The unaired episodes were fabulous. The very last episode on the DVD is amazing, by far the best. The villian is extremely well written and has a great concept - a true Whedon villian.

Made me even more sad about the cancellation, since the episodes were really starting to get good cohesion with fabulous character interaction. *snif*

mephistopholes | December 12, 00:04 CET

Excellent series of interviews--a great addition to the commentaries on the DVDs, which I'm enjoying immensely.

Maeve | December 12, 00:15 CET

Objects in Space actually aired, and it floored me. I must have watched it about 20 times, Jubal Early is probably the most fascinating villain Joss has ever written.

His delivery of the whole "lion" confusion is inspired.

Firefly easily had the potential to become Joss' best show, if it had gone on for at least two seasons I'd be saying "Buffy what?", "Angel who?".

ringworm | December 12, 00:23 CET

I'm totally with you on OIS, ringworm. Easily the best ep of the series. Jubal is incredible. I still remember the chills I felt when River told us she was the ship.

Along with the Twin Peaks pilot and Buffy's "Hush", that's just one of the best hours of television ever made.

As to the unaireds, I've now seen "Trash" and "The Message" and enjoyed both well enough. "Heart of Gold" is tonight. I have to say that while I am enjoying the stories, part of me is somehow holding back and not allowing me to love the stories like I did (and still do) the broadcast ones. There's a bitterness, a resigned quality as I watch these. But I think the love will grow on repeated viewing as they come to take their proper place in my mind among the rest.

The commentaries are a different story. Thoroughly loving those. So far I've seen the first 3 - Serenity, Train Job and Shindig. Shindig was especially enjoyable because it was so uncharacteristically "girly" - you don't often get to sit and listen to 3 women doing DVD commentary together! I only wish all the episodes could have had commentaries.

melsta | December 12, 01:41 CET

I agree with ringworm that Firefly may have become Joss' best show given enough time. The fourteen episodes they made are so sharply written that they eclipse the earliest episodes of BtVS and Angel. Now that I have the DVD set, I have seen "Trash" and thought it was very good. I still have two episodes left to see, and I'm looking forward to them.

G Thing | December 12, 23:55 CET