What Is Your Favorite Firefly Episode?

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UPDATED: Monday, April 24, 2006 03:43
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COMPANION6

Tuesday, January 24, 2006 10:33 PM

Your right, my mistake.

Always Remember "The Litany Of Fear"

JETGIRL23

Wednesday, January 25, 2006 7:59 AM

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Originally posted by derangedmilk:
I've got to go with "Out of Gas." The flashbacks are beautiful and the ending just makes me smile.
I have to agree with The Somnambulist, though, that in "Objects in Space" we have the most interesting of secondary characters: Jubal Early.
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I LOVE EVERY SINGLE EPISODE!

But a gotta agree as well....I have thought from my first viewing that "Out of Gas" and "Objects in Space" are just the best and most well written stories of them all.

I personally think OiS should win a freakin Emmy!

"Faster would be better"

SAMEIMEI

Wednesday, January 25, 2006 8:05 AM

Objects in Space.

Its just Perfection...

JOELIST

Thursday, January 26, 2006 8:20 PM

Yup, OiS is perfection.

Every time I watch it I have to marvel at how well executed it is. Joss wanted us to see the world through River's eyes a little, and it worked perfectly.

Just as good was the fact that Early, for all his training, weapons and such, was out of his league going up against River. She literally played him like a musical instrument.

And the end, where life goes on and River has been accepted, oddness and all, as part of the crew. Outstanding.

KILLERBANANA

Thursday, January 26, 2006 10:02 PM

For me these are the best ones
Out of Gas
War Stories
Serenity
Objects in Space
Every episode is awesomeness to me, these ones just stand out when I think of what ones I like best.

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"No! I can't. Too much hair."

RESE

Friday, January 27, 2006 9:39 AM

"Out of Gas", then "Shindig". The lovely dresses, and the mangoes!!

SUBTORPMAN

Friday, January 27, 2006 11:01 AM

The Message

Being a 20 year military man I was impressed with how well they they showed the frendship and interworking of the military relationship. How Mal and Zoe wouldn't let anyone else carry their comrade. A comrade's job is to take care of you and tell you the things you don't want to hear or make you do the right thing you may not want to do. Hell sometimes they will do the wrong thing with you just so your not by yourself. I had many a tear over the ending.

When you can't walk you crawl, if you cant crawl we will carry you.

PIRATENEWS

Friday, January 27, 2006 3:16 PM

When I first channeled FF's pilot on SciFi Channel, my brain got fried from the radical paradigm shift of space cowboys, literally. But I didn't know it was Joss' work, so there was no connection to BTVS. I just said, wow, that was different. But there was no info after the show to say if there was another episode, just an advert to send TV viewers to watch Serenity the BDM. Slam marketing fails because TV viewers have 15-minute attention spans. Did SciFi run the TV series leading up to SBDM (like it should have), or only after the BDM "flopped"?

Joss got us hooked on annual TV fixes. Now I'm in DT mode. That's why I made my own Little Damn Movie, or at least a FF music video, using only the pilot epp:
http://radio.indymedia.org/news/2006/01/8310.php

"You can't stop the signal!"
-Mr Universe, STM, Pirate TV

ELOISA

Saturday, January 28, 2006 1:20 AM

Even though there are so few episodes to choose from, I'm surprised by the number of people who've said exactly my choices - joint between War Stories and Out of Gas. IMO, OoG has perfect acting and seamless editing in a setup that should have been confusing to the viewer but wasn't, and War Stories just... is, on so many levels, wonderful. Firefly Disc 3 hasn't left my DVD drive for some time.

Tie for third: the pilot episode, Trash and Our Mrs Reynolds. The only episodes I'm not fond of are Jaynestown (most of it is too funny/silly for me) and The Message (don't know why; it just didn't click). I even managed to like Shindig though the fencing in it is plain awful. Even in a tight shooting schedule they could have done better than that, especially with a guy like Atherton who was supposed to be an expert.

KPO

Saturday, January 28, 2006 2:18 AM

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Originally posted by Eloisa:
Even though there are so few episodes to choose from, I'm surprised by the number of people who've said exactly my choices - joint between War Stories and Out of Gas. IMO, OoG has perfect acting and seamless editing in a setup that should have been confusing to the viewer but wasn't, and War Stories just... is, on so many levels, wonderful. Firefly Disc 3 hasn't left my DVD drive for some time.

Tie for third: the pilot episode, Trash and Our Mrs Reynolds. The only episodes I'm not fond of are Jaynestown (most of it is too funny/silly for me) and The Message (don't know why; it just didn't click). I even managed to like Shindig though the fencing in it is plain awful. Even in a tight shooting schedule they could have done better than that, especially with a guy like Atherton who was supposed to be an expert.

Yeah, I agree (uncannily) with every single sentiment expessed here.

A lot of people have listed my top 4 in a slightly different order to how I'd put them. For me:

1. Out of Gas
2.Our Mrs Reynolds
3 Serenity pilot
4. War stories

Honourable mention must go to Trash, Objects in Space and Ariel but those first 4 are my clear favourites and since quite a few of us are of more or less the same mind I've no compulsion to quibble the exact order (On another day I may well have listed them slightly different ayway).

Shindig seems to contain the best and the worst of firefly. As well as the aforementioned awful fencing I also get the impression that the woman writing this doesn't like Mal very much... He's my favourite character but in this he sometimes acts like an idiot.

It does have some excellent comic scenes and an interesting premise (a bit hollow though i thought) and best of all it has:

"Mercy is the mark of a great man...*stab*...guess I'm just a good man...*stab*...well, I'm alright."

Here is where I fell in love with firefly. So I guess Shindig is a love/hate episode for me. In conlcusion, I've no idea where to rank it amongst all the others...

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