I don’t watch too much broadcast television these days. I mean, who has the time? When I’m lucky I catch something slick on a long weekend. Usually a marathon of Honeymooners epsiodes or something along those lines. Right now I am fucking with ‘The Office’ and the hardbody action series, ‘The Sarah Connor Chronicles’. The other sci-fi shit that C.S. just turned me onto is called ‘Firefly‘.
The Sci-Fi Channel ran a marathon this weekend and I almost watched every single episode in one sitting. It was good like that. I beg anyone that is a Star Wars fan to check for this series. It should be called ‘Han Solo: The Early Years’. The main character is a swashbuckling spaceship captain who owns a hunk of junk starfreighter. His first mate is a Black woman of course, just like Chewbacca, but instead of a howling apelike bear she is a hairy fox. In the literal figurative sense. These two run a ragtag crew of ne’er do wells and freaks as they jump across the galaxy taking on odd jobs.
The spacecraft and storyline are totally a ripoff from the Millenium Falcon and how Han and Chewbacca would contract their jobs. They have to stay under the radar of the Galactic Alliance who are just like the Empire except their costumes are worse. Give props to GEORGE LUCAS for making sure that the Imperial officers were always well pressed and well coiffed. The Galactic Alliance wears puffy berets that don’t really convey badass to me. Maybe at the end of the day the reason for the series being cancelled was that it was such a blatant swagger jack from Star Wars.
In any case, this shit is some good ass t.v. The head writer is the dude that who made ‘Buffy The Vampire Slayer’ such a megahit, JOSS WHEDON. In his bid to control his show totally he angered the bosses at Fox Broadcasting and the show was cancelled after only one season. As a matter of fact, Fox only broadcast eleven of the fourteen episodes. However ‘Firefly’ lived on in pop culture due to the 2005 movie ‘Serenity’ which brought back the same cast for a feature length film. The main character in ‘Serenity’ is a young girl who was smuggled aboard the starship. It turns out that she had her mind tweaked and she became a ruthless assassin.
Listen, have I ever steered you in the wrong direction? Okay, maybe once or twice, but not this time. NetFlix the first season of ‘Firefly’ and then request the movie ‘Serenity’ as a follow-up. Trust me. It’s good like that.
