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Firefly features a few familiar faces, notably The X-Files' Baldwin, who is effective as the gruff Jayne, and Alias' Torres, inhabiting one of her trademark tough-chick roles. But most of the players are relatively unknown, and the standouts are the comely Baccarin, who convincingly conveys her character's sophistication, and Fillion, who is part Jimmy Stewart and part David Boreanaz. The show's biggest challenge, aside from a deadly timeslot, will be doing justice to each character in the large cast—a shortcoming of Whedon's other shows as well. — Resa

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... Fillion, who is part Jimmy Stewart and part David Boreanaz.

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The show's biggest challenge, aside from a deadly timeslot, will be doing justice to each character in the large cast—a shortcoming of Whedon's other shows as well.

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Whether or not Whedon and his crew can pull off another great series is difficult to know at this stage. No pilot has been available for preview and only brief glimpses have been seen. But it sounds and looks fantastic, and more importantly, I trust Whedon to do a good job. As far as the timeslot, there's no serious competition for the series, which will air early on Friday night. The biggest problem will most likely be Fox, considering they don't have much patience these days with new shows.

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Now, that's just crap. I don't watch Angel a lot, but I never saw a show that made such good use of its actors as does Buffy.

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The timeslot really is a mixed blessing. There is nothing that would even remotely distract any viewer who might want to watch Firefly, but many potential viewers are not watching TV then.

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Originally posted by MollyBloom:
Of course, this isn't a very intelligent comment about the timeslot but . . I love it. One of my good friends and I were just starting high school when the X-Files premiered on Friday nights. We were crazy about the show and had sleep-overs almost every Friday. Then they switched the show to Sunday. No more sleep-overs on a school night. Now we're both in grad school in different cities and when I told her that a very cool show was going to be on Friday nights, her first reaction was "yay! Sleep-overs again!" So, whether or not Friday night will be a death-slot, it gives me the warm fuzzies.

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Originally posted by millernate:
I could also point out the general ignoring in the past of: Tara, Giles (ask 90% of fans how he was used in Seasons 4-5 and be prepared for a complaint), and Oz.

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