Today is the 10th Anniversary of the Premiere of Firefly

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The first time I ever saw an episode of Firefly, it was the premiere. Well, I say premiere, but what was actually airing was the second episode, not the pilot which actually set the groundwork of exposition for the universe and characters. Having never seen a bit of Whedon-created fiction before, I didn’t really feel motivated to continue on with the series… until at least a year later when I sat with some friends to watch their unofficial DVD copies (since no official ones had been released yet) of the show. By then the show had long been cancelled. A couple years ago I had the bittersweet experience of creating yet another fan to be saddened by the tragic meta-story of the series, my own mother. “Wait,” she asked me after the first episode, “When did this get cancelled?”

About ten years ago, now. If you need a hug after this, perhaps you’d be interested in the video below where Captain Tightpants himself, Nathan Fillion, explains how to give a good one.

And for good measure here’s the blooper reel from the feature film Serenity:


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Susana Polo thought she'd get her Creative Writing degree from Oberlin, work a crap job, and fake it until she made it into comics. Instead she stumbled into a great job: founding and running this very website (she's Editor at Large now, very fancy). She's spoken at events like Geek Girl Con, New York Comic Con, and Comic Book City Con, wants to get a Batwoman tattoo and write a graphic novel, and one of her canine teeth is in backwards.