For anyone who doesn't know, I am a huge fan of Joss Whedon's short-lived series Firefly. Like many, many others, I saw maybe one or two ads on Fox, and said to myself, "Boy, does that show sound stupid."

Such is the beauty of Joss Whedon shows; they sound stupid at first, but by God, do they suck you in. The popular short description of Firefly was that it was a 'space western'. I mean, come on. A space western? It sounds utterly ridiculous. But once you get into the world and it's explained why there are horses and guns and really cute tight pants on Nathan Fillion's very fine ass, you can really believe that it's all totally reasonable.

I (like so many others) never watched this show while it was on TV. For one thing, it was Fridays at 8 and I was generally in the grad lounge at that time with my friends. The ads were stupid, and generally only pushed that it was brought to you by the creator of Buffy the Vampire Slayer (which I also thought sounded stupid at the time), and showed a shot of the space hooker sponge-bathing. Yeah, wow. Next, please?

Matt sat me down to watch it over the Christmas right after it was cancelled. I was smitten. I fell hard & fast for this show (Nathan Fillion's tight pants helping out with that!) After the cancellation and failure of any other network to pick it up, Joss cast Nathan and Gina Torres on Buffy and Angel, respectively, so I started watching them too. I am now a huge fan of both, with at least 8 DVD sets of Joss Whedon shows between Matt and I (and plans to acquire more as they become available). I really like watching TV on DVD; no commercials, no pre-emptions, no schedule. It's just like, hmm, what do I want to watch tonight? And I do.

Anyways, I've been a member of a few Firefly fan sites for a while now (pretty much since the show was cancelled). The hopes for another network to pick it up faded, a very interesting idea was brought forth by Jeremy Neish of putting the show straight to DVD for season 2 (which I was a huge fan of) and that faded, and then we started to hear buzz about a movie.

Now, I didn't want to get my hopes up too high; they'd been previously dashed on other possible resurrections.

Joss had said at a conference in LA that we would be getting an announcement by the end of January or so; with nothing forthcoming, I pretty much gave up. And then we started to hear other rumours... the script Joss had written wasn't acceptable to Universal (the supposed movie backer). They said they wanted less of an epilogue to a failed series and more of a springboard to a potential series return. Eep! Be still, my fan-girl heart. Anyways, the announcement was said to be delayed due to the re-writing of the script, and we started to hear more and more rumours. This past week, someone posted to fireflyfans.net that the movie details were being ironed out, and the working title was "Serenity" (the name of the spaceship). Well, lo and behold, look what's under"Coming Soon" on the Universal page! Plus, they've apparently bought www.serenitymovie.com (nothing there yet, though).

WHHHHEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!! I'm a little excited today. I can't wait to see this flick on the silver screen.