Underrated episodes
POSTED BY: est120
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Originally posted by asarian:
You wrote a good post, but you lost me at "Safe." As a hopelessly smitten River Tam addict, I am willing to bet vital parts of my anatomy, even though I've only been here for two weeks, that "Safe" ranks very high among people like me. River's dancing, Simon's "Light it!", and, of course, River's "You found me broken" speech, plus what Simon said in my tagline, make it one the most moving River episodes. And since FireFly is a show about River...
That doesn't stop people underrating it - especially the fans of humour episodes (Jaynestown, OMR) or more actiony stuff (the pilot, OIS, WS). I'm well aware that Safe has a core of die-hard fans, but it's smaller than that for most of the other episodes, and, as per the above post, I refer to that as being underrated - a statistical thing, if you will.
Oh, yes - and I don't watch Buffy or Angel!
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Originally posted by asarian:
You wrote a good post, but you lost me at "Safe." As a hopelessly smitten River Tam addict, I am willing to bet vital parts of my anatomy, even though I've only been here for two weeks, that "Safe" ranks very high among people like me. River's dancing, Simon's "Light it!", and, of course, River's "You found me broken" speech, plus what Simon said in my tagline, make it one the most moving River episodes. And since FireFly is a show about River...
That doesn't stop people underrating it - especially the fans of humour episodes (Jaynestown, OMR) or more actiony stuff (the pilot, OIS, WS). I'm well aware that Safe has a core of die-hard fans, but it's smaller than that for most of the other episodes, and, as per the above post, I refer to that as being underrated - a statistical thing, if you will.
Oh, yes - and I don't watch Buffy or Angel!
Well, I wasn't exactly following a solid number, just my heart. :) So, I'll take your statistic for a fact (however much it pains me to hear).
And I know nothing about Buffy and Angel, either. And I'm quite happy with that arrangement. :)
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You'd probably get more responses about Buffy and Angel eps if you started a thread like this over in the Buffyverse forum.
As others have said, I don't have comments about those shows. As for Firefly, my personal underrated ep would have to be The Message, since I didn't find it that compelling on first viewing. However, it is pretty popular among other FFF members, and I do like a number of scenes in it -- the whole spaceport sequence in particular. So "underrated" doesn't really fit.
The negatives for me are the "idiot plot" -- one brief sentence from Mal or Book would have avoided the whole hostage/shootout situation -- and the inconsistency in Wash's character (not exactly the icy cool flyboy in this ep!)
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My underrated fave is probably Train Job. I know that since it was a "redone" version of the pilot, sort of, that some people look down on it. I suppose I just like the idea of them robbing a train. It also has some great lines and scenes, like then Inara chastises Mal and Zoe for "escaping." And who can forget Mal kicking the guy into the engine. That was the best. I love it.
I would have to say that Out of Gas is probably a complete misfit here. I know few FFer's that wouldn't rate that in their top 3.
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Out of Gas used to have the highest score in the fireflyfans.net review section. The only reason that it isn't anymore is two mysterious reviews with a rating of 0 that brought the average down. It's too easy for a couple of outliers to skew a simple mean.
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I don't really have a favorite or least favorite. I love them all. To varying degrees of course but still. I agree that Heart of Gold is underrated though. Lots of great lines and really seeing Inara's mask fall a bit were great too. Plus Jayne's line.
"They're whores."
"I'm in."
Ahh good times
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I agree The Train Job gets a rough deal. The thing about The Train Job is that it encompasses everything about Firefly. The Western/Sci-FI crossover is obvious right from the bar room brawl at the start. It has some very funny dialogue all the way through from Jayne and the banter between Mal and Zoe. There is plenty of action, 'Time for some thrilling heroics'. Of course you then have the bad guy in the form of Niska.
Overall a very well rounded episode which I think is overlooked. It's my 2nd fave episode next to 'OoG'. The Train Job was the episode that got me hooked on Firefly because it was the first episode I watched.
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Firefly: "Train Job"-a lot of action, good dialogue, and good story.
Angel: "Apocalypse, Nowish"-sweet fighting scenes and the start of a awesome plot story to me.
Buffy: "Dirty Girls"-Kaleb, Nathan Fillon's character, was awesome kicked everybodys ass and his dialouge was sweet.
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