“Take me out
To the Black,
Tell ’em I ain’t coming back…”
For Musers who watched the the TV science-fiction series Firefly and the spinoff movie Serenity.
24 thoughts on “Firefly Fans”
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“Take me out
To the Black,
Tell ’em I ain’t coming back…”
For Musers who watched the the TV science-fiction series Firefly and the spinoff movie Serenity.
Comments are closed.
Woot! First Post! and my thread idear too!
Now we get to see how many respond!
You Cant Stop the Signal!
What is Firefly? Are we talking about the little flying bugs who sometimes make their butts light up?
Firefly? Hmm. *wikis it*
Mal and Zoe in the original pilot “Serenity”. It depicts the harsh environment and the frontier culture.
The show takes its name from the Firefly-class spaceship Serenity that the central characters call home. It resembles the lightning bug, Firefly in general arrangement, and the tail section, analogous to an insectoid abdomen, lights up during acceleration.
Throughout the series the Alliance are shown to govern the star system through an organization of “core” planets, following its success in forcibly unifying all of the colonies under a single government. DVD commentary suggests that two primary “core” planets comprise the Alliance, one predominantly Occidental in culture, the other pan-Asian, justifying the series’ mixed linguistic and visual themes. The central planets are firmly under Alliance control, but the outlying planets and moons resemble the 19th century American West, with little governmental authority. Settlers and refugees on the outlying worlds (“out in the black” or “heading for the black”) have relative freedom from the central government, but lack the amenities of the high-tech civilization that exist on the inner worlds. In addition, the outlying areas are rife with Reavers, a cannibalistic roving race.
Into this mix are thrown the protagonists of the show. The captain of the crew of Serenity is Malcolm “Mal” Reynolds (Nathan Fillion) and the episode “Serenity” establishes that the captain and his first mate Zoe Washburne (Gina Torres) are veteran “Browncoats” of the Unification War, a failed attempt by the outlying worlds to resist the Alliance’s assertion of control. A later episode, titled “Out of Gas”, reveals that Mal bought the spaceship Serenity in order to continue living beyond Alliance control. Much of the crew’s work consists of cargo runs or smuggling. One of the main story arcs is that of River Tam (Summer Glau) and her brother Simon (Sean Maher). River was a child prodigy, whose brain was subjected to experiments. As a result, she displays schizophrenia and often hears voices. It is later revealed that she is a “reader”, one who possesses psychic abilities. Simon gave up a highly successful career as a trauma surgeon to rescue her from the Alliance and as a result of this rescue they are both wanted criminals. In the original pilot “Serenity”, Simon joins the crew as a paying passenger with River smuggled on board as cargo. As Whedon states in an episodic DVD commentary, every show he does is about creating family.[8] By the last episode, “Objects in Space”, the fractured character of River has finally become whole, partly because the others decided to accept her into their “family” on the ship.[8]
Interesting….
I don’t think I’ll be able to participate in this discussion, though, because I haven’t actually seen the show. Oh well.
Hmm, hav’t ever heard of it. Details?
Who here has Fire Fly on disc.
1-And ’twas an excellent idea, my good friend!
2-No way! We’re only talking about the COOLEST TV SHOW/MOVIE EVERRRRR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Yeah, baby!
I have to say that I love River’s dresses…and those army boots are HOT…lol. J/k…favorite episode, anyone?
Who here has Serenity on disc?
…wikipedia it!
Or rent it.
firefly????????????
is it a movie?
or a cd?
i am freaking out now!
eek!
better go
gahh… I’ve heard so much about firefly from so many random places… but have never watched it.
When was it on? I haven’t seen it.
My favorite episode would have to be “Jaynes
villetown.” I loved his character, and Kaylee’s.Go rent it… it was a Fox TV show around 2003-ish and it was very good. The movie Serenity was based on this show. My personal favorite episode was “War Stories” because it was action-packed and Book (my favorite character, think warrior-monk kinda old guy) had a larger role than usual.
6~ lol “Ah the soft patter of tiny feet in huge combat boots”
I like Serenity (Part 1 and 2), because you get to meet all the characters as they’re “introduced” to you…that’s when the directors are trying to give you a good idea of who the characters are, and so they make sure their personalties manifest themselves pretty frequently…maybe that’s why I like the movie so much…it’s a similar situation, to some extent.
“You’d best shoot me now, ’cause…*River cocks gun*…ooor we can talk!”
I do not know what Firefly is. Pity me if you like, but I’m going to wiki it RIGHT NOW.
I pity you…lol.
Well I guess there really arent that many Firefly fans lurking around out there
*sigh* thats depressing
18-I guess so…yeah, it is…oh well, there’s still us, at least!
what was it about? i didnt watch
Well, you should watch! It’s about these rebel-outlaw people who fly around the Universe in their spaceship, doing dirty work, but meanwhile, they have these fugitives aboard, and the girl-fugitive is a teenage girl whose mind has been tampered with by the Alliance (the gov’t of the Universe), and she’s sort of psychic…that was a really bad description, though, so you should just watch an episode.
21 cooloio! whens it on?
I saw the movie a couple nights ago, but I’m kinda lost. It said it “picked up where the short-lived series left off” but from what I just read, it seems like it has a lot of the stuff that was already in the TV show. Someone help!
Anyway, I liked it a lot.
22- It isn’t. It was canceled or something.