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Firefly at the movies!

I'm so excited! My favorite TV show of all time, Firefly, is going to be a movie. I connected with this show in a way that I have not connected with anything -- well, anything fictional! -- since I saw Star Wars when I was nine. Totally different feeling, of course. Star Wars was, in many ways, an excercise in optimism and empowerment. (Well, the original on its own, anyway.) Firefly is almost the opposite, a last, desperate grab at some kind of freedom in the fact of crushing defeat.

But somehow, somehow Joss Whedon put together an ensemble of characters and a universe that just reaches out and grabs you. Hard.

I get so frustrated when people talk about the show being a failure. A couple of months ago TV Guide was talking about how Sci Fi was so thrilled with the ratings of Stargate SG-1. It's their top-rated show. Something like a million people a week are watching it. Big, fat, hairy deal. When Firefly was at it's lowest, FOUR TIMES that many people were watching it.

Well, now we're getting a movie, and December 9 Firefly -- The Complete Series is out on DVD. I can't wait!