13 Mar 2006

Firefly - Part One

I mentioned that I got the Firefly DVD set for Christmas, and promised to talk more about it. I think it's going to be fairly long, so this here's the first part.

While I haven't quite finished all of the episodes yet (I'm loving them so much that I'm trying to make them last as long as possible), I can safely say that I Firefly has equalled Farscape in my affections. They are very different kinds of shows, but both have excellent dialogue and plots, unusual scenarios and above all, characters that you deeply care about.

I got the feeling when I watched Serenity that knowing about the back-story of the characters would have considerably deepened the film, and I now know for sure that that's true. The events of that film (and I really don't want to provide any spoilers here) would be that much more emotionally involving having got to know the crew properly.

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