Take my love,
Take my land,
Take me where I cannot stand.I don’t care,
I’m still free,
You can’t take the sky from me.Take me out
To the black,
Tell ’em I ain’t coming back.Burn the land
And boil the sea,
You can’t take the sky from me.There’s no place
I can be
Since I found Serenity.But you can’t take the sky from me.
“The Ballad of Serenity” – Firefly
Mal: Wash, we’re on! Go!
Wash: Hang on travelers.
Jayne: Let’s moon ’em!
Firefly: Episode 1 – “Serenity”
Mal: ‘Cry baby, cry.’
Wash: ‘Make your mother sigh.’
Firefly: Episode 1 – “Serenity”
Wash: Kaylee! Kaylee! Go to blackout, we’re being buzzed!
Kaylee: Shi. (Affirmative.) Going dark.
(Shuts down the power, plunging the engine room into darkness.)
Kaylee: Ok, now I can’t get down
Firefly: Episode 1 – “Serenity”
Wash: Everything looks good from here.
Wash (as Stegosaurus): Yes… Yes… This is a fertile land and we will thrive. We will rule over all this land and we will call it… this land.
Wash (as T-Rex): I think we should call it your grave!
Wash (as Stegosaurus): Ahh! Curse your sudden but inevitable betrayal!
Wash (as T-Rex): Ha ha ha! Mine is an evil laugh! Now die! Rawr!
Wash (as Stegosaurus): Ahh! No god! Dear god in heaven!
Firefly: Episode 1 – “Serenity”
Bendis: We’re gonna die…
Mal: We’re not gonna die! We can’t die, Bendis, you know why? Because we are so very pretty. We are just too pretty for God to let us die. Huh? Look at that chiseled jaw! Huh? Come on!
Firefly: Episode 1 – “Serenity
Mal: Alliance said they were gonna waltz through Serenity Valley, and we choked them with those words. We’ve done the impossible, and that makes us mighty.
Firefly: Episode 1 – “Serenity”
Graydon: Seargent, command says air support is hold ’til they can assess our status.
Mal: Our status is we need some gorram air support!
Firefly: Episode 1 – “Serenity”
*Update: I was informed by author Amy Pascale on Twitter that Joss Whedon: The Biography is not an “authorized biography” and have edited this review to remove any references to it as such. I apologize for the mistake.
I had some mixed feelings about reading a biography of Joss Whedon. For starters, I rarely read non-fiction (just as a matter of personal preference), but what made me more reluctant was my personal admiration and loyalty to Joss, the man who has created so many of my favorite stories over the past fifteen years or so. The man who created “cult classics” like Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Angel, and Firefly in addition to writing and directing The Avengers, one of the most successful films of all time, is certainly a subject ripe for study, but what to expect from a biography? Could it capture the essence of this Lord of the Geeks that his fans all know and love, while managing to explain to the uninitiated why he’s worthy of our praise, while managing to find something new that will surprise even his most devoted followers or that could give a deeper meaning to his work? While I found the book to be an enjoyable read, the bigger answers to these questions turned out to be something of a mixed bag.
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