But you’re right about the girls of Firefly. Bacarrin went on to play the queen lizard in the recent attempt to remake “V”, and she was a cold-blooded hottie indeed. Jewel Staite transferred over to Stargate Atlantis and finally got laidfound romance.

Still, I’m enamored of Summer Glau not just because she’s predictably good looking. I mentioned her delightfully creepy portrayals of psychos, but there’s also the interesting fact that she was trained as a ballerina, in Texas, and that accounts for her grace in combat. You should check out a few episodes of The Sarah Connor Chronicles, in which Summer plays the most graceful killing machine you can possibly imagine, at the same time that playing a Terminator robot gives her full scope to deliver those deadpan creepy lines.

Oh yeah, and if you catch the right episode, she walks around in her underwear. Something for everybody…

There is still good science fiction by guys like Larry Niven, Verner Vinge, Dan Simmons and many others. There is also a lot of Isaac Asimov that youmay not have gotten around to. His robot series and the classic Foundation series.

But,I understand there is not time for everything in this life when your interests have moved on to other things

Regarding the astronomy, I am sure you noticed that they changed the intro to the show to clarify that they colonized a brand new solar system and the worlds referred to are primarily moons.

The original intro had given the impression that they were FTLing to various planets around the galaxy. Of course they don’t explain how they got there in the first place.

The science was bearable but as usual they leave the artificial gravity unexplained and they don’t get into how they terraformed all those moons so fast and with G1.

You would think with that science they could have fixed Earth. And, whats would have been wrong with terraforming and colonizing the moons and Mars in our own solar system and skip the worm hole or however they managed to get there.

Oh well, in spite of all that, it was a damn fine series. It was about the characters and not the science.

The colonies were exactly as I imagine they will be if we ever get off the rock.

I guess that makes me a fan.

It was some passing references here, I think, a few years back. I’d never heard of Firefly, and like you, I saw the movie first, almost by accident. It wasn’t until last year that I downloaded the one and only season to watch.

I thought it was brilliant. I blasted through the first few episodes, devoured them voraciously. But then as I neared the end of what I knew was the only season the show would ever have, I became reluctant to watch, as if I’d “use up” Firefly and there’d be no more once it was gone (which was true, but I can always watch it again). It took me nearly a month after the penultimate episode to watch the final episode. Bittersweet, that was.

There was lots of entertaining acting and memorable characters. I think Summer Glau as “River” was particularly riveting. She’s since made a career of playing distinctly psycho young women, including a role as a Terminator (I kid you not) and as a broken young scientist on Joss Whedon’s “Dollhouse” (another show Fox killed prematurely). I keep an eye out for the same “Summer Glau” these days. Her best line ever was when she addressed the crazy Baldwin in sickbay, who’d had it in for her from the beginning: “I could kill you with my mind, you know.” Deadpan delivery, sweet innocent face, and a sly joke.

Which does bring me to Fox. Damn them to hell and eternal fire. I don’t know why Joss Whedon continues to produce shows for them, because they seem to have it in for him. They greenlight his shows, approve big production budgets (reportedly $2 million/episode for Firefly) but no marketing budget, then kill the shows when they don’t attract blockbuster audiences. That’s the kind of perversity you get programming by the numbers instead of by taste and aesthetic judgment.

There’s been a movement afoot for years to bring back Firefly, and Whedon and some of the actors have said they’d do it. But I’m not holding my breath–it sounds like wishful thinking.

Enough gushing. Welcome to the fan club, ER!

She was going to drive up to SF to see it with her friends.

She was all dressed up for it in her “Wash” Hawaiian shirt, and had her plastic dinosaur.

She wasn’t crying anymore when she came home. She didn’t want to spoil anything for me.

But I tell you what, Whedon was on my List for a while. Not many things will get me to go Honey Badger on someone, but making my kid cry is one of them.

Personally though, I prefer “Jericho”. It’s down to Earth (well, for most parts), and came back for another season before it was canceled.

He lived in a cave and got along quite well with his robots, who did pretty much everything.

Looked like a good life, really.

Startrek in it’s first iteration was great. After that it simply got ridiculous.

Although a great many people enjoyed that and other SciFi stuff and continue to. I’m clearly no judge of it.

Joss Whedon did the show, the guy who did “Buffy” and the rest of that series.

Excellent writing, great acting, lots of fun. I have the official Firefly blueprints, the keychain, Blu-Rays, and a nice little model of the ship from QMX (the cheap one, not the $2500 one).

Be sure to see the whole series before you watch the movie (“Serenity.”) The politics in that was pretty clear, and the plot a bit darker.