Firefly: Space 1999 for 2006

My college friends I work with, half my age, are in love with this series that was evidently a televised SciFi channel production, because I had never heard about it until this semester. I find it to certainly be an interesting cross between Western and Space. Nice cross-breeding! It's visually not unlike Space 1999, however, in that the sets are obviously TV, albeit the SFX are good later generation stuff. But what sets this apart is the characters, as a good show should. I love the characters, and love their humor. They lack a little complexity, except for the captain and the Bishop. They are the centerpieces. I love the girl mechanic, but mostly just because she makes me smile, because, well...she's always smiling, even when she's been shot in the gut.

But the Captain and the Bishop I believe make up the main conflict of the story, even though they certainly are getting along well enough to travel the same ship together. Every good company needs a captain, a mechanic, a second-hand who not-so-secretly wants to take control, a whore, and a misguided doctor. Oh, and a nutjob. All good ingredients for story.

Ok, I like it enough to keep watching, but if it remains as formulaic and polished, I'll lose interest because every show seems to keep going the same and there isn't the rich development that I would anticpate in something written more in depth. I give it 7 out of 10 so far. I'm on DVD #2.