Abstract
Joss Whedon’sFirefly(2002) begins with Sergeant Malcolm Reynolds (played by Nathan Fillion) running through a battlefield, dodging bombs and bullets, until he reaches the small cave in which his platoon is quartered (“Serenity” 1.1).¹ The beginning of the filmSerenity(2005), which continues the saga ofFirefly, revolves around action as well: from a voice-over discussing the emigration of humans from a depleted Earth, to the escape of River and Simon Tam from a government facility, to the exterior shot of Malcolm Reynolds’s ship,Serenity, entering the atmosphere of a planet, to the captain himself walking through the interior