Your Favorite Fireflygasm ...
POSTED BY: CapnRahn
UPDATED: Friday, April 30, 2004 12:55
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My favorite: it starts the series, and colors everything that follows (and makes the series so smar t and complex and moving)--
When Mal looks up, in that moment of battle, and sees what he thought would be his angels of deliverance, but which are in fact angels of death raining down destruction. In that moment Mal loses his faith (clearly something he has held despite great hardships), and we see what Joss calls in the "Serenity" commentary "a man who has lost everything." What an amazing hero for a TV narrative--someone who has lost everything he believes in, but has somehow held to a system of honor and decency in spite of that. And what an amazing start for a TV show!!!!!
"Well, my days of not taking you seriously are certainly coming to a middle. . . ."
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When Mal looks up, in that moment of battle, and sees what he thought would be his angels of deliverance, but which are in fact angels of death raining down destruction. In that moment Mal loses his faith (clearly something he has held despite great hardships), and we see what Joss calls in the "Serenity" commentary "a man who has lost everything." What an amazing hero for a TV narrative--someone who has lost everything he believes in, but has somehow held to a system of honor and decency in spite of that. And what an amazing start for a TV show!!!!!
That part is so sad! It was amazing and beautiful and sad. Almost like the end of "Of Mice and Men" *sniff* poor Lennie.
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"Freedom is the Freedom to say that 2+2 makes 4. If that is granted, all else follws"-Winston, 1984
Keep flyin', and remember, THEY can't take the sky from US!
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So many, where to begin...
Here's a bunch.
The funny:
Mal and Zoe convincing Jayne to switch sides in "Out of Gas."
MAL: Use of a s-what?
MAL: Mercy is the mark of a great man. (stabs Atherton) Guess I'm just a good man. (stabs him again) Well, I'm all right.
ZOE: Jayne, this is something the captain has to do himself.
MAL: NO! NO, IT'S NOT!
JAYNE: I'll be in my bunk.
JAYNE: We applied the cortical electrodes, but were unable to get a neural reaction from either patient.
RIVER: I can kill you with my brain.
RIVER: They say the snow on the roof is too heavy. They say the ceiling will cave in. His brains are in terrible danger.
ZOE: River, honey, he's putting the hair away.
RIVER: It doesn't matter. It'll still be there. Waiting.
BOOK: It is, however, somewhat fuzzier on the subject of kneecaps.
RIVER: "Day" is a vestigial mode of time measurement based on solar cycles. It's not applicable. (beat) I didn't get you anything.
The warm, fuzzy/make me cry:
Any scene of the crew sitting around the dinner table, talking, laughing, eating.
MAL: We're still flying.
SIMON: It's not much.
MAL: It's enough.
MAL: Everybody dies alone.
MAL: We'll never be under the heel of the nobody ever again. No matter how long the arm of the Alliance might get... we'll just get us a little further.
MAL: Y'all gonna be here when I wake up?
BOOK: We'll be here.
Mal looking upon Serenity for the first time.
SIMON: No, mei mei. Time to wake up.
JAYNE: Make something up. Don't tell 'em what I did.
SIMON: Why'd you come back for us?
MAL: You're on my crew.
JAYNE (ruminating on the mudder dying to save him): It don't make no kind of sense.
The jump cut of Inara looking sadly away from her client in "Serenity."
Inara crying in "Heart of Gold."
RIVER: River's not on the ship. They didn't want her here, but she couldn't make herself leave, so she melted. Melted away.
RIVER:Permission to come aboard?
MAL: You know, you ain't quite right.
RIVER: It's the popular theory.
MAL: Get on in there. Give your brother a thrashing for messing up your plan.
RIVER: He takes so much looking after...
The warm, flirty glance Mal and Inara exchange at the dinner table in "Out of Gas," as Mal teases her: "So there is kissing?"
Mal keeping Wash alive as they're both tortured by Niska.
Mal defending Inara's honor by punching Atherton.
MAL
You think following the rules will buy you a nice life, even if the rules make you a slave. Don't take his offer.
INARA What?
MAL: Don't do it. Because in the case it happens it means he's the fella that killed me and I don't like fellas that kill me, just in general. I said before I don't have call to stop you, and that's true, but anyways, don't.
The eerie:
RIVER: No power in 'verse can stop me.
RIVER: Two by two, hands of blue.
The Blue Hands killing officer McGuinness.
River's flashes into the crew's thoughts in OIS.
MAL: You wanna meet the real me now?
Okay, I've gotta stop or I'll just wind up posting every word in every FF script. Besides, time spent posting here is time I don't have to watch the show. 
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All of 'Objects In Space'. From River standing on the railings, to the Alliance/a lion mix-up, to "I am the ship", to "Well, here I am".
"Trash" - Mal naked, sitting on a rock, in the desert. "Yep. That went well."
Zoe's "Oh" in "War Stories".
Not using sound for the scenes in space.
Kaylee. *Sigh*.
The structure of "Out Of Gas".
One scene - for the life of me I can't remember which episode (I'm still waiting for R2 DVDs in April) - a long shot of the desert where Serenity has just risen up from behind a cliff and is hovering in a heat haze with the crew standing in front of her.
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Well, here I am.
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From "Shindig", where the posh "ladies" have just slagged off Kaylee's dress. The old man (Murphy) strolls up and says to the leader:
"Why Banning Miller. What a vision you are in your
fine dress. It must have taken a dozen slaves a
dozen days to get you into that getup.
Course your daddy tells me it takes the space of
a schoolboy's wink to get you out of it again."
Makes me howl every time.
TJ
"Best not be taking it as a suggestion"
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What makes you think Jubal gets killed off? :O)
Think about whose plan stranded Jubal.. Watch the end of the show again and observe Jubal's ship take off by itself. Whouldn't it be just like River to have programmed that ship to pick Jubal up at some pre-determined time along his trajectory? I think it fits given the non-lethal bent of the episode; River is trying to show how not dangerous she is (no touching guns).. and ironically at the same time proves she is perhaps more deadly than ever. :)
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What makes you think Jubal gets killed off? :O)
Think about whose plan stranded Jubal.. Watch the end of the show again and observe Jubal's ship take off by itself. Whouldn't it be just like River to have programmed that ship to pick Jubal up at some pre-determined time along his trajectory? I think it fits given the non-lethal bent of the episode; River is trying to show how not dangerous she is (no touching guns).. and ironically at the same time proves she is perhaps more deadly than ever. :)
That or rub soup in our hair!...heh heh couldnt resist.
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Summed up Mal/Inara:
Inara: What did I say about barging into my shuttle?
Mal: That it was manly and impulsive?
Inara: Right, except that I said, don't.
Classic! Now if I could just remember which ep that was from! hahaha
2. Mal with the wrench in Ariel. That was the first time in a looooOOOOOoooong time that I was actually surprised at something in a tv show (or movie) for that matter. They totally didn't telegraph it from a mile out *AND* it wasn't totally out of character (which is a lame way of surprising the audience).
Too many more to mention. Why was this show cancelled again? Oh yeah, FOX SUX. Right, we're clear, thanks.
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Nothing is ever so profoundly regretted as a kind act.
Robertson Davies
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Doran, I think Jubal said that like a person of such confidence that he was suprised to be about to use his ship recall control to rescue himself.
Make an escape, yes. Retreive a thief, likely. Rescue himself from open space? Never. But, well, here I am.
You can't tell how fast a rig is when it's parked.
It is better to teach a lesson than to be left as an example.
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Howabout on Ariel where Kaylee and Wash are rummaging around in the trash yard and Kaylee is complaining "Figures, first time on the Core and what do I ge to do; dig through trash. couldn't he send me shoppin' at the skyplex?" then she stops and picks up a part and a big smile comes across her face and she goes "Ohh, syncronizers!" it really shows Kaylee, and is a good laugh too.
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