What Is Your Favorite Firefly Episode?
POSTED BY: collinmalfan
UPDATED: Monday, April 24, 2006 03:43
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THE HERO OF CANTON!
THE ONE THEY CALL JAAAAYNE!
It still makes me laugh, even after the 10th viewing! More one-liners than you can shake a herring at! The line, "next time, let's all go to a crappy town where I'm the hero!", is my personal favourite one-liner of all time!
Also, the Mal and (drunken) Wash entrance onto Serenity, when they are met by Zoe, is brilliant! Wash's giggling fits are comedy timed to perfection.
I realise that it lacks clever plotting and all that jazz, but let's be honest here; who expected there to be a statue of Jayne in the centre of town when they first watched the episode? Now that is clever plotting!
It is also a mainline station for the less obvious characters to develop their own subplots; so we get extension lines built into Kaylee snogs Simonsville and we meet the Emotion Express to Jaynestown. This kind of episode may not further the darker plot elements, but it lets you identify with the humanity of the characters and hence you like them more!
It's also the best episode to watched pissed!
Let's all go to a crappy town where i'm the hero!
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Objects in Space with Out of Gas second
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Jaynestown, definitely.
"Guess you broke into the wrong rec room."
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Very hard choice, but I'd say "Out of Gas." I love the scene where Zoe says there's something about Wash that she doesn't like. I crack up everytime I see it! Plus it gives a bit of background of how things game together. I love the ending when Mal sees Serenity for the first time, it's LOVE at first sight!
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Like has been mentioned, there's not a single episode I dislike. One of my favorite moments is in Trash with Mal just sitting in the middle of nowhere completely nude. And he doesn't even care! I also love how you see the outcome of the job first, then the episode comes full circle and catches up with the first line. Mal boarding the ship naked in front of his crew is priceless!
Also, I love Shindig.
"Mercy is the sign of a great man..."
*stab*
"Guess I'm just a good man..."
*stab*
"Well, I'm alright"
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In order, I think it'd have to be:
1) Out of Gas
2) The Message
3) Serenity
4) Our Mrs. Reynolds or Trash
Out of Gas and The Message get me kind of emotional. Out of Gas of course gives so much backstory to the ship and its crew, and gets me endeared to all the different characters. Plus that, the progression of the episode from start to finish is just done so well. I mean, it's darting around all over the place to explain where each character comes from, explain the ship's problem, and the present with Mal semi-daydreaming while trying to get the catalyzer into the engine. You also get to see the level of loyalty the crew has for one another...
Anyway, before I drone on about that, The Message was good for many of the same reasons, but it also hints at one of my favourite things about the series. You hear all these references to the war, but there are only two direct battle sequences. Everything else is about the long-term effects of war on the soldiers who fight them. From Mal's wish to push further on out in the system, to small things like Zoe and Mal cutting into their apples. But Tracey was like that all over: he was never a fighter, and even though he survived the war it still killed him.
Serenity and Our Mrs. Reynolds I enjoy mostly because they were my initial introductions to the series. Our Mrs. Reynolds and Trash I liked since Saffron is by far my favourite guest character.
But yeah, like what most other folks here already said, I love all the episodes. Objects in Space used to be at the bottom of my list (though I still liked it) until I rewatched it. Now I think Train Job might be at the bottom... and I still think it's a wonderfully-done episode. KF
~Kaiser Farooque
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I clicked on the thread intending to say Trash (because I love the character of Saffron), but after reading all the posts, I don't know. I think the only thing to do is sit down and watch them all again.
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Oh damn. Which one is my favorite?
Well, here's my top 3 favs.
1. Serenity. Wash playing the toy Dinos.
"this a feritle land and we shall call it...this land." I was like, thats it! I'm hooked!
2.Out Of Gas. I love the whole flashback scenes, how the whole crew came together and how Mal fell in love with Serenity.
3. The Message. No else mentioned this ep. I dunno why, It sounds depressing I know but I liked it. It did kind of feel like it was the funeral of the whole series and the whole music in the background when they brought Tracy's body to his family, just broke my heart.
I gotta go and cry now
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May have been on the losing side. Still not convinced it was the wrong one.
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Every last one, but one scene which I cant get enough of is in 'Out of Gas' when they are all hovering around the wounded Mal and he asks if they will all be there when he wakes up!! SOB!! Makes my heart melt - all his defenses are down, and after the whole lonely struggle to fix the ship while dripping blood everywhere - all he wants is them to be there... sniffle.... sob.....
(and plays on every feminine inch of me wanting to comfort the big tough space captain)
They say they want a soulmate and a helpmeet, but sooner or later the list includes skin like silk and a chest fit for a herd of cows....Angua in 'Jingo' by Terry Pratchett
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Originally posted by FallenAngel:
3. The Message. No else mentioned this ep. I dunno why, It sounds depressing I know but I liked it. It did kind of feel like it was the funeral of the whole series and the whole music in the background when they brought Tracy's body to his family, just broke my heart.
Hey now, I mentioned The Message, and I'm still at odds on whether I'd place it in the #1 or #2 slot {^^}. I thought it did an incredible job of showing how war affects a man in the long-term--not just through the fighting, but through the psychology of loss. And, after reading the script for Dead or Alive, I see some of the better elements there were worked into The Message.
A lot of folks point out the plotholes in it but, meh, I'm just not seeing 'em. KF
~Kaiser Farooque
ZOE: Preacher, don’t the Bible have some pretty specific things to say about killing?
BOOK: Quite specific. It is, however, somewhat fuzzier on the subject of kneecaps...
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