Firefly 10th Anniversary: Browncoats Unite Page #4

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Staite:
The most frustrating

thing about doing television is

the night after you air,

everyone's getting a bead

on ratings and how did we do?

And it's just the worst.

It's like this anxiety attack all the time.

It was a sad thing and

a very frustrating thing

to know that we were on

the bottom, so to speak,

of the totem pole.

Was it easy to push that out of your mind

as you're making the first season...

The worries, the anxieties

that we might be going away?

In what can be a very stressful situation,

it actually wound up

being a unifying force.

Tudyk:
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

We all knew that, "oh, shoot.

We're on the chopping

block from the get-go,

it just seems like.

So we really need to

make the best show we can

because we don't know how

long we're gonna be around."

This was part of this whole camaraderie

that we keep talking about.

We were in this together.

And I've been on other shows

where there's a real line

in the sand drawn between...

"These are the writers,

and these are the actors,

and never the two shall meet."

But it was not the comradery we shared.

So, Tim would come and

excitedly tell us about,

"this is how it's going.

And the writing, you're gonna be so happy.

You're gonna be very happy."

[Laughs]

And we filmed it. And

we were really excited.

Maher:
Yeah, every time they broke a story,

they would run to the set like little...

Now that I'm a father

and I have a 5-year-old...

they were like 5-year-old children, like,

"yeah, listen to this!

You got to listen to this!"

And it was kind of contagious.

Do you remember "divert the

nav sats to the blah blahs,"

where he comes on the bridge?

And I had to write all this technobabble

that literally meant nothing.

But I had to write it in such a way

so that when you guys had this exchange,

it actually made sense to the audience.

And I remember that I

think you probably got it

an hour before we shot the scene.

- And you were furious.

- Yes.

What do you expect me to do, Mal?

Whatever you have to!

And if you can't do it from here,

then get a suit on and go outside

- on the side of the boat...

- And what?!

Wave my arms around?!

And you're like, "I'm

gonna use it in the scene."

Divert the... right!

Because teenage pranks are

fun when you're about to die!

Give the beacon a boost, wouldn't it?

Yes, Mal.

It would boost the signal.

But even if some passerby

did happen to receive,

all it would do is muck

up their navigation.

- Could be that's true.

- Damn right, it's true!

They'd be forced to stop

and dig out our signal

before they could even go anyplace!

Well maybe I should do that, then!

- Maybe you should!

- Okay!

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