Lovely program. So every genre has it's tropes, most works are going to fail at something though...not this program. They never did anything wrong...everything they attempted worked. The flashback episodes worked. The character centric episodes worked. The "ship is fukked" episode worked. The comedy. Drama. Horror. It all came together extremely well for them.
Serenity is just as brilliant....better than Avengers by some margin.
Basically the entire outline of the show..condensed into a two-hour movie. Obviously some things were cut out, but the whole "Miranda" thing was pretty much where they were going. I wish we could have seen these arcs play out over a longer period of time but cest la vie.
I've actually never seen Buffy or Angel....
I saw the Buffy The Vampire Slayer film in the early 90's and even though I now know that they aren't really connected like that, at the time I was like "How'd that silly ass movie get a tv show?"....