Firefly: The Complete Series [Blu-ray]

Firefly: The Complete Series [Blu-ray]

Firefly: The Complete Series [Blu-ray]

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Actor: Adam Baldwin, Alan Tudyk, Gina Torres, Morena Baccarin, Nathan Fillion
Brand: Fox
Blu-ray: Region Code 0
Audio: English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); Dutch (Subtitled); English (Original Language), DTS-HD High Res Audio; French (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround; Spanish (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround; German (Original Language), DTS 5.1; French (Dubbed), Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround; Spanish (Dubbed), Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround
Format: AC-3, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DTS Surround Sound, Dubbed, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.78:1
Running Time: 665 minutes
Blu-ray Release Date: 2008-11-11
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: 20th Century Fox
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Condition: New
Format: Blu-ray
AC-3; Color; Dolby; DTS Surround Sound; Dubbed; Subtitled; Widescreen; Closed-captioned

Blu-ray Reviews of Firefly: The Complete Series [Blu-ray]

Blu-ray Review: Blu Firefly, a fan's view.
Summary: 5 Stars

This isn't a Firefly review, it's a review of the blu-ray release, with me wandering off subject now and then. Firefly is a 5 star show canceled before it's time. One of my favorite television series of all time. The purpose of this review is to let fans of the show know if the blu-ray release is worth picking up or not.

I was lucky enough to catch Firefly when it debuted on television. It was just after a cross-country move from Florida to Colorado. I rushed to get cable hooked up in my new apartment so I could watch the first episode on its broadcast premiere. As the first commercial break began, I realized I was hooked, not since 'Babylon 5' had I felt so enthralled by a television show. Sadly, we all know my enjoyment was short with only 11 of 14 episode airing before cancellation, not to mention Fox doing it's regular thing of interfering and having the broadcast order changed. Anyway, it's a sad tale, but it's well in the past now. I must admit to owning 3 versions of Serenity including the Blu-ray.

Before I get into the Blu, I'm going to give you a brief rundown of the theater system I use in my bedroom, where I am watching this blu-ray set. My television is a Sharp Aquos LC42D85U 42-Inch 1080p 120Hz LCD HDTV. Blu-ray player is a Hewlett Packard HDX 18t running Cyberlink PowerDVD9(phenomenal fully high definition laptop). The center of my sound system is a Onkyo TX-SR706 7.1 Channel Home Theater Receiver, sporting a Klipsch Quintet SL Home Theater System, and a Klipsch Synergy SUB-10 Subwoofer for deep rumbling bass. I have a decent system, excellent picture and sound.

Firefly Complete Series [Blu-ray]
The series is packaged in a single case, only consisting of three discs, so if you're at the store looking for a box set like I was, you'll be looking for a while. It looks like a single disc release, yet there are three blu discs inside as well as a small fold out episode listing. I didnt say episode guide, since it is'nt, its just a listing.

I've watched the sd-DVD release I own more than I care to admit. I honestly love this show; from the characters, to the ideas presented, and the CG. My first impression once I began watching the blu was just how clean, vivid, and crisp the picture was. This is a huge upgrade in picture quality over the standard definition DVDs. Those once forbidden, dark spaces which light seemed to not be able to penetrate, and which caused you to turn off every light source for 3 rooms, have been transformed. NOw there is a luxurious depth and texture to those dark spaces. No longer just black, now they are living shadow, now they breath as you watch, and ebb with the soundtrack. the overall picture is much brighter, much more vivid and rich of color. I saw much more than I ever have, and as I stated above, a bit more than I care to admit. Now I wouldnt be honest with you if I said the picture was flawless. There are artifacts in oblique areas of CG, and some occasional graininess during certain sequences. I'm not talking about the induced artifacts, or blurs that Whedon likes to employ. I'm just talking about some minor imperfections that no fan will mind, and only the sharpest eye will lock onto. Any scene with a CG 'Full Burn' is worth the price of admission.

Now as good as the high def transfer is on this blu-ray release, the audio is what really shines when comparing the two releases. The DTS-HD Master 5.1 Audio track is phenomenal, earth-shattering on my a/v system; two big thumbs up! A huge upgrade over the original releases Dolby Surround soundtrack. Jaynestown was really, and I mean really fun with this new audio. Honestly, I heard things I had'nt heard before. Not so much dialogue, more inflection. I came to several new conclusions about what I thought before. The action sequences are really fun as well, the audio really comes alive, bringing you right into the action, all that is missing from the experience is smell-o-vision.

The bottum line for this fan:
For me, this is a huge upgrade over the original DVD release. The picture quality is vastly improved, and the audio is on a whole new level. If you're a fan like me, you can not go wrong by adding this release to your library, especially if you have a good home theater system. Considering what I've seen from other releases in blu recently, and the knowledge this show wasnt shot for HD, I'm impressed with what they have accomplished in this transfer. I hope this sad excuse for a review has helped those who read it.

'Tell you what. You buy this ship - treat her proper - she'll be with you for the rest of your life.'

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Description of Firefly: The Complete Series [Blu-ray]

Five hundred years in the future, there?s a whole new frontier, and a crew of the Firefly-class spaceship Serenity is eager to stake a claim on the action. They?ll take any job, legal or illegal, to keep fuel in the tanks and food on the table. But things get a bit more complicated after they take on a passenger wanted by the new totalitarian Alliance regime. Now they find themselves on the run, desperate to steer clear of Alliance ships and the flesh-eating Reavers who live on the fringes of space.

As the 2005 theatrical release of Serenity made clear, Firefly was a science fiction concept that deserved a second chance. Devoted fans (or "Browncoats") knew it all along, and with this well-packaged DVD set, those who missed the show's original broadcasts can see what they missed. Creator Joss Whedon's ambitious science-fiction Western (Whedon's third series after Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel) was canceled after only 11 of these 14 episodes had aired on the Fox network, but history has proven that its demise was woefully premature. Whedon's generic hybrid got off to a shaky start when network executives demanded an action-packed one-hour premiere ("The Train Job"); in hindsight the intended two-hour pilot (also titled "Serenity," and oddly enough, the final episode aired) provides a better introduction to the show's concept and splendid ensemble cast. Obsessive fans can debate the quirky logic of combining spaceships with direct parallels to frontier America (it's 500 years in the future, and embattled humankind has expanded into the galaxy, where undeveloped "outer rim" planets struggle with the equivalent of Old West accommodations), but Whedon and his gifted co-writers and directors make it work, at least well enough to fashion a credible context from the incongruous culture-clashing of past, present, and future technologies, along with a polyglot language (the result of two dominant superpowers) that combines English with an abundance of Chinese slang.

What makes it work is Whedon's delightfully well-chosen cast and their nine well-developed characters--a typically Whedon-esque extended family--each providing a unique perspective on their adventures aboard Serenity, the junky but beloved "Firefly-class" starship they call home. As a veteran of the disadvantaged Independent faction's war against the all-powerful planetary Alliance (think of it as Underdogs vs. Overlords), Serenity captain Malcolm Reynolds (Nathan Fillion) leads his compact crew on a quest for survival. They're renegades with an amoral agenda, taking any job that pays well, but Firefly's complex tapestry of right and wrong (and peace vs. violence) is richer and deeper than it first appears. Tantalizing clues about Blue Sun (an insidious mega-corporation with a mysteriously evil agenda), its ties to the Alliance, and the traumatizing use of Serenity's resident stowaway (Summer Glau) as a guinea pig in the development of advanced warfare were clear indications Firefly was heading for exciting revelations that were precluded by the series' cancellation. Fortunately, the big-screen Serenity (which can be enjoyed independently of the series) ensured that Whedon's wild extraterrestrial west had not seen its final sunset. Its very existence confirms that these 14 episodes (and enjoyable bonus features) will endure as irrefutable proof Fox made a glaring mistake in canceling the series. --Jeff Shannon

On the Blu-ray discs
Firefly has a picture that's a little softer than most Blu-ray discs (especially in the effects shots), but it is an improvement over the DVDs (even in an upconverting DVD player or Blu-ray player), and the punchy sound (DTS HD 5.1 compared to the DVDs' 2.0 surround) is a definite upgrade. In addition to the original bonus features, there are a couple new ones: a 25-minute conversation among Whedon, Nathan Fillion, Ron Glass, and Alan Tudyk in which they discuss the series and a number of specific episodes (Fillion recalls thinking he was getting fired after the first episode), and a new commentary track by the four fellows on "Our Mrs. Reynolds." And since it's easy to get sucked into watching multiple episodes, it's nice to have a Play All feature on the BDs. --David Horiuchi

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