NUCLEARDAY'S BLOG
I'm a Crybaby now
Tuesday, January 31, 2006 9:45 AM
The Serenity movie was what got me into the whole Firefly thing. I'd only seen one or two of the episodes previously. The first time I saw the movie, well, it was good enough to send me out to the store in the middle of the day (which is alot more like the middle of the night when you work night-shifts) and pick up the box set.Finally made it through all the episodes and soaked up everything else I could get my hands on. Read that script, saw the River Tam sessions, even went through a couple episodes with the commentaries on. So I'm hooked. That's a given anyways... :P
Tonight was my first day off in over a week, so I wasn't really up to do anything special, and I figured I'd take a break from sketching and such. Sitting around at 2:30 in the morning by myself, nothing on the tv. Figured it would be a pretty good time to go and re-watch the movie now that I know what's really going on and such.
Sure, there's a couple things that bother a bit now, that hadn't before. Mal's new suspenders kind of bug me. And was Wash doing laundry or something? What happened to those Hawaiian shirts? Sure, there wasn't as many of those little Firefly moments I'd grown to love these past two weeks, and the lighting was a lot different, but... gorramn...
First off, I'm not the sort to generally cry at movies. I shed like a tiny little tear at the very end of the LOTR movies (you know, when Sam comes home, sits in his chair, and say "Well, I'm home...), and for some reason Braveheart got me going a bit near the end. I don't know why, but most movies don't really do that to me. I'm a pretty sensitive artsy guy, but there's likely just enough machismo in me or something.
(We're coming up on SPOILER city by the way...)
But... literally beginning at Wash's "leaf on the wind" scene to the very very last bit of credits (never noticed the Firefly theme at the very end, that didn't help matters) the waterworks were turned to full blast on yours truly.
I was getting a little weepy with Wash dying after his greatest moment. And things were starting to get tense at that "Hold. Hold till I get back" part. But... wow... I could barely see straight by the time the doors open in the hallway and Mal is silhouetted and looking at what's left of his crew. River's fight scene with the Reavers? Forget it, just a bunch of shapes but the emotion got through to me plenty.
By the time I got to the funeral scene, I was bawling. Seriously, bawling. Like a baby. Sitting alone in my room in the dark at like four in the am just weeping uncontrollably. We're talking call the weather hotline 'cause a torrential rain is on the way. I'd start to get ahold of myself, and then they'd zoom in on the hologram of Wash turning around and grinning...
Don't even get me started on Mal's speech to River at the very very end. I'm choking back the waterworks and trying to say the lines along with him between heaving sobs. The credits are rolling and I'm just sitting there like a two-year-old who just dropped his first ice cream cone in the dirt. Not a pretty sight.
I'm not even going anywhere with this. I'm not going spiel on about how someone, somewhere in world of television executives better wise-up and draw out a rock-solid contract for Whedon to do another five years of Firefly. I won't gush and gush about the characters and how good the acting is, and how well-written the show is, or even how adorable Kaylee is.
I got a little emotional the first time I saw the movie. Seeing it the second time around, after seeing the episodes and having a firm background in the story, that was an entirely new experience for me.
Bawling.
Like a baby.
If this is what obsession is like, frelling sign me up...
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