Unfilmed Opening Scene From Firefly Revealed By Nathan Fillion

One of the biggest travesties ever to take place in the world of television was the cancellation of the TV show Firefly.  FOX, being the soothsayers for hit television shows, cancelled the series after only 14 episodes, because they knew that there was no future for it.  The series ran back in 2002, and since it's been off the air, it has garnered more fans than they could have possibly imagined, and their base keeps growing every year with more and more people joining the ranks of the Browncoats.  Even after all of these years, whenever any of the stars from the show appear on panels at Comic Cons, they pack the hall with adoring fans.  One such Comic Con, the Long Beach Comic Con, had Nathan Fillion talking about the series, and he discussed an opening scene for an episode that never got the chance to be filmed.  Here's what he said:

"Joss once described an opening scene to me where we are looking at a planet with a ring around it and as we come in close, we see the ring is actually rocks and pieces of ships and old derelicts. It's a junk ring. It's the junkyards - we mentioned it in Firefly one time. We see little bits and we're jumping slowly from bit to bit and as we get closer we see Serenity floating lifeless and these little people getting on and coming through it. And as they get into the airlock and they close it, they come and there's Malcolm Reynolds, bleeding and cut, strapped down with giant guns and not looking great. He's got these two giant guns, and he says, 'Get off my ship.'"

The scene is easy to picture, if you've ever watched any of the episodes.  Fillion did such an incredible job portraying Captain Malcolm Reynolds, giving him so many different layers over just 14 episodes, that you can play it out in your head.  Unfortunately, we will never get to see this scene since FOX is run by morons.  Realizing their mistake in cancelling the series, FOX tried to make amends with the fans by green lighting the movie Serenity, which was supposed to give them closure, but instead just made them want more.  The closest thing we get to new episodes are from the comic books that come out periodically from Dark Horse.  Since the actors from the show have all gone on to other projects, the possibility of a reunion seems more and more unlikely.  But with Netflix and Hulu bringing back cancelled series to their streaming network, who knows?  We may still get a chance to travel the Verse with the crew of Serenity.