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Q. 8. "Firefly" was the first time in a while when your ideas did not get to make it through to fruition. First of all, is there anything you would like to share with people following the show on the edge of their seats? And secondly, having seen how you turned a previous disappointment, "Buffy the Vampire Slayer," the movie, into an artistic success on your own terms, can we hope for something similar with "Firefly"?

A. "Firefly." I'll answer the second question first. I have every hope in the world of bringing "Firefly" back to people in another format. I haven't got anything definite yet but I've been fighting to do that since the day we were cancelled. I therefore don't have any particular plot things I want to share with people because I'm hoping I'll get the chance to do that in the near future, whether it be on TV, film or a t-shirt.

It was a bizarre blow to have a story in your head and suddenly not get to tell it. I don't know why, I've written movies long enough to know that that's usually the case, but after "Buffy" and "Angel" sort of took off I got lulled into overconfidence and was so excited to tell the stories of these people, and then suddenly had it truncated. However, knowing that what we shot will be coming out on DVD in its full form is a big vindication, because I got to say a lot of things that I wanted to say right, up in the first episodes. So, as I said, watch and wait.

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