They are pinned down with no air support, but Mal encourages his troops to keep fighting. In this, the final battle, the Independents are on their last legs. The episode begins with the Battle of Serenity Valley, where the major arc of the primary characters - Malcolm Reynolds and Zoe Washburne - really begins.
I always insist on watching the episodes in the order they were originally intended. I’ve heard that Fox didn’t think this episode was suitable to open the series, and for that they should be flogged in public. Because this episode sets up so much of the story world and the relationships of its primary characters, I find this criminal. Titled “Serenity,” it actually didn’t air until the very end of the season. The first episode, or pilot, came in two parts. The show’s cast are the crew of a transport starship called Serenity, trying to scratch out a living on the edge of space. The comparisons to the American Civil War are many. There was a war a few years before the show begins between the system government, the Alliance, and a handful of Independent worlds who wanted autonomy. The western vibe comes from the planets on the frontier, which are not so civilized and fancy as the high-tech core worlds.
Feel like a leaf on the wind firefly series#
The series is set five-hundred years in the future, after Earth has become uninhabitable and mankind went out to find a new star system to call home. And over the next few weeks, I’m going to be re-watching the episodes and sharing with you because I think this show still has a lot to teach us.įor those of you unfamiliar with the show, it was a “western space opera” created by Joss Whedon, which aired in 2002. I wonder if all the Star Trek movies and spin-offs through the decades would have ever occurred if that original show had only run a single season. When I think of the TV show Firefly, I often compare it in my mind to the original Star Trek series.
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