Shiny!

Early this year, one of my friends told me I needed to watch Firefly, Joss Whedon’s short-lived space cowboy odyssey. After many a delay, I sat down the other week to watch the series before attending a charity screening of Serenity, the movie after the series ended.

Like many of the shows I watch on DVD, I do so fairly quickly (call it a drawback to not working during the summer, or an advantage.) This time, I went in knowing a few things (mostly from one of my friends who spoiled a moment in Serenity, which I was happy to know about before I watched.) It didn’t deter watching the show–mostly because I knew there was an ending, no matter how quickly put together.

However, what I noticed more (like I do in just about every show) is the number of guest stars. But, I also paid close attention to the complicated world that was created. It took so much for me to reconcile the depressed conditions on most of those planets with the fact that space travel is possible.

One of the better moments while watching the movie came before the aforementioned spoiler happened (yes, I will be good and not give it away, but) when my friends were starting to get nervous and teary eyed while I sat in blissful ignorance. We all talked about it after, with me watching the scene without question, whereas my friends wanted to look away and not watch.

When the show aired, I’m certain I wouldn’t have watched (oh, the main reason being a lack of a TV in my early college years), but given what I’ve been watched since, the show has a new place in my heart.

So, long live Captain Tightpants, and guns are shiny!