Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #612 in DVD
• Released on: 2004-04-19
• Rating: Suitable for 12 years and over
• Aspect ratio: 1.78:1
• Formats: Box set, PAL, Widescreen
• Original language: English
• Number of discs: 4
• Running time: 630 minutes

Amazon.co.uk Review
Much praised and much missed after its premature cancellation, Firefly is the first SF TV series to be conceived by Joss Whedon, creator of Buffy and cocreator of Angel. Set five centuries in the future, it is a show where the mysterious personal pasts of the crew of the tramp spaceship Serenity continually surface. In fact, it's a Western in space where the losers in a Civil War are heading out to a barren frontier. Mal Reynolds is a man embittered by the war, yet whose love of his comrades perpetually dents his cynicism--even in the 14 episodes that exist we see him warm to the bubbly young mechanic Kaylee, the preacher Book, the idealistic doctor Simon, even to the often demented River, Simon's sister, the psychic result of malign experiments.

Firefly is also about adult emotional relationships, for example Kaylee's crush on Simon, the happy marriage of Mal's second officer Zoe and the pilot Wash, the disastrous erotic stalemate between Mal and the courtesan Inara. Individual episodes deal with capers going vaguely wrong, or threats narrowly circumvented; character and plot arcs were starting to emerge when the show was cancelled. Fortunately, the spin-off movie Serenity ties up some of the ends; and in the meantime, what there is of Firefly is a show to marvel at, both for its tight writing and ensemble acting, and the idiocy of the executives who cancelled it.

On the DVD: Firefly on DVD is presented in anamorphic 1.78:1 with Dolby Surround Sound. It includes commentaries on six episodes by various writers, directors, designers and cast members as well as featurettes on the conception of the show and the design of the spaceship Serenity, four deleted scenes, a gag reel, and Joss Whedon singing the show's theme tune, more or less. One of the things that emerges from all of this is how committed to the project everyone involved with it was, and is--unusually, you end up caring as much for the cast and crew as for the characters.

DVD Description
Episodes: Serenity (Part 1) Serenity (Part 2) The Train Job Bushwhacked Our Mrs Reynolds Out of Gas Shindig Safe Ariel War Stories Objects in Space Heart of Gold Trash The Message

Special Features

• Audio commentaries from directors, producers, writers and creator Joss Whedon
  
• Deleted scenes
  
• Serenity: The Tenth Character featurette
  
• The Making Of Firefly featurette
  
• Joss Whedon tours the set
  
• Footage from Alan Tudyk's audition
  
• Joss Whedon sings the Firefly theme!
  
• Gag reel
  
• Easter Egg (hidden feature)
  
• Interactive menu
  
• Chapter selection

DVD Technical Information:

• Aspect Ratio: Widescreen 16:9 Anamorphic
  
• Language: English
  
• Region Code: 2

Customer Reviews

Awesome
Brilliant, wonderful, excellent running out of superlatives. Why oh why oh why was there only one series were they mad? The chemistry between the cast works brilliantly.

So much fun
I cant believe this was cancelled!!!!!!!!!!! it has to be the best tv box set i've seen in a while... really funny and great relationships between the stars..
Funny, action, emotions...it has every thing...buy it

Fantastic series
A friend lent me this DVD telling me I should watch it. Not being big sci-fi fan I didn't think I would enjoy it, but how wrong I was! I have now bought my own copy of the series and of the Serenity film. Why oh why was the show cancelled after just one series?!