Firefly - Episode 1: 'Serenity'
Without commercials, the first episode of Firefly runs an hour and a half. It also makes a daring decision to start things off with a battle that's muddled in uninteresting dialogue and visual muddiness. Trying to make out the action, in conjunction with the dread of a lengthy episode, had me dropping the series for nearly a decade. Over the last year and a half, I watched through Buffy the Vampire Slayer and its spinoff series, by the same creator. The quality of them were so thorough that I felt I owed it to myself to find out why people were so upset about Firefly. Prepare for lots of references to Buffy, because I can only interpret things by comparison and that's my most recent measuring stick! Recap: Mal Reynolds is on the losing side of a war, but he sees his squad through the battle. Six years later, he runs an old junker ship named Serenity , doing odd jobs for sustenance and avoiding the Federation that won the war. His crew consists of his right-hand woman soldier