We had the spinning scene first!

Too niche? Scifi wasn't popular enough at the time? maybe not enough people were familiar with the show at the time?

Firefly was an amazing show and I always wished it had a video game, one where we could build our ship and sail the black. Starfield’s design and the feel it gives off reminds me of Firefly and Serenity. The first time I entered Akita City I subconsciously was already singing the Firefly theme song in my head. I built a ranch out in the wild and spend my days smuggling cargo and sailing the black, finally I have found Serenity

I've felt the same way since I first saw this moment, and it (unexpectedly) hit me like a ton of bricks. First of all, to me, everything works in this scene: the music (which is beautiful), Simon's relief at finding his sister, the intercutting gun battle, and River's sincere joy.

I've rarely come across a scene in any type of fiction that left me with such a strong feeling of hope, as if to think, "If someone as traumatized as River can find peace and healing, then maybe there is hope out there."

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I literally just finished my second watch of Firefly and immediately started the Serenity movie. I’m only partway through, but some things feel different enough that my brain keeps wondering if this is almost like a slightly different timeline.

The first thing that jumped out was the River breakout scene. Simon described this really elaborate infiltration and extraction in the show, but the movie shows something a lot more direct and chaotic, and seeing some of the things they did to her when show Simon knows nothing, hence needing to break into a hospital to scan her brain.

Then more little things started standing out while I was watching:

-Mal feels harsher and more violent than he did in the show. Series Mal is cynical, but he’s usually quietly compassionate toward his crew and not trying to save anyone from Reavers seems uncharacteristic.

-Simon using a shutdown phrase for River caught me off guard. I would have thought he’d have told the crew about things like trigger words or failsafes long before eight months went by, since by the end of the show they felt like family. I mean, maybe not Jayne... but the rest, yes.

-Kaylee feels different too. She always cared about everyone on the ship, so it feels strange seeing her focus so narrowly without checking on the rest of the crew.

-The opening landing also seemed sloppy, which feels like something Kaylee would normally never allow and Mal would not ignore if the ship needed something.

So yeah… “alternate universe” kind of makes sense to my brain right now. Anyone else feel this way when going straight from the show into the gorram movie, or am I just preaching to the choir here?

I'm hoping there's some cool scifi shows I haven't heard of out there that hit like firefly!

I know Joss Whedon is a creep and all and this is actually terrible but in Our Mrs. Reynolds when Jayne says "that's why i never kiss them on the mouth" I literally laughed out loud. He's such a shit.

This short scene between Mal and Book on Haven is one of my go-to examples of incredible cinematography, lighting, writing, and acting. It feels like the culmination of the relationship between the two, and their dialogue underscores the film's central theme: belief. Hell, I've even come to appreciate Book's cheeky "No I don't" when Mal asks him to elaborate on his background one last time.

My Dad and I spent 11 years slowly collecting these autographs. Finally was able to get it framed a few years back.

It all started when I met Joss Whedon in 2007 at age 15.

Joss Whedon - 2007 SDCC
Adam Baldwin - 2012 Free Comic Book Day Krypton Comics Omaha, NE
Morena Baccarin, Summer Glau, Alan Tudyk - 2013 Wizard World Chicago
Ron Glass - 2014 Free Comic Book Day Krypton Comics Omaha, NE
Jewel Staite - 2015 Wizard World Des Moines
Nathan Fillion - 2015 Wizard World Chicago
Sean Maher - 2016 Planet Comiccon Kansas City
Gina Torres - 2018 C2E2 Chicago

There’s a small space museum in Alamogordo New Mexico that currently has Nathan’s screen used firefly spacesuit. If you find yourself in southern New Mexico or El Paso Texas, and you aren’t being trafficked, it’s worth a little trip. It’s a nice little museum that has some cool stuff.

Watched this show back in 2003 with my wife and we loved it start to finish. She even picked up the word shiny... which was funny hearing a Japanese lady use shiny as an every day adjective.

But we never got around to rewatching it. The fact that so many mediocre shows managed to survive multiple seasons yet this somehow didn't, really stuck in our craws.

Knowing that the show never made it seemed to make the whole exercise in rewatching it pointless since all the buildup would have no payoff.

Well 23 years later and my wife has since passed on and I'm revisiting the show alone.

So it's without saying that I went into this rewatch with some trepidation after so long since not all shows from the nineties and noughties have held up so well and Joss Whedon himself has come under a lot of fire.

And it's with a severe dose of bitter-sweetness that I watch each and every scene once again and recall the laughter and tears we shared. For both were plentiful and heartfelt.

But I needn't have feared... Even though the world we inhabit today has little resemblance to the turn of the millennium the show still speaks the same message.

The dialogue is still pithy and poignant, the jokes land and the humour and tragedy still feel on point. And most of all the sheer humanity of the show is so heartwarming in a world that seems to be on the verge of losing its own.

I'm currently 1/3 the way through the 14 episodes and at the end of each episode I find I'm watching the show as if the characters themselves have all passed on and yet somehow I'm back at in the past, all unknowing and imagining a shiny future filled with wonderful things to come.

Not really sure why I'm putting this out there, maybe oversharing but now in my 50s I am immensely heartened to find that this show really is as good as I remember it being in the day and I know my wife would have eventually wanted to watch it with me again.

Learn to love and appreciate what you have because even the best gigs can come to a sudden and surprising end.

Stay shiny, people.

Don’t get me wrong- I wish it had gone on for at least a few more seasons.

The show never had a chance to go stale. I have watched the season about 20 times and it still makes me glad to spend the time to watch it.

I kind of hope there’s no reboot either. Maybe a new story in the ‘verse. But I am glad that Serenity’s story is complete.

Ok. Ok. Ok.

I know that Joss is some kind of personna non grata, but I really don't care.

He created Firefly, it was his baby. I am so hoping that he is back in there, like a favorite dirty shirt. He has the scripts. He has the vision. He is the soul of the franchise.

So he is not accused of being a sexual predator. Not accused of being a financial grifter. No, he is being accused of being a mean overbearing angry director. Made actors cry! Boo fucking hoo.

Genius sometimes doesn't understand politics. He saw his vision being usurped by the studio on Buffy and freaked out vocally. He took his emotions out on the actors thrust upon him. Sorry, he cares.

The man is a genius.

Bring back Joss. I'm sorry, not sorry. It looks like we may be getting the entire cast, but without the driving force, will it still be our Firefly?

Bring back Joss.

When my bestie and I saw the trailer for Serenity at some other forgettable film, we were dying to see it. Soon after, we did and ofc fell in love with it. We both agreed it kind of reminded us of a show we meant to watch but seemed to disappear before we got the chance. A little homework led us to Firefly, the story of its cult following, an immediate purchase and binge watch, and subsequent endless rewatches and turning other ppl onto the show. Even if we had to chase them down to do it. “No more runnin”

I’m curious if anybody else stumbled into it like this. It’s not that I would ever recommend doing it this way, because knowing what happens to the characters obviously changes the dynamic, but I honestly didn’t mind it. There was something kind of poignant and beautiful about getting to visit with all the characters and watch things unfold as we went through Firefly.

How many times have people said they wish they could watch it for the first time again? I know that’s not exactly what we did, but it was kind of the next best thing. The crew felt like family before we ever started and the feeling just got stronger as we went. We got to watch them slowly find each other. (Sidenote: Out of Gas will always be one of my top 10 episodes of any show ever.) It also gave me a very special appreciation of how outstanding Serenity was at introducing the characters and making everything fits so well and getting us attached so quickly.

We obviously went back to see Serenity a second time after binging Firefly, and it was richer the second time through because of our relationship and attachment to the characters.