Firefly 10th Anniversary: Browncoats Unite Page #2

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and why you guys thought

it was the best way to launch the show.

It's the best way to launch

a complicated universe

because it introduces that universe.

It set up the premise

of all these complicated character arcs

in this world that you had to

sort of ease the audience into.

I'm a shepherd from the Southdown Abbey...

Book.

Well, I'm Kaylee.

And this here's Serenity.

And she's the smoothest

ride from here to Boros

for anyone can pay. Hmm.

Can you pay, or... ?

Well...

Every character had their strength

and their reason for being there

and their reason for

believing what they did.

And the dynamics were really fascinating.

Mal, this is Simon.

Simon, this is our captain.

Captain Reynolds.

Now we have a boat full of citizens

right on top of our stolen cargo.

That's a fun mix.

Ain't no way in the verse

they could find that compartment,

even if...

even if they were looking for it.

Why not?

'Cause.

Jensen:
You guys who wrote these episodes,

like, how did you find this unique fusion

of science fiction and a Western?

The whole feeling was we

wanted to do everything

from sort of John Ford

to spaghetti westerns.

But anything that sort

of encompassed that genre

was something that we tried

to take and put into the mix

of what we were doing on the screen.

Joss and I did a lot of

what he was doing for Jayne.

I mean, we looked at a lot of westerns.

I don't understand why we

didn't leave that sum b*tch

in a pool of his own blood.

When I started reading the

character, I just figured,

"well, I'll just go over the

top and see where it goes."

[Gruffly] Oh, nothing, nothing,

nothing, carry the nothing.

[Normal voice] And Nathan goes,

"are... are you really

gonna do it that way?"

"Is he gonna do it that way?"

And when he said that, I looked around,

and Joss was like, "that's pretty cool."

I was like, "okay, good."

So, I could dive in

and chew as much furniture as I could.

Can't get paid if you're dead.

Can't get paid if you crawl away

like a bitty little bug, neither.

I got a share in this job.

10% of nothing is...

let me do the math here.

Nothing, and then nothing...

Jayne being the mercenary on the ship,

he's the least trustworthy,

and Kaylee is the most trustworthy.

One of the most important things

that you can do as an actor is

to set a tone at the beginning of a show,

and there are certain looks and things

that Adam and I would do to each other

to formulate kind of a bond

between those characters.

It was a brother/sister thing.

And one of my favorite

scenes in the whole show

was in the pilot when

Kaylee's being operated on

and Jayne's watching from the window.

And it was such an interesting moment

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