Firefly 1x1 REACTION!! "Serenity"

[@BlindWave]

We will be watching in Chronological order from now on. Thanks for dealing with our screw up, and because of our stupidity we are giving the FULL LENGTH reaction to this episode out to all our viewers as well! Watch it here: www.blindwavellc.com/firefly-1x01-full/

[@MohammadAli-ck7yv]

Blind Wave You are forgiven *sits Majestically* 😔 For really you guys didn't have to that at ALL and we would have understood but you did and that's why you guys are awesome😉 Now if you would excuse me I will go and watch 'my hero academia' reaction, manga and episode *scurries off* Saturday's are the best

[@ericmishima]

Blind Wave That was REALLY nice of you. Our little family is super excited for this. Love you guys!

[@Coff1nf33der]

Very nice reaction as always. You should really go for The Expanse when you are done with Firefly, it is exactly the kind of show you guys would love.

[@solgnaleb]

Blind Wave so you will watch episode 2 again? that's boring. And YES! Do The Expanse next! Eric especially will love it.

[@solgnaleb]

EternalDensity I was not being serious ofc.

[@stanklepoot]

1. When it comes to Mal, the issue was never a lack of faith. The issue is that he truly believed and felt betrayed and/or abandoned by God in his time of greatest need. So, it's not that he became an atheist, it's that he's bitter and resentful. 2. Just to be clear, a companion is much more than just a prostitute. They're a combination of high class escort, Geisha, and therapist all rolled into one. Companions spend years and years studying music, literature, high society practices, sexual techniques, etc. until they're deemed ready to take on clients. Even after that point, the training is expected to continue until they retire or marry.

[@PapaLobo94]

Or in Inarra’s case, the day Mal finally admits he loves her and marries her already

[@biocapsule7311]

*Fun fact:* Letting them speak Mandarin allow them to actually curse on TV on the production side, so all the mandarin in harsher tones are swear words. And they speak Mandarin & English because China & America (the Alliance) was the last 2 superpower when the human left Earth for their new system. I am actually surprise Eric recognized they are speaking Mandarin, it one of the very few shows on TV that actually made the effort to have them speak genuine Mandarin, and they did it better than a lot of US shows.

[@NeuroticNicky87]

Joss has form for getting around the censors on his shows, by using lesser known curse words in other languages/cultures, such as British swear words in Buffy (pillock/bugger/bollocks). Of course now everything is on the internet so it's much harder to do that.

[@Microme955]

What? Everyone knows Chinese when they hear it.

[@willvr4]

It's also REALLY bad Mandarin. I've seen Chinese Mandarin speakers watch this show and even they're like "huh?" haha

[@MicahWo]

​@@Microme955a lot of people couldn't trll Mandarin from Cantonese, especially withoit hearing them side by side. Many Americans with little to no interaction with asians don't know a Chinese dialect from Japanese or Korean.

[@jameshughes7946]

God!!! The Firefly 'Verse has soooo much potential it's criminal we only have one season in it

[@IndianTelephone]

The Firefly would have been sitting beside some of the greatest series like Star Trek, BSG, Stargate etc, if it had gone on for 5 season, but instead, we keep rewatching these 14 episodes and keep writhing in pain as how we will never see more of Mal and his crew.

[@isais207]

Well, there's also the movie. It's at least something.

[@IndianTelephone]

But all it did was give us a spectacular ending, but it did not close any storylines :@

[@unversedhero6028]

IndianTelephone I miss Stargate, especially Stargate Atlantis.😢

[@IndianTelephone]

:(

[@Mayhemm007]

14:35 _"The Alliance"_ began when the two greatest superpowers on earth (the US and China) basically agreed to become a single nation. As such, the Chinese language and culture became much more mainstream, especially on Alliance-controlled worlds.

[@ericmishima]

Mayhemm007 Me too, please. I think tyere are graphic novels ... maybe it's in there?

[@fabian7380]

There's also an RPG manual somewhere, it expands a lot the universe, telling the story, and it also have a section on chinese swearwords.

[@ericmishima]

Def_Chaos Thanks

[@roefane2258]

Joss said this very very briefly in the special features on dvds for the season. Right before they talked about teaching the actors chinese to get around network censoring of cursing and stuff

[@awarriorstill]

In The Train Job you can briefly see the Alliance flag on a crate when they're stealing the medicine. It is literally just the American and Chinese flags smooshed together. imgur.com/SeZiKfh

[@keithleonard6354]

Linguistically, Firefly tends to be one of the most accurate shows to depict future English. I sometimes use the show in a lecture on the history of English as an example of where the language may one day go. English is absorptive of languages around it and as noted by others, America and China are the two superpowers that survived from Earth that Was, with English being the more mutable language, so it took dominance with Chinese embedded in it. There are several scholarly articles about the linguistics of the 'verse. As with many elements of this show, it is one of the best thought-out television series ever, which makes what Fox did to it even more criminal. Browncoats forever.

[@Its_Dave_Just_Dave]

Yup, Kaylee and the strawberry :D

[@ChrisInScotland]

reddwarf115 interestingly people constantly bring Jewel Staite strawberries to comic con...and she hates them. Always has.

[@SpiderandMosquito]

@@ChrisInScotland really? Damn that's acting then I could never be able to eat something on stage that I didn't like they couldn't be able to make me I I don't have the poker face to pull it off.

[@arcplayer]

I liked the touch when they launched the Crybaby. "Cry baby cry" "Make your moma sigh". It's nice that they still like the Beatles 500 years in the future.

[@matthewnash8556]

You guys got me into this show, I already binged it all and now I have to wait...no regrets.

[@flickersense]

is it breaking bad level?

[@Dularr]

Imagine if Breaking Bad was canceled after half a season. Will never know if Firefly would have been that big.

[@IndianTelephone]

Now go watch Serenity.

[@lukewood4339]

Are you one of those people that still hope it'll get a second series on amazon or Netflix? I wouldn't worry about it, that will never happen. Its been to long. I only ask as my friend is obsessed with the show but I feel that all she lives for is a new series yet its been too long, I bet my life it'll never happen.

[@kenny38606]

While I don't think it will ever happen, in a time where we have new seasons of Twin Peaks, Roseanne, X-Files, Will and Grace, Arrested Development, Murphy Brown and Young Justice, I'm not discounting anything. Twin Peaks came 25 years later! If the creator and actors are still alive and willing, there's no such thing as "it's been too long".

[@dodgermutt]

Episode two was written after Fox refused to air the pilot making it a second pilot. Eventually they aired the pilot after the show was going to be canceled. Also Fox choose to start the series during the baseball playoffs meaning you would get an episode then baseball the next week and then another episode that aired after it's time slot (after the game). Being aired out of sequence was a problem but the inconsistent time slot was probably a bigger factor.

[@mrs.schmenkman]

dodgermutt The entire thing was specifically intended to kill off the show. There were suits at Fox that thought Joss was a bit to big for his britches. He was third generation tv writer and that alone threatened a lot of people.....plus he didn't follow the rules

[@luketaylor5848]

The multilingual use was also a way to get around censorship in the West ^_^ Often when using Chinese, the crew were swearing or at least mildly hiding insults, at least to the audience.

[@Pyro7k]

Some of the insults/swearing they hid within the Chinese lines are hilarious!

[@nathanberrigan9839]

You are the explosive diarrhea of an elephant!

[@travisspazz1624]

A show ahead of it's time. If this was cancelled after airing in 2017, it would've been picked up by Netflix or Amazon instantly!!

[@dodgermutt]

Don't listen to him. Joss Whedon took the two superpowers and merged them. The symbol of the alliance is a combo of the American flag and the Chinese flag.

[@sebradfield]

I laughed when Eric made the comment about being shocked even though he knew Kaylee was alright. I was one of those who watched the show when it first aired. They showed this episode last, and even though I had seen ten others before it I was still shocked! The "Cry Baby" is also a tribute to the Beatles' song of the same name, which is why Wash casually said "Make your mother sigh." I know you have to cut out a lot to get a 10-minute run time, but I missed my favorite line of the entire series: "If they take the ship, they'll rape us to death, eat our flesh and sew our skins into their clothes. And if we're very, very lucky they'll do it in that order." [edit] I wrote that before I saw you talk about it after the actual reaction. As for Inara "the Ambassador", I thought it was a nice touch that the most respectable person on board was the prostitute. Of course a Companion is so much more. Government licensed and regulated, dedicated to a certain standard of professionalism, I likened her position to what ancient kingdoms called a "Courtesan". Oh, and on the DVD there are some deleted scenes that tell a lot more about the interpersonal relationships. I'm so glad you guys are reacting to what is arguably the best Goram show ever!

[@ericmishima]

sebradfield They put the whole reaction up for everyone ... link in the first highlighted comment. Put your copy in and sync to their commentary.

[@mollymcallister1671]

Badjer himself said that 'Every molecule was marked' The marks on the package are just a warning, every morsel has enough to be scanned and found, "Hey, this is our stuff."

[@babybalrog]

"If I ever kill you, you’ll be awake, you’ll be facing me, and you’ll be armed." Fox, Foxed it up airing this show the way they did.

[@wearywanderer7018]

Mal is such a badass. He walks in an immediately shoots a man from across the room with perfect accuracy.

[@RoGueNavy]

Mal's accuracy improves with his level of anger.

[@Aleksjoker]

i automatically like this video bec you know, it's firefly

[@Comment117]

Idk if you guys read old comments but I love your reactions, you guys don't miss important shit and seem genuinely smart. So glad you did a firefly reaction, one of my fav shows ever

[@sallyshipwreck4315]

That dinosaur conversation was actually Wash's submission for the part. Yes, Chinese is a thing in a lot of future scifi - biggest nation and all.

[@cmlemmus494]

Note: It's not entirely accurate to say that this was aired as episode 11. Rather, Fox pulled "Serenity" from the line-up, aired episodes 2-10, announced the show's cancellation, then used the remaining episodes to fill the timeslot until they had a replacement. This episode just happened to be the first post-cancellation episode to air.

[@uptowntrigor]

I am so happy to see my friends online finally watching the show that saved my butt when I needed something to inspire me. Damn its fun to re experience how amazing this show is with Eric for the first time. His reactions are just like mine were and I cannot wait to see him when the best parts happen. Also I hope to God that they watch the movie and Calvin explains everything that happened that led to the making of the movie.

[@uptowntrigor]

"We`re still flying"

[@mogu73]

Mal lost his faith when they were abandoned in Serenity Valley.

[@aajiv1748]

HEY YOU GUYS! Firefly was good space opera science fiction. If you like Firefly you will love The Expanse.

[@kavtoM]

AAJIV More reactors should pick up the Expanse. It is the best sci fi on screen right now.

[@aajiv1748]

Amazon should make it more viable next year , this is the most unjustly unknown science fiction show on TV right now.

[@aajiv1748]

Here I watch it on Amazon to avoid the advertising. My sense of things is SyFy does not do a good job of marketing the show. I still notice a genera lack of knowledge that the show is even on. Also, as you may know, SyFy does not have streaming rights to the show which is hurting their income. I think Amazon will market the show better. Tell ya this is a very unusual show for science fiction , I have never seen one like it. It is sort of like Game of Thrones, which is not Harry Potter or Lord of the Rings but an adult fantasy , sort of off-center with an intelligent adult story. The Expanse is way different from Star Trek or Star Wars, it has a more dirt under the finger nails future fiction verisimilitude to it. (It sticks to the factual physical universe better than any other TV show set most in other space.) World building is great and the story is very engaging.

[@anonymes2884]

Scar It was sadly cancelled (by Sci-Fi) but then happily picked back up (by Amazon).

[@cmSaS]

2 seasons are available with Prime. I just marathoned those while doing some sci-fi research.

[@gwynethmullins3221]

“Alliance stamp on every molecule” That’s the problem.

[@andreraymond6860]

I think that Inara is meant to be a sort of Geisha. In Japanese culture in the middle ages (?) they were highly cultured and respected women who provided services to the highest class of samurai society.

[@Napalm38382]

7:55 River stuck her tongue out at him while he wrote something in the notebook :p

[@christophermcbride2522]

I'm waiting for Eric to realize that River is played by Summer Glau, the same actress who played Isabel Rochev in season two of "Arrow".

[@christophermcbride2522]

Oh. I was listening for it in that video. I must have missed it. Thank you.

[@ericmishima]

Christopher McBride oh mynock my brain deleted that information. Thanks for the reminder.

[@unversedhero6028]

They still haven't even realized that Deadpool's girlfriend is the prostitute.

[@thebreatho]

Unversed Hero yes, in the first video they mention that

[@tubeTreasurer]

Inara here and the Orici in SG1 are her best roles so far.

[@ezrawyrd9275]

I love that Calvin's got the cut off water bottle full of tea, that was one of my favorite little details in the show

[@7Seraphem7]

On the 'Stamp' Badger does say the the goods had an alliance stamp on 'every molecule'. So yeah, they could trace it with any sample, even if you ditch the big obvious stamp.

[@celeste1737]

Calvin introducing Eric to Firefly, be still my heart 😍😍

[@michaelmegson2778]

Fun fact, the turret mal uses in the opening has a weyland yutani logo on it. Guess we know where the alliance gets its teraforming tech from.

[@detdatho]

I can't wait for reactions to "Out of Gas".. I think that is my favorite episode.

[@obiwanrussell1747]

Didn't you guys notice the AA Gun Display Mal was firing at the beginning? At the top of the display is the logo for WEYLAND YUTANI, suggesting this takes place in the same universe as another franchise Joss Whedon has written for...

[@meganpierce9977]

LOVE!!!! The “BAD WOLF” t-shirt!!

[@dresdenfan88]

Ahhh curse you sudden yet inevitable betrayal!

[@NikstSWE]

Ahh curse Blind Wave´s sudden yet inevitable edit mid sentence!*

[@kavtoM]

@Fox

[@martinsharrett1872]

I mentioned this in the comments from 1x2. But you asked so I wanted to share again. The reason everyone speaks English and Chinese is it is assumed China and the US are the only 2 countries that survive to when everyone leaves earth. The other reason is it gave writers the ability to use genuinely vulgar language on fox in 2002 and not get in trouble. My understanding is everything they say is valid cursing and slang used in china at the time of filming. Which is pretty cool I think.

[@pirobot668beta]

Fun Fact: the choice of musical instruments was a cue for who's who. Portable hand held instruments like fiddle and guitar for the good guys, piano and orchestra for Alliance. Joss figured that small instruments travel better, get into the frontiers; orchestras stay in the 'civilized' places.

[@ZachsMind]

6:52 Eric's response right here is epic. I think that's exactly the reaction Joss was going for. Not what one expects in a pilot episode which is exactly why he had to do it.

[@AndrewFedge]

Yeahhhhh, Firefly was SO screwed over by Fox... I watched it live back in the day, and AFTER it was all cancelled and done it became REALLY clear how out of order the episodes were aired (and how many just NEVER AIRED)... well, it was one of the DVD sets I was like "I WANT IT OUT NOWWWW, you bastards!"

[@herrzimm]

It is so funny how Eric brings up "No religion on this ship".... just mere moments before he sees exactly WHY Mal lost his faith in religion. That moment of everything being destroyed or given-up in the valley? The pointless death after the order to lay down arms by Bendis next to him. The fact that the 'support' of the 82 isn't coming....... It was all too much for Mal. At that point, he gave up putting any of his faith into anyone, or anything, other than himself and Zoe. However, this episode shows exactly why everyone loves Mal. Paid to do a job.... do that job, nothing more and nothing less..... and that's all that Mal requires. But, you step outside of that agreement, you try to betray Mal, you try to cheat him, you try to go back on your word and not pay him? Well, that's when Mal's "not going to be treated that way ever again" comes out and he puts an end to the situation.

[@mrsnuffleupagus6863]

Cool link between Firefly and Alien, on the AA gun Mal fires in Serenity valley there is the Weyland-Yutani symbol, so its the same universe.

[@johanwittens7712]

I'm pretty sure the weyland logo is just an easteregg/nod of the creator to a movie franchise he loves and worked on previously. Nothing more, nothing less... And it isn't that surprising that a creator would take bits and pieces and ideas of something he/she worked on previously because you like those bitss and pieces and want to use them and expand on them. I do it all the time, doesn't mean everything i draw is 'set in the same universe'. Assuming a tiny detail like that makes it set in the same universe is kind of a leap in my opinion. But hey, maybe i'm wrong. You'd have to ask josh whedon. :) Look at castle, the series nathan fillion made after firefly. There are some little nods and references to firefly in that as well. Doesn't mean they are at all set in the same universe... ;)

[@TheDetailsMatter]

The episode reveals a lot about Mal. His pride as master of his ship, his stubbornness, his resentment at God for betraying his faith, his highly-developed skill for making bad plans. But mostly, his Luck. In gaming terms, a system that includes a Luck stat generally uses it as the number of actions the character can perform without any possibility of failure, each use of which temporarily reduces said stat by one. If the stat ever reaches zero, then the player gets hosed mercilessly, every significant action he undertakes failing spectacularly until such time as his Luck stat regenerates into positive numbers (generally one point per day). Malcolm Reynolds has a Luck Stat of 1. He saves it for absolute emergencies, because he knows what will follow after he burns it. The rest of the time he relies on skills that require a roll of the dice. Lucky for him, he's got pretty decent skill levels in command, shooting, fighting, and negotiation (as you already saw in episode 2). But when you've just made an enemy of the local crimeboss and Reavers are bearing down on your position, the last thing you need is to get into a time-consuming gun battle with an Alliance mole who likes to shoot at innocent bystanders. Burn that Luck point and Pow, one shot right in the brain without apparently aiming or even breaking stride, then dump the trash and let the rest of the hard work be done by crewpeople with highly developed piloting and engineering skill scores who can get successful rolls with trivial ease.

[@Rotolutundro]

They did mention that the food was stamped "on every molecule," so it might be a bit hard to cut around it... ;D

[@kavtoM]

I still can't believe Eric hasn't watched Firefly untill now.

[@isaiahwelch8066]

Fun fact: When Adam Baldwin acted on the show Chuck, he brought in both Summer Glau and Mark Sheppard to work on the show. And just asking, after watching both _Out of Gas_ and _The Message,_ I want to know where you guys get the feelz the most, because both episodes do the damndest to rip out your eyes, like you're being airlocked.

[@HelplessTeno]

I'll never forget watching this show for the first time. One of my favorites.

[@Chaz22]

Burn the land and boil the sea, you can't take the sky from me.

[@OutsideTheTargetDemographic]

Fuck yeah! Sitting outside on a swing, listening to the rain and enjoying the 68 degree weather, and Blind Wave delivers!

[@66DragonAnimations]

This is one of my favorite reactions ever.

[@westerssss]

Blind Wave . Please Watch The Expanse!!! Please

[@JL-zu4sr]

Every episode of The Expanse is breathtaking.

[@willvr4]

Don't judge me...I'm 34 years old and I only just saw this show 3 weeks ago. LOVED IT! The movie as well.

[@Reece_Hart]

I may have binge rewatched the entire series and film due to you guys lol

[@matthewbeebe344]

"Dang it, Fucking fox" fox intentionally left lowercase on account of Firefly. The mandarin is primarily for world building. The U.S.A. and China were the primary superpowers when we left earth that was. Also a clever way to get around t.v. censors and express the emotional impact of a moment. Just one of the seemingly infinite reasons Firefly is so amazing. Also Firefly was very gritty for its time, well before Battlestar Galactica.

[@ireachy]

Keep 'em coming guys - loving it...

[@Dremooa]

I'm so happy you guys are watching this! Awesome!

[@indig0icee]

Ohhhhhhhh man I forgot how much I love this show. Excited to watch more with you guys! Browncoats foreverrrrrr

[@michaelwolf8690]

Eric's 'O' face when the fed gets his forehead conceived is what I watch reactions for.

[@ZachsMind]

5:58 For the record, Eric. It's all about the strawberry. All the suffering and chaos and bullets whizzing by our crew's heads? It's to get to the next strawberry, or its equivalent. The little things in The Verse. That's Joss' take anyway. One of the themes of the series. Also. Feet. For some reason. Joss really liked to film feet. Especially River's.

[@Real_LiamOBryan]

Eric and Calvin, best crew. Change My Mind!

[@thehousealwayswins8398]

It wasn't incompetence that ruined the show; Fox was downright trying to get it cancelled. They originally hired Joss Whedon to make them a Buffy the Vampire Slayer in Space-type show, but then he handed them Firefly, which was something the execs did not want. They quickly made up their minds that the show would never be popular (it's a western, not enough sexy times, plot and characters too complicated, etc. ) and thus did everything they could to make sure that Firefly never caught on with the audience. That meant not showing the pilot until the end of the show's run, showing episodes out of order, and not showing episodes AT ALL. When the ratings tanked (as Fox wanted) the execs were free to cancel the show and thus their contract with Whedon. But then, surprise surprise, the show proved popular during the DVD release (since it was in the right order and had all the episodes) and fans clamored for more, eventually getting a full-length, theater-released movie out of it. So it just goes to show how much television execs back then (and now) know about their audience.

[@EmmaDelamare]

The reason "the train job" works as a pilot is because they had filmed the pilot and fox said" we're going to save that big fancy one for the end of the season knock out a new first script over the weekend Joss" witch he then did.

[@llama86]

There's an intro that was shown before each episode that's not shown on the DVDs. You may want to check it out.

[@suinegagpf]

As I recall, Fox announced that Firefly was cancelled and then they aired this ep as a 2 hr bonus to thank the fans. If it was an effort to placate us, they failed miserably.

[@FujiCahn]

Curse your sudden but inevitable betrayal!

[@FinBoyXD]

Hoooly shit! I just now realized you guys are reacting to this. I'm so ready!

[@mryan22]

"That was crazy!" which is why the maneuver is called a Crazy Ivan.

[@Ginger7024]

When I watched the aired order, I thought I missed the first week and I was POed because I had been watching the previews and knew I would love it…

[@OutsideTheTargetDemographic]

Anyone notice Calvin's cup looks like the cut-off plastic bottle used as a cup in The Train Job's bar scene? No? Just me? Shiny.

[@crapstirrer]

The pilot was a double length episode. I'm not surprised you felt you learned more with this.

[@cthulhucollector]

I firmly belive that it getting canceled was actually good for its reputation. It didn't have time to go downhill.

[@NewBritainStation]

From what I understand, Fox didn’t like this as the pilot because it didn’t match the Fox advertising as an action/comedy. So they made them film a second “pilot”/first episode in The Train Job. When they decided to cancel the series, they decided to use this double episode as the finale.

[@DiscoRaptor]

Soooo happy to see you guys watching this show. An absolute travesty that it was cancelled.

[@CaptainLara]

Love the Bad Wold t-shirt ! Also, fuck yeah, Firefly is an awesome show, glad you're reacting to it.

[@Dularr]

Based on a Sino-American Alliance. Where China and the United States were the two superpowers to expand into space. That's why English is the primary language with Mandarin as a common second language. The TV show wasn't clear this was only one star system, with a dozen(s) planets and hundreds of moons. Terraforming planets and moons.

[@havok6280]

The cast of Flash does a really cool cover of the Firefly theme...

[@jakep8939]

I miss just you two doing reactions. Brings back great GOT memories.

[@arissantorisonmars9271]

I missed this so much. Im actually crying.

[@clarissathompson]

Keep in mind, for us oldies that watched this show when it aired, Kaylee's possible death was still a surprise to us, we didn't know she wasn't dead...we didn't know that they were broadcasting out of order until the series was over.

[@ouroboros1895]

I am very excited for you guys to watch this series. It finishes with the movie Serenity. Please enjoy!

[@philipkay8372]

Omgosh what?!?! Firefly! Awesome!

[@marketsquareus]

funny thing about the strawberry. Jewel Staite/Kaylee hates strawberries so that was some quality acting.

[@unversedhero6028]

After this you should definitely watch either The 100 or The Expanse. Both are great sci fi tv shows in their own right.

[@eon001]

Am I the only one that finds it strange that there's virtually no Chinese characters despite this show being set in a universe where America and China became the most dominate nations in this universe?

[@matthewzeller5026]

I know this is late and nobody will probably see it but you talked about the alliance marking the foodstuffs and they actually did mention that "every molecule was stamped".

[@marc-alexandreplouffe505]

The Chinese/mandarin also allowed Joss Whedon to cuss and swear on TV lol

[@Buffy8Fan]

Fact (not a fun one, but a fact nonetheless): FOX never intended to air this, but did as a way of saying goodbye to fans after they cancelled it, and the three unaired episodes only came into play after it got picked up by a station (not sure which) for a set of reruns, which was also rare as there usually has to be a certain amount of episodes aired for reruns to happen with a show.

[@VolatileSupernova]

"I'm a sick man.. it was a very tender moment for me!" It was a tender moment for us all, for sure.

[@billybrame3990]

If you listen to the op one of the lines was man’s faith once died on serenity’s floor.

[@Bookq36]

The higher-class someone is, the more aspects of Asian culture they adopt. Simon's surname is Tam, which isn't an Anglo surname. The upper class usually wear vaguely Chinese-style clothing (Atherton's suit in 'Shindig)and have Chinese-sounding surnames (Atherton *Wing*). The closest analogy is Europeans speaking French to show how cultured they are. Since the border/rim planets are dirt poor, it's more like a classic Western, but the Core/Central planets are where the richest people live, so that's where most of the futuristic and high-class stuff shows up.

[@Otokichi786]

It always amazes me that the Teen Age Mutant TV Programmers at Fox TV tossed "Firefly" away like expired food. They passed on a possible multi-year critical/popular hit show that could have made them a pile of money. In essence, this was an American version of "Cowboy Bebop," which today's TV producers have been trying to get "in the can and on the air" for years.

[@LordRavic]

I prefer in the releasing order, but it's just because I love to pick things in its time.

[@JLJK69]

Wait wait wait... When Mal gets on that turret in the opening and the HUD comes up, is that the Wayland-Yutani logo from aliens at the top in the middle?

[@ericmishima]

James OH MYNOCK! I'm looking right at both logos. The one on Mal's gun could have Wayland-Yutani Corp. at the top easily. It just doesn't have 'building better worlds' at the bottom.

[@johanwittens7712]

It probably is a nod to the alien franchise. Whedon wrote alien resurrection and was quite vocal about being a fan of the alien franchise. So the logo might definitely be an Easter egg / nod ...

[@primmoore6232]

6:19 - Wash says they have a MOLE onboard. You says they have a Badger! Either way they should get an exterminator. LOL 11:09 - "That was crazy!" That's why Ivan got that nickname for inventing that maneuver! Love the drinking cups. K2 is a lot like Wash, doncha think?

[@randall-king]

Regarding the food, Mal said the food will last a month…longer if you don’t like your children very much. I take that to mean the *rations* will last that long, not a reference to its shelf life.

[@googplussucks4275]

Shiny

[@portland-182]

I envy you seeing this for the first time. You are in for a treat. Follow immediately with Serenity the movie please!

[@crapstirrer]

Not space pirates; space cannibals.

[@embran8486]

That scene at 3:12 ROFL. It almost sound like an Abridged version of a show, not the actual script. XD

[@therabbits69]

wait until he finally realizes that the reavers actually are. that day will be amazing.