Sir, There's a Firefly in My Soup

Okay, so I realize I'm late to this whole Firefly thing. The show was cancelled way before it's time by this crackerjack organization, and my friends have been bugging me for probably about four years to check out the show. Well, now I finally have decided to see what all the gorram fuss was about.

So by the end of the first episode, I was entertained but not blown away. But entertained is certainly enough for me to stick with it so I had the joy of watching these characters develop over the next fourteen episodes. There was clearly a lot of thought put into the creation of this "verse" - backstory leaks through constantly, peaking curiosity and embedding this sci-fi world into a reality.

China and the US merged to form one ginormous superpower, where you're either apparently high class society or a cowboy. The melding of the two societies was done very well and we come into the story quite a bit down the line. Earth that was has long since been uninhabitable and so the US/China Alliance went out into the galaxies and found new planets for everyone to exist all happy-like. They use a process called terraforming to convert the new rocks into environments as close to Earth as possible, but they can't seem to make much more than water and desert.

Our characters are fronted by the snarky (Joss Whedon specialty) but likeable Captain Malcolm "Mal" Reyonds, who fought against the Alliance in a great war. Zoe, Mal's Amazonian-esque righthand woman, fought with him and has stuck by his side ever since. Her husband, Wash (my personal favourite character), pilots Mal's ship, Serenity. He is aided by engineer, Kaylee, a sweet young thang who has a crush on Simon, an uppercrusty fugitive. Simon constantly nurses his sister, River, who's brain has been addled by the Alliance in a way nobody is quite sure of. The main gunslinger of this band of misfits is Jayne, played adorably by Adam Baldwin (NOT a Baldwin brother, I might add). And where would they be without god? Shepherd Book is this future's version of a priest, though there are hints he may be something more. Meanwhile, Mal rents out one of Serenity's shuttles to a "companion," Inara, who seems to be a futuristic version of a geisha.

So this cuddly band of thieves get themselves into all sorts of adventures. And here's what I'll say about them. I do not think this was the best show ever, as many claim. I do think it was a great show, a show that should NOT have been cancelled (remember, retarded company), and it's a show with great characters and a lot of emotion.

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SPOILER ALERT

All that said, one thing really bugged me. They cancelled this damn show before we got to see Mal and Inara get it on, and that's just not cool. That damn sexual tension was practically fogging up the inside of my tv. Also, major spoiler for the Serenity movie here, they killed Wash. He was my favourite. He played with dinosaurs and was freakin' hilarious. Joss Whedon, take note, you are officially on my shit list. But you're also damn talented, so cheers.