I felt the first few episodes pushed the western aspect a little too far. The whole wild west thing on the outer colonies is a great idea, but at first it was too exagerated. After the first few episode I think they balanced it better, up until the whole whore house episode. That was painfully exagerated in my opinion, and that was probably the dumbest episode.
I liked the whole Chinese/English aspect. And the no aliens or robots. While watching the series I got this great urge to reinstall Escape Velocity: Override onto my computer (any Mac gamers here?).
Yeah, Fox kills the best shows. They were the ones who killed Futurama also. I think this could have evolved to be much more interesting. I am glade they were able to wrap it up with the film though. I think the film suffers from very little character introduction. You can tell they were aiming it at the fans of the series. Which is not a complaint, I like that for once a film was made with the fans in mind. Somebody could learn a lot from these guy. But in the end I think it probably hurt the movie as a whole as far as ticket sales and appealing to a wider audience.