Interesting quote from Whedon on Firefly, courtesy of www.Cinsecape.com :

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“I love spaceships,” Whedon said. “I love sci-fi. I love hard-science sci-fi. I wanted to do a show without latex. I wanted to come back down to Earth and do a western. I wanted to make STAGECOACH really bad and that was the impetus. [I don’t think] there will be aliens three or four hundred years from now [when FIREFLY is set]. There would just be people, and that’s the point. They’re not smarter, they’re not better. War hasn’t been abolished. Some of them are decent, some of them aren’t. Some are just trying to scrape by after being trodden on by history. … It’s a very low-tech show. It’s a sort of immigrant story, taking from all the cultures we already have and imagining them spread out over a galaxy.”
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I for one can't stand the PC Star Drek universe with all its phoney latex humanoids. Josh Whedon is the creator of Buffy and is one clever motha who writes great dialog. Hopefully there will be some serious space babes for lowlifes like me. I'll hafta TiVo this series this fall.

-philw