4. She Gave Firefly Star Ron Glass A Rad Leaving Present
Great though Serenity was in a lot of ways, it also gave as it took away. The film sequel to Firefly brought fans a lot more of what they loved, but also twisted the knife a little with regards to the show's cancellation, feeling in many ways like a more final ending than Fox dropping the axe. Fan favourite Wash, the titular ship's pilot, was killed off, because actor Alan Tudyk didn't want to commit to sequels. At least he got a big proper send-off, mind. Ron Glass, who played Reverend Book, was already departing from the series before it got cancelled. He appears very briefly in Serenity, only to be killed off-screen and again given a rather fleeting death scene to say goodbye to the cast. Behind the scenes, though, he got a much more fitting farewell thanks to Summer Glau. One of the more esoteric props on the sci-fi show was Book's Bible, which eventually got passed into the possession of River. Glau annotated the entire Bible in character, and gifted it to Glass as his leaving present, which is pretty sweet. He later auctioned it off for charity, which is kinda ungrateful.
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