Sproget i Firefly

Ifølge Fireflys mytologi, er USA og Kina de to stormagter der udgør Alliancen og derfor snakker alle både kinesisk og engelsk.
Den kinesiske dialog blev ikke oversat på Amerikansk tv og vil heller ikke blive det på dansk tv. Og det synes jeg er en fejl, for hvad personerne på skærmen forstår, bør vi også kunne forstå.
Det er en helt anden sag hvis Mal besøger folk hvor han ikke forstår sproget - så er det i orden at vi heller ikke gør det.
Selvfølgelig har Joss Whedon ikke brugt kinesisk til vigtige replikker - mere til eder og kolorit, men aligevel har nogle fans sat sig ned med ordbøger og oversat så godt de kunne.

Eksempler (der garanteres ikke for den kinesiske stavning eller den danske oversættelse):
Bao bei: Skat
Ben dan: (din ) idiot
Bi zui: Hold kæft
Bun tien-shung de ee-duai-ro: Stupide indavlede kødsæk
Dong ma?: Forstået?
Go-se: Hundelort
Kuh ooh duh lai lao bao jurn: Ondskabsfulde chef
Mei-mei: Lillesøster
Joss Whedon har også opfundet ord selv - blandt andet Gorram - som nok er fremtidens udgave af Goddam.

Teksten til Fireflys kendingsmelodi

Take my love.
Take my land.
Take me where I cannot stand.
I don’t care,
I’m still free.
You can’t take the sky from me.

Take me out to the black.
Tell ‘em I ain’t comin’ back.
Burn the land
And boil the sea.
You can’t take the sky from me.

Have no place I can be
Since I found Serenity.
But you can’t take the sky from me.

Tekst og musik af Joss Whedon
Sunget af Sonny Rhodes

Jaynes sang

The Ballad of Jayne

He robbed from the rich
and gave to the poor
stood up to The Man
and gave him what for
Our love for him now
ain't hard to explain
THE HERO OF MUDSORE!
THE MAN THEY CALL JAYNE!

Our Jayne saw the mudder's backs breaking
and he saw the mudders' laments
and he saw the President taking
every dollar an' leavin' five cents
so he said, 'can't do this to my people'
'can't crush them under your heel'
Jayne strapped on his hat,
and in ten seconds flat,
stole everythng there was fit to steal--
THE HERO OF MUDSORE!
THE MAN THEY CALL JAYNE!

And here's what separates heroes
from the common folk like you an' I
the man they call Jayne, turned 'round his plane
and let that money hit sky
he dropped it onto our houses
he dropped it into our yards
he dropped it onto our neighbors
one chunk hit Clem Meadows far hard
THE HERO OF MUDSORE!
THE MAN THEY CALL JAYNE!

Well Clem may now be a simpler man
than he mighta otherwise been
but he knows in his heart just like we do
Our Jayne is Mudshore's best friend...
THE HERO OF MUDSORE!
THE MAN THEY CALL JAYNE!
- Nedskrevet af Haken fra fireflyfans.net