Tonight we watched 3 more episodes of Firefly, a defunct sci-fi/western show, the predecessor of the movie Serenity (which we plan to watch after watching all the episodes of Firefly). Firefly is the work of Joss Whedon, who is probably most famous for Buffy the Vampire Slayer (which I have never watched).

It’s an interesting show in that it’s futuristic and involves spaceships but it also has a distinctive Western feel to it, featuring twangy music, bar brawls, cattle driving, outlaws, and train robberies. If that’s not weird enough, the characters occasionally speak snippets of Chinese (usually in place of where expletives would go – apparently the reason for this is that in the futuristic world of the show, the reigning government is an alliance between the U.S. and China). Some of tonight’s episodes threw in some other elements like stiff Victorian style soirees and a Salem-style witch hunt.