Blog 3: Classic western

Last night I started watching episode 2, season 1 of Firefly.  I fell asleep about half way through but that wasn’t because I didn’t like the show.  I re-watched the episode and found it entertaining to watch.  The show definitely had a western style to it.  I’m not sure how much I might have missed since I didn’t watch the first episode.  I watched it on Netflix and it said the first episode was like 86 minutes long.  I have a lot of trouble sitting still that long so I decided to skip to the second episode.  The opening scene started with a few leading members of the crew getting into a bar brawl with some simple looking locals that are loyal to the alliance.  This seemed like a classic western scene to me.  From what I gathered, it seemed that the crew hosts guests on their ship that are fugitives to the alliance.  The crew takes whatever work they can get whether it’s legal or not.  I found it interesting that the writers of this show made the main characters the ‘outlaws’ that are under federal investigation.  Even though the crew are all thieves, I discovered in this episode that they are still good people.  The crew decided to return the medicine they stole from the train to the town in need because of illness from the mines.  I thought it was a little strange that these people living in the future would follow such similar culture practices to the ‘old west.’  Robbing the train was classic western style.