For geeks of a certain age...

[Grieve]

I dont think it's fair to compare Firefly to any other successful sci-fi series. Firefly was like a crack nugget, a quick blast of awesomeness that didnt get to expand beyond 8 epiodes (or was it 10?). Who knows where it would have gone...

14, but they were shown all out of order, and it was cancelled after the first 10 or 11 (the others were shown a few months later).