Trivia / Firefly E12 "The Message"

• Creator Cameo: Joss Whedon has an uncredited cameo as a man at Tracey's funeral.
• Reality Subtext: While filming the funeral scene, the crew was informed that the show had just been canceled. The sadness you see on their faces is real. This was also what the composer Greg Edmonson had in mind when he wrote the music for that particular scene.
• Throw It In!: According to Tim Minear in the Firefly 10th anniversary special "Browncoats Unite", the part at the end where Kaylee holds Simon's hand was not in Joss Whedon's original script.
• There’s an outtake from the funeral scene where Nathan Fillon inserted himself into the rotating shot repeatedly, partly to keep everyone's spirits up after the cancellation news.

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