"Star Trek would hit the big issues, with the alien coming in saying [grandiosely], 'I am from the World of Racism,'" Whedon adds. "Whereas our issues are like, 'How are we conna eat?' The Millennium Falcon analogy has been made a lot, and the premise sort of is, 'What if Han Solo never met up with the Rebellion--just did his job and never found a higher purpose?'"
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"You really felt robbed of being able to experience revelations that Joss had planned," says Ron Glass (Barney Miller), whose holy man Shepherd Book is one of the story's more enigmatic characters. "They canceled us halfway through shooting an episode the week before Christmas, and it came as a shock, because we had been steadily growing an audience," says Gina Torres (the Matrix sequels), who plays Zoe Warren, the ship's Amazonian second-in-command. Laughing, she adds, "For the last four days, we all made an effort to secretly flip Fox the bird in as many scenes as we could. So when my hand is in my holster, maybe four out of five fingers are concealed. You do what you can under the circumstances."
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As for Serenity's captain, "we were allowed in the movie to make him as dark as we wanted to in the series," says Fillion. "I might just be talking out of my ass, but as it stands, I would not mind being pigeonholed for the rest of my life as Malcolm Reynolds. I don't look at William Shatner doing Boston Legal and say, 'Oh, he'll only ever be Captain Kirk to me.' But he has immortalized a character. I wouldn't mind Malcolm Reynolds being immortal. Right now, he's like a dirty secret."

tehipite_tom | Firefly&Serenity | 00:37 CET | 7 comments total | tags: serenity