underwhelmed by Firefly

Firefly is an American space western drama television series

The series is set in the year 2517, after the arrival of humans in a new star system, and follows the adventures of the renegade crew of Serenity, a “Firefly-class” spaceship. …

Firefly premiered in the U.S. on the Fox network on September 20, 2002. By mid-December, Firefly had averaged 4.7 million viewers per episode … It was canceled after eleven of the fourteen produced episodes were aired. …

TV Guide ranked the series #5 on their 2013 list of 60 shows that were “Cancelled Too Soon“. …

The post-airing success of the show led … Universal Pictures to produce Serenity, a film based on the series …

In 2005, New Scientist magazine’s website held an internet poll to find “The World’s Best Space Sci-Fi Ever”. …

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I finally got around to watching the series.

Meh.

It kept me going. But I won’t join the cult. It’s as cheesy as Startrek without anywhere near the quality of TV’s greatest Science Fiction series, Battlestar Galactica. The one launched 2004 with Edward James Olmos.

Space Cowboy
Space Cowboy
Nope, this is not Richard Castle.

In the series, Mal is a former Browncoat sergeant and the captain of the Firefly-class spaceship Serenity. The character was named #18 in TV Guide’s Greatest Sci-Fi Legends list in 2004. …

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