Hooked on Firefly

Okay, I know that I am very late to this party. Firefly was a one-season, 14-episode series on Fox back in 2002. Later, they made a movie calledSerenity. I tried to watch the movie once, years ago, not knowing it should followFirefly. It didn’t make sense to me, and I gave up.

But writers love “story” and “characters” and when they discover a great story and/or great characters in TV shows or movies, they like to talk about it. So my friends got to talking aboutFirefly awhile back. Someone men...