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[@mamatthews78]

Ashley, episode 1, "I don't know about this theme song." Ashley, Serenity, "If this doesn't have the theme song, I'm gonna riot."

[@theplanetruth]

I loved this when I realized Ashleigh’s growth

[@almag4571]

Theme song: "You had a riot? On account of me? 💕"

[@therealpbristow]

Joss intended the theme to be something Mal had come up with while strumming a guitar in his cabin, but couldn't finish. He was disappointed that the final version used in the show sounded "too professional". After the show aired the song was expanded by a fan, Michele Dockrey, to a full version. Here's "Mal's Song", as performed by Vicky and Tony: kzbin.info/www/bejne/d4nTZpR9edeEmLc

[@donsample1002]

@@therealpbristowThe final bit of the score for the film is the Firefly theme being played on a single guitar over the last of the credits.

[@BigDamnHero74]

@@almag4571Shiny ❤

[@BryonLape]

"She's tore up plenty, but she'll fly true." Zoë means the ship as much as herself.

[@KateCourtney-x9k]

It's also the same thing she said in the episode where Malcom has flash backs of when they got serenity

[@awakeningcry]

NO. SHIT. I could tell that the first time I saw it, who couldn't?

[@ElliotNesterman]

River didn't grow up on Miranda. She and Simon grew up on Osiris, a central planet. River learned about Miranda while she was at the Academy. Remember when the Operative said, "Key members of Parliament. Key. The minds behind every military, diplomatic, and covert operation in the galaxy, and you put them in a room with a psychic." The Alliance couldn't know exactly what River had learned from the minds of those people, but they couldn't take a chance that she might reveal their most closely guarded secrets.

[@catserver8577]

The "Academy" was on Miranda, I think.

[@wolffontech]

@@catserver8577 So Simon went to Miranda to rescue her and then magically forgot that it existed? No, Miranda is a completely separate thing from the Academy.

[@morganrrhaze]

@@catserver8577the academy was on a core plant. I forgot which one. But it is shown in the show that Simon was in jail and his dad had to bail him out. He was working on information and contacts at that point. No one had been to Maranda for years. The alliance had received the message but decided to cover it up.

[@internetsideshow]

@@catserver8577 3:53 "And you put them in a room with a psychic" That is how River knows about Miranda

[@MrGBH]

They also removed the part of River's brain that allowed her to block out her emotions. Which means she couldn't not use her psychic powers

[@kevinedie4119]

My favourite line possibly ever "Going on a year now nothing's twixed my nether regions not run on batteries." Laugh EVERY time

[@LongShaynx]

No shade or anything, but it's 'twixt'. Short for betwixt, or between. It's old 12th century English.

[@TheDissident77]

I met Adam Baldwin and he signed his disc for the series dvd collection, "I could stand to hear a little more." lol

[@johndurrett3573]

@@TheDissident77 Oh that is freakn hilarious!

[@quietrobert2010]

I worked with Summer Glau (River) at a comic con, and years later, I saw her again, and she remembered me!

[@RobertLeather]

"Summer Glau has working memory confirmed."

[@edgarcia4794]

I've attended or worked cons for decades, That's always so cool.

[@BobarissGish]

I got Summer Glau to sign my Firefly soundtrack. She said to her manager at the time "Hey I didn't know this was made, I need a copy asap!"

[@mage1439]

Summer seems pretty awesome.

[@VernulaUtUmbra]

@@RobertLeather I mean, yeah, but I'm pretty sure the implication is that she remembered one person out of presumably hundreds after a couple of years

[@1down4upworkshop61]

The fact that Summer Glau is a dancer in real life made her fight scenes as River all the more awesome and believable ...

[@therealpbristow]

...and of course her occasional crazy poses balancing weirdly on railings, and clinging to ceilings!

[@1down4upworkshop61]

@therealpbristow if memory serves, that was her preforming that ceiling stunt when Jane was going to shoot her ...

[@mmattson8947]

It was quick (blink and you'll miss it), but Summer doing a roundhouse kick to the head of the guy grabbing her from behind was an insane use of her dance skills.

[@teemusid]

Her first appearance in a Whedon property was an episode of Angel, where she played a ballerina.

[@pFoz]

"How does a Reaver clean their blade? They run it though the Wash!" - Nathan Fallon joke at a ComicCon

[@masterrobert86]

As Alan Tudyk sat right next to him

[@cnut5475]

Still to soon

[@thesofahippo4055]

"How do they clean a Reaver ship? Easy, they just run a River through it!"

[@OldRod99]

Movie came out in 2005 and it's still too soon...

[@larrystuder6378]

​@@cnut5475 the obligatory reply...

[@BLACKHT3]

"Dear Buddha, Please bring me a pony and a plastic rocket." Still one of my favorite lines.

[@darkglass1]

Then River puts a plastic rocket on a plinth at the memorial site at the end of the movie.

[@TheCrystalShield]

"I'm surprised you make it this far... in that outfit..."

[@lurkerrekrul]

My favorite line comes from one of the bloopers: Jayne, don't steal too much of their shit!

[@Palitato]

My favorite line in the whole series is during the Wh*rehouse episode when River says "Who do you think is in there?" It's so ridiculously silly but actually wildly profound at the same time.

[@thecassman]

​@@darkglass1 Oh wow how did I never notice that link before? That's a very cool hark back

[@lilomar2525]

"I'm a leaf on the wind." After basically crashlanding is a brilliant line. Well written, humorous, tension breaking, perfectly in character for Wash. And every Browncoat gets to enjoy it and smile at it exactly once.

[@Sleeping_Insomiac]

And, like a leaf on the wind, it's already on the way to its death, once out hits the ground.

[@djcowell91]

Oh, that was sad when you said "any landing where everyone lives" when we knew what was coming. Fun reaction, thanks for the videos as always!

[@Armadaonion]

I laughed so hard at that also. Like, talk to me again in 30 seconds

[@Wiccat1]

She wasn't wrong though. They were all still alive after the landing. It wasn't the landing that caused a fatality.

[@CaptainFrost32]

He had set the scene from his earlier planetfall. Mal: Define "interesting"... Wash: "Oh, god! Oh, God! We're all going to die!" Mal: "Just get us on the ground." Wash: "That part will happen, most definitely!" Zoe: "Are we going to crash?" Mal: "Talk to your husband.'

[@MH-jx1hc]

River grew up with Simon on one of the inner planets. She learned of Miranda when she was displayed to the high state officials, whilst they were experimenting on her. That's why she talks about having memories that are not her own and, "Old men covered in blood, never touched it but are swimming in it." The dreams she has are just normal dreams/nightmares. They are her brain trying to reconcile the memories that she unintentionally pulled from the minds of the Alliance officials.

[@RoGueNavy]

"I could stand to hear a little more." That's literally Jayne, in a single sentence!

[@JamesLorimor]

"I'll be in my bunk."

[@raifthemad]

That's why I don't kiss them on the mouth.

[@IanM-id8or]

I love it that when you watched the first episode you didn't like the theme song at all, and by the time you got to the movie you're ready to riot because it's not there. It does grow on you

[@robinhood2524]

"I am to misbehave." One of the best lines ever.

[@y00t00b3r]

aim

[@robinhood2524]

@@y00t00b3r Sorry, did my typo harm you in some way? Do you feel superior now? Hope this doesn't affect my final grade. Have a superior day.

[@PlasteredDragon]

"Mal how is it you can always tell us apart?" "Fanti's prettier." My favorite line.

[@Hiraghm]

well... he's right..

[@diamondem]

"She's tore up plenty, but she'll fly true." Zoe's not really talking about the ship there.

[@Jason_xofilos]

Well on the surface Zoe is talking about the ship and her repairs. She is also talking about herself at a deeper level.

[@awakeningcry]

NO. SHIT. I could tell that the first time I watched it

[@diamondem]

@@Jason_xofilos True. I did mean at face value it's about the ship, but I was really just clarifying the subtext for Ashleigh as she didn't acknowledge it when Zoe said it, so she may have missed it.

[@diamondem]

@@awakeningcry Good for you? Plenty of people miss the subtext the first time around so what's the issue with pointing it out?

[@davidl5452]

This has been an amazing journey. So glad that you enjoyed it so much. Just a small note on Mr. Universe. You said it was nice that the solders put him with his wife (robot). They didn't. He crawled there after they left him for dead so he could record the message for Mal.

[@Bluesparot]

All the actors had to sign contracts for three films. Alan “Wash” couldn’t because of other obligations. That is why he died. Plus Fox didn’t make the movie, Universal had to pay for the rights and they made it.

[@sharkdentures3247]

To clarify a few things Ashleigh. 1) The "school" with "young River" was a Dream. (or rather a nightmare) Induced by the Academy personal's experimenting on her. It wasn't "real", nor a real memory. Just something her mind conjured up. 2) River had NEVER been on Miranda before. She "knew" ("knew" in quotation marks) about Miranda, Reavers & what happened there, because she mentally "picked up" that information from the "Key Members of Parliament" who "observed her" at the Academy. But the information was BURIED deep down in her psyche, so she wasn't consciously "aware" of it. (Which also means she doesn't personally KNOW any of the Reavers.) 3) The Alliance soldiers didn't place Mr. Universe with his Lovebot. Like the dog in John Wick dragging himself to John, Mr. Universe dragged HIMSELF to her. (In order to program/ record that dying message for Mal.) 4) "There is nothing left to see." I think the Operative wasn't talking about "self-deletion" as much as that, as former ZEALOT, Mal completely "destroyed" him by "breaking his faith". Also implying that sooner or later (probably sooner) the Alliance would send someone to KILL him anyways since he is "no longer their man".

[@Uhthis]

I'm so happy you went through this journey! The feeling you have about the lost potential, the loss of such stories we could have been told, it's something all fans of Firefly deal with forever lol

[@dbluwlf3596]

My favorite villain line was when Mal and the Operative have their first encounter. "I'd start whistling." "Captain... what do you think is going to happen here?" One of the coldest lines ever.

[@ryanotorpedo]

54:46 technically we did see Inara kiss Mal during our Mrs. Reynolds Also don't know if you noticed but the opening scene on the serenity is done in one full shot to help establish the ship and the crew

[@therealpbristow]

Yep, apart from cleverly disguised but necessary cut when Mal and Simon are on the staircase.... Because the set for the upper deck was actually built *beside* the lower one.

[@ryanotorpedo]

@@therealpbristow I think also that was the furthest they could get before someone messed up and yelled Summer! Lol

[@brucechmiel7964]

I love that attention to detail you see the scar crow gave Mal when he threw that skinning knife at him at the end of The Train Job.

[@Uncle_T]

"My turn." Oooh yeah! :)

[@Beuwen_The_Dragon]

'It isn't mine! The memory, it isn't mine! I shouldn't have to carry it!" River didn't grow up on Miranda, she had knowledge and memories from Alliance Parliament Members about Miranda. They blur with her own memories and those of the people around her.

[@bobpeters61]

It is explained how River knew about Miranda. She was the psychic with whom the doctor had left the minds behind every covert and military operation in the 'verse.

[@liamsmith4017]

Was a big Firefly fan back in the day, so I caught an advance screening a few days before the offiial release. So, a theater packed with hardcore Firefly fans. When Wash died, there was an enormous collective gasp, and NOT ANOTHER PEEP until a weak laugh at Jayne's "Well, I might..."

[@BigDamnHero74]

Once a Browncoat, Always a Browncoat ❤

[@liamsmith4017]

@@BigDamnHero74 Shiny. (Also, excellent username ❤️)

[@floresincometax9112]

And just to help you out. Booker was an agent like the main villain. He gave himself the name and tried to make amends for everything he did as an agent.

[@StanleyJohnson-tf5el]

I love the symbolism of when River throws up after the recording is first played. Her having such a dark secret forced on her brain from memories that were not hers really messed her up. (“… and some of it can’t be quantified…”) After the video played, she now was able to incorporate “the secret” in her own consciousness and “spew” out the toxicity that had been trapped there.

[@AndyCoe-b2c]

I had a friend recommend firefly to me many years ago. I was stunned at how good it was and sad that it had ended. Serenity was an act of love I did not expect, but am very grateful for. I was their at the premiere with Josh Whelan's intro. All the best to anyone who catches this show in the future.

[@RadioAlaster]

Hey Asheleigh, glad to have seen you finally finish up the Firefly saga. A few notes for you to think about, is that River didn't grow up on Miranda. One of the themes than ran thru the show and the movie was that central planets were protected by the alliance, border planets were generally discarded. When River was captured and experimented on as the "Operative/bad guy" says there were key government officials in the same room with her. Just thru being in proximity of her, she psychically learned about what happened on Miranda. And she couldn't cope with knowing that information. It's why when she was remembering and even misremembering her time at school that she kept sawing flashes of reavers, in people's faces, or how how the teach asked them all to just lie down and go to sleep. I can't say for sure if she knew exactly what had happened there, but she certainly had a hunch about something very wrong occuring on the planet. Something so important to her, that she would basically pull a mutiny on the ship to make sure the crew knew what was bothering her. The one thing I will say about it's cancellation is, at the time I was supremely bummed out because I felt like it could have gotten so much more interesting. But on the flip side, it didn't get franchised long enough to get bad. I suppose in my mind that's the trade off. I would have loved an extra episode with Shepard Book, Or More with Inara. But this movie managed to sort of wrap everything up well enough for me even if some questions were left unanswered.

[@Travelling_with_my_dog]

The actress playing River (Summer Glau) is trained in classical ballet, which made the fight scenes awesome, IMO.

[@OldRod99]

"I wasn't prepared to lose Shepherd"... oh... oh my

[@YouLousyKids]

Every rewatch of this movie, I'm amazed at how Jane says the words "dead for no reason" as the spinning camera settles on Wash.

[@daveseidnergd]

Big fan of Firefly here. I recommend checking out The Expanse, too. Not light, like Firefly, but a fantastic sci fi series.

[@elphabarichardson607]

I second The Expanse.

[@rons8654]

@@elphabarichardson607 It's just too darned bad that Amazon never saw fir to finish it. I Read it through, the ending would have been epic and glorious...

[@juvandy]

I love Mal's monologue at the end. It's so beautiful.

[@oscardiggs246]

"I don't know if I should get ready to cry. I don't know if I should be ready to be disappointed..." Yes to the second one, but double yes to the first one.

[@arndnaj]

Loved Ashleigh losing it to Kaylee saying, "going on a year now I ain't had nothing twixt my nethers weren't run on batteries."

[@random40s]

YES, YES, YES!!! I loved that you seen it all the way through. The community has SO much love for this series, and STILL does. Most things were wrapped up, but there was a few tail ends of stuff left more open, however this did do the majority of the work for tying up of a lot of things. You can tell this was a well planned movie for doing that. That said I know everyone wants more. This is such a great space to expand, and explore. I'm so glad you watched all this. Welcome to the verse. 👍😂👍

[@lonnieeastin6401]

There's a thing called "The River Tam Sessions". Adds a little back story that you might like. Also, there's two graphic novels between Firefly and Serenity. Also good.

[@VixenIcaza]

A couple of things now you have seen Serenity. 1) The ship feels such a character because she was built as 2 long sets and the cast hung out on her between takes. 2) Zoe goes on to captain her own firefly class ship named Jetwash.

[@RetroRobotRadio]

The actress who played Zeo was previously one of the leads on an obscure TV series called Cleopatra 2525. She played a rebel fighter in the future underground on Earth fighting evil robots.

[@JeshuaSquirrel]

I always read Book's response of "No, I don't" to Mal's statement about Book telling him his past meant "I just did."

[@bebop_557]

It was confirmed in canon books and comics that Shepherd Book was an Operative, much like the main antagonist of this story. It was also confirmed at Comic Con the only reason Wash got killed off was because they wanted to leave a dramatic impact in the final film. Had the show been renewed, Wash canonically would have lived until the end.

[@TuffMcAwesome]

I bought this dvd from a walmart discount bin having never seen Firefly and it converted me to a lover of both

[@Dracounguis]

When buying the Firefly DVDs it was a pleasant surprise to find that they were unaired episodes. 😆

[@seantlewis376]

The entire Serenity crew is lovable in their own way, in keeping with their character. The death of Shepherd was foreseeable, but Wash being taken out like that was a shock for the entire audience. About the only character whose death could have got a more visceral reaction would have been Kaylee. Both of these characters were so beloved and funny.

[@Insaneian]

Just a heads up, there's about 15 seconds of silence after Mr Universe gets skewered. Your whole commentary there has no audio. ::edit:: I'm wrong, the audio from that part plays at 53:56...over what your saying there 😅

[@CoverBandDrummer]

Found your missing audio! 53:55

[@Insaneian]

@@CoverBandDrummer I said that in the second half of my comment 😅

[@CoverBandDrummer]

@@Insaneian Oops - so you did! Sorry!

[@Insaneian]

@@CoverBandDrummer no worries!

[@darthazazel]

I need more Firefly in my life. I hope to live to see more. This is the perfect crew. Including Jayne!

[@YukoValis]

So this movie was supposed to take place probably after a season 2 or 3 after a lot of character development. Probably dealt with the hands of blue, maybe found out more about shepard. I like to believe Shepard was one of those "doesn't exist" types for the alliance.

[@BrianTimmonsTX]

You've GOT to watch the outtakes for this movie. Absolutely hilarious.

[@joebalusikiii5811]

Comic books aside, I kind of think Book was at one time an Operative as well. He too had an incident which precipitated his becoming a Shepherd. That would explain his ability to take advantage of Alliance ties in an emergency. Becoming a Shepherd was his arc of personal redemption.

[@sparroni]

Fun fact: the man who opens the vault for them in the beginning of the film is Joss Whedon's dad.

[@johnguillemette1969]

In case people hadn't figured it out. The member of Parliment had seen the transmission (probably sent on heavily encrypted) of that woman on what happened to Miranda without being stopped, that's how River knew what was there.

[@dressmup1]

It's a great world to lose yourself in. Back in the day when I was running a costume shop, one of my regular clients was a couple who ran the theater department for a community college. they liked to do a lot of Shakespeare and enjoyed using various themes and eras to base the plays in. Well one time they came to me and said they were doing Much Ado About Nothing and I suggested the serenity/Firefly universe. Her reply was "huh? what's that?" I told them to go home and watch it. Which they did and were like WE LOVE THAT. and went to tell their class. Ha! half the class was "Huh? What's that?" the other half was WE LOVE THAT. Once the rest of the class watched it, they were 100% on board. Great production, they had so much fun!

[@Lighthammer072]

I'm sure Joss Whedon would've approved. He's a big fan of the play.

[@nichol1591]

We saw this in the theatre.. I specifically remember my husband shouting "Stop killing my friends!" during the end fight scene.. After they took Book and Wash he was certain that the rest could go at any moment.

[@Fastwinstondoom]

I you want to see more of Summer Glau kicking ass I can definitely recommend Terminator: the Sarah Connor Chronicles, another show that got taken away too soon...

[@brianstraight9308]

"If we don't get the Firefly theme song in this I'm going to riot." You hated it... At first. LOL ETA: Loving your reaction to his all of your beats reminds me if the first time seeing it in a special screening... Was that really 19 years ago?! Damn.

[@badhabits77]

The silent moment (no audio) after "Toss me my 30 coin" is quite appropriate.

[@highlander31527]

8:04 I'm loving that Ashleigh is delighting and giggling at every character being themself from the show in the movie. We were all smiling so much that our eyes were leaking by this point. 17:41 I love how much Ashleigh dislikes Jayne and yet agrees with him every sentence he says. 38:33 We were all furious. The comics set after this were our only happiness. Links back to Zoe and Wash having a heated discussion on Heart of Gold. She knew, and had not yet told Wash. 41:34 Kaylee gonna get hers. Don't get in her way.

[@theharshtruth1893]

She was never there, remember the bounty hunter said the Dr's sin was pride, she saw the alliances secrets when the Dr who was experimenting on her and brought the alliance leadership to watch his progress. She could feel the loss of the colonists and the rage of the reapers that was what was driving her crazy

[@StormyPeak]

The actor who played as Wash, once said that if Firefly ever did another movie, that he thought they could get the Wash character back, by having him 'live' in River's mind...he would appear before her and help her with flying the ship or giving her other insights on the crew...etc.

[@everausten]

I've waited to watch this reaction for two days, because I needed to be able to get cosy and watch it as a treat with a nice warm drink. So on this lovely Sunday, this reaction was everything I've wanted since you've started this series. I'm so glad you're a Browncoat! I'm personally glad that Mal and Inara didn't kiss in this movie, because it wasn't earned yet. He said awful things to her all the time, and they hadn't sorted out their communication yet. I hope that they do, but they aren't there by the end of Serenity. I watched this series as it aired late at night when I was in high school. By the time Serenity came out I could drive, so a friend and I went to see it in theatres - it was so special and fantastic - very worthy of the big screen ✨

[@joshuaschulz3897]

The thing about Shepherd and Wash, they were moral conscience of the crew and Mal in particular. With his act to quit running and stand for something again, Mal has found his conscience.

[@Palitato]

River up on the cieling in that opening scene was ACTUALLY Summer Glau doing that!!

[@claudelemire2451]

Dark Matter is a show with an ensemble cast similar to Firefly. The show has 38 episodes over 3 seasons but got cancelled on a cliffhanger. Damn. Granted, Firefly has more charm and followers.

[@CarBENbased]

I was SO MAD about Dark Matter! The cliffhanger was the worst! Granted it wasn't AS good of a show as Firefly but I still loved it very much! I was so hoping someone like Netflix or Prime was gonna pick them up after they got the news.

[@claudelemire2451]

@@CarBENbased Yeah, I heard you can see the show on the CW for free. I didn't check the info.

[@EssEll9791]

Omgomgomg Dark Matter!!! ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

[@EssEll9791]

So mad doesn't even cover it. It was getting so fking good. I still look at my chesticles and say "boobs". Iykyk. 😂

[@MichaelCoffman-w6o]

Seeing those panels flying off had me laughing "what was that?" It made me think of my dad, and the scrappy vehicles he drove to death. He drove them til they cried Uncle, then he drove them some more. Love your reaction as always ❤ Have a good night.

[@Drawkcabi]

Highly, highly, highly, recommend watching *The Orville* for another sci-fi series. There are many reasons _I think_ you’ll like it. But there's one reason _I know_ you will love it!

[@crystalfire5564]

The Orville doesn’t get enough love

[@joseoropeza8894]

River didn’t live on or know the people on the planet. She knew about it because of what the agent was upset about at the beginning; the doctor brought members of parliament around her, so she read their minds and learned the truth about the reevers and the planet Miranda.

[@SaulOhio]

Zoe looks awesome in that dress she wears at the funeral at the end. Which is a tribute to Wash, and a callback to the episode Shindig, where Wash wants to buy her a slinky dress. And that dress is slinky.

[@StevensonMD]

I've seen Serenity well over a dozen times. I have yet to watch this video, but knowing how Ash is I am not ready for this. I'll never be ready for this. Where are my tissues, I'm going in.

[@thetrapperest]

You also can watch series called "Con Man" (2015). There are actors from Firefly. It's about actors from sci-fi movies and series who are doomed to travel across fan conventions.

[@mmattson8947]

This movie, despite its lack of box office success, is probably a big reason Whedon got to write and direct "The Avengers". He was already a Marvel comic book fanatic, and helped out with the writing of a number of movies and comic books. But this movie showed he could introduce and juggle a large cast, even to an audience that might not be familiar with any or all of them.

[@otterpoet]

Sorry, but the shattered hope of a Malcolm/Inara kiss was hilarious. (The outtakes are pure gold... one of Nathan's rants during that "Fine Ways to Die" scene had the cast on the ground).

[@christinabrown8399]

You might enjoy Castle, Nathan Fillion is the title character, and several Firefly alums run through the series, they even do a kind of spoof on Firefly in one episode.

[@shadow7796]

I was so mad they stopped after the first season. This is my favorite live action series and one of my very favorite movies, ever.

[@Lyndiloo]

The audio dropping out and showing up at 54:00 is HILARIOUS

[@MsKimifer]

If you want a multi-season Firefly, watch Buffy The Vampire Slayer.💘

[@lbjohnnyjohn]

River and Simon were born on a core world of Osiris. Her connection about the people dying were from a psychic interaction with the people who knew. Maybe her empathic whatever picked up on their collective crazy which in turn made her crazy.

[@VictorD80]

It is revealed Wash and Zoe have a daughter. Zoe finally wore a slinky dress for her man.

[@Kenvanhey74]

My favorite thing about this movie other than the storytelling, characters and directing was the pure SCIENCE FICTION in the movie. There wasn't ALOT but the scene with the ship-crane and the triple Battle at the end. SO good .

[@CallegriaofSoulbound]

My theory with Shepard is he WAS one of those Alliance Agents who lost faith in the Alliance and was rebuilding his life after having lost his belief in what the Alliance was doing. That is why he had such a high clearance and why he know about people like Nishka and how he knew about the agent and how he works. It is also why he wont talk about it.

[@ChalkyRN]

I always think The Operative’s back story is like Shepherd Book’s. I’m sure this has been explained elsewhere but I like to think that’s how they showed it within the film.

[@FencerPTS]

Two great shows that I loved along with this one: Cowboy Bebop, and Farscape.

[@neon_pixels]

If you haven't, I recommend looking up the deleted scenes from this movie, particularly an alternate take from the "we're going to make Serenity look like a reaver ship" scene where Nathan Fillion does some creative ad-libbing: "He's our friend, we should honor him" 🤣 Oh, and the original theme plays at the end of the credits.

[@RoGueNavy]

It felt so wrong, laughing at Kaylee's declaration that she was gonna live, right after losing Wash. But Joss Whedon knew that the audience would need it.

[@larrystuder6378]

River was born to the Tams, and grew up, normal but gifted... The Miranda thing was something she was exposed to at the Academy.

[@donnarawlinson5653]

I've still not got round to watching Firefly or Serenity properly yet, but the guy who plays Jayne (Adam Bakdwin) is in a really good series called "Chuck" which I think you'll like. Summer Glau also has a cameo in it.

[@goatkiller666]

They released a few canonical comic books after the movie dropped. They run into the agent again. I won’t spoil it, though. That was basically Joss Whedon’s thing, for when shows ended. There’s an entire 8th “season” of Buffy released in comic book format.

[@kittywhompus]

"Answer all my questions, solve all our problems, leave me with a happy ending." ....yeah....about that.

[@mansquatch2260]

Ashleigh evolved from hating Jayne to understanding him (still not trusting him) but understanding him.

[@DanRamosDR]

I truly hate that this ended but it was a brilliant and fiery ending. Ultimately, we adored them by the end.

[@markwilliams6394]

Now Allen Tudyk's Con Man series. It's basically about his life after Firefly. You get cameos from most of the Firefly crew plus other well-known SciFi actors.

[@ohctascooby2]

River had extreme learning ability and dexterity, she also had psychic abilities that probably didn’t really kick in until puberty. The military found out about her abilities and decided she would be an ideal candidate for modification and programming. Other than the reavers she may have been the only survivor of Miranda. She could feel the people dying there and what the reavers felt. It likely gave her a psychic overload to the point where the govt put her on ice until they could control her easier. That’s when Simon intervened and took her away. PS: i know nothing beyond the show and movie so these are all best guesses.

[@jaalsburg]

She dealt with Wash by compartmentalize and deal with the emotions after battle. This is also how some PTSD can start.

[@wubranch1]

Mal said “if you see me fighting a war, I guarantee you’ll see something new.”

[@goatkiller666]

To be fair, when I knew the movie was about to come out, I finally bought the DVDs for the show and binged them before opening day. People had told me it was good, but I hadn’t seen it yet.

[@SoulFeather111]

That is how the best Space Cowboy TV in existence ends. River and Simon had an episode. We don't get a lot.

[@self-declarednerdkingofnor4945]

"A landing everyone survives is a good landing" 5 seconds later.... "I'm a leaf in the wind...."

[@conncoll06]

So glad you went on this journey!! Welcome to the Browncoats!