Lines that Choke You Up
POSTED BY: milford
UPDATED: Wednesday, April 5, 2006 13:02
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The bit where we think Kaylee's dead in the pilot is really sad for me even though I know she's not.
The crew laughing after ward is really funny.
Such a quick change of emotions. It's really weird.
"Art is Ego..."—Greg Dulli
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Ah, but you missed the real tear jerker there... There is a warmth to what she says, because it looks like she's getting better, like she's coming to terms with reality. There is a definate hope, and then... "Daddy will come and take us home." That part gets me everytime, especially looking at it from Simon's perspective.
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Originally posted by STDOUBT:
Pretty much anything River says
can make be blubbery.
Especially:
"I took you away from there. I know I did. You don't think I do, but... I get confused. I remember everything. I remember too much, and... some of it's made up, and... some of it can't be quantified, and... there's secrets. But I understand. You gave up everything you had to find me. And you found me broken. It's hard for you. You gave up everything you had."
Summers acting in this scene, along with the idea that even though she's been traumatized, and is still not "safe", she has the strength to reach out and express regret for someone elses suffering just plain old kills me.
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Not exactly sad, and not exactly a line, but everyone's got the good ones already.
Rescuing Mal from Niska.
Zoe: We're gonna go get the Captain.
Kaylee: Oh. Good! ..........can they do that?
Jayne: "No" (The amount of scorn he fitted into that word.)
Then there he was, up on the gantry, tooled up and ready to bring the Word (which would be "Eat hot leaden death, suckers!",* I'm guessing) to them as needs it.
Not that anyone ever had the slightest doubt.
G
*I'm eternally grateful that there were no witty Arnie-style height of the action quips like that in Firefly or Serenity.
"I'll be in my bunk." far outclasses any steenkin' "Hasta La Vista, Baby."
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Originally posted by ThePistonEngine:
Ah, but you missed the real tear jerker there... There is a warmth to what she says, because it looks like she's getting better, like she's coming to terms with reality. There is a definate hope, and then... "Daddy will come and take us home." That part gets me everytime, especially looking at it from Simon's perspective.Quote:
Originally posted by STDOUBT:
Pretty much anything River says
can make be blubbery.
Especially:
"I took you away from there. I know I did. You don't think I do, but... I get confused. I remember everything. I remember too much, and... some of it's made up, and... some of it can't be quantified, and... there's secrets. But I understand. You gave up everything you had to find me. And you found me broken. It's hard for you. You gave up everything you had."
Summers acting in this scene, along with the idea that even though she's been traumatized, and is still not "safe", she has the strength to reach out and express regret for someone elses suffering just plain old kills me.
I suppose from Simon's perspective its a sad line because he think she is still bonkers but it shouldn't be sad at all from our point of view. Taken literally you'd think that she is still seriously disconnected from reality and holding on to a false hope of family, but as we know that she understands things very differently and is "deeply intuitive" to qoute Simon, I think its a powerful line that shows how the crew of Serenity is starting to become a family and that River sees that. "Daddy will come and take us Home" is imediately followed by Mal and showing up with the ship. The ship that Simon says in Objects in Space is becoming her home ("she loves this ship") and that Mal at the end of Serenity says is made a home by the love of the people in it for the her and each other.
So the line may be a tear jerker, but not because its sad that she doesn't get things, but because she sees the situation so much clearer than everyone else and for one of the first times in the series, the love and family of the Serenity crew is expressed.
-e
"Storms getting worse."
"We'll pass through it soon enough."
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I don't know about choking me up, but here's one that I always thought was really good.
In Serenity after Mal "rescues" Inara and they're alone in the hallway:
"You spin me about, you always have. I wish to God you were somewhere else..."
"I was."
It sort of summarizes their whole relationship from the show, and that it has caused so much trouble, but we (the audience) still believe it would be great if they could stop being silly and get together. I guess, as a guy, it's cool to see Mal share his feelings verbally like that, because he's finally admitting he has feelings for her.
"All I got is a red guitar, three chords, and the truth...the rest is up to you"
--Bono
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Inara: You don't have to die alone!
Mal: Everyone dies alone.
Nathan doesn't say it with spite or even resignation, twovery possible ways to say the line. Instead, he just states it as a sad, simple fact, explaining this fact to Inara. So... 'awesome' is the only word I can think of.
And in "Safe"
Simon: Captain, why'd you come back for us?
Mal: You're on my crew.
Simon: Yeah, but you don't even like me. Why'd you come back?
Mal: You're on my crew. Why are we still talking about this?
For all the gray areas that Mal and the crew live in, it's a strange (but oddly obvious) thing to see that loyalty to his crew (and therefore, family) couldn't be any more black-and-white. As opposed to Simon's family, who, despite "knowing" for sure what is good and evil, will turn away from helping their own son or daughter. "Why are we still talking about this?" is what cemented Mal's character for me.
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Could you please just make it stranger? Just stranger. Odder. Could be weirder. More bizarre. How about uncanny?
~Joss Whedon
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Originally posted by milford:
Last, though it's not from the film or the series, is the one that puts me over the edge. In the special features for the film, Joss's intro to the screenings, at the end when he says, "We have done the impossible, and that makes us mighty."
That's actually the line from the pilot (Serenity, not The Train Job) that caught my ear and had me hooked.
Reading everyone's choices has left me in a quandry as to which episode I'll watch next...I love everyone's choices and reading them brings back all the emotion of the episode/scene...
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Wow, you have all listed the ones I love also. Though, not so much a line as it is a moment that just gets me is at the end of "The Message" when they are all coming off the ship to deliver Tracey's body to his family. It's snowing and everyone looks very somber. It is a beautiful scene. Joss really did a wonderful job with it.
Also, I really love where they are all working on putting the ship back together at the end of the movie. I love where Inara is painting the Serenity symbol back on.
I know there are others, but most have been mentioned already
I love my captain 
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One of my very favorite lines ... from "The Message" when Mal tells Tracey.
"You murdered yourself, son. I just carried the bullet for a while.".
Nyte
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Well, a lot of the ones that get me EVERY TIME have already been mentioned so I'll try to pick a couple that haven't been mentioned as much.
Simon in Safe: "Light it."
Oh. My. God. Can love be any more pure and dedicated than that?
And this isn't actually in the series or movie, but since someone already mentioned a line from the pre-screening preview done by Joss: The very last line where he says, "Welcome to Serenity." The look on his face was one of pure joy. I was crying before the movie even started...
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