Joss Whedon = mean, folks. I don't care if your actors are the devil incarnate, you should treat your characters with love the way your audience does. They're heroes and deserve to go out like heroes rather than punks .... and preferably not die suddenly and stupidly. And preferably not die at all.
Honestly, Joss. Tsk tsk.
I suggest that any Serenity reedit should be retitled "Cows... in... Space!"
(Actually, an edit of Firefly footage with the audio from the opening to Pigs in Space would be funny. With film of some actual pigs to start off with.)
Another thing. Watch "Jaynestown," where Jayne is hailed as a hero. Wash asks why they can't visit the crappy planet where HE's a folk hero.
Now watch the Strangers With Candy episode "The Blank Stare" (season 2 disc 2 I think) .... a two-parter with Alan Tudyck as - a cult leader.
Yep.
Yeeeep.
Lost chapter in Wash's life there folks.
Also, if enough fans got together and chipped in money, do you think enough $ could be raised to kidnap Eliza Dushku, James Marsters and Tony Head and force them to enact scenes from some sort of spinoff show for our own twisted pleasure?
Actors kidnapped by fans, forced to star in show. Standoff with police continues, day 15. Actors develop Stockholm syndrome, identifying with their captors - "I really like the direction my character is heading" .... "This is sick but not as bad as being on UPN" ... etc.