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Firefly 

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Five hundred years in the future, a renegade crew aboard a small spacecraft tries to survive as they travel the unknown parts of the galaxy and evade warring factions as well as authority agents out to get them.

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Joss Whedon
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2003   2002  
Top Rated TV #28 | Won 1 Primetime Emmy. Another 4 wins & 8 nominations. See more awards »

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Complete series cast summary:
Nathan Fillion ...  Captain Malcolm 'Mal' Reynolds 14 episodes, 2002-2003
Gina Torres ...  Zoë Washburne 14 episodes, 2002-2003
Alan Tudyk ...  Hoban 'Wash' Washburne 14 episodes, 2002-2003
Morena Baccarin ...  Inara Serra 14 episodes, 2002-2003
Adam Baldwin ...  Jayne Cobb 14 episodes, 2002-2003
Jewel Staite ...  Kaylee Frye 14 episodes, 2002-2003
Sean Maher ...  Dr. Simon Tam 14 episodes, 2002-2003
Summer Glau ...  River Tam 14 episodes, 2002-2003
Ron Glass ...  Shepherd Derrial Book 14 episodes, 2002-2003
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Storyline

Captain Malcolm 'Mal' Reynolds is a former galactic war veteran who is the captain of the transport ship "Serenity". Mal and his crew, ensign Zoe Alleyne Washburne; Zoe's husband, pilot Hoban 'Wash' Washburne; muscular mercenary Jayne Cobb; young mechanic Kaylee Frye; former Alliance medical officer Simon Tam; his disturbed teenage sister River (both on the run from the interplanetary government "The Alliance"); the beautiful courtesan Inara Serra; and preacher Shepherd Book do any jobs, legal or illegal, they can find as the Serenity crew travels across the outskirts of outer space. Written by Daniel Williamson

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Meet the most spaced-out crew in the galaxy.


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All of the main characters have voiced a character of the DC Universe except Jewel Staite. Nathan Fillion as Green Lantern and Vigilante, Gina Torres as Vixen, Wonder Woman and Superwoman, Alan Tudyk as Green Arrow, Superman, and the Flash, Morena Baccarin as Black Canary, Cheetah and Talia al Ghul, Adam Baldwin as Superman, Green Lantern, Jonah Hex and Parasite, Summer Glau as Supergirl, Sean Maher as Nightwing / Dick Grayson and Ron Glass voiced a newscaster in Superman: Blasts from the Past: Part II (1997). See more »

Goofs

In commentary for Firefly: Shindig, costume designer Shawna Trpcic states that Gina Torres wears her lariat necklace "binding" her neck as symbolic of her marriage bond. However, Zoe is shown wearing her lariat necklace in the flashbacks of Firefly: Out of Gas, which take place before Zoe meets her future husband. See more »

Quotes

Agent McGuinness: I'm only doing my job.
Mal: It's why you took the job.
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Alternate Versions

The two-hour pilot "Serenity" also featured a scene in Simon's cabin with him and Zoe: he's listening to an encyclopedia entry on the Battle of Serenity Valley, from which the ship gets its name, and she comes in and gives an eyewitness account of it, from Mal commanding over 2000 people after a week due to high officer casualties, to both sides stacking corpses for cover, to medical relief for both sides being held back for a week after a cease-fire was declared, to her and Mal being the only survivors of their platoon, and that she'd kill Simon on a word from Mal. See more »


Soundtracks

The Ballad of Serenity
Performed by Sonny Rhodes
Written by Joss Whedon
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Excellent, unique DVD
1 February 2004 | by attlcoxSee all my reviews

Never heard of Firefly? Get your hands on the DVD.

Saw some, weren't that impressed? Get your hands on the DVD.

Loved it? Well, you don't need convincing.

Fox did an incredible disservice to this show by showing the episodes out of order. They still made sense on a very low level, i.e., there weren't a lot of plot points that were part of the continuing arc that ended up being out of order in the order they were aired, but this show is so much better if you see it in the order intended. In the aired episodes, characters would sometimes do things that either seemed out of character or really weird, or sometimes even just boring, that make so much more sense on the DVDs, even though there's a grand total of one scene (and only about 3 lines of that scene) that's different between the DVD and the aired version.

That said, this show is the most innovative thing I've ever seen on TV, even despite its mistreatment. It has nine main characters, all of which are fairly well developed in the pilot episode, who then grow and change but remain true to their characters as originally conceived throughout the rest of the series. I could talk about the incredible attention to detail for the special effects, etc., but special effects are getting really good, so that doesn't really set this apart from a lot of movies out there. The concept seems odd at first, but is amazingly well done, with each world they go to having its own quirks, charms and dangers, but it always comes back to the characters and their relationships with each other.


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Release Date:

20 September 2002 (USA) See more »

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