Subtle yet interesting show observations -- post yours

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BLINKER

Saturday, February 11, 2006 4:16 PM

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Originally posted by Amiton:
Add to that, as subtly as you can in a comic, the crew is on the bridge in one cell after Wash and Zoe were, erm...busy, and in the midst of everyone else's very focused dialog, River's line is "It smells like sex in here."

It kind of strikes me as funny...especially when River went to the Academy at 12 and was so deeply "immersed" in the program. Does she personally *know* what sex smells like???

I took that as River blurting out what Jayne was thinking. It feels more like one of his lines (cf. "Smells like crotch.")

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MYSELF

Saturday, February 11, 2006 4:53 PM

My husband's favorite sci-fi peeve is hearing explosions and such in space. I like the silence- it makes the out in space shots feel vast and empty, like a good void should.

Sandra

MYSELF

Saturday, February 11, 2006 5:07 PM

You get to see a toilet in the Serenity pilot episode, too. You see Mal zipping up, and it's like a murphy toilet that stows away into the wall, and the sink pulls out like a drawer. I noticed because I'd actually like a toilet like that- my bathroom is really small.

Sandra

SAVEWASH

Saturday, February 11, 2006 6:02 PM

One of the little touches I always liked in the BDM happened when the Operative is looking at Mal's record and in the shot of Mal, you can see him rolling his eyes. That's so perfect! Of course he'd be rebellious even when in custody.

"Honey, I'm home."

ANIMALM0THER

Saturday, February 11, 2006 7:11 PM

I just noticed this yesterday while watching Out of Gas. When Inara and Simon are having a conversation about the current grave situation facing the crew and what they thought of Serenity, Simon says how he thought the ship sounded "funereal" but Inara has the opposite feeling: she says she loves the ship and has since she first layed eyes on it. Hmmm, she's basically describing exactly how Mal feels about the ship when he first layed eyes on it at the end of the episode. Its interesting considering the relationship those two have; regardless of the differences among their characters, they both dearly love Serenity. They both fell in love with Serenity at first sight and arguably had immediate feelings for each other in their first meeting.

I'll be in my bunk.

ASARIAN

Saturday, February 11, 2006 7:15 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by Blinker:

Quote:
Originally posted by Amiton:

Add to that, as subtly as you can in a comic, the crew is on the bridge in one cell after Wash and Zoe were, erm...busy, and in the midst of everyone else's very focused dialog, River's line is "It smells like sex in here."

It kind of strikes me as funny...especially when River went to the Academy at 12 and was so deeply "immersed" in the program. Does she personally *know* what sex smells like???

I took that as River blurting out what Jayne was thinking. It feels more like one of his lines (cf. "Smells like crotch.")

I like that explanation. :) I'm going with that. Thank you!

/me, feeling ever-so relieved. :)

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"Mei-mei, everything I have is right here." -- Simon Tam

MICO

Saturday, February 11, 2006 8:10 PM

I guess I'll jump in here with my favorite subtle observation: In the BDM, where Mal is making his big "I aim to misbehave" speech, he says that the Alliance will some day, maybe next week or maybe ten years from now, come back around to the idea that they can make people . . . better. In that pause he very pointedly looks directly at River as he says the word "better." It's hard to see because of the lighting. Every time I see that, I know that a big part of Mal's motivation for his misbehaving is to redress not only the wrong done to the people on Miranda, but also the wrong done to River. It's very personal to him at that point.

BLUE786

Saturday, February 11, 2006 8:32 PM

Something I haven't seen mentioned:

In the pilot, right after Mal uses the toilet, he washes up in the sink. Except he seems to be very careful to use the absoulte minimum amount of water to wash his hands an splash water on his face.

Concerned with the limited amount of water on a ship--or maybe just a habit from being a foot soilder.

LADYSINGS

Saturday, February 11, 2006 10:21 PM

This scene is VERY subtle. In fact, you have to zoom in on it to be able to see it. In Ariel when Jayne is preparing to forge the ident badges, look at the pictures of Jayne, Zoe, Mal and Wash. Jayne, Zoe and Mal are all serious but Wash has this goofy grin on his face!

Also in Ariel when Jayne gets hit by a blaster after River and Simon are taken away by the Feds....they have him cuffed but after he is hit with blaster "fire", his hands are free. (I guess that's more of a blooper!)

I don't know if this is only on the US version of the DVD's but if you watch The Message with the audio commentary, you'll notice that the commentary is actually ahead of the episode. In other words, when the ship is close to being hit by gunfire from the rogue Fed ship, Jewel and Alan react to it before it happens! (guess that one is somewhere between a subtle/interesting observation and a blooper! LOL)

"Well ya know, we studied bludgeoning in the academy first year but by the time you graduate, you just forget everything. I'm a bad cop." ----Lawrence Dobson

ELOISA

Sunday, February 12, 2006 1:34 AM

About the Jayne and handcuffs moment in Ariel, the Feds only get the cuffs on one wrist before he gets shot. I think. Ooh! An excuse to watch the episode again!

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