“Here we have ‘the hero shot’, and I have never used that term more literally in my life. We designed the entire set, and the entire sequence, for this moment. It has been pointed out to me, that I have a problem making fiction that doesn’t have super powered adolescent girls in it. I don’t care. I think that’s one of the sweetest things that I ever shot.”
Joss Whedon (Serenity, 2005) commentary