I watched the first six episodes of Firefly before I lost interest. Actually, I’d likely lost interest before then but stuck with it in the hopes the magic everyone else sees in it captivated me, but it didn’t. I can’t say it’s a bad or mediocre series; I rated most of the episodes I watched fairly high, and the show itself 8/10. I think it comes down to too many of the planets visited in the show being rather uninteresting/interchangeable. That and Joss Whedon’s typical smarminess being all over everything.