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Whatever our calling, regardless of our fears or anxieties, let us pray and then go and do.
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| Length: | 588 minutes
(9 hours 48 minutes) | | Sorting Category: | TV Show |
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| | Classifications: | - Drama
- Sci-Fi
- Action
- Family
- CG
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Synopsis: Mal and his crew get caught up in the personal adventure of a very unique young woman and her brother.
Reaction: Great series. Should have been allowed a full run. Or at least a full season.
Personal Rating: 9/10 |
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Random Trivia For This Title: - Chinese phrases are often inserted into the English dialogue (sometimes to get away with saying things that the censors wouldn't allow them to say), and the ship has some signs in Chinese.
- Every scene in space is shot without sound effects of the ship moving, precisely as it would in real vacuum. No air, no sound. (Note this does not cover dramatic music that plays during space scenes.)
- According to an oral history of Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog published in July 2008 in [Entertainment Weekly], Neil Patrick Harris auditioned to play the doctor role on [Firefly] that was eventually filled by Sean Maher.
- The cast had a running gag where they would yell Summer Glau's name whenever they flubbed a line or messed up. It began after she forgot her line at the end of a particularly difficult scene. The gag continued through the filming of Serenity.
- The cast preferred to use the ship's lounge instead of a green room or other accommodations when waiting between shots.
- The Alliance's full title is the "Anglo-Sino Alliance". Joss Whedon intended the Alliance to be the merger of the USA and China, the last of the world's superpowers. (This is why many characters on the show sometimes speak Chinese.) The Alliance flag, seen in the original pilot episode, is a blending of the US and Chinese flags.
- The entire interior of Serenity (and some of its exterior) was built full-scale and almost completely contiguous, split across two soundstages - one stage for the upper deck and one for the lower deck, shuttle docks and hold. No "stock" corridors or redressed sets were ever used for Serenity's interiors.
- Joss Whedon originally cast Rebecca Gayheart as Inara.
- In the original conception of the show, Joss Whedon was only going to have five main characters on the ship. Throughout the development process, the character list got upped to nine.
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| Episode List: | | Episode Name | Episode Slots | Disc | Disc Order | Directors | Writers | Synopsis | IMDB | Personal Rating | | Serenity | 2 | 1 | 1 | Joss Whedon | Joss Whedon | The crew of Serenity takes on several passengers and make their way to another planet to try and sell goods they salvaged from a wrecked ship. | 9.0 | 9 | | The Train Job | 1 | 1 | 2 | Joss Whedon | Tim Minear
Joss Whedon | Mal and his crew pull a train robbery. | 8.5 | 8 | | Bushwacked | 1 | 1 | 3 | Tim Minear | Tim Minear | The crew come upon the remains of a horrible attack. | 8.6 | 7 | | Shindig | 1 | 2 | 1 | Vern Gillum | Jane Espenson | Mal takes issue with one of Inara's clients. | 8.5 | 9 | | Safe | 1 | 2 | 2 | Michael Grossman | Drew Z. Greenberg | While visiting an outlying planet, Simon and River are kidnapped by local villagers in need of a doctor. | 8.3 | 7 | | Our Mrs. Reynolds | 1 | 2 | 3 | Vondie Curtis-Hall | Joss Whedon | A woman claiming to be Mal's wife appears aboard Serenity. | 9.1 | 9 | | Jaynestown | 1 | 2 | 4 | Marita Grabiak | Ben Edlund | The crew picks up contraband at a town that, oddly enough, reveres Jayne of all people. | 9.0 | 8 | | Out of Gas | 1 | 3 | 1 | David Solomon | Tim Minear | When Serenity's life support system fails, Mal orders the crew off the ship - but he stays behind. | 9.3 | 9 | | Ariel | 1 | 3 | 2 | Allan Kroeker | Jose Molina | Serenity travels to the core world Ariel and Simon comes up with a plan to steal drugs from the hospital. | 9.1 | 9 | | War Stories | 1 | 3 | 3 | James A. Contner | Cheryl Cain | Niska catches up with the Serenity crew. | 9.0 | 9 | | Episode Name | Episode Slots | Disc | Disc Order | Directors | Writers | Synopsis | IMDB | Personal Rating | | Trash | 1 | 3 | 4 | Vern Gillum | Jose Molina
Ben Edlund | Saffron returns to offers the crew a mission but not everyone is willing to trust her again. | 9.0 | 8 | | The Message | 1 | 4 | 1 | Tim Minear | Tim Minear
Joss Whedon | A dying request from an old army buddy turns treacherous for Mal, Zoë, and the rest of the crew. | 8.6 | 7 | | Heart of Gold | 1 | 4 | 2 | Thomas J. Wright | Brett Matthews | The Serenity responds to a distress call from Nandi, an old friend of Inara's, who is running a brothel on the moon of Deadwood. | 8.4 | 8 | | Objects in Space | 1 | 4 | 3 | Joss Whedon | Joss Whedon | Bounty Hunter named Jubal Early sets out to claim a bounty for River Tam. | 9.3 | 9 |
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