Rant: Overheard a guy at the coffee shop say 'Firefly' was just okay, and it made me realize what I really wanted from a second season.

I used to just be mad it got canceled, but now I'm mad about the specific stories we lost. I wanted to see the fallout from the Miranda wave, like how the Alliance would try to cover that up. More about Book's past with the Independents, for sure. And I needed to know if Inara's illness was ever going to be a bigger plot point (the show hinted at it, you know?). That one season left so many threads just hanging. What's the one plot hole from a canceled show that still bugs you the most?

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cora1772mo ago

You mentioning Book's past hits hard. My buddy spent a whole weekend once mapping out a fan theory about him being an Alliance assassin gone rogue. He had charts. The cancellation meant that theory could never be proven wrong, which is its own kind of torture.

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finley_wells662mo ago

My own fan theories are so bad they'd get a show canceled.

janac511mo ago

Hold up, I'm gonna push back here. A bad theory is better than a completely shut door on possibilities. Take that Book assassin idea - even if it was total nonsense, it kept the show alive in discussions between fans, made people rewatch episodes looking for clues, and honestly might be more interesting than whatever the writers would have come up with if they had to wrap things up. Nobody's forcing the showrunner to read reddit threads, and cancellations happen for money reasons, not because some dude on the internet had a wild idea about a character. If a fan theory is strong enough to "cancel" a show, that show was already on thin ice to begin with.