Hello everyone and welcome to the last edition of Firefly catchup with episode 14, Lost in Space. Now I know there is a movie that was made a little after that finishes off so before the question comes…yes I will be watching it and doing a review. Now, if I did not know that there was a movie I would have been ever so annoyed after watching this. The episode itself was great but it wrapped up nothing at all. I can’t imagine how annoyed people were when this first came out, especially if the movie wasn’t immediately announced afterwards.

Moving onto the actual episode itself and I have to say they went out on a high. It just left you feeling sad with all the teasing they were doing. Did they know this was even going to be the last episode? Simon and Kay Lee were almost kissing and the volume of the shout I let out when Book interrupted them was very loud. Speaking of Book, that Bounty Hunter had to say he wasn’t a shepherd didn’t he. I always knew there was more to him and they drop that in right at the end. He is probably the biggest missed opportunity in the show. There were some great one liners again with my favourite coming when Wash dismissed River being psychic because it was like something out of science fiction only for Zoe to reply “we live on a spaceship dear”. The banter between them all is just so good and I really am going to miss it.

Credit also has to go the actor who played the Bounty Hunter. He wasn’t exactly conventional but really carried an air of menace and intimidation. The scene where he threatened Kay Lee was particularly uncomfortable to watch. They even dripped in a bit of comedy with him towards the end but never enough to dilute his presence. The whole thing with River being the ship was very weird and caught me off guard and I was kind of relieved that it was all a ruse. If it were true then it would have been a very random thing for the show to do and I don’t know how I would have felt about it. The only real down was some characters not getting that much screen time but that was probably because I knew it was the last episode and just wanted to see everybody. I do have to say though that the bait and switch with Jayne using his gun curtain as a blanket was very well done. Only the movie left now and I guess I’ll just have to get on and watch it to find out if at least some of the loose ends are tied up.

DD Rating: 9/10