Firefly Complete - Series 15th Anniversary Edition

Firefly is the much loved cult space western t.v adventure series created by Joss Wheadon. He's also known for creating Buffy the Vampire Slayer , Angel & more recently co-writer & director of Marvel Avengers Assemble as well as many other well known credits, the man is gifted. Box content: ()= episode No. Disc 1: (1)Serenity (2)The train job (3)Bushwhacked. Disc 2: (4)Shindig (5)Safe (6)Our Mrs Reynonlds (7)Jaynetown. Disc 3: (8)Out of gas (9)Ariel (10)War stories (11)Trash. Disc 4: (12) The message (13)Heart of gold (14)Objects in space. Disc 4: Special features: -The making of Firefly / Serenity: The 10th character / Deleted scenes / Alan Tudyk's auditon tape / Gag reel / Joss(Wheadon) tours the set / Joss sings the Firefly theme. The features are nice, the making of, serenity 10th character & the deleted scenes make for the bulk of it, around 60 minutes worth, while the rest are only about 1-2 minutes or so long. It was nice to get an insight into the series from the actors, crew & Mr Wheadon. And that they had the exact same feelings about the show as we did watching it. The depth of detail that went into every aspect of the program, from the ship, characters & to the music etc... was very poignant after watching all 14 episodes. Malcolm "Mal" Reynolds (Nathan Fillion- Castle ) an ex-solider who fought against the Alliance(the government of the time), is the Captain of Serenity, a smuggler , firefly class ship. Along with his motley crew of, pilot, Hoban "Wash" Washburne(Alan Tudyk- I Robot ) his wife Zoe(Gina Torres- Suits ), engineer Kaylee Frye(Jewel Staite) , all round tough guy Jayne Cobb(Adam Baldwin- Full Metal Jacket ) & Lady of the night Inara Serra(Morena Baccarin- Homeland ) tags along, as an acquaintance of Mal's. Along the way they pick up some more members, in the shape of, questioning his faith, preacher Shepherd Book(Ron Glass) & more notably Dr. Simon Tam (Sean Maher) & his gifted intelligent sister River(Summer Glau). The latter are on the run from the Alliance military, but Mal & his crew have no love for the Alliance, who'd love to get hold of them too, so they allow them to stay, with Tam as medic, until they find another place to go. They search the outskirts of the less populated planets for jobs that are legal & illegal, but within reason, just to get money to keep food on the table & the ship repaired & fueled. I found Firefly to be a great sci-fi space western series, with a good story & strong likable cast of characters. The dialogue has a mixture of futuristic terminology, including the use of Chinese/Mandarin used at times in short bursts for emotional moments, mixed with distinct 19th century western tones & humor. Likewise the appearance is a mixture of old wild west & Chinese influences, along with futuristic spaceships, but the characters wear a mix of old/modern western cloths & wield sci-fi style 6 shooters, as well as the desert like planets using horses etc.. the music also has a very Western/Chinese feel, with the use of guitar, fiddle & lute as the main instruments & the country style lyrics. The theme song which is also written by Mr Wheadon, has the perfect words that really sums up the heart & soul of the show. I've been watching the series after seeing the film version, Serenity , made after the series was cancelled, where Mr Wheadon managed to get the backing for a film spin off, that basically condenses the series into a 2 hour movie feature, set as a continuation from the series. It is such a shame that Firefly never matured past it's 14 episodes after being cancelled mid-season, and dont be put off by that, as they are quality episodes. But the selfish person in me realizes that the other great series i enjoy, Castle, wouldn't possibly be as good, if it had perhaps continued. Lead Nathan Fillion is brilliant(as he is in Castle) with his tongue in cheek/serious acting style, and has a great rapport with all the characters, who in turn are great too. The setting, special effects, banter between the crew & the brilliant musical score is a winner, no wonder the series is so well thought of, it had everything going for it to succeed. I'm a late newcomer, but If you like westerns & sci-fi, you'll enjoy this a lot. Highly Recommended.

Star Trek with the dirt left on, Firefly is simply brilliant. The joy of discovering it is only tempered by the realisation there was only ever one season, plus the movie, Serenity (review on this to follow here soon). Firefly was Joss Whedon's next project after the incredible success of Buffy and because of his immersion in the rolling, blockbuster juggernaut of the Marvel franchise we're unlikely ever to get more despite the wishes of the series' many fans. Firefly is set in the far future, in the two thousand five hundreds when humans have colonised other systems. It takes place after a devastating war when a corrupt government, the Alliance (the winners), have taken control of the planetary systems. On the losing side in the war, our hero captain, Mal Reynolds (played by Nathan Fillion) purchases a Firefly space cruiser which uses a nuclear fusion explosion to accelerate rapidly giving it an insectoid rear-end glow as it moves through space. Reynolds engages a crew, a colourful group of misanthropes, renegades and run-aways. Each character has the grimy dimensionality of a real person, some fought in Mal's losing unit in the war, others he picks up along the way. Serenity, the ship's name, is where each of these unlikely crew members find home and family. The genius of this series is in the visioning. Mal and his crew, like Robin Hoods of the far future, engage in good deeds and barter, trying to scratch out a living via trade and back-room deals. But they are good men and women, often making the right choice even when it puts them in more peril. This is basically a Western set in space, Mal an outlaw with a good heart and intentions and instead of lasers many of the battles raged are undertaken with shotguns and Smith and Wesson's. The scripts are incredible, full of Whedon's signature one-liners and the morally ambiguous position of the crew, often stealing and smuggling but in a nice way, means it's so much less worthy and earnest than Star Trek. There's no five year mission here, yet those noble aims of adventuring and discovery that suffused it's bigger and better known second cousin still sit well in the Firefly Universe. Mal and his malcontents ride the frontier taking on the mad and bad and several times escaping the savage Reavers whose genesis forms the plot of the Serenity movie (move on this soon.) A wonderful TV series, great characters, superb script, slightly shaky special effects, but even these get an upgrade in the better resourced follow-up movie. The Firefly ship, Serenity, the tenth character, has a much earthier feel than the shiny, neat and polished Starship Enterprise. It is dark, rusty and dingy and the ship's engineer is a lovely child of the flower meadows dream-boat called Kaylee. On their adventures we have torture, bounty-hunters, the past coming back to bite them on the bum, there's intrigue, love interest and fizzing mysteries that pop and fizzle from episode to episode. Fresh, exciting and different and with a theme tune as much High Chaparral as space opera. What a shame there're be no more, but perhaps like James Dean or Marilyn Monroe, part of its iconic charm comes from its early death so it never got time to become tired and cyclical. Firefly is TV genius helmed by a visual storyteller at the height of his powers. If you haven't seen it you should. Right now. ***** (Five Stars)

pretty good but i dont see why everyone gushes over it. Not sure id watch it a second time (the whole space cowboy stuff gets on your nerves after a while) but ive seen it and thatll do.

My roomate first introduced me to Firefly, and I have become a commited browncoat ever since! This is an excellent series that died long before it's time. In contrast to so many shows in the sci-fi genre, Firefly incorperates both the ancient past and the distant future-- space travel and cowboys, a winning combination. Recounting the voyages/adventures of the Firefly class ship(Serenity) captained by Malcom Renyolds and a crew from several walks of life, the show sets a more realistic conception(at least in my opinion) as to what life would be like for mankind if they were to leave this rock and explore/settle various planets in the galexy. One thing I love about this series is the fact that there are no far fetched stories of alien beings or other species(unless if you count people turned savage, cannibalistic and sadistic- aka Reavers). Laying aside the many cliches so prevalent in the science fiction world, Joss Wheaton created a truly unique work about real people struggling to make a living on the far reaches of space, far from the many luxuries that civalization has to offer. I could delve deeper into the plotline, conflicts, personality clashes and character profiles that make Firefly a truly worthy addition to one's video collection(or at least one worth checking out) but as I am confident that this info is readily available to the common man, let it be sufficiant to say that as a fan of the sci-fi genre and one who appreciates cleaver writing(unlike much of the drivel being passed of as entertainment today), I would highly reccomend the series. Let me add that I am quite perplexed and somewhat saddened by the fact that Fox discontinued such a rare gem. If only a diffrent station was interested in picking it up we may have gained the answers to a number of questions and seen the resolution to several loose ends... Still, as stated in the commentary- "You can't take the sky from me". Perhaps someday They may have the chances and resources to continue the series(wishful thinking on my part)!

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Ich habe mich im Jahr 2005 heiß und innig in FIREFLY verliebt – und nun, viele Jahre später, beim erneuten Anschauen festgestellt: die Magie ist ungebrochen. Joss Whedons Science-Fiction-Western ist clever, ambitioniert und voller Herzblut umgesetzt, und auch nach vielen Jahren der Abstinenz macht ein Wiedersehen mit der Serenity und ihrer Crew einfach einen Heidenspaß! Gerade beim wiederholten Ansehen merkt man, wie durchdacht Handlung, Tonalität und Figuren sind. Die Serie begeistert durch Abwechslung, Witz und Tiefe – und sie schafft es, auf nur 14 Folgen mehr zu erzählen als andere Formate in mehreren Staffeln, den die Folgen sind keineswegs nach "Schema F" gestrickt, sondern bieten jeweils eine Menge Überraschungen und "Aha-Momente". Auch nicht unerwähnt sollte bleiben, dass das auf den ersten Blick verrückt wirkende Worldbuilding sich sehr stimmig entfaltet - das 'Verse von FIREFLY wirkt im Rahmen einer SF-Serie durchaus schlüssig. Besonders hervorheben muss man natürlich das Ensemble: neun großartige Charaktere, allesamt wunderbar gespielt, die jede Episode bereichern und die Serie tragen. Ihre Dynamik, ihre Glaubwürdigkeit und die vielen denkwürdigen Dialoge machen FIREFLY zeitlos... nicht umsonst sind die Figuren auch heute noch Kult. Alles in allem: auch nach über 20 Jahren hat FIREFLY nichts von seiner Qualität eingebüßt. Im Gegenteil, die Serie fühlt sich frisch, einzigartig und immer noch visionär an. Ein echtes Meisterwerk – und für mich ein unumstößlicher 5-Sterne-Klassiker.

Esta serie me ha gustado mucho, a pesar de que sólo son 14 episodios son buenos, lástima que se haya cancelado, aunque Joss Whedon nos complació con la película Serenity