Did anybody else laugh their ass off...
POSTED BY: Hops
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when Mal and Wash were getting tortured? My wife think's I'm warped, but I found their banter about Zoe and her affection for the captain to be hiliarious. Perhaps all the more so that they continued it through the brutal torture. If I'm wrong in this let me know. I'll try to control myself in the future if this was wrong. -Hops
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Everyone laughs themselves silly - then grimaces, winces, laughs again, flinches, guffaws, tries not to cry and then ends up wanting to puke.
All of this while laughing their ass off.
It's called 'the Whedon experience'.
Looking at Xander and knowing that Caleb has taken out his eye ... and laughing out loud when he tells a joke about '... being on the patch' doesn't make you a bad person. Only a Whedon fan.
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Thank you for your post. This is the funniest torture scenes every. I couldn't stop laughing! I felt guilty and a little dirty for laughing but it was sooooooooooooooo funny. Every time someone was going to swear Niska turned up the juice.
This is so Joss. Season 5 of Angel had a great fight scene between Angel and Spike. The whole fight was also a verbal fight. It was brilliant.
Yep. Much fun.
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I as well, am guilty of laughing during this scene.
Hm, what does that mean? 
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Did Caleb look familiar to you? a la Nathan before or after Firefly, I can't keep track of when he was on Buffy? Also, I was confused watching the tourture scene in "War Stories", wasn't sure what emotion to feel, actually felt all of them at once.
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It's an example of the genius of Joss. Not only was what they were saying funny but it's why they're saying it. And that's because it's Mal's way of getting Wash through the torture.
So it's working on two levels. And it isn't the "Aren't we clever we're going to have our characters crack jokes while facing danger" kind of B.S. that you see in a lot of action movies. In this scene the wise-cracks are motivated.
That's our Joss. Or if Joss didn't write that episode--it's the mark of Joss.
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OK, I feel better now. I was beginning to second guess myself.
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Originally posted by batmarlowe:
It's an example of the genius of Joss. Not only was what they were saying funny but it's why they're saying it. And that's because it's Mal's way of getting Wash through the torture.
So it's working on two levels. And it isn't the "Aren't we clever we're going to have our characters crack jokes while facing danger" kind of B.S. that you see in a lot of action movies. In this scene the wise-cracks are motivated.
That's our Joss. Or if Joss didn't write that episode--it's the mark of Joss.
I agree with previous posters that the banter about Zoe is funny (I laugh, too), and that it shows Mal's concern for Wash. But let's not forget this is TV. Joss had to do something to lighten up the torture sequence or it would have been unwatchable. After all, if memory serves, there are no extended sequences of Mal being tortured. You can't just do torture; it's too grim. Joss needed to lighten it up, and he did. He could have made the banter between the two of them unamusing, after all--talk of Wash's home world or flight school stories or some such.
Oh, plus, point of interest: talking about Zoe allowed Joss to do some very natural exposition--and you know Joss, he's all about subtle exposition.
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what i found even more funny then that torture part was in the end when mal tells zoe what went on and tells her that they have to have sex, and wash sitting there cant stand it! great ending to a kind of dark eps.
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