this has always been a pretty powerful monologue to me. everyone should watch this movie.
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“Wash is an absolute contrast to Zoe, yet a perfect mate for her. Rather than playing out every little romance in its infancy the way shows usually do, I thought it would be nice to show a happily married couple, who would have their fights and their troubles, but would stay married. That was actually one of the sticking points when I sold the show. The last thing that Fox said was, “We will pick up the show, but they can’t be married.” And I said, “Then don’t pick up the show, because in my show, these people are married. And it’s important to the show.” - Joss Whedon, Serenity: The Official Visual Companion
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For all its snappy one-liners and rousing chases through deep space, Firefly is most beautiful—and most effective—in its simplicity. The show envisions the depths of outer space and humankind’s very future into the classic setting of for any Western, and does it so with the utmost elegance. Firefly’s space is the space of an untamed frontier, shattered by outlaws, vigilantes and lawmen. It’s a rough and tumble place, a future made primitive, where the progress of mankind means trudging through plenty of cow flops, and making victims out of whole societies of innocent people. It’s the American Old West writ large, and there’s perhaps no surprise in the fact that every planet that the motley crew of the Serenity touches down upon looks like it could have been pulled from Monument Valley or the scrub plains of Oklahoma. - Ian Chant
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![“Joss Whedon, changed [everything] with Firefly. In one fell swoop in 2002, he took the concept of the human utopia in science fiction, tossed it aside, and revolutionized the view of the human future on television. Whedon did not want a future without struggle against environment, nor did he want humanity to be without social classes and the allure of the almighty dollar. Thus, he created Firefly as an antithetical foil to Star Trek-a universe where power was still in one’s wallet, where corruption and deception retained their strongholds in the highest levels of society, and a man would (and actually could) still bleed to achieve his dreams. Science fiction was forever changed by this, and it is why Firefly should be one of the names listed among the greatest science fiction series of all time.” - Chris Colgan, The Death of Utopia: Firefly and the Turn to Human Realism in TV Sci-Fi](http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_mdb6nf0sGz1qa5ff2o1_500.png "“Joss Whedon, changed [everything] with Firefly. In one fell swoop in 2002, he took the concept of the human utopia in science fiction, tossed it aside, and revolutionized the view of the human future on television. Whedon did not want a future without struggle against environment, nor did he want humanity to be without social classes and the allure of the almighty dollar. Thus, he created Firefly as an antithetical foil to Star Trek-a universe where power was still in one’s wallet, where corruption and deception retained their strongholds in the highest levels of society, and a man would (and actually could) still bleed to achieve his dreams. Science fiction was forever changed by this, and it is why Firefly should be one of the names listed among the greatest science fiction series of all time.” - Chris Colgan, The Death of Utopia: Firefly and the Turn to Human Realism in TV Sci-Fi")
“Joss Whedon, changed [everything] with Firefly. In one fell swoop in 2002, he took the concept of the human utopia in science fiction, tossed it aside, and revolutionized the view of the human future on television. Whedon did not want a future without struggle against environment, nor did he want humanity to be without social classes and the allure of the almighty dollar. Thus, he created Firefly as an antithetical foil to Star Trek-a universe where power was still in one’s wallet, where corruption and deception retained their strongholds in the highest levels of society, and a man would (and actually could) still bleed to achieve his dreams. Science fiction was forever changed by this, and it is why Firefly should be one of the names listed among the greatest science fiction series of all time.” - Chris Colgan, The Death of Utopia: Firefly and the Turn to Human Realism in TV Sci-Fi
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Serenity is very unhappy…
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Kaylee Frye ∟ 01x01 Serenity
Caps from still-flying.net
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Nathan Fillion in a leather kilt.
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10 favorite shows → Firefly
“When you can’t run, you crawl. And when you can’t crawl, when you can’t do that…”
“You find someone to carry you.”
