I knew I missed something out!

Let me just take this opportunity to plug with all my heart and soul the amazing TV program Firefly, and it's follow-up movie Serenity. If you're not familiar with this franchise and it's struggle, it's not hard to find out with a little internet trawl. I remember first reading about Firefly in SFX when I was a big Buffy fan (the show is by Buffy and Angel creator, and one of my gods, Joss Whedon). I dismissed it initially as it was described as a sci-fi Western, which sounds terrible... In an attempt not to gush for 10 paragraphs, Firefly has a lot of the good points of Buffy/ Angel, and of many current sci-fi series, but few of the bad points :) My brother recommended Firefly to me last month and I am SO glad I watched it. It was such a nice alternative now that Doctor Who has ended (and also sucked...).

It's amazing the amount of work fans have put in the support Firefly, and it's so sad that more hasn't come of it (although getting the movie was amazing!).

As a new fan to the series, please watch it :) buy the movie :) if they commissioned another series I would be over the moon! I was sad when Angel was cancelled (for a reality Tv program no less!!!) but at least it ran for 5 seasons! Firefly ran for 1!! Joss had so much more to tell, so much more to do with that show.

Yeah, there's more to life than TV, and honestly, I barely watch Tv normally. But Firefly was a pretty amazing show. Continuing in Joss' vein of comedy, drama, powerful women, and social insight. It would suck less if I thought it was canceled for a good reason, but it was cancelled because Fox want a cheap show that would make money. Firefly was an intelligent, entertaining, insightful program and should not have been cancelled. If we're going to have such shitty TV can we at least keep the good programs in amongst all the crap ones?

Like I said, I don't watch TV, so it doesn't bother me so much other than the principle of it... but I just want to recommend it as a really good watch to everyone, and I think it's important I point out how much it sucks that it was cancelled.

I pledge my soul to the religion that is Buffy.

I got the whole series on DVD a few months ago, and I re-watched it...

Am I seeing something that isn't there, or was this show a) extremely witty and clever b) made coherent social commentary c) promoted all the right things and not the wrong things and d) was insanely funny, but also intensely moving at times?


I watched the seasons in a very funny order something like 5,2,6,4,7,1,3... and thinking about it that would be a very different spin on the way you would view the series. For example, I can see my view of the character of Buffy was very incomplete, having viewed episodes such as The Gift and Chose without the reference of episodes such as Anne and Prophecy Girl. I was also as a result much more pro-Spike than most people, and pro-Tara.

I'm not going to try and get intellectual and de-construct it or anything, because firstly I can't, and secondly I might sound like a twat. At the end of the day it was an action program designed to entertain. But I can't help have so much respect for a show, that at the very least promoted women, and gay people.

Anyone else a Buffy fan? Dicuss....