Shendue: I never saw Firefly. Curiously enough, i own a bluray copy of Serenity. It's an ex-rental copy i bought for a couple euros from Blockbuster at the giveaway following the bankrupcy. I never watched it because i want to see the series before, but never had the chance to. Is it any good?
trentonlf: Firefly is probably the best tv show to get cancelled. Fox did it all wrong with the show, they released episodes out of order and didn't give it a chance.
If you have Netflix I highly recommend watching it. It is 14 episodes and the movie Serenity, you will be happy you did.
Not to mention they scheduled it Friday nights IIRC - not a lot of shows have survived that, much less space-western mashups that never get a chance to develop a following.
It's a great series imo - even the weaker episodes aren't too bad and there's 4-5 just amazing episodes in a short season. You could watch the movie without the show, but I think you'd miss a lot - particularly the importance of Shepherd Book.
A bit hard to explain, but one of my favorite parodies was taken from Firefly. Someone laid the "Not going anywhere for a while?" Snickers audio over the video of Nathan Fillion nekkid in the desert (from the episode where Christina Hendricks makes her second appearance).
"Objects in space" and "Out of gas" are both incredibly well done episodes, and it did win a primetime emmy.