Favorite Episode Opener

POSTED BY: Ravenhair
UPDATED: Friday, May 4, 2007 03:28
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RAVENHAIR

Friday, March 3, 2006 1:14 AM

just reading about fave episodes and wondering which openers (are these called teasers?) people loved.

i sometimes just watch episode openers if i don't have a lot of time...my most recent viewings:

bushwacked - kaylee on jayne's shoulders, looks like they're all really playing a serious game

our mrs. reynolds - ...by my pretty floral bonnet...if i could make you prettier, i would...

train job - bar brawl, always fun

shindig - another bar brawl!

war stories - if you fall and die, i ain't cleaning it up

OiS - very eerie beginnings

my mind is blanking on the rest (i'm tired and distracted)

MERROVINGIAN

Friday, March 3, 2006 1:23 AM

I think the funniest and obviously catches you from the opening is "Trash". Naked Mal sitting in silence in the desert........."Yep, that went well."

DAVESHAYNE

Friday, March 3, 2006 2:01 AM

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Originally posted by Ravenhair:
just reading about fave episodes and wondering which openers (are these called teasers?) people loved.

All of them. I guess if I had to choose a favorite I'd go with the teaser for Heart of Gold. A classic Mal and Inara moment, "This distress wouldn't happen to be taking place in somebody's pants would it?"

David

"A lot of people are asking me, you know, what exactly is Firefly? It's a tv show you morons!" - Joss Whedon

RAVENHAIR

Friday, March 3, 2006 3:35 AM

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Originally posted by Merrovingian:
I think the funniest and obviously catches you from the opening is "Trash". Naked Mal sitting in silence in the desert........."Yep, that went well."

yikes, how could i forget that one! it's been a while since i saw it i guess. remember seeing it for the first time, though, and thinking 'oh, this one's going to be good!'

TEALCANDTRIP

Friday, March 3, 2006 5:11 AM

Mal's face after "Mr Reynolds sir... I'm your wife" has me on the floor every time. That whole opener is just great. Jayne getting all emotional over the rainstick guy is just priceless!

"I also hear that there's something called Firefly, which is either a canceled science-fiction television show or a new religion, I'm not clear on that. Either way, prayers for the resurrection are involved." – Lore Sjoberg

ASORTAFAIRYTALE

Friday, February 23, 2007 3:44 AM

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Originally posted by Ravenhair:
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Originally posted by Merrovingian:
I think the funniest and obviously catches you from the opening is "Trash". Naked Mal sitting in silence in the desert........."Yep, that went well."

yikes, how could i forget that one! it's been a while since i saw it i guess. remember seeing it for the first time, though, and thinking 'oh, this one's going to be good!'

Hehe, yeah. after the beginning of that one you are almost required to ask "What happened??"

My favorite is probably the beginning of the pilot, just because it is cool. I always love the way it goes right from Mal losing it all in Serenity Valley to him floating in space. It's a very interesting contrast.

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EMBERS

Friday, February 23, 2007 3:47 AM

I have to go with Out of Gas,
where Mal falls...appartently dead

CHAZZER

Friday, February 23, 2007 10:21 AM

The message - just because it has a sweet as hell Simon/Kaylee moment in, and then he screws up, which is always funny.

xx

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*Firmly grasps the Chain of Command*

What?

PEULSAR5

Friday, February 23, 2007 10:41 AM

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Originally posted by asortafairytale:
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Originally posted by Ravenhair:
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Originally posted by Merrovingian:
I think the funniest and obviously catches you from the opening is "Trash". Naked Mal sitting in silence in the desert........."Yep, that went well."

yikes, how could i forget that one! it's been a while since i saw it i guess. remember seeing it for the first time, though, and thinking 'oh, this one's going to be good!'

Hehe, yeah. after the beginning of that one you are almost required to ask "What happened??"

My favorite is probably the beginning of the pilot, just because it is cool. I always love the way it goes right from Mal losing it all in Serenity Valley to him floating in space. It's a very interesting contrast.

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Love keeps her in the air when she outta fall down, tells you she's hurting before she keels. Makes her a home.

I had the same reaction to "Trash"--till I saw Saffron and said "Ah. Now I see. This should be good."

LEXAN

Saturday, February 24, 2007 8:07 AM

My favourite episode opener is the one in 'Objects in Space'. It was very well done and demonstrated River's perception, as well as her interpretation of the crew and what she can sense in them and their chemistry, in a manner which I thought was truly ingenious. The scene with the twig/gun was also ingenious. The fact that River realizes that a gun is merely an object that has been imbued with meaning indicates that it is more because she is exceptionally aware of reality than because she is ignorant to it.

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