Announcing Big Damn Heroics
They say write about what you love. Well, I love TV and I love science fiction. Neither of which are categories that I see a lot of on Medium, so this may well go under the radar.
So, this is something of an experiment: I plan to write about an episode of Joss Whedon’s science fiction/western series Firefly every week for the next approximately fourteen weeks and if wildly successful, possibly beyond.
Firefly concerned the spaceship Serenity, its crew and passengers and the adventures that blurred line between the two. The TV show premiered in 2002, was sorely mistreated by its network and cancelled all too soon after. In total, fourteen episodes were broadcast, albeit in the wrong order, in varying timeslots and often pre-empted by sports events or movie repeats.
I’m going to be writing about the series in its intended broadcast order, which is also the how the episodes were presented on the DVD and has pretty much supplanted the original broadcast order. That said, I’ll be making lots of references to the contradictions and confusions that this caused.
Each Saturday, I will publish an article about a new episode, beginning with:
- Firefly: Serenity — The Pilot
- Firefly: The Train Job
- Firefly: Bushwhacked
- Firefly: Shindig
- Firefly: Safe
- Firefly: Our Mrs Reynolds (6th February 2021)
- Firefly: Jaynestown (13th February 2021)
- Firefly: Out Of Gas (20th February 2021)
- Firefly: Ariel (27th February 2021)
- Firefly: War Stories (6th March 2021)
- Firefly: Trash (13th March 2021)
- Firefly: The Message (20th March 2021)
- Firefly: Heart Of Gold (27th March 2021)
- Firefly: Objects In Space (3rd April 2021)
If these first fourteen find an audience then we can talk about the movie, the webisodes, the comics, the short stories and the novels in subsequent articles.
So please join me every Saturday for some Firefly.
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