Firefly - The Complete Series (Box Set) (DVD) > Reviews

Advantages: Excellent script/writing, fantastic characters, and a good overall "look" and "feel" to the show.
Disadvantages: There is only one season of Firefly

...If you're familiar with Firefly feel free to skim parts of the review, if you've never heard of the show then I hope this review gives you the information you need to be informed about the series, Firefly. Firefly is a fantastic TV series written by Joss Whedon. It graced the us, the viewing audience, with its presence on our television sets in the years 2002 and 2003 and is now available on DVD as a boxed set. ~Who is this Joss Whedon Guy ... Read review

Advantages: Fantastic series, exciting, great characters, dialogue, humour...the list goes on!
Disadvantages: Only fourteen episodes

...watched these past seven months, Firefly is by far the best. I bought the DVD box set after watching and loving the film Serenity and wanting to see more of this wonderful world and cast of characters. **About Firefly** Firefly was first broadcast in 2002 on the Fox Network in the US. After eleven episodes had aired, the show was cancelled. A lot of what I've read around the internet says that this was in part due to Fox's poor handling of ... Read review

Advantages: Superb writing, lovely cinematography, gripping, hilarious.
Disadvantages: Only 14 episodes ever made.

...review. Suffice to say Firefly converted me from only healthy sci-fi geekery (Star Trek, Stargate, Star Wars etc) to fully-fledged obsession. For your £14.43 (delivered) to Amazon you get four DVDs and fourteen episodes of complete perfection that personally speaking, will remain a favourite for the rest of my life. An extremely good summary of the plot can be found in the other review of this DVD, so I will merely precis it here: 500 years into ... Read review

Advantages: Characters, Stories, Look, Silent Space, Oh Everything
Disadvantages: Fox cancelled it...

...TV series), Angel and then Firefly seems an odd progression of ideas from their creator, Joss Whedon. But then I had a look on imdb to see if that was really how it went and I noticed that Toy Story, Alien: Resurection (what was he thinking) and Titan AE are also in the list. The point is, Joss Whedon has a good TV pedigree. I liked the Buffy film, and the start of the Buffy series at least but I think I had grown out of it by the time Angel came ... Read review

Advantages: The boxset is inexspensive, and you can also get a feature length movie called Serenity to go with it, long lasting entertainment, crosses genres so that nonsci fi fans still get hooked
Disadvantages: Fox cancelled it, so unless someone commisons more, this is it. Did I mention this show is addictive?

I came upon this series quite by accident. I was looking through listings one night, and nothing else decent was on at the time, so I flicked to the Sci Fi channel's reshowing of the original Star Trek series. That moment changed my life forever, and made me a big flan (NO, that is NOT a typo) and, dare I admit it, a Browncoat. For just that moment, as the channel came into focus, an advertisement for a show beginning that Friday came on. The show? ... Read review

Advantages: IT'S THE BEST TV SHOW EVER MADE
Disadvantages: IT ONLY LASTED FOR 13 EPISODES

...that governs the galaxy. Firefly tells of his struggle to stay free from Alliance control in the years following the war...as the Alliance tightens it's grip around the lives and the minds of the people under it's influence. Reynolds and his loyal first mate Zoe find themselves a ship called Serenity and sail the galaxy far and wide...always staying one step ahead of the Alliance. They take whatever job they can, legal or otherwise, in order to keep ... Read review

Advantages: Excellent cast, brilliant and innovative storyline.
Disadvantages: not enough of them...Bring back Firefly!

...But the fact is, the Firefly concept is one which works perfectly, here you have a show which displays people flying around in space-ships with laser beams, warp drive and all the other trappings of the future, while also shooting each other with derringers and occasionally charging away on a horse. What Joss Whedon (of Buffy the Vampire Slayer fame) has created is a series which manages to deal with the future in a way that maintains the characters' ... Read review

Advantages: Brilliant show, brilliant acting, amazing value for money
Disadvantages: DVD menu not very nice to look at

...in character, with the ship firefly in the background. Very nicely presented. DVD menu isn't as nice. My personal view is that it doesn't suit the opening sequence or style of the series, but nonetheless acceptable. All in all an absorbing, can't stop watching, must see again and again series. With extras that only add to the spark and wonder of the original show. ... Read review

Advantages: Execlent acting, plot and action.
Disadvantages: It never got given the publisity it deserved.

Cowboys in space. That is what my friend told me when he recommended 'Firefly' I mean what is not to like, cowboys in space, it is every boys dream combination. Where the inner worlds are ruled under the fist of law, the outer worlds are home to farmers and gangs, a clever range of technology between each world makes it feel like they really are different planets. This is a brilliant series about a team of freelancers who will do any job to put ... Read review

Advantages: Witty, Clever, non-repetetive.
Disadvantages: Not nearly enough of them.

...guys loose. Only difference in firefly is that the good guys are just like the bad guys, just a bit querkier. The scene is a few hundred years into the future, after the browncoats (resistance) lost the battle of Serenity, two of its members sarted up a ship to go wherever they pleased, and to make a new life. The characters which make an appearance in every episode are introduced in the pilot (as usual), and it goes on from there to show anything ... Read review

Advantages: collects every episode of the famed Firefly series into one boxed set
Disadvantages: what disadvantages?

...starships flying through space? Well Firefly is one of those programmes which is changing the face of sci fi and how we think about it. No more constant technobabble about ions and warpspeed, instead we are treated to a galaxy that is not perfect-worlds that resemble the wild west dotted with shanty towns and spaceships that look realistic and like something that actually works as well as an oppressive government. The characters too are believable ... Read review

Advantages: Nathan Fillion, Adam Baldwin and Jewel Staite
Disadvantages: There is not enough!!!

...and the Independence, or Browncoats, Firefly is set aboard the smugglers ship Serenity, piloted by a band of individuals who were on the losing side as they try to eke out a living on the fringe of the galaxy. Those familiar with Whedon's inimitable style will see much of the same in this fantastic series, fusing the action, drama, sci-fi, western and comedy genres into something very special. The characters are deep and well created, from the cheerful ... Read review