Snaller's Journal: FIrefly flies again

Joss Whedon's 'anti-Trek drama' Firefly, by many called the best new sci-fi series, met with an untimely end last year despite making more money than Whedons two other shows Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel. A hit with the critics and many internet users, the program was Foxed by being preempted, not promoted with episodes shown in a peculiar order (with the Pilot show as the last episode!) Several episodes weren't shown at all, but now the British ScifFi channel has bought the entire series and starts showing it beginning May.
The moderator of the official Sci-fi UK board confirmed this today. Fans are already hoping that the previously unaired episodes will leak across the pond.

Saw an episode -- I thought it really sucked

[geoswan]

I saw an episode. I thought it really sucked. The one I saw had oppressed, penniless, hard-rock miners -- pick-axe guys. Where is all this taking place? On a terra-formed asteroid. Explain this. This culture has a sufficiently advanced technology and the resources to terraform this world - to Earth-like environment, and yet men and women have to haul minerals out of it with pick-axes?

I thought the writing sucked too. This episode started off with the Captain going to a bar, and picking a fight, be