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Firefly 1x02 Full Length Reaction (Patreon)

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2024-01-26 17:38:46
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2026-06
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The first episode was good...but now i'm HOOKED 😄 I loved this episode even more than the first, and I'm that much more excited to keep going! 

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Firefly 1x02 Full Length Reaction

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Einherj

AFAIK Fox added the recap at the start of the episodes because it was the style at the time in TV. I don't much care for them. They are too network TV corporate style and don't even really bring anything to the show. IMO The episodes themselves are good enough to bring you into the world. The recaps are not present on the DVD / Bluray releases.

Inhonor Oftrip

Don't want to go too much into the story of Firefly and the Fox network until you're done watching the series, but your question about this episode does warrant a bit of backstory. The network heads were unsure about the pilot Serenity, and thought a train robbery would be more compelling as the first episode. So the showrunners had to revise this episode to be the first to air, trying to include much of the concepts and relationships introduced in Serenity. That's why there was a some slightly odd dialog throughtout this episode, if one had already watched the real pilot. It also explains why people liked this series but were somewhat confused about who was who and what was going on. Serentity wound up being the last episode that Fox aired, after the series was already canceled.

EngineeredTwist

My recollection from the DVD commentary (granted I haven't watched in a long while) is that the Fox execs didn't like how dark and moody Mal was in the pilot, among other things, and asked for a more upbeat "pilot", which became this episode. I was one of the original tv watchers and can attest that The Train Job was indeed the first one aired (I was utterly captivated by the blue hand guys and what the deal was with River). I was only able to watch the first 3 episodes though (they aired in the Friday night death slot, ugh! I was in HS marching band and had to go play at the Friday night football games). I rediscovered the show a few years later on DVD before the movie came out. The recaps must have been present on the tv airings, because I don't know how else I would have known some of that background info without the OG pilot.

Kevin (GiantFutures.com)

I’ll let others talk about the history of this show…I just love this show so much. It happened right at the change of TV from episodic to serial, and this had the episodic format down so well (thanks to Whedon), balancing serious and fun episodes, as you’ll see. There’s been rumors of Disney owning the IP and thinking about doing something with it…which I would love, but I also fear, because this was a golden place where writing, actors, and chemistry came together. Replicating it, especially in a heavily serial world, would be so difficult. A lot could be said about the women of this show, but Nathan Fillion was a perfect Joss Whedon male lead. He could be a serious brigand, but he also could be goofy and self-effacing. Fillion and David Boreanaz share those qualities, and they work well in their respective shows. You mention Morena Baccarin…Did you know this was her first major role in anything? And that she was a last-minute replacement? Originally, the role of Inara was played by Rebecca Gayheart, but after the first day of shooting, she was let go, reportedly because of not having chemistry with the rest of the cast. And, for all the negative things to be said about Whedon (and now, this is said understanding the hypocrisy), but he understood a show’s need for cast chemistry. God…it makes me hate what he did to Charisma Carpenter, and what that did to “Angel”…but Whedon and Tim Minnear had this cast nailed.

Stephen Knueppel

I watched when it originally aired and Fox treated the show like crap. Episodes out of order, the death slot on Friday night, and then not even airing the last 2 or 3 episodes that were already done when they cancelled it. I have never given another series airing on Fox a chance. If I want to watch something they made i wait for it to go to a streaming service first. Trivia- the helmets and armor worn by the Alliance troops are from the movie Starship Troopers. Saved on the budget by recycling them instead of creating new ones.