I'm looking forward to your continued reactions. I hope you post more as you watch future episodes. [I'm particularly fond of the Doctor. Too pretty, indeed.]

Couple links for you.

To enhance your viewing pleasure, The Firefly Chinese Pinyinary provides translations for all the spoken and written Chinese used in the series.

AFTER you finish watching the DVD, here's Dead or Alive -- a draft of an unfilmed episode.

And, though it's no Harry Potter, there is fanfic (including slash) out there. I'm kinda fond of "Big Damn Zombies, Sir", though again, save it until after you've seen more episodes.

By the way, Joss made things real convenient for slashers by giving every character a different first initial. Nothing like the profusion of PPs in the Potterverse.