‘Tis Pity She's A Whore

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Notes

1. The text to which Moseley and Read refer is Ally McBeal. Other texts would include Sex and the City (Jane Arthurs 2003; Kim Akass & Janet McCabe 2004) and Charmed (Moseley 2002).

2. Fox rejected the pilot episode of the series and forced Whedon to write a new introductory episode. The network subsequently showed twelve of the fifteen shows that were made in a very different order to that in which they appear in the subsequent DVD. Whedon subsequently raised the money to continue the story of Firefly in a feature film (Serenity) released in the UK in October 2005.

3. While the story of River was under-developed in the short run of the series, the focus on River in the film also made marketing sense. The publicity for the movie foregrounded the character of River in a pose reminiscent of Buffy, and described the film as being “from the creator of Buffy and Angel.”

4. The screenplay of the film also indicates that Inara's only kiss in this film was also to be girl-on-girl (Whedon 2005, pp. 78–79), although this scene appears to have ended up on the cutting-room floor.

5. I am grateful to Stacey Abbott for this observation.