My friend has been pimping this series to me for a while, so I finally sat down and watched it with her this past weekend. 2 discs in, gotta say, it's some of the better TV I've ever watched. Great stuff. (I've never seen Buffy or Angel.)
It's a shame it got canceled, but the production value for this thing looks really high - I'd imagine it was pretty expensive for network TV at the time. Funny though that the movie was budgeted at $40M production cost, tack on another $20M for marketing... feels high for what was essentially a broken series (and, that's like 2 more seasons of the show!).
Pretty interesting "long tail" argument concerning Firefly
(the $1M production cost / episode is way off though, my guess is it was around $2M.)
-Al