Please Sir, I want some more…

Please.  Please… someone in television land, bring back Firefly.  Please.  I’m begging.  I really need a hit of Mal.  For those who might say, “but you can see Nathan Fillion on Castle.”  I know, I know – Nathan Fillion is on Castle, and it’s fine…  Richard Castle is snarky and marginally sexy and all that, there are some good puns, but it’s not a Joss Whedon series with Joss Whedon dialogue, and it’s not Mal.  I am not craving Nathan Fillion, the actor, but rather the character Malcolm Reynolds. 

WAY darker than Castle

Don’t get me wrong.  I very much enjoy Nathan Fillion.  In spite of the fact that right now I’m holding  a wee grudge against him (which I’m sure I’ll get over soon) because he wouldn’t pose with twine for the Bloggess – which you kinda figure he’d do, given that he appeared in Dr. Horrible’s Sing-a-long Blog and didn’t balk at saying “The hammer is my penis.”  I’m a little disappointed, because I thought he’d have a better sense of humour, and although I get that he shouldn’t have to give in to every petty plea from every crazy Comic-Con fan out out there, I just wanted him to… I don’t know… take each plea on an individual basis maybe?  I kinda figured that he might give the benefit of the doubt to someone who, although she might appear completely insane in her initial request, he would realize, if he had actually read her posts, that she’s not certifiably crazy and is well deserving of a picture with twine. 

I think I’m digressing.

Really, what I want, is another full season of Firefly.  Except that the movie Serenity explains the whole series, so that’s probably not going to happen.   But maybe they could start AFTER Serenity is over – except then some of the characters (I won’t say who, in case you haven’t seen Serenity – which you HAVE to see, because it’s a fantastic movie – the opening sequence alone is worth the price of admission) are dead.  And that makes me sad.  And you will be too, when you find out who Whedon killed off.

Maybe if Firefly can’t come back, Joss Whedon – who should have a helluva lot of clout right now after having knocked The Avengers completely out of the park – could make a NEW series.  It could really be about ANYTHING.  Doesn’t need to be vampires, or sci-fi – actually I’d still like it to be sci-fi – I dig the sci-fi… but it doesn’t have to have Nathan Fillion in it.  A character almost exactly like Mal, though, would be good.  Just saying.