I watched the series when it first aired and IIRC "The Train Job" was played as the first episode, but I can't recall beyond that.

When Serenity was announced, Gina Torres says that David Boreanaz was going to be in it.

However when Serenity came out he was nowhere to be seen and IMDb and Wikipedia makes no mention of this.

So what's the story of his non-appearance.

I have no idea if was a rights issue between Universal Studios and Fox, a creative choice for some reason, or just a pure coincidence but the word "Firefly" is never once spoken (and as near as I can tell seen in print) anywhere in the film "Serenity" despite it being a continuation of the series "Firefly."

ETA: Serenity is referred to as a "Firefly Class Transport" in a deleted scene, the one where the Operative looks up info on Mal. I checked the script and this deleted scene was the only time the term was used in the original shooting script.

The term also only appears 5 times in the official Novelization of the Serenity.

No grand point and I understand that "Firefly" as a registered trademark still sits with Fox (now Disney) so much of the expanded universe stuff has leaned much more into the "Serenity" name than then "Flirefly" name. Just interesting is all.

Okay so I haven’t watched this series yet (it looks super cool) but I wanna cosplay this funny little mechanic girl, but I can’t find a pattern for her jacket for the life of me! Does anyone have one?

I had all my Firefly collectibles boxed up for many years while I moved from place to place. Finally got most of them out and into one cabinet.

I am a post apocalyptic LARPer and have one on my officers coat for people to recognize. Never met one who did though.

I've been a fan of Firefly forever, but I've never given any of the books a chance.

I've been thinking about giving the audiobooks a shot, but was curious about the general opinion on them.

Dear fellow Browncoats, My wife is a math teacher, and I'm trying to make a poster for her. I need a high-res image from the first Firefly episode where Jayne says, "Let me do the math here. Nothin' into nothin', carry the nothin'..."

Does anyone have that or can anyone get me an image from the Blu-ray?

Hello! I once liked the show, but I'm looking to expand my horizons with some new content. Has the creator of the show ever talked about what his influences were? Like obviously westerns and sci fi, but which shows? Were there space westerns before Firefly, like how Ursula K LeGuin basically wrote the Wizarding School before someone else came up with the same idea?

I'd love to find the Firefly that existed before Firefly!

Thanks!

I've read all nine of the Firefly novels and have some praise to give and some criticisms to level. I'll start with the praise.

First of all, if you haven't listened to these, the narrator does a very good job of capturing the voices of the actors from the TV series. I'm really impressed with how he mimics the cadence and the drawls and the nuances. It's so wonderfully done.

Second, it's nice to see things fleshed out in the Firefly Universe. More history of each character, more information about their relationships to each other, more getting inside their heads.

Third, some of the stories are neatly done. I'll especially praise Big Damn Hero, Generations, and Life Signs because those stories are unique and the most well-constructed. The others are less impressive.

I'm one of those people who discovered Serenity, loved it, and then watched Firefly and loved that too. I have not read any comics. That being said, I think in order for these books to continue, we need to move past the events of Serenity and start exploring post-Wash's death timelines. I would like to see an exploration of Simon and Kaylee's characters. I'd like to Zoe deal with Wash's death. I'd like to see Mal and Inara try to work it out. There's so much out there and the series being squashed in between the two major stories (film and TV) is like watching Star Wars try to squeeze everything it can from the Clone Wars and New Republic Eras.

Second, authors need to stop trying to inject their political views and ideologies into the stories and focus more on telling fresher tales. I don't like reading retreads of classic Westerns. I don't like reading a book where everything is in a dream. I am SO TIRED of having the same character beats get hit over and over in each book. Mal and Inara's dance of will they/won't they. Kaylee and Simon flirting but never getting there. Book's secrets. It's old. Let's move on. You can't keep using River as a plot device to get the entire party out of trouble. She is not an oddball Mary Sue. Just because it worked in Serenity doesn't mean it can keep working. It's bad bad bad. Stop being lazy!

The most recent book (Aim to Misbehave) was so poorly written I can hardly believe the publishing company let it pass. It was terrible. Nothing interesting happened. Rosiee Thor should be embarrassed. She was more bent on making sure Book was established as a gay character and castigating the wealthy and elevating the unions than actually devising an original and interesting plot.

Does every story have to revolve around the group saving an entire planet now? What happened to them being a little bad and a little good? Now they are essentially the Guardians of the Galaxy, flying from planet to planet to save the poor and stop the evil rich people. In the entire series, there have been TWO rich people who were at all redeemable human beings. Everyone else with wealth has been a villain of the story. Let's move on or I'm done reading this series.

My sister and I are hosting a Firefly meetup in a few months at a convention and we have been asked for some sort of logo or image for the fanbase specifically?

We aren’t quite as familiar with these details of the fanbase since we put in the application for the meetup on behalf of our mom who has missed the old meetups in the last few years.

Thanks!

Also it’s my new favorite show!!! The best show ever made and I’ve been waiting years for him to tell me I was ready to watch it and I’m so happy I finally was (I’m 15)

So, I keep seeing and hearing about a rumor that Fox pretty much manipulated the show because season 1 was too expensive to make and they did not want to make another season which they knew they would have to if they did it right. But yet they had shows like American Idol that used big stage production. I see what Fox was mostly concerned about back then. Would’ve gotten a second season or more. They still do this to this day. Focusing on the cartoons and game shows and cancel the scripted shows left and right. But that’s just a theory. Let me know what you think. 🤔

Just watched the first episode and omg it was so good, I'm liking the characters already. I love sci-fi and that was the reason I started it, but didn't expect the western vibe, which is actually super cool. It doesn't suffer from modern day forced exposition, so dialogue feels good. I'm gonna binge it, but also sad it only has one season.

I've been a fan for the longest time, but I've never visited this sub reddit. What are the best going reboot ideas going?

Are there any I should go and read?

Here is what I would do with a reboot idea.

Zoe has a child who has lived her whole life on a boring planet getting into trouble. She gets herself into deep deep trouble and Zoe calls on Mal to come take her somewhere that the Alliance authorities can't find her.

Zoe has deluded herself this entire time by having a sex-bot made to be exactly like Wash. (Alan tudyk playing a robot version of himself would make or break the show) The daughter brings her robot dad with her.

Onboard the ship Mal has a completely new crew aside from Inara who is his wife. The two have a lot calmer life, maybe even a couple kids, but this new troublemaker brings them right back to a series of misbehavin'.

Wherever they go people know Mal as someone who made the skies safer but some new trouble is brewing and people are looking for his help once again there's a new cult like leader who is anti Alliance, but his methods are to terrorise and hurt people. Mal and him don't get along.

Still in decent condition. Unfortunately missing the photographs in the back.

I mean, i bought some of the star trek eaglemoss starships, and i was wondering if there’s any firefly models like that, that is still out there and i can buy. Thanks in advance