Yeah, I know exactly how you feel! And you know what? I think, the people who created the show still feel the same about it. I rewatched War Stories today with Nathan's and Alan's audio commentary on. When those two guys talk about the film set, they talk about the Serenity as if she was a real ship and as if it was their home. And there is so much longing there to go back there. It is not just in the scripts or in the well created characters. You really get the impression that the film crew did grow into one big family as well and I think this just shows in the spirit of the show.

This is something I've always found with Joss Whedon's worlds.
Even stuff like Buffy it was always 'here's the vampires but the real story is these people'.
It's exactly like that with Firefly...'Here's a whole new 'verse, there's crime, wars and evil scientists but the real story is the people.'
That's why they're big damn heroes. Every single one!

Taya

You were eloquent enough for me, Nuclearday, that is exactly how I feel. I wake up in the mornin' thinking about these characters and wondering what they are doing. That is the essense, they are alive to us. And always will be. I can't see me ever leaving the 'verse. I don't wanna.

you know as much as I love the show and really hope for a return sometimes I think it would be easier if all there had ever been was one film.
what I mean is when a film comes out it has a story to tell and when that film is done (whether its single, double or a trilogy) that story had run its course. whereas with a series the aim is to go on for a number of years so the first season is there mostly to lay out the world and drop threads for all manner of plots which someday will be developed upon. with the cancellation however so much is left untold and no ammount of films will deal with that. simple stories will never be told in films (such as Wash's dinosaurs and whats with the Hawaiian shirts). hopefully a series will return and tell most of these tales but still three years have been lost that will never be made up. in that way you are right and somewhere out there are tales happening which we'll never see. they aren't dead - just lost in the black!

Perfect, perfect sense.
Like the feeling you get when they run
too many commercials sometimes - like,
am I missing something? What are the
characters doing while all these
commercials are running? It's so sad to
think we're missing *years* from the
Firefly story. Dang near unbearable.

...Driving on black ice is, however, not
something I'm familiar with. But did
you ever make a left turn onto a big
boulevard and think, "Ok now, full throttle!" My my, there's so may ways
to go crazy.