"I've never watched Firefly and don't plan to etheir. It looks stupied from the commercials and if its just a ripoff of Farscape, whats the point??? "
Have faith.
Firefly will be anything but a ripoff with Joss Whedon at the helm. (The man who gave us Buffy, Angel and Aliens:Resurrection.) To compare I remember the beginning of B5 when all my friends called it a ripoff of DS9 and the Narn were just Klingon's in bad makeup. (that and Sinclair acted on the same level as Kirk
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On the original topic I never really got to know Farscape, always worked when it was on (think I caught one episode which I did like).