"We might as well settle it now it'll be on for years." This is a quote from Sheldon Cooper from The Big Bang Theory. He was talking about the TV show Firefly. He was wrong however, the show lasted only one year. Was this a good show, or did FOX make the right choice in canceling it?
Firefly was created by Joss Whedon the king of the nerds as I like to call him. I first watched the show after I watched The Avengers and I was checking out some of Whedon's other works. The show is about the crew of a spaceship calles Serenity. They'll take any job legal or illegal as long as they get paid. They take on two passengers who are fugitives from The Alliance, a totalitarian regime. So the crew of Serenity finds themselves on the run from The Alliance and also from the flesh-eating Reavers that roam around space. I was very fascinated with Nathan Fillion's character in this show. He plays Malcolm Reynolds he's the captain of Serenity. He fought a war against The Alliance and they lost so now he spends his life as captain of the ship. The term I like to use to describe him is an honorable theif. He's a theif but he does what he does to provide for his crew and his passengers. Overall the acting was very good.
This show is more than just a science fiction. It's a science fiction, it's a drama, a comedy, and at some points a western. I didn't know what to expect when I first saw it. I was expecting a lot of space combat, and a lot of firefights. There's no space combat, there's some gun fights and some punches thrown but there's not as much action as I thought. However I was pleasently suprised by the drama. There are some very dramatic scenes which makes up for the lack of action. Overall I really enjoyed the series, I give it four stars.
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