Jeri Jacquin
Available on Bluray from 20th Century Fox Home
Entertainment and writer/director Joss Whedon is the amazing series that keeps
bringing fans back again and again is the series FIREFLY.
It is the year 2517 and mankind has found its way into a new
star system in their Firefly-class ship. Aboard the ship is the crew of
Serenity is Captain Mal Reynolds (Nathan Fillion) and first mate Zoe Washburne
(Gina Torres). Veterans of the Unification War, they join other settlers and
refugees who live away from the central government.
Now dealing in smugglings, two of their passengers River Wash
(Alan Tudyk), Inara Serra (Morena Baccarin), Jayne Cobb (Adam Baldwin), ship’s
mechanic Kaylee (Jewel Staite) and the Serenity’s moral compass Derrial (Ron
Glass).
From the moment the series begins, Captain Mal looks for
abandoned ships to salvage. After a confrontation with an Alliance federal agent, Mal brings Simon and
River aboard the Serenity.
Finding an abandoned ship, the crew also find Reavers and
are attacked and the Alliance
docks with the Serenity. Knowing that Simon and River are at risk, the rest of
the crew is interrogated while the two passengers hide. This won’t be the only
time the brother and sister will be put to the test.
When the Serenity needs engine repair that causes the life
support system to be inoperable, the crew has only one hope – to find a passing
ship. Putting the crew in shuttles, Mal remembers how the crew of the Serenity
came to be.
With the ship in working order, it is River who now needs
help. Simon needs to find a hospital but it is Jayne that has other plans. The Alliance isn’t going to
reward Jayne’s actions and neither is Mal who has the choice of life and death.
Mal’s unexpected wife has returned and wants his help to
relieve a wealthy gent of his funds. Once they come in contact, Mal is given a
shock that is either a good thing or bad depending on how he wants to handle
Saffron’s antics.
Zoe and Mal are surprised to hear of the passing of their
friend from the Battle of Serenity Valley, Tracey. They learn what their friend
had been doing and how the Alliance
was not only after Tracey but what he had been doing. Putting his crew in
jeopardy, Mal is faced with the ultimate decision.
Inara needs Mal and the crews help when her friend Nandi is
having trouble in her brothel. A man named Ranse Burgess is threatening one of
the women who is pregnant. But what happens between Mal and Nandi could change
everything.
River becomes disoriented and the crew isn’t sure whether
there is a safety issue. It is Jubal Early they should be concerned with as the
bounty hunter captures Simon. The safety issue isn’t an issue any longer when
River does what she must to help her brother and the crew of Serenity.
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The Bluray includes the fantastic Bonus Features of the **New** Firefly Poster and Collectible
Character Cards Inside Packaging as Gift With Purchase for a Limited Time Only,
Disc One: Here’s How It Was: The Making of Firefly Featurette, Disc Two:
Firefly Cast Roundtable: Lunch with Joss, Nathan, Alan and Ron, Disc Three:
Serenity: The 10th Character Featurette, Deleted Scenes, Alan
Tudyk’s Audition, Joss Sings the Firefly Theme, Joss Tours the Set and Gag Reel.
FIREFLY aired on Fox in 2002 and cancelled by episode
eleven. What is amazing about this is that FIREFLY won a Primetime Emmy in 2003
for Outstanding Special Visual Effects. Even TV Guide ranks it as one of the
shows “Cancelled Too Soon” to which fans couldn’t agree more.
For those that attending San Diego Comic Con International,
it is clear that FIREFLY isn’t about to be forgotten anytime soon. Every year
there is a cry for the show to be started up once again and ears listening for
Joss Whedon to say ‘yes, it will happen’.
I have met Nat Fillion and asked him if he would be on board
and I heard him say it at several Con’s - “it was everything and how can
everything not be enough?” In other words, those fourteen episodes are as
perfect of a FIREFLY world as we are going to get close to and that’s okay
actually.
That’s what continues to make the series special and 20th
Century Fox Home Entertainment knows that. Capturing it in an amazing box set,
this 500 year into the future look at characters that walk about on Earth today
shows no signs of stopping fans from keeping FIREFLY a part of their home
entertainment library.
Watching FIREFLY once again is such a joy because of the
fantastic mesh of actors that brought Serenity
to life. It is a series that is full of action, storyline and even has sharp
humor that I enjoy. Let this 665 minute 3-disc DVD Collectors Edition be a way
to bring more fans into the fold and let them in on the adulation for our
favorite Captain – Nathan Fillion!
In the end – hang on for the ride of your life!
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