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HOT GALLERY: The Stars of the Cult-Favorite Series Firefly, Then and Now
It’s better to have lost and loved than never to have loved a brilliant, genre-bending, beautifully written show at all. Joss Whedon’s scifi-Western Firefly lasted less than a season on Fox, but its impact has far outlived the series. The cast reunited briefly in 2005 for the movie Serenity, but for devoted fans—like us—there just wasn’t enough of what was, for a time, the smartest, most original show on television. By Nina Hämmerling Smith
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Alan Tudyk as Hoban Washburn on Firefly
The ship’s warm-hearted pilot—and mate to the ship’s first mate, Zoe—Wash had one of the most moving and fully developed backstories on the series: He wanted to travel the stars because on his home planet, the pollution was so bad that he couldn’t see them. Wash was the good guy who often provided some much-needed comic relief. Check out Tudyk’s audition tape for the role—and the same scene as it actually aired.
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