With Joss Whedon’s Firefly about to make its triumphant debut on DVD next week, there have been a lot of articles floating around (here’s the latest) talking about the show. It seems like all of these are forgetting one important thing:


The show sucked.


Face it, people. The show was a dud. The captain was lacking in charisma, the “mysterious” girl was downright annoying, and don’t even get me started about the “spunky” girl mechanic. The show had some decent aspects, but by and large, it was just a world of suck.


On paper, Firefly wasn’t a bad idea by any means. I like the idea of a universe without aliens, where colonists are reduced to old-world technology. That’s a clever twist on the usual sci-fi thing. But the problem is that they took it too far. Instead of seriously attempting to do a modern take on a wild west type scenario, they literally made it a western. Right down to the dumbass, unconvincing accents. I mean, I understand that people would go back to using old world technology, but did everyone have to say silly things like, “I reckon” and so on? Star Trek was a sci-fi western too, but Roddenberry had the common sense to disguise it.


I love Buffy, I’m enjoying Angel, and I’d like to see Joss Whedon stop wasting his time attempting to resurrect Firefly. His comic series Fray was a heck of a lot better than Firefly ever was, and I’d much rather see a movie version of that than his lame, rightly canceled series.