Due to their presence onboard, River and Simon set into motion unparalleled violence and mayhem.ĭesperate to survive and desperate to do what’s right. Rescued by her loving older brother (who alone knows how to control her outbursts of violent madness with one word-the Safe Word) and brought aboard the starship Serenity to escape, supposedly unnoticed by the cunning and apparently all-knowing Alliance. River Tam is a traumatized 17 year old “Reader” who was captured and programmed by The Alliance to use her exceptional telepathic powers as a weapon of destruction and eventual complete rule for the Universal Alliance. Longtime crewmate and friend Zoe (Gina Torres) brings this to the Captain’s attention, which sets off within him dividing thoughts of guilty feelings over the loss of this man versus the need for all to survive. So much so, that he makes the undesirable, but needed decision to sacrifice a comrade (the “one to save the many” scenario), on one of their “runs” through the seedy yet lucrative underworld. Their presence on the ship puts the once unnoticed crew in the spotlight of the evil Universal Alliance and the insatiable appetite of the Reavers who will stop at nothing to recapture River for the Alliance, so they may use her powers to enable them to finally rule the entire Universe.īeing caught between saving his crew and the passengers is a threat to the Captain’s passion to stay hidden and unchallenged on the galaxy’s fringes. ![]() Simon Tam (Sean Maher) and his telepathic sister River Tam (Summer Glau), who happens to be The Alliance’s new secret weapon, join the unsuspecting crew under the ruse of getting a short hitchhike to another planet. Making sure his crew/family of rouges survive through their unending escapades is his only desire, until Captain Mal takes on two new passengers.ĭr. ![]() Captain and crew are the last holdouts from the great war against the Universal Alliance, whose ominous threat has no bounds. And it’s fans will not be disappointed.Ĭaptain Malcolm Reynolds (a gruff yet endearing Nathan Fillion) intends to misbehave throughout the universe, as he and his crew of scavengers run along the fringes of the galaxy trading items acquired by questionable means, some might even say illegal. Repeating the Star Trek phenomenon, “Firefly” was cancelled before it completed an entire season, but “Firefly’s” demand after DVD release was so impressive that the movie, under the new banner “Serenity,” got the go-ahead. The Fox television show “Firefly” is reborn with it’s colorful characters intact. The three man, two women crew have to watch their backs as they crash through this post-war solar system divided among the cannibalistic Reavers and the ultra-oppressive Universal Alliance. ![]() Yee Haw! Watching “Serenity” was definitely not serene! We all climbed aboard our galactic ponies and rode the vast winds of Serenity’s metaphorical universe.
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