It's the little things
POSTED BY: sab39
UPDATED: Friday, April 14, 2006 12:21
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There's a little thing in the BDM that really gets to me.
In the Reaver battle, after Simon gets shot he starts giving instructions: "I need some adrenaline... and some califar for Kaylee..."
No, it's not just the fact that he's injured but still being the ultimate trauma doctor. No, it's not that he's thinking of Kaylee at such a critical time.
It's something in the way Sean talks in this scene. There a kind of burbly, spitty note in his voice. It really sounds like his lungs are filling with blood.
It just kills me, especially as the next thing he does is start apologizing to River for "going".
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I don't disagree on any particular point.
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In the BDM when they are traveling through the Reaver ship towards Miranda, everyone is on the bridge looking out the window and Jayne is there holding tight to Vera!
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Well if I had to chose one small aspect about Firefly/Serenity that I love, I think it would be all the things that River says. When you first watch it, it's just River "babble." But then you watch it again and it's like, "Oooohhhhh, that's what she was saying." Its brilliant. My favorite example is in the BDM when she's looking at the dead Reaver and she says, "He didn't lie down, they never lie down" First time it's makes no sense, but after watching it again, you realize that she's talking about Miranda. Great stuff.
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yay! I have been looking for a thread to discuss just this topic!
Okay,its in Bushwacked - The cargo door opens and everyone is standing there with the cargo they got off the ship that was hit by Reavers. The alliance walk up the ramp and.... Wash raises his hands in the air. Just Wash. Its so funny and I never noticed it before! 
Are you the Cow Of Pain? - Jaye Tyler
were I unwed I would take you in a manly fashion. - 'Wash' Washburn
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I'm re-watching the series (the DVDs finally arrived -- up to "Out of Gas" now) and I find myself appreciating anew all kinds of things, like:
How much physical courage Simon has when it comes to defending River. He has probably not been in a fistfight since he was, oh, six, but for River he jumps off balconies, slugs it out with people twice his size, is willing to be burned alive...
And then there's the easy, brotherly affection he exhibits when she's being more like herself. The more often I see their relationship, the more impressed I am.
And just what a good leader Mal is. In "Out of Gas", he speaks gently and patiently to Kaylee to get her to focus on the engines, but gets in Wash's face and even deliberately makes him angry to make him do what he needs to (similar to what Mal does for Wash in "War Stories", come to think of it). Or when he finds Jayne at the end of "Jaynestown", just because he knows Jayne needs to talk.
And then Mal's vulnerability at the end of "Out of Gas", when he's heavily medicated and more open than he would normally be -- "You all gonna be here when I wake up?" -- showing just how much they mean to him.
Love this show,
Indigo S.
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One of my favorites is in Objects in Space, when River is talking over the comm to Mal. Mal questions whether or not he's dreaming and River says "We all are", which causes Mal to roll his eyes. When River says "Don't make faces", his 
response is just great.
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Well, I could go on and on about the shiny little details all over Serenity... But I do want to hang out in the galley so badly.
A little moment I rather liked, though, was in Our Mrs Reynolds, where Jayne gets to take Vera out somewhere fun. He asks Mal if he's aiming for the windows, and Mal tells him to take out the breakers. So he shoots those, and the next thing you see is crew in the web ship watching as bullets pierce their window. Nice little bit of overkill, and such a Jayne thing to do :)
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basically the show is full of these moments and lines and that makes it so SPECIAL....
there are just a few that pop up in my mind if i think about it but hell... there are no series where i would remember the lines... even if the have a funny twist you mostly just grin a little... but watching FF, its different... the lines are something to think or to laugh about days later...
one of those eg:
"... you're like a trained ape... but... without the training!....
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oooor
-Mal! You dont pay me for talk pretty!
-...
-What do you pay him for?
-What?
-I was just wondering what his job on this ship is..
-Oh!... Public relations!
(Hilarious dialogue)
an other one makes me laugh for days...
... and we will call it ... "This Laaand!"...
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"There's so much hair!!!"
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Yes Jayne! She is in congress with the beast!....
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Its her legs, or basically the part where her legs meet her back!.....
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Riiiight! Coz i wouldnt be arrested if we got boardet, im just the pilot! i still could say i was flying this thing by accident!!!
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the whole "and-you-figure-you-would-be-getting-this-discout-why-exactly" dialogue!!!!!!!
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Mr. Jubal Early and pretty much everything he said.... just great!!!!!
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-is that him?
-no its just the buffet-table
-but how can we be sure unless we question it?
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-just arrived in the nick of time, what does that make us?
-Biig Daamn Heros!
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I think you have a problem with your brain being missing!
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- can i have your share?
- no!
- when you die, can i have your share?
- yes!
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we are no thieves! well we are thieves, the point is were not taking whats his!
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...nothing! just wanted you to face me so she can get behind you!...
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mercy! is the mark of a great man!....
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these are just the lines that come into my mind... there are tons more which i just didnt remember right now....
wow this was a big damn supershow!!!!
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Well, all the moments previously mentioned...
I love the scene between Book and Inara at the end of the pilot. "I think I'm on the wrong ship." "Maybe you're exactly where you need to be." And the way she touches his head, as if she's blessing him.
And the scene at the end of Safe (IIRC) where they all sit down to dinner and River grabs a roll off of Jayne's plate. Such a real family-like moment!
River's "Also, I can kill you with my brain." I use that line all the time as an opening to talk about Firefly. But my fave part is not the line or how she says it, but the look on Jayne's face. He actually BELIEVES her. 
I could go on and on and on...but now I'm depressed and wishing the show was still on.
Arislyn
Everything's shiny, Cap'n. Not to fret.
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Another thing...
The relationship between Simon and River is something that I really relate to and they capture it perfectly in the series and in the BDM. So many moments between them just make me want to bawl. (My 15-months-younger bro and I were extremely close and it very nearly destroyed me when he passed away seven years ago.) Watching the two of them interact is one of those little things that hooked me for life.
Arislyn
Everything's shiny, Cap'n. Not to fret.
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