So much Potential, and yet Firefly failed...why?
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NOV
29
2008
If you're a person who's into movies for the plot of a series, Firefly is a series you may sidestep. The overall storyline is about an ex-rebel who lost in a war fought many years ago between the outlying colonies and the current military government. After the war, he gathers himself a ragtag band of people, some greyer shades than others, doing odd and most times less than legal jobs behind the governments back. Along the way he gets mixed up with a doctor and his sister, the sister being a mysterious prisoner of the government, one who has unknown powers. So far, so good. Episodic however, it falls apart.
Imagine Star Trek, only with many more overtones of gunsmoke in it. Right from the beginning your imagination will be pitted against evil cattle ranchers and train robberies. If that's not enough to ressurect John Wayne, then continue in your imagination to include quick draws and bar fights. In the end the conpilation of the two genre's only works partially, bringing about excellent characters, but leaving the script open to rolls of the eyes and unbelievably poor plots. In all fairness the writer did try to leave each plot open to some sort of moral story, a moral story which I like, but the plots still sucked.
Another thing that subtracted from it was the low budget feel of the battle scenes. Almost always when on land, the Firefly crew was traversing some desert or great plains. In the ideal of it being half western it fits of course, but Firefly still feels low budget for a science fiction film.
All in all I would say rent if you are curious. It has many pro's to it, and not as many cons, the main problem with the cons would be that the ones it did have were major ones. It should be said that if Firefly had lasted longer than it did, there might have been a possibility it could have straightened itself out. As it is however, they left us with some okay episodes, one or two good ones, and a bunch of crap.
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