{television} firefly; season one (2002)

Set almost 500 years in the future, this short-lived but much-loved TV series follows the adventures of the ragtag crew (Nathan Fillion, Gina Torres, Alan Tudyk and others) of the transport spaceship Serenity. No job is too small, too dirty or too close to the line of illegality for the crew to tackle to remain fed and fueled. But when a passenger is wanted by the ruling Alliance regime, the Firefly must hide out the dangerous fringes of space.

ireviewnetflix.com rating: * I hate westerns and I hate sub-par sci-fi. I'm a big Star Trek fan, the very best in sci-fi, so this, as with other sci-fi shows, was a dissapointment. Once you've seen the best (Star Trek), the lesser shows are often a disappointment and this was one of them. Joss Whedon should stick to vampires because he doesn't have the chops for sci-fi. While I love Buffy The Vampire Slayer, this show was horrible. I couldn't even sit through the first episode which I found disjoined and lacking focus. I understand why it was cancelled, but can't understand why it was given a movie. Well, we see how well it did at the box office.