What’s your favourite Firefly character moment?
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I like this thread, here are my picks:
Mal: The scene with Jayne in the airlock. You realize that Mal is *not* a startrek captain, that's if you still had any doubts.
Zoe: The fight with Wash in OMR. I think she reveals some insecurities of her own, as she watches everyone fuss over a woman who's just about the complete opposite of her.
Wash: Pretty much everything in WS. Although I like the dialogue where he says "You never slept with my wife". Although he's jealous of Mal's relationship with Zoe, he knows it's not as trivial as sex.
Kaylee: The scene with Bester in OoG. She's not quite as innocent as you might believe.
Jayne: The pilot, where he's watching them fix up Kayleee in the infirmary. He has a loyalty to the crew, it's just well hidden.
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Obe-Kaybe, lesse here:
I'm taking this as the moment that defined the character, the moment that made them more than just characters on a TV show, the moment that made them alive in our minds and hearts:
Mal: The look on his face during the battle of Serenity where he watches the ships leave without him and his crew. You saw so much in those eyes, you could hear his faith die in that moment. The other one was in the pilot (the real one) where he shot the alliance guy without breaking stride. That was REAL heroics.
Zoe: when she chooses Wash over Mal in War Stories and then looks at Niska and says,"You wanted me to choose, right?" Loyalty is the one thing that defines Zoe, and she has her priorities straight. If no one else knows her batting order, it doesn't matter, 'cause she does, and that's all that counts.
Jayne: When he watches over Kaylee in the pilot. He doesn't want anyone to see his weakness, but he has one, and that shows that he is more than a 2 dimensional thug for comic relief. Also, the moment in OMR, where he tries to trade Vera for Saffron, it shows that he has a code of honor. It might not be everyone else's code, but he was going to abide by it. If it was played with even a hair more comedy, it wouldn't have had any depth.
Kaylee: in OiS when River is reading everyone's minds, and you don't hear anything from Kaylee, that shows that she is exactly what she is perceived as, she has no hidden depth, which ironically, is what gives her so much life. Also, when she's injured and she helps Wash with the Crazy Ivan. When they've out-manuevered whoever was chasing them, she pats the engines, and says, "That's my girl" so lovingly that you realize she's not a bubbly little airhead.
Inara: This is hard, because her character is not supposed to show anything other than a facade, so in essence, a well portrayed companion is going to come across as flat. The scene in the pilot (hm, I'm sensing a trend here) where her client complains that they probably speed up the clocks to "cheat them from their fun" does it for me. The fleeting look on her face, like a mask that slipped for a fraction of a second, then was quickly replaced did it. She knows that her job is glamorous and socially acceptable, but she also knows that she is often looked at as a toy, and that bothers her, no matter what she says.
River: When she's talking to Simon and says,"you found me broken" is just heartbreaking. It's bad enough to not be mentally sound, but when you have flashes of reality that let you KNOW you're not mentally sound, that's even worse.
Simon: He could have stayed as 2 dimensional as a poster for all I cared. That is one purty boy! But anyway, when Simon goes on his rant in "Safe" in the general store and hurts Kaylee's feelings, it showed that he was not happy about throwing away his past life, and sometimes it got the better of him. He wasn't a saint for the sake of his sister, he made a hard choice, and was feeling the consequences. When he got up on the fire pile next to River, it showed that he would do it all over again. That was beauty for me.
Wash: the cute little scene where he says, "Psychic, that's science fiction though." and Zoe says, "we live on a space ship dear." and he says, "so?" so deadpan that you know he's not cracking a joke. To me it said that he doesn't try to be funny, it just happens. He's not the wise cracking funny guy in the show. The scene with the dinos was also a set up that he's a little left of center.
Wash: I couldn't say because there wasn't enough of him to let me see his true self. I would have to say that the time when he visited with Inara and offered one of his sermons 'with brimstone if you like' showed that he wasnt' someone with no real life experience. Also the scene where he confesses his doubts to Inara of all people shows his humanness. Then again, so does his willing fuzziness on the interpretation of kneecaps.
Just my babbling.
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Originally posted by lostangel:
Mal: The look on his face during the battle of Serenity where he watches the ships leave without him and his crew. You saw so much in those eyes, you could hear his faith die in that moment. The other one was in the pilot (the real one) where he shot the alliance guy without breaking stride. That was REAL heroics.
The way that scene was film, during that pause when the guy next to him was killed, and Mal just stared out of the bunker in complete disbelief. It looked like an oil painting and not video. Very well done from a film making POV
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Like many of you, the first episode I saw was The Train Job. As I was watching, I was thinking this was an "okay" show. The special effects were good, and they had some funny lines. But, two scenes made me sit up and start taking this show seriously -- The part near the end when Mal tells the sheriff that he didn't have any choice in returning the medicine, and of course, the part where he kicked that guy into the engine. From then on I was hooked!
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From Serenity:
Mal to a misbehaving Jayne: "Walk away from this table right now."
Mal promptly shooting the horse when Patience takes cover behind it.
Mal capping the fed in the head without skipping a beat after his rendezvous with Patience.
Mal seems like a nice fuzzy fellow a lot of the time, but he's got steel in him and will do what he has to in a heartbeat, and even a man like Jayne understands and respects that.
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This is a fun thread. Here are my favorite character moments.
Mal: at the end of "Ariel" when he grills Jayne and says, "Next time you stab me in the back, do it to my face."
Zoe: in "War Stories" when she negotiates for the release of Wash. She knows her dirty crooks.
Wash: in "Shindig" when he comes up with the eulogy he would give at Zoe's funeral.
Inara: her introduction in "Serenity". "At least someone around here is making an honest living."
Jayne: his introduction to the crew of Serenity in "Out of Gas". It could never have been funnier.
Kaylee: in "Shindig" when she finds a group of engine-loving men. They stand up to the aristocratic ladies who make fun of Kaylee's dress. Most enjoyable!!!
Simon: in "Ariel" when he saves a patient at an Alliance hospital and is shocked by the physicians' negligence.
River: the opening teaser of "Objects in Space", where we see the ship and crew from River's point of view.
Book: in "War Stories" when he gears up and valiantly fights Niska's goons. He's never been cooler.
Excerpt from My Genre Geek Resume:
~huge Odyssey 5 fan (despite its cancellation)
~dangerously obsessed with BtVS and Angel
~former Andromeda fan
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This thread wouldn't be complete without some of Serenity's moments:
Train Job: The scene when most of us first saw Serenity, when she rose up from below the cliff.
Serenity: When she detaches from the derelict and "flashes her ass at the gorram law". The "Crazy Ivan" scene was pretty cool too.
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Hmmm... With some of these moments it's difficult to know whether to go with our favourite moment for a character or our favourite "Find out something about the character" moment.
Lessee...
Mal: I'm gonna have to go with a funny moment here... Where, in 'Our Mrs. Reynolds', he turns to Jayne - Having discovered he's married - and asks "How drunk was I last night?"
It's a hoary old chestnut, but beautifully delivered.
Kaylee: The scene in OiS where Early asks if she's ever been raped... She's just so absolutely terrified. It shows she's just a little girl who likes fixing ships, no matter who she hangs with. It's refreshing. Most shows would have had her be all strong and silent. Shows she's only human like the rest of us.
Book: Again in OiS where River is reading his mind and she hears "I don't give half a hump if you're innocent or not!". It's so aggressive and hateful... It's totally unlike the Book we know and it really fuels the speculation about what he was *before* being a Shepherd.
Wash: Funny moment... At the beginning of Bushwhacked where he asks "Oh my god! What can it be? We're all doomed! WHO'S FLYING THIS THING?!?!?! Oh, right that would be me."
It's just 100% Whedon.
River: I love any moment when she's semi-coherant and showing that she's a wonderful young woman under all the madness... I especially like the scene between her and Mal outside the Airlock in OiS as she's coming back aboard.
Jayne: Funny moment... Serenity, where they've just left Badgers place and Jayne's doing the math, totting up how much money he just made. "Nothin' and Nothin'... Carry the Nothin'".
Zoe: Probably the scene in Serenity where she's describing the actions of Reavers. "If they take the ship, they'll rape us to death, eat our flesh and sew our skins into their clothing. And if we're very, very lucky... They'll do it in that order." It's earily reminiscent of the scene from Angel. "If you're lucky you'll last ten seconds... Really lucky and you'll be unconsious the last five."
Simon: Actually, it's a scene I haven't seen yet... His last one in 'Trash'.
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Where he tells Jayne that he knew he sold them out to the feds, but he's Jayne's doctor and so he won't be taking revenge... That scene, along with his life saving in Ariel, really showed why he was such a good physician... The Hippocratic Oath wasn't just something he rattled off so he could get down to making the big money.
Inara: Now Inara's more tricky... It's either the scene from Serenity where the Reavers are near-by and she opens up that little case to show us she's got a suicide syringe... She won't fight, but she's not going to allow those monsters to take her alive. The other option is, again, one I haven't seen from 'Trash'.
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The end scene where she's laying in wait for Saffron and ends up trapping her in the Garbage pod... She's almost a Pirate Princess herself... Maybe she is and that's why she had to find a new occupation. She's the reincarnation of Anne Bonney!
Twelve spheres of unendurable brightness spalled the velvety blackness of space.
The silence on Lester Tourville's flag bridge was absolute
And then the spell was broken as Shannon Foraker looked up from her console from where she had just sent a seemingly innocent command to the main computers of State Security's finest Superdreadnoughts.
"Oops." She said.
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Twelve spheres of unendurable brightness spalled the velvety blackness of space.
The silence on Lester Tourville's flag bridge was absolute
And then the spell was broken as Shannon Foraker looked up from her console from where she had just sent a seemingly innocent command to the main computers of State Security's finest Superdreadnoughts.
"Oops." She said.
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Originally posted by Lerxst:
This thread wouldn't be complete without some of Serenity's moments:
Train Job: The scene when most of us first saw Serenity, when she rose up from below the cliff.
Serenity: When she detaches from the derelict and "flashes her ass at the gorram law". The "Crazy Ivan" scene was pretty cool too.
Everything in "Out of Gas" is my favorite Serenity moment. Throughout that episode we visit individual parts of the ship at different time periods. Notice that Serenity finds its way into almost every topic of conversation in "Out of Gas".
Excerpt from My Genre Geek Resume:
~huge Odyssey 5 fan (despite its cancellation)
~dangerously obsessed with BtVS and Angel
~former Andromeda fan
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