I'm excited to see that scene, I have to say.

No slashing Wash or Zoe! I like that they're happily married but not dead boring.

From scifi.com:

Whedon Helms Firefly Ep

Joss Whedon, who is directing an upcoming episode of Fox's SF series Firefly, told SCI FI Wire that the installment features guest star Richard Brooks (good vs evil) as a bounty hunter named Early. "It's basically about a bounty hunter who's come to seek River [Summer Glau] and actually manages to get on the ship while it's in the middle of space," Whedon said in an interview during a break in filming. "And so it's very sort of suspenseful. And it's also about the crew finding out what is River and ... is she dangerous? Is she psychic? Is she just weird? And juxtaposing her character and the bounty hunter as two outsiders who are sort of looking at the crew and this world."

Whedon also wrote the episode, "Objects in Space," which will air in December as the show's 11th segment. "It's actually a big existentialist tract about the sort of meaning of objects," Whedon said, with tongue in cheek. "But I don't really pitch that, because, 'Tonight, an existential tract on the meaning of objects right after you changed to the channel suddenly!'"

Directing Firefly is different from helming episodes of Whedon's other series, Buffy the Vampire Slayer or Angel, he said. "Every set has its own sort of tenor. The thing about Firefly is ... that this whole cast, ... they're extremely kind and professional, and they get along, and they help each other, and they work hard. I'm not saying my other casts don't work hard. And some of them get along, and it's great. But there's a star, and then there's the ensemble. And there's tensions on the set. ... It's not one big happy family. It seldom is on a television set. And [in Firefly,] I've got nine people, all of whom are great in a scene. Any pair of them works great. And all of them doing their best to help each other out. It's early on still. But they really feel like an ensemble than any bunch I've worked with." Firefly airs Fridays at 8 p.m. ET/PT; it returns with original episodes on Dec. 6.

I'm not saying my other casts don't work hard. And some of them get along, and it's great. But there's a star, and then there's the ensemble. And there's tensions on the set. ... It's not one big happy family.

Dude. Makes me wonder, it does.

My suspicion is that SMG is very separate from the rest of the cast.

You mean, like the fact that she got married and didn't invite Joss or anyone from the cast and that Joss found out because she left him a note? Or the fact that she doesn't socialize with the cast? Or that, unlike the rest of the casts of the ME shows, she's never come to one of the Sunday Shakespeare readings? You mean like that?

No!

Okay, yes.

Yup. Just like that, scrappy.

Off Topic, of course, but reading stuff like this supports my belief that these people on BTVS have no joy anymore. It really needs to end.

You know, for many years I felt that SMG got a bum rap and that perhaps she was just shy or hungry, but when scrappy says things like that, it makes me feel badly for the rest of the big happy family.