Firefly at 20

Firefly hit screens on September 20th 2002, basically the Han Solo show we never got with even more of a Western feel, with a non-pilot introductory episode as the start of the scheduling issues that sent it into the Black after half a season. It kept flying - I was there for the Edinburgh International Film Festival world premiere of Serenity in 2005, with a lot of the TWH gang there for an added show - and was once in danger of having more official games than it had episodes.

Nathan Fillion photobombing at the Serenity signing.
Photo thanks to Dave, from when shaking hands with Joss Whedon was thought to be okay.

What would have gotten with more? Well, there were some unmade scripts showing hints, like a reasonable Alliance marshal chasing former Independent marauders, looking at the complexities of the heroes being on the losing side of an American Civil War analogue gone askew.