What was in your opinion, the worst episode of firefly?
POSTED BY: Zeylon
UPDATED: Monday, October 31, 2005 02:02
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It amazes me how we all perceive things differently. Defending "hearts of gold" on account of the *costumes*?....
Gold was easily the dumbest espisode of the bunch. It just does not mesh with the character Mal and what the whole crew is. They are scrounging for jobs all the time and they are *forced* to look out for number-one 90% of the time just to survive.
Who is Mal? "He's not an evil man... He hasn't lost his moral compass completely. He has just given up on the idea of the decency of human nature. Or that anything is worth fighting for, except the next meal and the people around him." ~Joss Whedon
Yet in Heart of Gold, Mal and the entire crew of firefly, risk DEATH in a deadly firefight - a western-style shootout because one hooker doesn't want to give up her baby. (cue Madonna song). The core of the conflict is this, and there's no exposition whatsoever to the interesting and real issues surrounding parental rights in a situation like this.
Instead, we get an entire firefly crew who is willing to kill, and be killed, as a favor.
We see the townsman whose barren wife won't give him a kid, which is reasonable motivation to seek a mother via a third party, yet the story is written to portray him with a shallowness that requires laser interferometry to measure. Why? They could have written him as the hardass town boss who has a valid motivation, but who botched negotiations with the whore. Or she could have been a surrogate who breached contract. All potentially interesting stories leading up to the conflict are ignored. There's not a fair protrayal of two legitimate interests in a conflict (something that Firefly does quite well in the alliance vs browncoat conflict).
To top it off, *it is assumed* that a woman has a higher claim to parenthood of an infant than a man. The attitude of this episode, the whole mental frame of reference is drenched in unjustified feminazi self-righteousness.
It's a mindless hackneyed cliche. It's just a dumbed-down good gals versus bad guys western bang-bang shootemup.
In defense of the producers, i see this as a protest against Fox, who had just cancelled the series during ep 12. To me this episode is a frustrated Firefly ranting at the lameness of the TV world "You want dreck? We can give you dreck! Here! See?"
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Originally posted by Zeylon:
I know that that's a very tough call.
Feel free to vote for the movie to if you liked it less than any of the episodes.
My vote would probably go to Bushwhacked just because there is a lull at the beginning where not much happens. But like I said, it's a pretty tough call.
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Hard to say. HoG was pretty ridiculous as a whole. Parts of it were wonderful, like when Inara breaks down after meeting Mal exiting Nandie's room. Wow. But the chase scene where Mal goes after Rance in the end was nothing short of pure cheese.
" They don't like it when you shoot at 'em. I worked that out myself. "
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Hard to say. HoG was pretty ridiculous as a whole. Parts of it were wonderful, like when Inara breaks down after meeting Mal exiting Nandie's room. Wow. But the chase scene where Mal goes after Rance in the end was nothing short of pure cheese.
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Inara crying in the other room by herself when she found out that Mal had sex with Nandie caught me by surprise!
Also, the scene where Inara is grieving the death of her friend, and she looks up at Mal with at first, a pained look, and then her facial structure quickly changed into hard features, all while she's looking at Mal in the eyes. The nonverbal exchange was there "Get that bastard who did this"
Of course Mal jumps up, chases Rance down and beats him up! Yes its cheese, but I liked it very much, and I would hope a man I liked would do that for me if the situation were the same.
I don't know if the episode "Heart of Gold" was making some kind of feminazi statements; I didnt get that message at all. The crew was doing what they thought Mal wanted, and Mal was doing it as a favor for Inara...he loves her very much and would do anything for her.
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