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“Revive my Firefly fan blog” was not on my 2026 bingo card but here we go

Here’s how it was are the facts:

A series of teaser videos featuring Nathan Fillion knocking on the doors of the core Firefly cast and saying cryptic things like “it’s time” and “we’re doing this” have been posted to the Once We Were Spacemen instagram account.

02/23 - Gina Torres

02/25 - Morena Baccarin

02/27 - Sean Maher

03/02 - Summer Glau

03/04 - Jewel Staite

03/06 - Adam Baldwin

03/11 - Alan Tudyk

There has been a LOT of speculation about what this means. The captions on two of the videos have dropped some confirmation of what it’s NOT:

02/27 - Sean Maher: “Some of you have guessed convention, podcast, or cross-over. You are wrong.”

03/11 - Alan Tudyk: “It’s not bobbleheads…”

And several of the captions promise an official announcement this Saturday, March 15th.

Now that we have the facts, here is my personal opinion:

These videos were posted to the Once We Were Spacemen account. Not a personal account, not the official Syfy account, and not a Disney or Fox account. That makes me think it’s something tangentially related to Firefly, without crossing the line of copyright infringement.

Recently, Dropout (a streaming service/ comedy network) worked with Nathan Fillion on a collaboration with The Rookie. In an interview about the collaboration, Sam Reich emphasized how much the whole crew loved working with Nathan. Following the OWWS instagram posts, Reddit user Levangeline posted a theory in the Dropout subreddit that Dropout will launch a Firefly reboot. In that thread, one of the most upvoted comments is from user Tequeman “Plot twist. It’s a firefly sequel season of dimension 20” (For those not in the know, Dimension 20 is a Dropout series where cast members play different TTRPGs. They sometimes have special guests and mini-series with celebrities!)

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To be honest, until OWWS posted the video with Adam Baldwin, I thought the “Firefly cast reunites to play the Firefly TTRPG on Dropout” theory was pretty likely! But given that Dropout’s CEO Sam Reich is an outspoken leftist, it seems unlikely to me that he would want to give someone so known for his involvement in #GamerGate (as well as other right-wing political views) a voice on his platform.

Time: What Is #GamerGate and Why Are Women Being Threatened About Video Games?

So my next thought is a reunion special, similar to what Star Trek: Deep Space Nine did.

IMDb: What We Left Behind: Looking Back at Star Trek: Deep Space Nine

I am personally a newer fan of DS9, but I’m sure many more seasoned fans already know how badly Terry Farrell was treated on set. They do address that in the reunion special, and she was interviewed separately from the rest of the cast.

I think there’s a parallel here to what we now know about Joss Whedon’s mistreatment of women in his life. I feel like it might be too much to hope that Joss Whedon is not involved at all in whatever-this-is, but if it’s a reunion special and he is involved, I hope they take a similar approach to the DS9 special.

Vulture: The Undoing of Joss Whedon

We have teaser videos with all the living core cast members (rest in power, Ron Glass), and I think that if we are going to get another teaser video, it will be either Joss himself or Mark Sheppard.

He wasn't just Epstein's friend and client. He was his partner in crime.

On a psychological level, you just know that when he's not on camera, there's no MrBeast - he's spoken about how he has no real personality beyond "Youtube". Before starting his channel, he spent five years studying - not to make good content, but obsessively studying the Youtube algorithm, from dawn to dusk. His original "content" was estimating how rich other Youtubers were. What is he like when he's not performing? Is there anyone in there or is it just on autopilot?

sometimes there would be “prize cans” of this stuff where instead of having soda inside it there would be hats. and they didn’t sell this option in boxes by the way they just put prize cans in random vending machines. and put like 25 cents in it so hey. you could get an actual soda that isn’t just hats. maybe.

did i mention that this soda also had a fucking MANIFESTO??? because yeah it sure had that printed on some cans and it goes as follows

and there’s these things called “coincidences”, which… yeah it doesn’t make it sound any less ominous

and you might be wondering how the soda itself tastes like does it taste good? ok? well apparently it was just a regular “citric” tasting soda but somehow they fucked it up so bad that it was compared to “carbonated tree sap”, and instead of trying to make the drink taste better they included that it tasted like shit, INTO THE ADVERTISING SCHEME ITSELF. they would literally advertise that it tasted like ass as a part of the ironic marketing, no i am not kidding.

but if you thought that’s where it ended there’s one more curveball and without any exaggeration, you will not expect what i am about to tell you.

take a look at this guy.

this guy is the “face” of ok soda, as in he was printed on the most cans and technically served as a mascot of sorts for the entire thing. his face was a major part of the branding, and this design for the cans was one of if not the most common.

okay. cool. no issue there right?

take a guess on who this guy is based off of.

the artist’s coworker? a generic guy? the artist himself? a relative? some random reference model they hired?

CHARLES MANSON. YES, THIS IS REAL. MEANING FOR A BRIEF MOMENT IN TIME, CHARLES MANSON’S FACE WAS USED AS A MEANS TO SELL COCA COLA.

the lead artist himself has even come forward to say this is the case. and now you may be asking wait. how’d he do this? how’d he possibly get away with this, years after the crimes had been committed?

well according to him, it was simple. apparently none of the contracts he signed said anything against putting a mass murderer on the can. so. there’s THAT.

unfortunately or fortunately depending on how you look at it, ok soda never really caught on since *surprise surprise!* teens really don’t want to buy soda that looks like a brutalist art museum, and it never had a wide release so it was only a thing for like two years between 1993 and 1995. but from what i’ve heard there’s still people who are giving this soda a small modern following, collecting all the cans and merchandise and even coming up with stand in recipes for the soda formula itself.

so yeah! that was ok soda.

CARBONATED "BEVERAGE"

you'll say "i think children shouldn't be forced to eat food they hate" and here comes someone who feeds their kids plain rice and boiled chicken (while eating a nicely seasoned stirfry) claiming that it's okay actually and kids shouldn't be allowed to taste things

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