{"id":13452,"date":"2011-10-19T06:00:55","date_gmt":"2011-10-19T12:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs2.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/?p=13452"},"modified":"2011-10-15T15:45:07","modified_gmt":"2011-10-15T21:45:07","slug":"firefly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/firefly\/","title":{"rendered":"Firefly"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>As a pretty big fan of sci-fi TV and movies, I am embarrassed that\u00a0it took me this long to watch\u00a0Joss Whedon’s critically-acclaimed and short-lived TV series Firefly<\/a><\/strong><\/em>.\u00a0 <\/strong>For those who are unfamiliar with it, Firefly<\/a><\/strong><\/em> is a 14-episode sci-fi series documenting the\u00a0travels and missions\u00a0of the spaceship Serenity.\u00a0 It is set about 500 years in the future when humans have relocated to a new star system controlled by a group of central planets called The Alliance.\u00a0 Though a band of rebels try to overthrow the corrupt Alliance, they are defeated and The Alliance remains in power.\u00a0 In the pilot episode\u00a0we meet Serenity’s captain Mal Reynolds and his second-in-command Zoe, who were on the losing side of the war with The Alliance and now take odd jobs (mostly smuggling) to get by.\u00a0 The rest of the crew is\u00a0a\u00a0compelling\u00a0cast of characters including adorable mechanic Kaylee, professional companion Inara, and pilot\u00a0Wash.\u00a0 To make some extra money the crew picks up some folks willing to pay for transport, including a preacher and a doctor with very mysterious cargo.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Being a unique hybrid of sci-fi and western, Firefly<\/a><\/strong><\/em> is like nothing else I’ve watched before, and that’s one thing I really love about it.\u00a0 Despite the futuristic technology, the planets on the outer rim of the new star system (where the outlaw crew of\u00a0Serenity spend most of their time)\u00a0aren’t as well-off as the core Alliance planets, so they have a very rustic Old West look and feel.\u00a0 But my favorite thing about this show is probably the characters. \u00a0There are\u00a0nine very different members of the Serenity crew, and I can’t possibly pick a favorite or a least favorite because they’re all compelling and interesting in their own way.\u00a0\u00a0Firefly<\/a><\/strong><\/em> was unfortunately cancelled before fans could get answers to a lot of the biggest\u00a0questions of the series, including the full backstory of the show’s most mysterious character: crazy genius River Tam, who was experimented on at the hands of The Alliance. \u00a0But luckily for us, fans of the show rallied and a follow-up movie was made called Serenity<\/a><\/strong><\/em>, which serves as a very satisfying conclusion to an incredible series.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As a pretty big fan of sci-fi TV and movies, I am embarrassed that\u00a0it took me this long to watch\u00a0Joss Whedon’s critically-acclaimed and short-lived TV series Firefly.\u00a0 For those who are unfamiliar with it, Firefly is a 14-episode sci-fi series documenting the\u00a0travels and missions\u00a0of the spaceship Serenity.\u00a0 It is set[Read more]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[12,8],"tags":[3254,85,774,1754],"class_list":["post-13452","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dvds","category-staff-picks","tag-dvds","tag-movies","tag-science-fiction","tag-space-drama"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/sd0CXx-firefly","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13452","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13452"}],"version-history":[{"count":47,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13452\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13504,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13452\/revisions\/13504"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13452"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13452"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13452"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}