As Mal Reynolds once said, “We’ve done the impossible, and that makes us mighty.” The once unceremoniously cancelled space western, previously revived in the form of a theatrical film, is coming back as an animated series.
And it’s precisely because of that rag-tag crew of imperfect heroes that makes now the perfect time to bring back Firefly.
Whether it's the crew of the Millennium Falcon or the Enterprise, different people, from different walks of life finding each other and uniting to take on a common enemy is the heart and soul of many a great space opera.
What makes Firefly so special, and important, is the way that the show's main character, Serenity captain Mal Reynolds, rediscovers his revolutionary spirit through his found family.
At the start of Firefly, he’s rudderless and bereft of that same fighting spirit that powered him through an impossible war. He’s just surviving until the full and complicated crew of the Serenity assembles. That’s what makes the idea of found family so revolutionary. ‘Bless this mess’ has never been more apt.
The crew of the Serenity aren’t perfect. They do bad things, they treat each other poorly. But they also love each other and fight for each other. In other words, they’re human. That’s what makes Firefly’s unique brand of found family so important in today’s world.
By banding together with those both similar and different to ourselves to make strange and complicated found families, we can find that same revolutionary spirit that helps us stand up in the face of oppression.
View Green Video on the source websiteMal is a clear analogue for Han Solo, a reluctant hero with a heart of gold who, when the chips are down, will do what he needs to do to fight for the weak and stand up to oppression. In a post-Andor Star Wars universe, finding those small acts of revolution within each other has become even more important. Even when the oppression of the Alliance is overwhelming, there are few shows better at those small acts of rebellion than Firefly.
The drug then had the opposite effect on the rest of the population, who became the violent Reavers from the show. Realising it is a secret that cannot remain hidden, the Firefly found family bands together to share the truth of the Alliance’s experiment with the universe.
Unlike Luke blowing up the Death Star, this isn’t a bombastic act of rebellion. It is a quiet act of resistance, one that the Firefly crew specialises in and one that is ever more important to our modern and turbulent world.
The new animated show is set to bridge the gap between the series and the film, taking place across a roughly eight-month period. Fillion and the rest of the cast have gone to great lengths to explain that this is because they want to unite the whole Firefly family. As pilot and fan-favourite character Wash (Alan Tudyk), and the ship's spiritual centre Shepherd Book (played by the late Ron Glass), both died in Serenity, fitting the new series in before the film keeps that found family united on screen.
And that same revolutionary spirit that bleeds through the Firefly found family should remind us that our strength exists because we’re weird and complicated and diverse, like any good found family should be.
To, again, quote Mal Reynolds, “if you can't run, you walk, and if you can't walk, you crawl, and if you can't do that... you find someone to carry you.” Well, the Browncoats are here and we’re ready to carry this show for as long as we can.
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