Subtle yet interesting show observations -- post yours

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COPILOT

Tuesday, March 14, 2006 10:45 PM

At the end of the BDM Inara's dress is slightly shorter than usual and her stance kind of makes her look younger and unsure of her future. I think it's the first time her dress had shown her ankles outside of her bedroom attire. I really enjoyed the effect I never noticed she wasn't wearing any make up but I'll look for it when I watch it next.

An I carried such a torch

LADYSINGS

Tuesday, March 14, 2006 11:22 PM

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In the Serenity movie... the entire opening with Mal walking through the ship from the cockpit to the cargo hold is shot in one take. No cuts. Not quite subtle, but really amazing when you realize it.

Actually, if you watch with commentary, you learn that it's not all in one take. Which I think makes the shot even cooler. Joss hides a cut in a turn as Mal and Simon are going from the upper hall to the infirmary.

The way the set is built, the 2 floors of the ship are not on top of eachother, so the actors can't walk from the lower level of the ship (cargo bay, infirmary, etc.) to the upper level (mess hall, engine room, bridge) and vice versa.

So as Mal and Simon were going to the infirmary, the camera does a quick turn to follow them, and in there is a cut hidden in that turn to allow the scene to continue on the lower level set, making it seem that it's one continuous shot

If I remember right, in the DVD commentary Joss talks about using a "memory head" for this cut. I believe they used this same technique in OoG. (Man, listening to the DVD commentaries has taught me a lot about filmmaking! 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

TEALCANDTRIP

Thursday, March 16, 2006 6:31 PM

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the very last tune played at the end of the credits is a reworked version of the Firefly theme
I really like that version, anyone have a tab for it?

This thread has a lot music from firefly: http://www.fireflyfans.net/thread.asp?b=13&t=3751. The threads pretty long, so be patient while it loads.

The music is captured from the episodes (lot of dialog on top) so I still suggest buying the soundtrack, but it doesn't include the end title.

About halfway down the page (look for a lot of yellow), you'll see all the mp3s. Here's your specific mp3: http://www.nightsoft.net/sneaker98/FireflyEnd.mp3

"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

NATEM

Tuesday, March 21, 2006 4:57 PM

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I was just thinking about River's highly quoted "No power in the 'verse can stop me." And I know a lot of folks take this to be cute, witty statement, in which River refers to what they tend to call her unstoppable, "kick-ass" abilities, along the line of Schwarzenegger's "I'll be back" bit or something. But, lest we forget, it was Kaylee who initially said it, when chasing River for an apple (and finally capturing it).

Actually Mal uses the line to describe Kaylee at the start of the first pilot after talking to Jayne about duct-taping her and throwing her in the hold. I think his line was "No power in the 'verse can stop her from being cheerful."

NATEM

Tuesday, March 21, 2006 9:32 PM

I also really liked the recurring theme of being lost in the woods. A couple characters say that a bunch of times through the series and I thought it linked them all together.

ASARIAN

Tuesday, March 21, 2006 9:50 PM

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I was just thinking about River's highly quoted "No power in the 'verse can stop me." And I know a lot of folks take this to be cute, witty statement, in which River refers to what they tend to call her unstoppable, "kick-ass" abilities, along the line of Schwarzenegger's "I'll be back" bit or something. But, lest we forget, it was Kaylee who initially said it, when chasing River for an apple (and finally capturing it).

Actually Mal uses the line to describe Kaylee at the start of the first pilot after talking to Jayne about duct-taping her and throwing her in the hold. I think his line was "No power in the 'verse can stop her from being cheerful."

But it was Kaylee who said the exact words: "No power in the 'verse can stop me." And River reciprocated that line to Kaylee, not to Mal.

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

NATEM

Tuesday, March 21, 2006 10:11 PM

I guess it's just another recurring thing throughout the series, we might be able to find another instance where one of the characters says it.

GFUNK

Tuesday, March 21, 2006 11:44 PM

I just noticed that this evening when i was watching Our Mrs. Reynolds width a friend.

When Kaylee takes Saffron into her arms, telling her that the Cap is a monster. Jayne strokes Saffrons shoulder.
Looks hilarious.

GARIM

Wednesday, March 22, 2006 8:18 AM

Hi! Pretty new here...

Here's something very subtle which haven't been mentioned yet. I was rewatching 'Safe' yesterday with my sons, and it was my elder son that spotted this, and we rewinded and watched it again, and had a good laugh all of us.

It's at the very end of the episode, when the crew is sitting around the dinner table. A bread basket is going around, and Jayne is taking a piece of bread and putting it on his plate before passing the basket on to Book (I think). Right when Jayne is giving the basket away, River "steals" the bread from Jayne's plate. Jayne notices it. Shrugs (sort of) and reaches for another bread across the table.

We laughed real good at this, as it shows River's mischevious nature well :)

SAB39

Wednesday, March 22, 2006 2:08 PM

Going back to Trash and the significance of the fact that the crew are all in on it, here's one.

When Jayne repeats the exact question that YoSaffBridge suggested Wash was going to ask - "if you've got all the access codes why don't you just do it yourself" - you naturally assume he's just being dumb and that he thinks he thought of this himself, not realizing that in fact he thought of it because YoSaffBridge said it not 30 seconds ago.

But knowing that in fact the whole conversation is staged and the crew had planned it, perhaps that wasn't it at all - perhaps it was another "we applied the cortical electrodes but were unable to get a neural response from either patient" bit. Perhaps Jayne knows what role he was supposed to play in the conversation, and he's going to damn well play it, whether reality agrees or not...

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