“overwhelmed by a loss of potential future greatness that you can do nothing about”

Is EXACTLY my reaction at the end of the season. I just recently even HEARD of Firefly and never saw it on TV. I’m sure I’m not the only one who falls into that category. Its so tragic to see such a great show end with no hope of coming back.

I had heard of Firefly but had not watched it. The first time I saw an episode was after stumbled upon the DVD set at the Barnes & Noble store near my home. It is truely delightful and was worthy of better treatment than it received from Fox. Network executives don’t view a series in the same way we do. We want quality entertainment. They want a show that makes money; if it is also high quality, so much the better, but they are more likely to support a show that follows a proven pattern, ala the Star Trek shows.

Firefly was character-driven and looked different– very much on purpose. In this it was similar to Farscape. Farscape, however, was fortunate to have, for a while, the support of the Sci-Fi network, giving its fans more of the story, albiet not all of it. Firefly was truely a victim of infanticide.

One can only speculate how things would have progressed if it had run longer. No doubt the feature film SERENITY will be welcomed by the fans, but there will still be much that could have been told, but was not.

Periapt