I discovered that show about a year ago. I had seen the opening video once before and the spaceship flying over the heard of cattle just struck me as kind of lame. The whole Space Western taken so literally had me very skeptical of the whole thing. Even though it had a very loyal fanbase who swore by it, I figured it was probably cancelled for a reason. And what the heck kind of name for a sci-fi show is "Firefly"? So these were my brief considerations of Firefly before I ever saw the show. Finally after sometime later my wife was away and I was kind of board, so my friend loaned me his DVDs and said they were definitely worth watching and if I were to watch even half of the first episode I would be hooked. I watched them all the way through in just a few days. It is truely ashame it didn't get the chance to go on. As great as the show was, I believe it, like many other shows, would have got even better as time went on. The 14 episodes are for the most part really good, there were a couple towards the end that I felt were duds. After my wife returned I tried to get her to watch it, and told her about it but she wasn't in the least interested. Finally this last summer she agreed to watch the pilot of Firefly, and then I couldn't keep her away from the TV, anytime we had free time she would say, "Hey, let's watch the next episode of Firefly!" And this is a girl who isn't big on sci-fi. This show could have been a huge prime-time flagship for Fox, had they treated it fairly and given it the appropriate advertising and given it a chance beyond 14 eps.

Glad you have joined our ranks ferris. Though sometimes I wish I never had. Everytime I watch that show I get this huge feeling of disappointment and everytime I turn on the TV and see what stupid shows come on I get this deep feeling of injustice. I can imagine how excited early fans of the show were when they first heard that they would finally be getting to see a conclusion to the show and on the big screen now less.