Tevun-Krus #12 - Space Western

Five Reasons (someone) Should Make Another Season of Firefly

A fun little interactive article by @parishsp

Listen, we've all been engrossed, obsessed, probably a little grossed-out (did you see the one where Mal was tortured? Or when he floated around a ship of bloated bodies?), and let’s face it, inspired by the all-too-sad-to-see-it-go Firefly. 

For those of you who are completely lost right now—What the heck is Firefly?—you have two options: one, stop right now, log onto your Netflix account, and binge on the fourteen episodes as fast as possible; or two, finish reading this article, then log onto your Netflix account, and binge on the fourteen episodes as fast as possible.

Either way, you won’t be disappointed.

Hopefully. Well, maybe only if you opt for option two, but let’s just assume you actually like the article I wrote.

Either way, below you will find five reasons someone should bring Firefly back. By no means am I a business major (I can barely balance my bank account). So, if you’re looking for reasons that might actually make the case for spending thousands of dollars producing a television space western, you may not find them here. However, I still think that these have some legitimacy to them.

A’hem.

I give you:

Five Reasons (someone) Should Make Another Season of Firefly

In no particular order, here we go!

 

1. Because Zoe Washburne is a badass.

Really, you just look at her and want to start doing push ups. This no-nonsense first mate of Serenity not only looks good in military garb, loves her husband fiercely and sweetly while still maintaining her sharp edges, shows respect, fights for what she believes in, is quick on her feet, and has her own wit about her.

Really, we need more women out there like Zoe.

2. Tall Card

All throughout the series, you see the crew playing this card game where they talk about plums, and sigh, and seem really, really into it. The name of the game is “Tall Card”, and although they seem to take it pretty seriously, I ask you, does anyone actually know how to play Tall Card?

A little research revealed to me that you can actually buy a Tall Card game online, but something tells me it’s not quite the same thing. It’s kind of like New Girl’s “True American” (wait, never seen New Girl? Sorry…). You see these fictional people you love enjoying it, bonding over it, and your interests are so piqued! But where are the RULES?!

We need more Firefly so that we, too, can play an authentic round of Tall Card.

3. Horror, Humor, SciFi, and Western, oh my!

One thing that Firefly did well was keep you on your toes. In the few episodes, watchers knew very few things for certain. One of these, though, was you couldn’t anticipate if Firefly that day would make you laugh, inspire you to adventure into the wild blue, make you want to cuddle up to your significant other, or scare the crap out of you. This is something I, personally, loved about Firefly: the diversity that worked. The writer in me respected the genre jumps and complexity of the plots. It was encouraging, inspiring, and entertaining.

4. Because I really want to know what the heck Shepherd Book did before he became a priest.

Because we all know that’s not what he’s done all his life, and we get small glimpses into it. But every saint has a past, and I love—love—a great redemptive story. So bring me more Book.

5. Malcolm Reynolds

The ultimate space cowboy. The Alliance fighter. Intensely loyal, military man, self-controlled to the point of frustration, man’s man, one-of-a-kind, I-hired-a-woman-as-my-ship’s-engineer, kind of Man.

An inspiration. An enigma.

We need more Malcolm.

…even if it is just to see if he ever ends up with Inara and stops being such an ass to her.

 

Ok, listen, I know that this list is no where near exhaustive. I mean, Kaylee is my favorite character—along with many of you, I would suspect—but I didn’t even mention her up there. So, I leave it up to you, fellow troopers! What are your reasons Firefly should make a comeback?