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Firefly Fortunes
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Karen Pease - 2005-10-04
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meme@daughtersoftiresias.org
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This package contains fortunes from the TV series "Firefly", and
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it's movie "Serenity", by Joss Whedon. The series survived only one season
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on Fox; the network scheduled a bad timeslot, played the episodes out of
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order, and in general helped seal its fate. Nonetheless, the series built
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up a cult following; as DVD sales skyrocketted, Universal decided to sponsor
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a movie based on the series.
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Firefly is often described as a "Space Western". A mix of humor and
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seriousness, it is sometimes described as "Star Wars" with the Rebellion
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having been brutally crushed and Han Solo needing a new job. Over 500 years
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in the future, a band of humans terraformed a nearby planetary system with
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dozens of habitable planets. The most developed planets, toward the core,
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live in "civilization", and formed the Alliance; the planets on the rim tend
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to struggle to survive, and launched a failed rebellion against Alliance
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rule. Captain Malcolm Reynolds, a former "browncoat" (rebel) commander,
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captains a Firefly-class starship named "Serenity", with a small, mostly loyal
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crew, taking whatever jobs (legal or otherwise) that they can. Their
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lives become more complicated when, after taking on passengers for cover,
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they inadvertently take in a mentally disturbed girl who the Alliance wants
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more than anything else.
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All of the quotes in this package are copyrighted by Fox Broadcasting
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Corporation and Universal Pictures. Authorship of the quotes is by Tim Minear,
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Joss Whedon, Ben Edulund, Jane Esperson, Drew Z. Greenberg, Jose Molina,
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Cheryl Cain, and Brent Matthews.
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For more information, visit:
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firefly_(television_series)
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serenity_(film)
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