Set Harth wrote:

Shawnster wrote:

For the life of me, I'll never understand why Fox chose to show "The Train Job" first instead of the Pilot.
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Because it's a better episode?
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Hm.
No, no that's not it.

TJ is a ham-handed rush job that Minear and Whedon whacked together in a 3-day weekend because the Fox Execs didn't think "Serenity" had enough joe-six-pack action.