• Adelai Niska

    Adelai Niska

    You don’t cross Adelai Niska. If he tells you he has a job you take it, it’ll be worth the bucks, but double-cross him and you pay the ultimate price. Niska is a man who has no qualms about torture, drugs or murder, and is fiercely…

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  • Badger

    Badger

    A small time crook based on the planet Persephone, Badger has been a constant source of business (and disappointment) for the Serenity crew. They have known each other for years, and have a grudging respect for each other, but deep down, Badger and Mal despise each other. Badger…

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  • Recurring Characters

    Recurring Characters

    Guest Cast

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  • Shepherd Derrial Book

    Shepherd Derrial Book

    Shepherd Derrial Book first came aboard Serenity at Eavesdown Docks on the planet of Persephone. He wasn’t looking at where the ships were going, just at the ships themselves. He chose Serenity, with a little persuasion from Kaylee. He told the crew he had just left…

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  • River Tam

    River Tam

    Whereas Simon is gifted, River Tam is some level above that. Born on Osiris, River enjoyed a comfortable childhood. She was more intelligent than her older brother and was often seen not only to be correcting his school work but also the textbooks from which he…

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  • Simon Tam

    Simon Tam

    Brought up on a wealthy core planet, Osiris, with his sister River and family, the Tam family was a wealthy one. Simon was known to be gifted and very intelligent from a young age. The only profession it seemed he should go into was medicine, and…

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  • Kaylee Frye

    Kaylee Frye

    Kaylee’s seen as the baby of the crew, the youngest out of them that’s for sure, but that in no way demeans her value to the crew. She’s the ship’s mechanic. She’s got a natural gift with engines, so her father tells her, who trained her.…

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  • Jayne Cobb

    Jayne Cobb

    The son of a rancher, Mal Reynolds was brought up on the planet Shadow by his mother and a large amount of other helping hands, which leads to the obvious conclusion that Mal and his family were fairly well off. He fought in the Unification War…

  • Inara Serra

    Inara Serra

    Nicknamed the Ambassador by Mal, Inara is the onboard Companion, bringing an air of class to the ship. She was born on the planet Sihnon and trained to be a companion there. She was headed to the ranks of High Priestess, though for some reason she…

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  • ‘Wash’ Washburne

    ‘Wash’ Washburne

    Hoban “Wash” Washburne was raised on a planet that was so polluted he couldn’t even see the sky, one thing which probably led him to his career in life, a pilot. He was regarded as one of the best pilots, before he came aboard Serenity and…

Welcome to The Watcher’s Guide, a resource, quite fittingly, back from the dead!

The original website shut down in 2004, following the cancellation of Angel. But Buffy the Vampire Slayer was no flash in the pan. It inspired and changed the way television was made and 30 years later, we’re still discussing the show and hoping for something new from the creative universe built over 254 episodes.

Firefly and Dollhouse also brought unique looks at the human condition in a fresh and innovative way, with a science-fiction twist, just as the BuffyVerse dealt with fantasy.

This website aims to be the ultimate resource for the five Mutant Enemy produced shows, to preserve their legacy, their characters and share it with the generations that have come since…