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Got my hopes up - David64 - 03-07-2026
I just ran across this on YouTube and thought it was a teaser for bringing back Firefly one more time. Maybe a "where are they now" sort of movie that shows them getting the team back together for one last adventure
Minus the ones who died in Serenity of course.
Come to find out, it may be that they're coming out with bobblehead dolls, that's why all the nodding in the video.
Assholes. Got my hopes up.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5U1o3PiYj0k
RE: Got my hopes up - Moon68 - 03-07-2026
I can't watch it currently but, yeah, there's been a couple videos I've come across.
Assholes is right!
RE: Got my hopes up - SomeJackleg - 03-07-2026
loved both the series and movie, fox really screwed the pooch with that one. like cbs with Jericho
RE: Got my hopes up - Ninurta - 03-07-2026
Unfortunately, there will never be another episode of Firefly. The folks who own the copyrights to the show are not allowing anyone to create any more shows, or even scripts.
So what little we have now is all we will ever have of one of he finest shows to ever grace a TV set.
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RE: Got my hopes up - GRIZZ0317 - 03-07-2026
(03-07-2026, 09:48 PM)Ninurta Wrote: Unfortunately, there will never be another episode of Firefly. The folks who own the copyrights to the show are not allowing anyone to create any more shows, or even scripts.
So what little we have now is all we will ever have of one of he finest shows to ever grace a TV set.
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That is extremely depressing.
RE: Got my hopes up - rickymouse - 03-09-2026
(03-07-2026, 07:15 PM)David64 Wrote: I just ran across this on YouTube and thought it was a teaser for bringing back Firefly one more time. Maybe a "where are they now" sort of movie that shows them getting the team back together for one last adventure
Minus the ones who died in Serenity of course.
Come to find out, it may be that they're coming out with bobblehead dolls, that's why all the nodding in the video.
Assholes. Got my hopes up.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5U1o3PiYj0k
First he was a Firefly, then he started playing chess...he was castle-ing at first then he got downgraded to a a plain Rookie later in life.
Watched most of the shows he was in over the years.
RE: Got my hopes up - Michigan Swamp Buck - 03-09-2026
Firefly was cool, I watched it, every episode, when it aired. Personally, as good as it was, I never thought it was as great as people here make it sound.
Fun, fantasy, and adventure. I'm tired of that. Maybe I want some hard, edgy, realistic space show that highlights the true dangers of space travel in some space-faring future. The humanoid aliens are lame. I think the movie "Alien" had the right idea about how a well-adapted alien can be a terror. The alien environments are lame, too, in most sci-fi productions. I grow tired of the Southern California desert as the backdrop of alien planets. I want an entirely alien ecosystem that is as bizarre as the one on "Avatar," except everything wants to eat or infect you.
Back in the 50s and 60s, there seemed to be a lot more fantastic aliens and alien worlds. Maybe because they weren't jaded by current scientific advances and the lack of knowledge had them reach farther. They didn't have the production that they have now, so the costumes and sets were primitive by today's standards, but they had one hell of an imagination.
RE: Got my hopes up - Freija - 03-13-2026
Official announcement on Sunday, March 15th at Awesome Con.
Possible live action reboot?. Possible animated series? Possible video game? Something is coming, that seems certain
Here's all the teasers in one place:
RE: Got my hopes up - OmegaLogos - 03-13-2026
Explanation: I am a leaf on the wind ... watch how I soar!
Personal Disclosure: I never saw the tv series but I went and watched Serenity in the movie theater with my waifu ... we loved it!
My favorite character was the ... The Operative!
Favorite lines from the movie by Mal ...
Right now, I'm going to have to go with WRATH!!!
As for that nerve ... I had it moved!
I'm going to show you a world without sin!
RE: Got my hopes up - Freija - 03-15-2026
Quote:After a week of teasing, it turns out that the Firefly cast is reuniting for an animated series. Maybe.The Return of ‘Firefly’ Could Be an Animated Series
We say “maybe” because as Nathan Fillion and the others revealed during Washington DC’s Awesomecon, this hasn’t been picked up by a streamer yet. But the idea is for Fillion, Gina Torres, Alan Tudyk, and the rest of the living cast to reprise their roles from the cult classic series in another medium. Set between the show’s first season and the 2005 film Serenity, the show would tell more of the crew’s exploits and keep the established lore going while filling in new details about the universe.
Concept art
I will watch it!
RE: Got my hopes up - quintessentone - 03-15-2026
I didn't have time to watch FireFly what was it about and why was it so good at the time? Did it offer anything new in science fiction writing?
RE: Got my hopes up - Freija - 03-16-2026
(03-15-2026, 10:04 PM)quintessentone Wrote: I didn't have time to watch FireFly what was it about and why was it so good at the time? Did it offer anything new in science fiction writing?
Firefly was an outer space sci-fi western of sorts. Serenity was the ship but the real emphasis was the roguish cast and their storied adventures.
Here's a quick summary:
The whole season is available to buy on Prime Video for cheap. I may have some credits but for me all 14 episodes are $5.23 or if purchased separately, $1.23 each. I think I'll pick it up.
RE: Got my hopes up - Ninurta - 03-16-2026
(03-15-2026, 10:04 PM)quintessentone Wrote: I didn't have time to watch FireFly what was it about and why was it so good at the time? Did it offer anything new in science fiction writing?
it was a "Space Opera" in which tales of the old west were set in space of the far future, around 2500 AD.
The actual setting was "the 'Verse", a pentuple star system complete with "planets" and "moons", designation for which seemed to be often interchangeable. "Interstellar travel", after the initial colonization from Earth to the 'Verse, was confined to stars withing the pentuple star system.
Most of the planets and moons were terraformed. A terraforming accident went wrong on Miranda, the outermost planet or moon of the system, giving rise to "The Reavers", the most predatory race of humans to ever exist.
The initial episodes were set 6 years after the end of a war in which the "Alliance" also known as "Federals" of the central planets seized control of the entire system, opposed by the "independents", also called "Browncoats" of the outer planets. Malcolm Reynolds (captain of the Firefly) and Zoe Washburn (First Officer) fought together for the Independents during the war. Their last action of the war was fought in Serenity Valley, from which the Firefly ship "Serenity" was named.
Serenity is a cargo / transport space ship. The crew of Serenity. a truly mismatched bunch, haul cargo and occasionally illegally salvage space wrecks. Some of the cargo is strictly legal and above board, sometimes it's in a "gray area", and at other times about as illegal as it gets. They take whatever cargo they need to survive, no questions asked. Sort of like the old "BJ and the Bear" trucking show.
Of course the gray areas and illegal cargos sometimes bring them into conflict with the Alliance conquerors.
The crew was composed of:
1. Malcolm Reynolds, Captain. Fiercely protective of his crew, even the ones he didn't like.
2. Zoe Washburn, Second in Command. married to the pilot of the crew, even though she didn't much like him either at first.
3.Hoban "Wash" Washburn, pilot. A gifted pilot.
3. Kaylee Winnet Frye, engineer. Loves Serenity as if she were her own child, and fiercely protective thereof.
4, Jayne Cobb, the muscle of the outfit, a former mercenary. It could probably still be fairly said that he's a current mercenary. Not overly bright, but tends to cut to the chase in his efforts to understand a thing.
5. Inara Serra, a "Companion". More or less a Space Hooker along the lines of a Geisha. Her role is to provide the ship with a degree of respectability, as Companion is, in this verse, an honored profession.
6. "Shepherd" Darriel Booke, a religious cleric who finds himself among thieves and cutthroats as part of the crew. Shepherd Booke is the conscience of the crew, since many of the rest are notably lacking in that quality. He has a shadowy past, and it's presumed that he was at one time an "Operative" for the Alliance before he took up religion.
7. Simon Tam, ships surgeon. Simon had a brilliant future in medicine on the central planets before he "sprung" his sister from Alliance experimentation. He, along with his sister, are now on the run from the Alliance, which is how they find themselves part of the Serenity crew.
8. River Tam, sister of Simon Tam. A bit off in the head due to the Alliance experimentation on her which had the effect of scrambling her brains. After Simon rescued her, the Alliance is hard after retrieving her. This circumstance brings some of the dramatic conflict into the series, often with other crew members.
I thought it was a great show, and was saddened after it's cancellation after only 13 episodes (14 if you count one mega episode as two separate episodes). On the flip side of that, the short runs makes it eminently bingeable, because it doesn't go on and on and on.
I went so far, several years ago, as to create a "'Verse" add-on for Celestia. Never put it out in public, though. It was created from the astronomical data contained in "the 'Verse in Numbers", a PDF file cataloging all of the stars and "moons" of the "verse available on the internet, and would put the Firefly 'Verse in motion on your computer screen with the possibility of visiting each moon or planet and entering orbit there.
So, yeah, paint me up as a fanboi.
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RE: Got my hopes up - Ninurta - 03-16-2026
(03-16-2026, 03:51 AM)Freija Wrote: The whole season is available to buy on Prime Video for cheap. I may have some credits but for me all 14 episodes are $5.23 or if purchased separately, $1.23 each. I think I'll pick it up.
A while back, I binged the whole season again for "free" on Hulu. I put "free" in quotes because it was a a part of the package, but not being the brains of this outfit, I don't know if it's a paid package or not. All I know is that it didn't cost me any extra if it cost me anything at all.
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