Originally posted by: bigbaddaddyvader
It was fantastically well written that episode.Jubal Early was a great character-very odd and you really start to get a sense of River's importance in that episode also.I was SO psyched to get that pistol!Terrible shame it was cut short.I have some screenused Reaver costume parts from the final battle with the reavers at the end of Serenity coming soon too and also some screenused bank heist money from Serenity.I also love the episodes "Ariel" and "War Stories" but it was a superb show all round.To my understanding a lot of the problem with Firefly was the wider audience reaction that they just didn't know what to make of it with the clash of western and sci-fi.I always thought that was what made it so superb.That clash of the past and the future to make a completely unique entity.Good stuff.
It was fantastically well written that episode.Jubal Early was a great character-very odd and you really start to get a sense of River's importance in that episode also.I was SO psyched to get that pistol!Terrible shame it was cut short.I have some screenused Reaver costume parts from the final battle with the reavers at the end of Serenity coming soon too and also some screenused bank heist money from Serenity.I also love the episodes "Ariel" and "War Stories" but it was a superb show all round.To my understanding a lot of the problem with Firefly was the wider audience reaction that they just didn't know what to make of it with the clash of western and sci-fi.I always thought that was what made it so superb.That clash of the past and the future to make a completely unique entity.Good stuff.
Well, also the fact that the episodes were aired totally out of order didn't help, and also the fact that there was pretty much zero promotion for it. I think a lot of people are turned off by the premise--most audiences hating sci-fi ("eww, Star Trek") and most audiences hating westerns ("eww, Rawhide")--and thats why they never even bothered, but once anyone actually sits down and watches a few minutes of the show they are immediately hooked. Thats why the fan-base was small but intensely loyal. My theory is that had the show been promoted more, been treated respectfully by FOX and allowed Whedon to write the episodes as intended, and given a bit more patience then the show would have slowly buit an audience and by the second season might have been a hit. Networks are so impatient nowadays because if something isn't immediately a runaway hit its canned, even though a lot of the best shows have had gradual buildup (ie Seinfeld, X-Files, Buffy, Family Guy, etc.).
Regarding Objects in Space, I actually was convinced that River had become the ship--I thought that was such a cool, weird sort of daring metaphysical thing to do, it was very mysterious and compelling yet somehow strangely appropriate considering where things were heading with her; I was a little dissapointed to find out that such was not the case (though I understand the reasoning of keeping things real).
That episode has my favourite exchange in the series:
Early [serious]: Where's your sister?
Simon: Are you Alliance?
Early: Am I a lion?
Simon: What?
Early: I don't think of myself as a lion... [liking it] though I do have a mighty roar!
Simon: No, no I said Alliance.
Early: Oh...but I though you--
Simon: No I--
Early: I see. [serious again] Where's your sister?
A great character.