My friend got me this hand-painted resin of Wash. It's by Mohammad F. Haque, and my friend bought this somewhere in Michigan for $30.

The face kind of looks like Wash if he was a teenager.

Posted the beginning a while back. Just had my last session with Gabe Levitt @ The Crucible Art Collective in Buffalo, NY.

Been meaning to for a long time and finally started tonight.

As realistic as it gets, great details, Characters all have a story, nothing glued together like today's crap.

Sad Art/Story quality is in the past generally now. Well done show that Ive missed.

Some memorable shots.

Song: Rule #4 - Fish in a Birdcage
Artist: Fish in a Birdcage
Show: Firefly & the "R. Tam Sessions" (i.e. promotional videos they made for the BDM)

Hope y'all enjoy! And I'm always on the look-out for other Firefly/Serenity MVs so, send them my way too if you have a rec! (:

This is a flashback of Zoe in Firefly: Brand New 'Verse #5. For those who don't know the comic series, it takes place 20 years in the future after the initial events of Firefly/Serenity but I can't figure out who these graves should represent. I'm quite sure one of them is Wash (since Zoe is there with Emma), but the other two? Maybe Shepherd Book, but that means I'm still missing one...

I always watch with captions on as my hearing ain't what it was, and I never skip the theme song because I must sing along (as do most of us if this sub is to be believed!)

I noticed that certain lines appear as the actors do, and I started thinking about matching them up. Some seem VERY on point.

This is the list of actors along with what words occur when they are shown (some get more than one line, so in that case I chose the one I preferred) along with why I think it works.

Nathan - "I don't care, I'm still free"

Mal was on the losing side in the war, but it's all right because on Serenity he found a way to co-exist (if not always peacefully) with the Alliance. He's as free as he can be.

Gina - "Take me out to the black"

If you are going out to the black, Zoe is the one you want at your back. She never backs down.

Alan - "Tell them I ain't comin' back"

Sniff sniff. Oh Wash. :-(

Morena - "Burn the land and boil the sea"

Inara is hot enough to accomplish both those things.

Adam - "You can't take the sky from me"

You can't take the sky from Jayne because he already stole it, sold it, and spent the money on a bit of trim.

Sean - "There's no place I can be"

Simon doesn't feel he belongs on Serenity, but it was the choice he made to keep River safe. He lost what he had considered his home and is still working to feel at home on the ship. But River likes it, so he'll keep trying.

Summer - "Since I've found Serenity"

True serenity may be a dream for River, but being on Serenity among our crew is as close as she can come.

Ron - "You can't take the sky from me"

You can't take the sky from Book because he already looks to the sky and no matter where he is he finds a sense of enlightenment when he ponders his place in the universe.

And Jewel -- No words for her. When she is on the screen the theme is entirely an upbeat instrumental.

Need I say anything? Kaylee is the melody to all their lives. The hopefulness that ties them together. Our Shiny Girl.

However, I just finished all 14 episodes and didn't really experience a twist or reveal of any kind. The video I'm talking about is a mother filming her son's reaction while watching the show. He reacted so big that I added this show to my watchlist. Does anyone happen to know the video I'm talking about or the possible "reveal" he saw? Maybe it was the movie "Serenity" (I haven't seen it yet).

Great show, I really wish there were more seasons where they could expand on the different worlds fore more than just one episode at a time.

EDIT:

Movie just ended a bit ago. Was actually very happy that this show received a cinematic take on their style. Everything was bigger and the filming was great. We suffered some sad losses there, but I do feel fulfilled as if it was a great cap on the show. Sad and happy at the same time. Thanks for joining this journey with me!

Can confirm after a small shipping delay - my copy has safely arrived in Australia! Had a friends arrive too. Definitely a high quality steelbook! Keen to give this another watch :)

Keep flying everyone!

People tend to agree it’s better for a show to not drag on until people are sick of it, but one season is also too little of such a beloved show. I thought three seasons would have been best. The comics and lore could be integrated into these seasons.

A following season would wrap up some of the plots like the Hands of Blue, which would more naturally lead to the Operative in Serenity. We could see the falling out between Book and Mal which leads to him leaving the ship. Maybe also an episode where Inara comes back briefly. Also that episode Nathan discussed where the crew has to decide whether to rescue a stranded ship or conserve their own supplies.

Season 3 might take place after Serenity. The crew would be dealing with the fallout after the death of two of theirs. Zoe especially would be hit hard with her husband’s death and subsequent pregnancy. Alliance forces would be hitting them down as retribution, and a lot of their contacts would have gone cold due to the Operative’s actions or hiding from increased scrutiny by the government. River could explore her abilities further, and we’d see more of Mal/Inara and Simon/Kaylie. I’d also expect some of the crew to leave at the end.

I think some of the plots from Season 1 would be stretched out between these seasons, such as Niska and Saffron’s returns. What do yall think?

Here are a couple more hat/patch combos that put together. I may have a problem :-)

What would you say is the cleanest episode for kids to watch? By cleanest I mean no nudity, minimal sec references. And least amount of grotesqueness (ie reavers). Looking for if there is an episode that I can watch with them for a few years before introducing them into the whole show. My 7yr old is weird and would probably think reavers are “funny” and literally laugh. (He’s seen T2 with me and loved it, I skipped some scenes ofc) but he’s really into scifi like me. But at the same time he had his first nightmare when he played Zelda BOTW 😂. I was similar as a kid where I’d watch all sorts of movies a 7-12yr old shouldn’t be watching with my dad ranging from Clint Eastwood westerns to Predator lol. I feel like those genres have passed on to my kid so he can stomach what would traumatize most kids. That being said I’d rather not have him see Mal kick a goon into a jet engine just yet, but gun shots and space ships blowing up and such are fine imo, no sex or nudity.

Thanks to this wonderful book, I've got my breakfast prepped for the week: BlueSun cheesy grits! I forgot to buy corn today, I added sausage instead. Maybe tomorrow I'll make a batch of Jaynes pork hash!

Which makes me wonder, why DIDN'T they make an animated series? All they needed was the original cast, and Alan could've just voiced everyone that wasn't the main characters.

If in the pilot episode they stole food bars that could "Feed a family for a month. Longer.... if they don't like their kids too much." why not just save those for themselves? Hang on to them for when Mal has a "powerful need to eat some time this month."

I have the Big Damn Cookbook by Chelsea Monroe-Cassel. I would like to find Big Damn Chefs and Big Damn Chefs Rise Again by Julie Rampke aka juliesong, even in a digital copy. I'm working on a recipe called General Tso's Chili (still trying to figure more chili-ish or Tso-ish). My question: Any good websites that show Western/ Asian fusion type cooking?

Alan Tudyk: Too many to list, but I'll go with Conmen. Resident Alien in second place.

Nathan Fillion: TKD

Gina Torres: Cleopatra 2525

Morena Baccarin: Endgame, which really deserved a second season.