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This package contains fortunes from the TV series "Firefly", and it's movie
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"Serenity", by Joss Whedon. The series survived only one season on Fox;
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the network scheduled a bad timeslot, played the episodes out of order,
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and in general helped seal its fate. Nonetheless, the series built up a
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cult following; as DVD sales skyrocketted, Universal decided to sponsor
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a movie based on the series.
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Firefly is often described as a "Space Western". A mix of humor and
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seriousness, it is sometimes described as "Star Wars" with the Rebellion
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having been brutally crushed and Han Solo needing a new job. Over 500
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years in the future, a band of humans terraformed a nearby planetary system
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with dozens of habitable planets. The most developed planets, toward
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the core, live in "civilization", and formed the Alliance; the planets
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on the rim tend to struggle to survive, and launched a failed rebellion
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against Alliance rule. Captain Malcolm Reynolds, a former "browncoat"
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(rebel) commander, captains a Firefly-class starship named "Serenity",
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with a small, mostly loyal crew, taking whatever jobs (legal or otherwise)
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that they can. Their lives become more complicated when, after taking on
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passengers for cover, they inadvertently take in a mentally disturbed girl
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who the Alliance wants more than anything else.
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All of the quotes in this package are copyrighted by Fox Broadcasting
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Corporation and Universal Pictures. Authorship of the quotes is by Tim
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Minear, Joss Whedon, Ben Edulund, Jane Esperson, Drew Z. Greenberg, Jose
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Molina, Cheryl Cain, and Brent Matthews.
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