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Firefly

July 17, 2006

Quick note before you begin: You can also check out our very informative and eye-opening intervew with Sean Maher (Simon Tam) by clicking here.

Once upon a time, in a galaxy far, far away … Joss Whedon created a character called Buffy who could slay vampires. Failing as a movie in the early 90s, Whedon resurrected the character for a ground-breaking TV series that spun off another hit series, "Angel."

As the story goes, the Fox network so desperately wanted to be in "the Joss Whedon business,” that they asked him to pitch something...anything.

What they got they didn't quite understand.

"Firefly" can be summed up in one high-concept statement: Cowboys in outer space. But it's much more than that. It's a science fiction world torn from our own American Civil War. It's spacemen on horses and in cranky old spaceships that have as much personality as the characters that fly them. It's a dislocated, disenfranchised crew of ex-military rebels, a mercenary, a sexpot mechanic, a lost girl with a secret and her doctor brother, a hooker with a heart of gold and a philosophical preacher that collectively form the rough and loving definition of family. (The name "Firefly" comes from the class of ship the crew flies. Serenity is the name of this particular ship.)

Casting a virtual who's who of unknowns (the only nominally known actor was Ron Glass, most famous for "Barney Miller"), Whedon found absolute gems for almost every character and the ensemble cast clicked on every level, with Nathan Fillion’s Captain Mal Reynolds leading the charge.

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