Firefly (TV Series)
Firefly is an American science fiction series that follows the adventures of Captain Malcolm Reynolds and the crew and passengers of the Serenity, a firefly-class starship that undertakes any task that helps make captain and crew enough money to scrape by. Their various dealings bring the inhabitants of Serenity into contact with a number of crooked characters and difficult situations.
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The series was created by Joss Whedon for FOX and he also took on the role of Executive Producer alongside Tim Minear. It premiered in the USA and Canada on 20 September 2002, but was cancelled after eleven of the fourteen episodes had aired.
The failure of the show was blamed on both the low audience share and the fact that FOX ran a number of episodes out of sequence, including scrapping the original pilot and running it as the season finale instead.
The Firefly Story
Firefly is set in the year 2517 at a time when Earth's natural resources have been depleted and the inhabitants of Earth have fled to distant planets using the process of terraforming to create habitable environments in which to live.
This is where the idea of a new frontier in space leads to the idea of leaps forward in technology, but with the lifestyles and attitudes of the wild west.
Mal Reynolds is a former resistence fighter who fought in a civil war against the Alliance. The Alliance is a core of planets with the aim of unifying the disparate strands of humanity under one government. The Unification War was the one which Reynolds fought in and lost.
Reynolds and his crew operate on the fringes of society, selling salvage from abandoned spaceships and taking on dubious jobs in order to earn money. They try hard to avoid attention from the Alliance and also from Reavers, humans who have reverted to animalistic ways.
Cast & Characters
The nine regular characters in Firefly are the crew and passengers aboard the Serenity starship.
| Pic | Character Name | Played By |
| Malcolm Reynolds (otherwise known as Mal) | Nathan Fillion | |
| Mal Reynolds is a veteran soldier and captain of the Serenity. | ||
| Zoe Alleyne Washburne | Gina Torres | |
| Zoe served alongside Mal in the civil war and remained with him on Serenity. She is married to Wash, the pilot of the ship. | ||
| Hoban Washburne (otherwise known as Wash) | Alan Tudyk | |
| Hoban Washburne is the pilot of Serenity and the husband of Zoe. | ||
| Inara Serra | Morena Baccarin | |
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Inara is a 'companion' who rents a shuttle from Mal on the Serenity. The two have an ambiguous, love-hate relationship. |
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| Jayne Cobb | Adam Baldwin | |
| Cobb is a mercenary who works alongside | ||
| Kaywinnit Lee Frye (otherwise known as Kaylee) | Jewel Straite | |
| Kaylee is the ship's mechanic. Although she doesn't have technical training, she seems to make repairs with an intrinsic knowledge of how machines work. | ||
| Dr Simon Tam | Sean Maher | |
| Simon is a doctor who becomes a passenger on Serenity. Over time, he begins to tend to the wounds of the crew from their various misadventures. | ||
| River Tam | Summer Glau | |
| River Tam is Simon's sister and a child prodigy. Simon rescued her from an academy that was abusing/experimenting on her and she was brought aboard the ship by him as a stowaway. | ||
| Derrial Book | Ron Glass | |
| Shepherd Book is a preacher travelling aboard the ship. | ||
Awards
Firefly won an Emmy Award in 2003 for 'Outstanding Special Visual Effects for a Series'.
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