How it should end

The plan is to end this show like any other, but there has been talk of some kind of movie after the series ends, not immediately after.

Um....

I liked Firefly.

I really did.

It didn't shake my preconceptions, stir my soul, or do much except remind me of how I felt when I saw Star Wars for the first time during its first run as a child (aka, it was an amazing feeling to be so blown away in a movie theater, but it was mostly what my dad has always called a "space western," just as was Firefly).

By comparison, Orphan Black has moments when it's a thriller, other moments when it's a buddy comedy, and yet more moments when it's a family-oriented sitcom (albeit with characters who never would have appeared on The Waltons because saying "goodnight" to everyone is... simply too polite when telling each other to F@ck off before kissing their forehead better expresses love on Orphan Black). It can do entire arcs of me sitting on the edge of my seat, scared to death.

Then, the moment you think you understand it, the show turns on a dime, and Tatiana pushes that sudden 180 with all of her acting muscles, combined with the amazing support of the rest of the cast, so that I have been able to go from kinda despising Sarah to being terrified that Helena will kill her to being certain that Mrs. S. was a baddie to being certain that she would kill for Sarah to wondering... about the motives of every single character and facing up to the inherent selfishness and shortsightedness of human nature, only to embrace love and humanity as a part of heightened version of my own every-day life.

By comparison, on Firefly, all of the members of the ship's crew were wearing metaphorical white hats, all of the members of the interplanetary alliance were wearing metaphorical black hats, and it was really rare for someone to switch hats at all, let alone for more than a few moments of their epiphany that life is complicated and maybe they needed to be nicer to "bad" people once in awhile.