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Firefly is an American space western television series created by writer and director Joss Whedon, under his Mutant Enemy Productions label. Whedon served as executive producer along with Tim Minear.

Firefly aired for one season, with episodes broadcast out of sequence and four episodes not shown during the initial season at all. With high production costs (as with many space adventure shows) and low ratings, Fox decided to cancel the series. It was later briefly revived as “Serenity”, a feature film by Universal Studios. By then the fanbase had spread by word of mouth and DVD sales, and the show enjoys a solid core of fans to this day.

The series is set in the year 2517, after the arrival of humans in a new star system, and follows the adventures of the renegade crew of Serenity, a “Firefly-class” spaceship. The ensemble cast portrays the nine characters who live on Serenity.

The show explores the lives of some people who fought on the losing side of a civil war and others who now make a living on the outskirts of society, as part of the pioneer culture that exists on the fringes of their star system. It’s a future where the only two surviving superpowers, the United States and China, fused to form the central federal government known as the Alliance, resulting in the fusion of the two cultures.

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Firefly – S01E07 “Jaynestown”

January 22, 2012 / Firefly, Sci-Fi

Serenity touches down on Canton – one where Inara is meeting a client, and where Jayne is worried about running into old enemies. He’s been there before and tried to pull of a heist. As they arrive at the Canton factory settlement, Kaylee suggests to Mal that Simon join them on their expedition to recover some hidden loot. Mal considers that having the well-dressed Simon pose as an upper-class buyer of Canton’s special ceramic-making mud is a useful strategy. Then [...]

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Firefly – S01E06 “Our Mrs. Reynolds”

January 22, 2012 / Firefly, Sci-Fi

After helping townsfolk fend off some local bandits, Mal and his crew join in a local celebration party. Once Serenity is underway again, Mal discovers his reward for helping was greater than he imagined – they’ve given him a wife! Zoe calls the entire crew down to enjoy the moment. Shepherd Book reads up on the local customs and informs Mal that he had taken part in a marriage ritual by accepting a wreath of flowers, drinking of her wine, [...]

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Firefly – S01E05 “Safe”

January 22, 2012 / Firefly, Sci-Fi

The episode is interspersed with flashbacks, detailing Simon and River’s lives before River’s abduction: Simon (Zac Efron) a studious young boy, River engaging in flights of imagination while correcting his textbooks, and their father encouraging Simon to become a “brilliant doctor”. These expectations are derailed by River’s sojourn at an academy, from where she sends letters referring to events which have not happened. The elder Tams are untroubled by River’s letters, believing she’s just playing games again, and abandon Simon [...]

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Firefly – S01E04 “Shindig”

January 22, 2012 / Firefly, Sci-Fi

Serenity lands on Persephone. Inara scans potential clients and chooses local aristocrat Atherton Wing, a regular customer. Badger needs Mal’s help to move an illegal cargo for high-society local Warrick Harrow, who will not talk to the likes of Badger. He provides Mal with tickets to the very ball that Inara will be attending with Atherton. Inara delights in circulating among the glittering party crowd, many of them old friends. Atherton asks her to be his personal Companion, but she [...]

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Firefly – S01E03 “Bushwhacked”

January 22, 2012 / Firefly, Sci-Fi

Serenity encounters a drifting space craft which turns out to be a short-range scow converted to a settler transport to the “Outer Planets”. Mal decides to check out the derelict in order to either help survivors or loot the dead. He sends his crew off in teams to explore the ship, while he and Zoe head to a section that he suspects holds the more valuable supplies. They arrive in a room, followed shortly by River who points out mutilated passengers hanging from the ceiling. Mal orders everyone to [...]

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Firefly – S01E02 “The Train Job”

January 20, 2012 / Firefly, Sci-Fi

Serenity continues to travel through space conducting illegal runs across the star system, which is under the control of The Alliance. A powerful and fearsome mobster named Adelei Niska demands that the crew of Serenity pull a train robbery, stealing medical supplies bound for an outer rim community full of miners and their families who all suffer from a mine related illness. Mal and Zoe only discover what the cargo is, and how desperately the town needs it, when they’re held under suspicion of [...]

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