10 thoughts on “Firefly”

  1. Finally a bit of important news instead of all this political and aerospace crap! 😉

    Inara’s syringe contained what?!

    We expect managers to be idiots but these guys really raised the bar. As Star Trek has show, create a good universe and spinoffs are possible. I still haven’t seen the movie the fans made that included the space station torturer guy.

    I wonder why Jane need to fire his rifle (what’s her name) wrapped in a space suit? Couldn’t the bullet cartridges propellant have been complete with an oxygen component?

      1. Indeed, as I understand it most ordinary guns will work more-or-less fine in vacuum (at least for a few shots).

  2. I still haven’t seen the movie the fans made that included the space station torturer guy.

    Heh. My own attempt at a Firefly fanfic also featured Niska. Also a digitized Jubal Early (because his body was unsalvageable when the Alliance finally found him).

      1. Yup.. and for some reason they figured the creator of libertarian fiction must be a libertarian. When he outright denied this, they claimed he was just lying so he could fit in with his mostly liberal contemporaries. This happened about a dozen times before people finally agreed that, ya know, maybe he’s telling the truth and he’s just a good writer.

        As S.M. Stirling once attributed to Larry Niven, “There is a technical, literary term for those who mistake the opinions and beliefs of characters in a novel for those of the author. The term is ‘idiot’.”

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