Finished watching Firefly. I have a hard time imagining what was going through the Fox exec’s minds when they decided to run this show completely out of order, not show the pilot first, etc. So much of the quality of the show comes from watching the characterizations, that showing the episodes out of order would be like watching Babylon 5 backwards. It’s just totally pointless, and for a show like this, essentially the kiss of death. But it sounds pretty much like Fox fucked them from the start, so I’m glad that a different company (Universal?) picked up the rights to the movie. I hope Joss Whedon can get the rights to at least move the show to a network that isn’t going to tank them without giving the show a fair chance.

There are a few things that I almost implore people to see, or in the case of games, to play:

Anime: Cowboy Bebop

TV: Firefly

Movies: Equilibrium

Games: Ico, Gitaroo-Man, Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time, Rez (PS2, PS2, PS2/xbox/GC/PC, and DC/PS2, respectively)

In most cases, they’re things that may not explictly be the *best* of their genre, but they’re things I really, really enjoyed, or thought were particularly interesting, and uniformly overlooked (except maybe Bebop, which has had pretty good commercial success).

So… yeah. What are you waiting for? If you haven’t seen Firefly – go get it. The show potentially has a future. There’s a movie coming out April 2005, called “Serenity” – if it hits a critical mass, someone will pick up the show – Sci-Fi, Universal, who knows. At the very least, they make a series of movies.

Right. Now go.