Telling Stories by Firefly
I started watching Firefly again; this is my third time through it. It was not until this time that I have finally begun to see the larger story of Firefly, and what might possibly be the “real” story Joss Whedon was going for (I may be wrong, and he is free to correct me). Firefly is a story about River, Blue Sun, and the Alliance, and it is told through the adventures of the crew of Serenity. Sure the crew make the watching and the telling that much more compelling, and they give us something to watch, but at the heart of it all is this larger plot whose story is told as the smaller adventures happen.
I happen to like this style of story telling. It’s one I’ve seen in many different places, and one I would like to emulate some day. It does not detract from favorite episodes, which are self-contained, but adds to the corpus.