Mme Reclus saw a few of the episocdes on SyFy and fell in love with it, got the Blue-Rays. First time for me, and a real hoot.

Its pretty good space cowboy stuff, likable characters, OK SFX, decent acting and story, lots of action and humor, and kick-ass dudes and pretty girls; especially Morena Baccarin. What a righteous macro-babe! Sign me up, skipper, I’ll ship over in a heartbeat.

This has got to be a Libertarian show, a well-meaning but hopelessly corrupt statist and decadent bureaucratic Alliance in the hub systems is run by your basic elitist effeminate fops, (not totally dictatorial just yet, but getting there in a hurry). Out on the frontier you’ve got your basic sturdy Outland freeholders in the boonies, bein’ free and independent, dropping their final g’s and riding around on horseback with sawed off 12-guages and lever action carbines. Our heroes are ex-Confederate steely-eyed merchant freebooters and leggy lady warriors, plying the stars, living off their fast draw, quick wits and cojones. And of course, the Reivers are the obligatory bloodthirsty Indians, politically correct for killing because the Alliance made them that way while trying to civilize them.

But its not bad TV, entertaining and visually interesting. Its what I expected space would be like when I was growing up. I miss that world.