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Firefly is a Joss Whedon Space Western named for the model of space ship -- "Firefly-class"-- captain Malcolm Reynolds (former soap star Nathan Fillion) adopts to carry out his outlaw interplanetary trading (piracy).
The show follows the exploits of Reynolds, a still-loyal ex-soldier for the "wrong" side, and his fellow renegade veteran (Gina Torres, who did a stint as Cleopatra in the Hercules series). The ship, a bit of a junkbox with Torres' husband as pilot, takes on crack mechanic Kaylee, and then some supposedly paying passengers: a girl, River, who turns out to be a psychic, government weapon on the lam; her brother Simon (conveniently a doctor), a hot-headed soldier of fortune (Jayne, played by Adam Baldwin), and occasionally the cortisan Inara (Morena Baccarin). In taking on passengers, the Firefly inherits each one's "baggage" and spends more time evading these attendant aventures than ever making a living.
Among other fun characteristics that make the show unique, the pirates speak a markedly idiomatic vocabulary. The show has spawned a comic series and a film, and fans hopefully await a film sequel -- no sign of that yet.
Little known fact: Firefly was also the name of a pod model in the 1960s Gerry Anderson marionation series Thunderbirds. Tribute or trip-up?
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Glau, now better known for a lesser show than Firefly, Fox's Terminator: The Sarah Conner Chronicles, guest-stars as herself on Big Bang Theory. She's a perfect object of adoration for the show's lovable geeks:
Sight unseen (except for that clip), I'll bet I'm going to enjoy tonight's episode, given what a roll Big Bang has been on recently. (I am a member of my colleague Alynda Wheat's campaign to get Jim Parsons an Emmy nomination.) It's interesting the way Glau has achieved more success as a grim bombshell these days than she did as a waif-with-interesting-flaws as Whedon's creation River. In fact, Glau's glassy-eyed gaze in both Firefly and on Terminator can be seen as a precursor to the dazed-and-confused, "wiped" women of Whedon's current series, Dollhouse.
Fillion, meanwhile, is starring in Castle, a too-playful-by-half cop-mystery series. In it, he plays a highly successful mystery writer who gets himself assigned to tag along with a cop (Stana Katic), ostensibly to research a new novel, but really because he thinks she's cute. I gave the show a reluctant C- in EW's current "What To Watch" section, which pained me because I really like Fillion, but his charm is really squandered in a premiere episode whose lines are cute and predictable. But, given its plumb time period -- Castle debuts right after the premiere of the heaven-help-us, highly-anticipated return of Dancing With The Stars -- Fillion may end up with a ratings hit. Given his terrific work in the past (including Whedon's Dr. Horrible Internet sensation), I can't begrudge him any success, even if it's in a vehicle that doesn't match his talent.
Will you be watching Castle? Were you planning to watch Big Bang Theory anyway, or will you tune in especially to see Summer Glau?
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