Okay, the idea of Jayne trapped in the cargo hold in a wheel chair is hilarious. And I feel bad now for laughing about it.

I bet Firefly was a really difficult show to write for. The language issues, of course, but also the whole breaking a story aspect. It's very easy to break a story for, say, Dollhouse, but with Firefly I'm all - where do you even begin?

Teaser: Some random ugly building on a random ugly planet. Mal, Jayne, and Zoe run out of it. It blows up.

Wash (voiceover): Did we do that? Did we mean to do that?

I wouldn't suspect that breaking a Firefly story would have different challenges than breaking other sci-fi stories. You have a 'verse, you have characters, what are they doing today?

you have characters, what are they doing today?

Well, it's about halfway through Season Six, so I would say breaking Jayne out of an Alliance prison with the help of his girlfriend, an ex-Alliance Space Marine.

The cast welcomes back Adam Baldwin, who has been away making his latest action movie.

Aww, Daniel made me sad.

an ex-Alliance Space Marine

Played by?

A teeny, tiny firecracker. Like Terminator Era Linda Hamilton, or Kristen Chenowith (sp) after boot camp and some 'roids.

I think it's different to other shows in that there's 9 main characters, each of whom is pretty different, each of whom you need to service into the story somehow.

Maybe I'm wrong. It just seems to me it can't have been as easy as most other shows.

I definitely agree that the quantity of characters would make it more complicated. Though you could definitely have an episode where you didn't even see some characters, or they only had a few lines, if they weren't involved with the plot that week.

And then there was that one episode in Season 4 that was all set in the past, you know, the Book's backstory episode.

Tim was breaking that story during the first series, Laga - I remember him posting here about it.

eta: I dunno if it was covered here, but a bit about his backstory came out in the wash recently.