It has been ten years since "Firefly" went on and off the air. This is the sad reality of network television in 2002. If a show wasn't the proper flavor of exciting and if the writing was too dark or too smart, the show got cancelled. Anyone who has been to any ComiCon in the world knows that just because Fox pulled the plug on this show prematurely, doesn't mean the fans have forgotten. Even in unrelated protests, no matter what the greater cause, there will always be one guy with a "Bring Back Firefly," poster waving proudly. "Firefly" is still a very large part of our culture. People still say something they like is shiny and and quote lines at each other on a regular basis. It would be no stretch of the imagination to say that "Firefly" is much more popular now than it was in 2002.
The Science Channel's Firefly 10th Anniversary Reunion was a beautiful thing to witness. You could tell that the cast, the writers and Joss all care about each other deeply still. The hugs were real and heart-felt and it really just felt like a bunch of long lost friends getting to meet up and swap war stories. It turns out, as fun as we all thought it would be to be a part of that show, it really was. The actors cared about what happened to their characters as much as we did not only because they wanted to keep their jobs, but because they genuinely liked the characters. What was most upsetting to the cast and Joss and really, the entirety of the fandom is that Fox cut this show off before their stories could be told. There is so much we all would like to have seen and learned about these characters that we may now never know.
One of the questions that the moderator asked Joss and the writers is where the show would have gone if it hadn't been canceled. If they show had been allowed to live out its life instead of getting shoved into a movie, what would we have seen? Joss said that first of all, he probably wouldn't have killed anybody... yet. There is so much more of Wash and Book's story that needed telling that now just can't ever be. The good news is that Joss did say that he is unwilling to close the book on "Firefly." He said he will not declare it dead and that you never know what the future may bring. For now, we have our one season, a wonderful movie and a comic book series. For now that has to be enough.
Here is a link to the Science Channel's page about the even and also the online auction to get a little bit of Firefly history. http://science.discovery.com/tv/firefly/10-anniversary/
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