Favorite non-verbal character moments
POSTED BY: shambleau
UPDATED: Wednesday, December 28, 2005 19:40
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My two favorites are :
1)In Serenity when Wash tells Zoe, "Don't forget to call him Sir, he likes that." After Mal comes in and Zoe calls him Sir, Wash gives Zoe the funniest thumbs up.
2)This one tugs my heart strings everytime. In Safe, when Simon says, they're actually charging money for this..and Kaylee looks so vunerable, it hurts me.
I could come up with plenty more, but those are my favorites.
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Think it's already been said, but, when River is dancing in "Safe" and Simon's just watching her with this proud, loving look in his eyes, it's just beautiful. And in "HoG", at the beginning, when Mal says something like, "That business wouldn't happen to be in somebody's pants, would it?" and Inara just gives him this disbelieving look, then just walks away. And, of course, at the end of said ep, on the catwalk, when they're being all "truthsome". That whole scene is just filled!
There's so much more, but that's all I can come up with for now...
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"Yeah, but she's our witch, so cut her the hell down." --Mal in "Safe."
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I know this has been said, but I have to agree...
Simon's disbelieving face during the whole episode of Jaynestown, where he half has his fingers in his mouth and doesn't seem to realize it. Cracks me up every time.
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Originally posted by TheSomnambulist:
Everytime I watch 'Heart of Gold' and she's on the floor sobbing violently.... breaks my heart.
Oh God... me too... that just rips my heart to pieces...
I also love the way she glances at Nandi afterward, and then looks away, just enough accusation in her look, followed by her attempt to conceal it, to tell Nandi everything she needs to know....
For Mal, I love the way his face goes slack with obvious hurt at Inara's use of the term "petty crook" at the beginning of HoG when Inara takes the small firearm to move it to the left of the place setting... She's not even really making an intentional jab, she's just playing, but his reaction to her words says sooo much about their relationship to me ... love that scene....
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don't know if any of these moments have been mentioned, but here goes:
zoe and wash cuddled up together at the start of OMR
the way wash swings around looking for mal through his blindfold in WS
the look on wash's face as he pulls the Crazy Ivan
the looks on mal's face when...
+ saffron offers to wash his feet
+ he first sees river in the box
+ saffron tells him she's his wife
+ when he's going through the ship looking for saffron
jayne's face as he rips off the tape in Jaynestown
simon's face as he sees what jayne has done to his infirmary while looking for tape
when the reaver victim wakes up in Bushwhacked
book appearing to lecture mal on the Special Hell in OMR
tracey's face as he wakes up screaming in The Message
simon's "going mad" moments in Jaynestown
river's face as she dances and when she stares out at the stars from her spacesuit
oh, so many, many magic moments!!! i'll probably remember more and have to post again...
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Can't take the sky
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Kaylee has the best hurt face ever. After Jayne gets all crude about Simon and gynocology, her little pout shows just how sweet she is.
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There are two shots in "Trash" when (saffron) is giving her speech about stealing the Lassiter. At first Jaynes eyes light up when he hear's the word "Lassiter", as we see his face from (saffron's) perspective. Then when the camera shifts to being over Zoe's shoulder, we see Jayne turn to her and smile and nod like a kid would to his mother if he wanted something really bad.
Anyway, that's one of my favorite Jayne moments.
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Just rewatched Out of Gas, Ariel and Trash for about the upteenth time-great way to celebrate Christmas Eve.
Lots of good moments in all three but I'll concetrate on Trash.
Mal's reaction to seeing YoSafBridge on the smuggler's moon.
Mal trying to signal YoSafBridge when she's trying to charm Duran.
and a favorite-everyone's reaction to Mal's being naked as he gets back on Serenity-from laughter by Kaylee to Wash's uncomfortable "we really didn't need to see this" look.
MerryChristmasHappyHannukahHappyKwanzaHappyNewYear to everyone
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I always laugh at the way Jayne is gnawing his apple at the end of that knife as they wait to catch a glimpse of the counselor in War Stories. It makes his expression when he finally sees "her" that much funnier.
I'm also a fan of the sequence in the pilot "Serenity" as Mal tells everone over the intercom about the passing Reaver ship. We see what each crew member is doing in preparation. Jayne readies his guns, Inara gets out that mysterious syringe, etc., all designed to tell us how bad the Reavers scared them.
In Safe, at the dinner table scene at the end I love it when River steals the bread off Jayne's plate and he has to reach for another.
One I find absolutely histerical is in Trash when Mal comes back on the ship after his fight with Yosaffbridge with the paper sticking out of his nose and Wash's reaction as he passes him on the stairs (the silent double finger waggle at his own nose kills me.).
I really like the scene in the pilot when Dobson has River at gunpoint and Simon has a gun also as he and Dobson argue over her. In the middle of that argument and Simon's unsure handling of the situation Mal marches in with a purpose, unholsters his gun and almost matter of factly shoots Dobson in the face right next to River's head. Problem solved. That sequence told us a lot about Mal. When he's all business you better watch out.
Everyone's right. There's so many. And there were only 15 episodes.
Well, as a rule I say girl folk ain't to be trusted.
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Originally posted by Sikkukut:
Right before Mal yells at Wash to get to the bridge in Out of Gas, there's this momentary look on Mal's face that says to me that he's in complete control, and grudgingly making the *decision* to get mad. Yes, he's angry, but he wouldn't act on it like that if he didn't feel that was the best way to get Wash moving. One of the things I love in that episode is seeing him deal with each member of the crew differently.
Those dynamics through that whole episode really touch me, including that one. I love the fact that if you watch that scene closely, you see that Mal is scary enough to make Jayne back away, but he is completely in control and actually very gentle with Wash. What he did was forceful enough to get through to him, but not so much that he would add any hurt or fear to what Wash was already facing.
That whole episode shows what an incredible leader Mal is, knowing who to be gentle with (Kaylee), who to be forceful with (Wash), who to be forthright with (Jayne), who to spend a private moment with without letting it become cripplingly emotional (Inara)....I could go on and on.
One of my favorite non-verbal character moments is at the end of War Stories. When Mal is back on the ship, walking up the stairs, he stops and gently takes Kaylee's hand in passing. That brings tears to my eyes every single time; he has been though such hell, yet he has the heart and the compassion to reach out and reassure Kaylee. Touches me to the core every time.
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