Lines that Choke You Up

POSTED BY: milford
UPDATED: Wednesday, April 5, 2006 13:02
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DERANGEDMILK

Wednesday, March 29, 2006 7:21 AM

You're right RolandReynolds, they're are a lot of really good lines and that exchange between Book and Mal is definitely a tear-jerker.

The line that pulls at my heart strings the most, with the one in my signature coming in second or third maybe, has got to be at the end of Out of Gas, when Mal asks,

"Ya'll gonna be here when I wake up?"

Doesn't it just make you so happy to see the old cap't crack and show how much he cares...makes you wanna hug some buddy....man I wish my roommate didn't smell so bad...
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"Storms getting worse."
"We'll pass through it soon enough."

PLATINUMMONGOOSE

Wednesday, March 29, 2006 7:49 AM

From the show:
Jayne: "Don't tell 'em what I did. Make somthin' up." (Ariel)

Wash: "How bad? It's bad, my wife may be dying here." And then the look on Mal's face when he has to drag him away from her. Sweet jesus that man is an emoting god. (Out of Gas)

From the movie:
Book: "I'm not on your crew."
Mal: "Yes you are."

Kaylee: "Wash. Wait, where's Wash?"

Mal: "Love keeps her in the air when she oughta fall down, tells ya she's hurtin' 'fore she keens. Makes her home."

And finally, it's not really a line but, once again, Mal's expression (emoting god) when he's listening to Mr. Universe's recording. How he touches his shoulder, and it's clear that while Mal was kind of unsure of him earlier, he just dragged himself across the floor to (pretty much) save the 'verse and that makes him Mal's comrade-in-arms.

SHYKNEE

Wednesday, March 29, 2006 8:51 AM

Any dialogue between the Tams always get to me, whether or not River was lucid. I'm quite partial to Simon's lines in Serenity when he got shot.

Simon: River? I'm sorry. I hate to leave.

And in the episode "Safe," after River said that Simon had found her broken, to which he replies--

Simon: Everything I have is right here.

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"Nothing is so common place as to wish to be remarkable." -- Bill S.
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SEESKYANDREMEMBER

Wednesday, March 29, 2006 9:07 AM

While I feel every charchter has said something poingnant that has teared me up a bit, two of River's are coming to mind right now:

War Stories - when Simon asks River how she is doing,
"(smiles) Played with Kaylee. The sun came out, and… I walked on my feet, and… heard with my ears. (more raggedly) I ate the bits. The bits did stay down. And I work. I… function like I'm a girl. (sobbing) I hate it because I know it'll go away. The sun… goes dark, and chaos is come again. Bits… fluids! What am I?!"

*I think it's just the concept that she is trying medication and WANTS to get better so badly, but no matter what she does, everything just keeps coming back. Just gets me.
And my favorite, from the BDM:

Merciful God please take me away
Make them stop.
They're everywhere.
Every city, every...
Every house, every room,
they're all inside me.
I can hear them all,
and they're saying nothing!

Get up.
Please get up.

I will close my ears and my heart and I will be a stone

Please God make me a stone.

(italics are what I understand the translation from Chinese to be)

DESKTOPHIPPIE

Wednesday, March 29, 2006 9:10 AM

Two Simon moments have the biggest impact on me. The first is in 'Safe' when he embraces River when she's tied to the stake, closes his eyes and tells them to "Light it."

The second is in 'Objects in Space', when the others are arguing over River and he says, so soft and bewildered, "She's just a kid. She just wants to be a normal kid." The way the mood changes in the room is palpable.

Desktop Hippie: at one with the 'verse

WASHSYOUNGERSEXIERBR

Wednesday, March 29, 2006 9:13 AM

The most emotional line is in the film at the end when mal talks to zoe about The ship
'do you think she hold together?'
'Shes tore a plenty but shell fly true'
Theyre talking bout the ship but they mean zoe

MAJORCLOD

Wednesday, March 29, 2006 9:16 AM

Zoe: "Sir we have a green light, inspection's pos and we're clear for up-thrust"
Mal: "Think she'll hold together?"
Zoe: "She's tore aplenty, but she'll fly true."
Mal: "Make sure everything is secure, could be bumpy."
Zoe: "Always is."

This is where I start to choke, I also start to get angry and sad about the demise of our much beloved show and realise this is potentially the last we will ever see of this universe... Then a few seconds later we move onto...

Mal: "Love. You can know all the math in the 'Verse, but take a boat in the air you don't love, she'll shake you off just as sure as the turning of worlds. Love keeps her in the air when she oughta fall down, tells ya she's hurtin' 'fore she keens. Makes her a home."

River: "Storm's getting worse."
Mal: "We'll pass through it soon enough. "

By now I'm crying like a bitch.

Such a sad ending, topped by the absolutely beautiful shot of Serenity leaving atmo.

WASHSYOUNGERSEXIERBR

Wednesday, March 29, 2006 9:24 AM

It is a sad ending but when the part falls off at the end it reminds you of how great it was while it was here

NUCLEARDAY

Wednesday, March 29, 2006 10:13 AM

I of course have to agree with everyone for just about every line that comes out of someone's mouth at the end of the BDM. Gauranteed tear-jerker, every time :)

I've always found that Nathan is really good when there's a catch in his throat. Moves me every time. In particular, there's the scene from the pilot where he's visiting Kaylee in the infirmary, trying to tell her he's a "mean old man." Then of course the part in "Objects" where River walks by Mal and Inara, and Mal says "None of it means a damn thing."

For a first pick, though, and it's biased 'cause I just watched "War Stories" today, but it's at the end of the ep when Mal gets up and bitch-slaps Niska. "You wanna meet the real me now?!" I like in the commentary Nathan mentions he wishes he could do that line over again, and I don't see how he could nail it any better ;p

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SLOWSMURF

Wednesday, March 29, 2006 10:18 AM

I was going to respond with what MRSELLARS did till I noticed it.

Not many lines get me in anything, and I saw it coming, but damn it still did.

"My Turn."

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