A captain's goal was simple: Find a crew. Out here, people struggle to get by with the most basic technologies. After the war, many of the Independents who had fought and lost drifted to the edges of the system, far from Alliance control. There was some disagreement on that point. The central planets formed the Alliance and decided all the planets had to join under their rule. Book's narration runs as follows:Īfter the Earth was used up, we found a new solar system, and hundreds of new Earths were terraformed and colonized. Re-runs start with Book or Captain Reynolds providing the backstory.
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The TV series does not reveal whether these celestial bodies are within one star system, only saying that Serenity 's mode of propulsion is a "gravity-drive". The series takes place in the year 2517, on a variety of planets and moons. The Firefly franchise expanded into other media, including comics and a role-playing game. The post-airing success of the show led Whedon and Universal Pictures to produce Serenity, a 2005 film which continues the story from the series. 5 on their 2013 list of 60 shows that were "Cancelled Too Soon". It won a Primetime Emmy Award in 2003 for Outstanding Special Visual Effects for a Series. Despite the relatively short life span of the series, it received strong sales when it was released on DVD and has large fan support campaigns. It was canceled after 11 of the 14 produced episodes were aired. By mid-December, Firefly had averaged 4.7 million viewers per episode and was 98th in Nielsen ratings.
on the Fox network on September 20, 2002. According to Whedon's vision, "nothing will change in the future: technology will advance, but we will still have the same political, moral, and ethical problems as today." įirefly premiered in the U.S. In this future, the only two surviving superpowers, the United States and China, fused to form the central federal government, called the Alliance, resulting in the fusion of the two cultures. The show explores the lives of a group of people, some of whom fought on the losing side of a civil war, who make a living on the fringes of society as part of the pioneer culture of their star system. Whedon pitched the show as "nine people looking into the blackness of space and seeing nine different things." The ensemble cast portrays the nine characters who live on Serenity. The series is set in the year 2517, after the arrival of humans in a new star system, and follows the adventures of the renegade crew of Serenity, a " Firefly-class" spaceship. Whedon served as an executive producer, along with Tim Minear. Firefly is an American space Western drama television series, created by writer and director Joss Whedon, under his Mutant Enemy Productions label.
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