Firefly 10th Anniversary: Browncoats Unite Page #5

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is you see a lot of these...

people at the end of a show,

it often sounds like this.

"Oh, we were like a family,

and it was so special.

And the blah, blah, blah, blah, blah."

The truth is that is all true,

and we're not wrong about that,

and the thing was really good,

and then fans are the proof of it.

I think people became

attached to these characters,

and they wanted to see

more character, more story.

And there were a lot of secrets

that I think were eventually

going to be revealed.

I got Joss drunk many times, and I tried.

And I could not get it out of him.

I did get a secret out of him

that I'm very thrilled I did get,

but I've been sworn to

secrecy till my dying day.

And 10 years on, I still feel uncomfortable

about sharing that secret publicly.

'Cause what if it lives again?

Yeah. I'm just not gonna do it.

Can you tell a little bit about the story?

Her secret was...

I love this ship.

I have from the first moment I saw it.

I just don't want to die on it.

I don't want to die at all.

Inara had a troubled past.

She has a deep, dark secret

that she doesn't want anybody to know.

Her secret was...

that she was dying.

Tudyk:
Hmm.

Was she dying from something specific,

or was it just you hadn't

formulated that yet,

but she had some terminal issue?

She had a terminal thing.

And, so, that's why...

Simon couldn't cure her.

That's correct.

That's why she says to him, you know...

he says, "I don't want

to die on this ship."

And she says, "I don't want to die at all."

'Cause that's the thing

that's on her mind in that scene.

Everybody had their secret,

and the writers had mapped out

where everybody was gonna go,

who they were, and where they were going.

Where would Jayne have gone, do you think?

Baldwin:
[Sighs]

I've floated the idea

that perhaps he was able

to get his own ship and

compete with Mal a bit

and fail at it miserably

and have to return humbled.

What happens to Mal in second season?

Where do you think he would have gone?

[Breathes deeply]

He would have been more bitter

and more crotchety, right?

Summer, have you thought

about where would you

like to have seen River go?

[Laughs] Fillion: Lucid?

I was gunning for Wash's job.

[Laughter]

Well, that's cool. She

could have had my job.

Because we were gonna have a baby,

and I wasn't gonna let Zoe

go out on any more things.

I thought Kaylee and I were having a baby.

You guys have one, too.

We're gonna have to have

some kids playing with kids.

So, we'd have to have,

like, a "Firefly" daycare.

I like to believe

there's a wiry-haired [Laughs]

redhead boy with freckles

and that Jayne babysits and

that he and I have arguments

about who's gonna teach him about guns.

[Laughs]

[Gruffly] Come on, kids. Let's play ball.

[Laughter]

Boy, those kids have

certainly softened old Jayne.

[Laughter]

There's a million stories

that could have been told.

This is what I loved about the show is

it wasn't just all exposition,

explaining everything

about what was going on.

She had this sort of magic syringe.

She would take this drug.

And if she were, for instance, raped,

the rapist would die a horrible death.

The story was that she

gets kidnapped by Reavers.

And when Mal finally got to the ship

to save her from the Reavers,

he gets on the Reaver ship,

and all the Reavers are dead.

Which would suggest a

kind of really bad assault.

At the end of the episode,

he comes in after she's

been horribly brutalized,

and he comes in, and he

gets down on his knee,

and he takes her hand, and

he treats her like a lady.

And so that, it was...

I mean, that's the kind of

stuff that we wanted to do.

Oh, my God. That's dark.

Jensen:
Fun time, poignant episode.

Yes. That sounds amazing.

It was very dark.

And this was actually the first story

that Josh pitched to me

when he asked me to come work on the show.

He said, "these are the kind

of stories we're gonna tell."

I had a lot ideas for scripts.

Our job was to go get these

dogs that were on a planet

that were these feral dogs

that we were selling them

to a dog-fighting ring.

And we get them,

but in the transporting

the dogs from this...

I think it was a dark moon,

and their eyes glow, whatever...

To the place where we were gonna sell them,

River communes with the

dogs and tames them all.

[Laughter]

So, we got to sell them. They're useless.

Fillion:
There was a show

that Joss was talking about

where we get to a planet,

and these people are really kind to us,

and they're really sweet.

It's kind of a wintry planet.

And I catch them trying to steal our ship.

Like, "you sons of"...

And they go, "okay, look. Here's the deal.

Our planet is dying.

We're all gonna die here

unless you get us off here."

But the idea is we're so far

out that if we take them back,

we're gonna run out of air,

and we're gonna run out of food.

We're all gonna die unless

we meet up with another ship.

So, there's that chance.

We can meet up with another ship,

and everything will be okay.

And I say, "look, let's all sleep on it,

and tomorrow we'll decide."

And I lock myself in the bridge,

and I take off while y'all are sleeping.

And you wake up and go,

"what have you done?!"

It's too late to go

back, and I can't go back.

And on our way back out,

we never meet any ships,

so we would have all died.

We were all gonna vote,

and captain Mal takes the

decision away from everybody

so it's no one's decision

to kill those people but his.

Baldwin:
Nice.

See, that's cool.

That's a good episode.

That's a good episode.

Let's shoot it.

What are the chances

there might be more "Firefly" in some form?

- We have comics, yes?

- Right.

But television, movies...

is that something that could happen?

I say never say never.

And here we are. It's 10 years later.

My first Comic-Con was

because of "Firefly" 10 years ago.

That's a really good point.

And here we are 10 years

later, and it's not dead.

It's not dying.

People don't watch "Firefly"

and go, "not my cup of tea."

They watch it, and they get involved.

And they like it.

And it means something to me

because that's something that we all built.

Molina:
We're still flying.

Jensen:
So what you're saying is

that we can meet here again in 10 years

and do a 20th anniversary special?

Why not? [Laughs]

All right.

Tudyk:
All right. Let's do

it. 20th anniversary special.

- Oh, I can't reach it.

- Oh, no.

Baldwin:
Ah!

[Laughs] Thank you, guys.

I think we have a panel to do now.

[Indistinct conversations]

[Cheers and applause]

Hello, Comic-Con.

My name is Jeff Jensen,

and I am very excited to welcome you

to science channel's presentation

of the "Firefly" 10th anniversary panel.

[Cheers and applause]

I'd like to introduce

the creators and cast,

beginning with writer Jose Molina.

Executive producer Tim Minear.

This actor wanted to be introduced

as bounty hunter and sandwich maker.

You know him better as a

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