So I started watching the Firefly tv series on bluray yesterday and I personally have no doubt that what made this show great was the interaction between the different characters and the dialogue. It always impresses me how the entire cast seemed to already be so comfortable in their roles from the very first episode. Usually with new tv shows it takes a few episodes until the cast members and writers find their footing.

My only minor nitpick with the show concerns the horrible uniforms on the Alliance crew members on the large capital ships. The big, loose fitting tunics along with those berets just doesn't look very military or menacing at all.

yeah, agreed. whedon's new show dollhouse, which will likely get cancelled soon, is such a disappointment in comparison. zero charisma on the part of the characters, and zero sense of cohesion or connection between anyone.

the minor quibble i had with firefly were the stupid "pew pew" laser gun sounds they insisted on using for a lot of the pistols, which were clearly bullet firing guns. thank god they didn't pull that cheesiness in serenity. and i woulda liked firefly a bit more if they'd dialled down the western theme just a tad. had it lasted longer, i guess that woulda gotten taken care of with more episodes set on the core, alliance worlds. oh well, thanks a lot fox!

how's the picture and sound quality?

Both are outstanding. I can really tell these episodes were remastered for high def because the first time I watched Firefly was on the standard dvd's on a standard dvd player so the picture quality difference is remarkable.

I still can't understand why Firefly wasn't more of a success. I love that series. The characters and dialogue were top-notch, and I found the whole setting refreshingly different.

It was a combination of the Fox tv network not doing a good job at promoting the show and a tv viewing audience that perhaps was slow to realize how good Firefly was. Honestly, science fiction has always been a tough sell on network tv in the US. It seems these days that most Americans just care about reality shows and legal/hospital dramas.

I did the whole thing back to front.

I wasn't aware of Firefly but saw Serenity when it first came out on the big screen. Liked it a lot and so backtracked by getting the entire Firefly DVD set from Amazon. Watched the whole thing again from Firefly Episode 1 to Serenity.

Kaylee, Inara *pant* *pant*

Didn't that hot looking red-head villian chick who appeared on several episodes subsequently landed herself in a current hit TV series ? I know Inara is in the new 'V' but what's the status of 'V' ?

red head is christina hendricks and she's on mad men

yeah, fox tv butchered firefly when it aired-- aired them in the wrong order (the 90min. pilot aired last!), didn't air a few of them, and often preempted or delayed it due to sports, and, oh yeah, killed it after just 11 episodes aired. basically, it never had a chance.

if i sound irritated, that's because i was. oh well, i guess it's the james dean of sci-fi shows--brilliant and dead before it's time.

I also saw Serenity before I watched the tv series. I admit that I didn't really see what the big deal was with Serenity and thought it was just "ok" when I first watched it but after I watched the tv episodes and got to know the characters, Serenity became like an entirely new movie to me the second time I watched it.

Hehe... same here.

I thought "Serenity" was a decent sci-fi movie, nothing more. So when I watched the series afterwards I was very much positively surprised.

It was a very pleasant and unexpected surprise for me when I first saw Ron Glass on the main cast of Firefly. I dont think I had really seen him in anything major since Barney Miller! He was really great as Shepherd Book.