
Yeah, they advertised it before the pilot aired. After the pilot aired, though, if you hadn’t heard of it before, you would never hear about it from Fox…