favourite romantic firefly moments?

also of course
end of BDM about Serentiy
we are all in love with that ship!!

"love is what keeps her"

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They're not romantic, exactly, but I dearly love the several private scenes between Simon and River.

"We're on a ship!" (TJ - wonderful reading on that line.)
"I'll knit!" (OMR)
"Everything that matters is right here." (Safe)
"Time to wake up." (Ariel)
"I threw up on your bunk." (WS)
"Am I talking to Miranda now?... No. Right." (BDM)
"Don't say that, not ever. We're going to get through this." (BDM)





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Ain't about you, Jayne. It's about what they need.

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Originally posted by Carbonel:
Late to the party but it's such a good thread!

I got invested in the Mal-Inara romance in 'Serenity Part 2' when Inara says something like 'If you throw them off the boat, I'm going too' and Mal replies 'Perhaps that's for the best'. It seems kind of harsh, but if you watch his face for the couple of milliseconds before he replies, you can see that the idea of her going absolutely kills him, but then he pulls himself together and gives a tough guy response. It's a beautiful piece of screen acting.

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I agree! You can see the struggle in his eyes, yet what wins is the fact that he realizes it would be safer for her NOT to be on the ship if things go south. He doesn't want her to go, but he believes it could be in her best interest to leave. And when he turns and walks through the bulkhead door and down the hall, he's a little unsteady on his feet and reaches out to the wall for support before he starts to turn the corner when Simon stops him. Almost like he was so emotionally affected by her threat to leave that it made his knees a little wobbly. He was that disappointed.

How can actors put so much into their work? It's so cool!

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HobanWashburn called it.
That moment in "Our Mrs. Reynolds", when Zoe and Wash are snuggled together in the firelight. It's so natural- not forced, or strained. Just comforting.

The other is that moment in "Objects in Space" and Kaylee mentions rescuing them from Niska and Zoe just reaches for Wash's hand. To me, that's love- that comfort shared.

(Damn you Joss, damn you to Hades!)

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My favorite moment is from OoG, where Mal and Inara are in her shuttle just before the crew uses them for lifeboats. They look at each other after he’s finished giving her all the instructions, and he can tell she’s about to say something important, and he stops her with “And try not to talk. There ain’t no need for it, it just uses up air.” But she plows on and says for him to come with them in the shuttle, “You don’t have to die alone!”, and his response “Everybody dies alone.” And they just stand there and look at each other.

That affects me so much — it feels like when you accidentally hit your head so hard that you lose your balance, and it hurts so much you just want to throw breakable things.

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when river floats down from Early's space ship "permission to come aboard" and Mal so obviously wants to welcome her, like she doesnt need to ask...
and he tells her to get down inside

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Originally posted by Carbonel:
Late to the party but it's such a good thread!

I got invested in the Mal-Inara romance in 'Serenity Part 2' when Inara says something like 'If you throw them off the boat, I'm going too' and Mal replies 'Perhaps that's for the best'. It seems kind of harsh, but if you watch his face for the couple of milliseconds before he replies, you can see that the idea of her going absolutely kills him, but then he pulls himself together and gives a tough guy response. It's a beautiful piece of screen acting.

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I agree! You can see the struggle in his eyes, yet what wins is the fact that he realizes it would be safer for her NOT to be on the ship if things go south. He doesn't want her to go, but he believes it could be in her best interest to leave. And when he turns and walks through the bulkhead door and down the hall, he's a little unsteady on his feet and reaches out to the wall for support before he starts to turn the corner when Simon stops him. Almost like he was so emotionally affected by her threat to leave that it made his knees a little wobbly. He was that disappointed.

How can actors put so much into their work? It's so cool!

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yes! and then he is really mean to Simon! and it is like his heart break is turning into poisen in his mouth and he spits it over the poor Simon, who then runs to check Haylee, he we all think everything is gone... then Mal is pissing himself laughing with Wash Zoe and Jayne! That was a strange emotional leap... he knew Kaylee was fine, was he just hurting because he thought Inara was more loyal to the yuppie children than to him?

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No, I see that moment, Mal telling Simon that Kaylee was dead, was a chance to test Simon's reaction. Was this someone who truly cared whether Kaylee lived or died?
If Simon's first thought had been for himself, or for River, Mal would have thrown him right out the airlock. But Simon's expression turns to shock, and he turns and runs for infirmary, with Kaylee being his first priority.

And yah, it was a GREAT joke on poor Simon!

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Hands down, in The Message, when Simon and Kaylee are standing in the snow, he's in his big coat, and they're holding hands to that sad sad music. That scene makes me want to cry everytime. It's kind of like "You may do stupid things, simon, but when I need to hold someone's hand, I'm going to hold yours."

I just have a thing about holding hands.

Same with the BDM when they're holding hands at the gravesite.

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