Subtle yet interesting show observations -- post yours

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GOLDINBOY

Friday, February 3, 2006 4:01 AM

A couple Jayne observations:

-in Serenity after River beats up everyone including Jayne in the bar, back on the ship Jayne is holding someting on his crotch, I assume somthing frozen to ease the pain. a few moments later he is eating something, and it apears to be grapes from the bag he just had on his crotch.

-When they are flying through the reaver space for the first time, Jayne is in the back holding his gun in a comforting fassion, like he needs it for emotional support.

I got a kick out of these when I noticed them!

KOMELION

Friday, February 3, 2006 4:02 AM

In Shindig I noticed that Badger cuts the apple he’s eating.

Also in Our Mrs. Reynolds the only time River spoke was cut.

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FREERADICAL42

Friday, February 3, 2006 4:20 AM

So, I just wanted to make a comment about the noise in space thing, because it's even more subtle than that.

In Serenity, you hear the report from the cannon as if it were muffled- almost as if the cameraman was in a pressure suit standing on Serenity and was "hearing" the cannon fire through the vibrations in the ship's hull.

Additionally, there is sound in space during the battle, but it is the only time there is actual sound. Why is this? Because the ship is inside an ion cloud, which *does* transmit sound. Just absolutely brilliant.

"See, morbid and creepifying, I got no problem with, long as she does it quiet-like."

KANESKI

Saturday, February 4, 2006 1:03 AM

First one is the definition of a hero - 'someone who gets other people killed', combined with Jayne's 'how many came out of Serenity Valley alive?', combined with Bushwacked 'you have a tendency to inspire loyalty, sergant.'. The whole thing makes a link that Mal is the anti-hero hero.

Other one is River rushing to fight the reavers, the lights running alongside the tunnel they're in light up as she runs past them. Thought it was nice.

End of BDM - when Mal sits down in the pilot's seat, he flicks the 'magical 3 switches'. Wash tribute?

GUTTERBALL

Saturday, February 4, 2006 1:13 AM

Heh, I dunno if this counts as "subtle" so much as "frickin HI-larious", but while watching "War Stories" with Mr. Fillion's and Mr. Tudyk's commentary, I got to seriously laughing about the "headless Wash" scene.

See, after Zoe's rescued Wash and Niska has his henchman cut off Mal's ear, Wash has turned away and is leaning against a doorway with his head on the opposite side. When they show him from the torture room's side again -- and we're probably supposed to be watching Zoe stick Mal's ear down her shirt -- the door jamb and that Hawaiian shirt make it look like Wash doesn't have a head. Heh.

Priceless stuff, especially with those two laughing it up on the commentary track.

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BLUEISHBROWNCOAT

Saturday, February 4, 2006 9:57 AM

just watched Serenity tonite.

I noticed when Mal is watching the video of Inara (on that postcard thingy) in the video River is there and as Kaylee says "...in this very bed..." Rive is doing her "look how I can bend over cause I'm a dancer" thing and sniffing the bed..or atleast giving it a VERY close examination.

It was just a cool River presence moment.

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CAPELLA

Saturday, February 4, 2006 3:21 PM

In the pilot ep Serenity, just when they land in Persephone, Kaylee complains about some stuff that should be seen to and Mal kind of cuts her off. She then says that if the compression coil blows, they will be helplessly drifting in outer space (which of course is what happens in OoG later on).

Keep flying,
Capella

SAMAFIN

Saturday, February 4, 2006 4:02 PM

I watched everything backwards, starting with the BDM and then on to the box set.

One thing that occured odd to me was that

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Wash died...wahhhhhhh

And, during the opening scenes of the show, during the song...when the song says..."Take me out to the black, tell them I ain't comin' back"...who's it showing?

I always see that and go...hmmmmmm.....wierd.

"In the immortal words of Socrates, I drank WHAT?"

GUTTERBALL

Sunday, February 5, 2006 5:13 AM

I just noticed something on this...oh...tenth? twelfth?...viewing of the BDM. It might be considered a spoiler to someone who hasn't seen it, so I'll put it behind a cut, though I'll still try to be appropriately vague.

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When the Operative contacts Mal on Haven, he starts talking about how he believes in something greater than himself -- a better world. Mal says, "So me and mine gotta lay down and die so you can live in your better world?"

Boy...ain't that poignant? Considering River's secret, ya know?

It's one of those things that makes a heckuva lot more sense once you've seen it a couple of times.

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TEALCANDTRIP

Sunday, February 5, 2006 5:59 AM

Something just occurred to me earlier today...

In Our Mrs. Reynolds, after Mal makes the awful divorce comments and "saffron" runs away, then Mal has to go looking for her and finds her in the engine room.

While he was looking for her was probably when she was screwing up the engine... which they don't find out till later in the show.

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