Firefly

Okay, so some time ago, I was in HMV (before they sadly went into administration, I will add) and I picked up the Firefly series, as well as Serenity. But, until now, I haven't had the time to sit down and watch them.

This afternoon, I watched the first disc (of four).

Wow.

The initial set up was reasonably simple and perfectly understandable, while the 'job an episode' style of plots keeps things nice and compact (at least, so far).

The costumes and set design are very obviously based on westerns, but then, when the show's genre is classified as 'Space Western', what do you expect? Also, there were at least a couple of moments where I was expecting a solid gunshot, and got an sound more like something out of Star Wars.

The centre piece, however, for me, was the dialogue. The interactions between everybody on board Serenity, the implicit depth between those who had known each other for longer, and the way the new passengers were building relations with the crew, was wonderful to see.

I shall be watching more tomorrow, assuming the parts for my PC don't come.

Yes, I know this is technically now late. Well, yeah. It's late. I'll deal.