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MAL: Look, we get back to Haven in a few hours time --

JAYNE: Hiding under the Shepherd's skirts, that's a manful scheme

MAL: You wanna run this ship?

JAYNE: Yes!

MAL: Well you can't!

JAYNE: Do a damn sight better job'n you. Getting us lashed over a couple of strays... No offense, Doc, I think it's noble as a grape the way you look to River, but she ain't my sister and she ain't your crew. Oh, and neither is she exactly helpless! So where's it writ we gotta lay down our lives for her, which is what you've steered us toward.

MAL: I didn't start this.

JAYNE: No, the Alliance starts the war -­ and then you volunteer. Battle of Serenity, Mal besides Zoe here, how many -- I'm talkin' at you --how many men in your platoon came out of there alive?

ZOE: You wanna leave this room.

JAYNE: You’re damn right I do.

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Mal's politics are very reactionary and 'Big government is bad' and 'Don't interfere with my life. And sometimes he's wrong - because sometimes the Alliance is America, this beautiful shining light of democracy. But sometimes the Alliance is America in Vietnam: we have a lot of petty politics, we are way out of our league and we have no right to control these people. And yet! Sometimes the Alliance is America in Nazi Germany. And Mal can't see that, because he was a Vietnamese.

Joss Whedon Must-See Metaphysics By Emily Nussbaum Published: September 22, 2002

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The people on the ship are struggling to put meaning to their lives and find hope at a very dark time. They don't have easy lives by any means, but they make the most of what they have. I think great westerns aren't good guy / bad guy. And I think sometimes they're bad guy / worse guy.

Joss Whedon: Firefly

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I always imagined that since he's had so much taken away from him that he had such a fear of losing anything else, especially something that might make him happy, and that's sad. Somebody asked me why he so zealously guards over the safety of his crew and I look at it that Mal gathers to him that which he no longer has within himself. In Wash, he has a lust for life and a sense of humor he's lost. In Jayne, he has selfishness. In Book, he has spirituality. In Kaylee, he has innocence. Everybody represents a facet of himself that he has lost and that's why he keeps them close and safe, and yet at arm's length.

Nathan Fillion  Firefly: a Celebration [3/3]

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's got the ring of a plan to me.

Jayne Cobb Serenity: Leaves on the Wind #4 preview

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Wouldn't it be easier to rescue Zoe if you had ten of me?

Which you? 'Cause I seen two versions and one of 'em's only useful if we're entering a haiku contest.

River Tam and Jayne Cobb Serenity: Leaves on the Wind #4

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It was the last episode we filmed and therefore the funeral scene was incredibly funereal.

Joss Whedon with Gina Torres in the Message

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Joss Whedon made an uncredited cameo in THE MESSAGE as a family member at Tracey’s funeral.

FireflyFacts 28/98 | The Message (via shewhohangsoutincemeteries)

The Message was the last Firefly episode filmed, by which time the cast and crew knew the show had been cancelled. The final scene, in which Serenity’s crew return Tracey’s body to his family on St Albans, marking an end to the former soldier’s journeys, therefore had an extra poignancy for them

It was the last episode we filmed and therefore the funeral scene was incredibly funereal.

Joss Whedon