Question: What are your encounters like with the fans?

Jewel Staite: We've been doing these science fiction conventions. It's been really interesting.

Adam Baldwin: They've been so supportive, we have this underdog mentality. I know the DVD sales were important to Universal's decision. We very much appreciate how much the fans have helped with our return to the screen.

Jewel: We wouldn't be here if we didn't have such an amazing following.

Summer Glau: They sing our songs!

Jewel: They quote our lines; I don't even know my lines.

Sean Maher: This summer there were a bunch of secret screenings with fans that we all attended. Watching the movies with fans is an experience, they're incredibly loyal and it's flattering.

Jewel: They're smart too.

Adam: They're smart but you also get this huge cross-section. Young and old, men and women. They love the writing, they love the characters, and they love the show. I remember Joss saying he was utilizing the fuel of love, not the fuel of anger. Anger is not an efficient fuel, love is. The love we get for the show is seen in the energy you see when you watch the show.

Question: Do you ever take advice from fans on character development?

Joss Whedon: They seldom will actually pitch things at me. I use the fans as a barometer of what they are responding to, they aren't responding to this character, let's open them up and see what makes them tick. Stuff like that.

Question: The zeal your fans show seems like Lord of the Rings or Star Wars. What is it about this show or this movie that fans are drawn to?

Nathan Fillion: The same reason I am, I'm drawn to the people, these characters. I'm invested in these people, they're flawed, and they're not all perfect, well except for Malcolm Reynolds.

Morena Baccarin: You can relate to something in each of the characters. I've been watching the shows recently, you guys were great by the way, what draws you to it again and again is they are stories you want to be told, they are not just relative to that universe. The style of Joss' writing is so grand and stylized, sort of Shakespearian. These people's plight is extremely accessible; I think that's what draws me.

Gina Torres: Unlike Star Wars or The Matrix trilogies where you have a very heightened reality and black and white is very clear, the lines are very definitively drawn. You fall into it; you want to aspire to the grandness of these heroes that are put in front of you. We're just regular people in extraordinary circumstances and that can be more inspiring. You think if these people as jacked up as they are, with all their issues, can meet these tasks and survive them then I can too. We all go about it differently so there is always an opportunity to see yourself.

Nathan: And they are each discovering things about themselves that they didn't know were there, that's interesting to watch. You're discovering Malcolm Reynolds has a vulnerable side. I don't have much in common with Jedi knights.

Question: Can you picture yourself doing conventions in twenty years?

Nathan: I find Serenity fans to be pretty thoughtful, pretty intelligent. The fans are really wonderful. We all have one thing in common; we're all in love with the same show. If they think they're fans they got nothing on me. I'm a fan.

Adam: I just want to say thank you to all the fans. This is a labor of love for us and they've always taken the time to show us how much they love the work and it means a lot to all of us. ~ Laremy Legel