Out of Gas = Hardest Episode so far
POSTED BY: akredhead
UPDATED: Friday, November 17, 2006 16:56
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Out of Gas just gets me so teary-eyed every time. Someone mentioned the music that plays when Mal is sealing up the ship behind him and wrapping the blanket around himself; that is my favourite piece of music from the show and it gets me so emotional every time I hear it!
The episode is so beautiful, especially the end.
And, you know, Jayne's flashback is just hilarious. 
"My days of not taking you seriously are certainly coming to a middle."
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Tasia, Indigo, and FMF,
Thank you for your comments! Warms my heart knowing you got a good feeling from my little effort. Maybe the plot bunny will visit me again some day.
Tasia, just wondering: is that "TAY-zha", as in Fantasia? (Fan Tasia... cute!)
And FMF, I never did send you my best wishes in the "support" thread, so here they are...
............. *whap*
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I'm pointin' right at it!
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IMHO Out of Gas is THE BEST Firefly ep. It's got every element of drama, angst, pathos, suffering, loss, comedy (the Mal - Wash cockpit argument scene is brilliant), the beautifully evocative music, seeing how the people came to be on Serenity (except for Book -- cuz he showed up in the Pilot -- but would've been neat to see why he really left the Abbey...) and the last shot really shows you what the focus of the ep truly is -- Serenity herself. She's the povit point round which all the others move. Tim Minear is a helluva writer -- and ironic that he wrote what I and many others consider the least favorite ep, Bushwhacked.
But if I had a potential Browncoat and could only show him/her one episode, it would definitely be Out of Gas. Always thought the title didn't quite fut the scenario -- the ship never actually runs out of fuel.
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Well, I can't be the only one that loves Zoe's sacrifice in this ep. I mean, she's unconcious for most the it, but when she pushes Kayless out of the way of that fireball, I got a little choked up. It made me start thinking of the relationships that Zoe has the the crew, and the way that Mal interacts with people. Either Zoe or Mal would have done that for Kaylee, but I notice that Mal and Kaylee have a more touchy feely relationship, and she interacts with him much more. While at the same time, she doesn't really interact with Zoe that much, and while Zoe doesn't really open up that much with anybody, or at leasthave moments (that we see) with everybody, she still has this close relationship that gives her the motivation to do something like that. It's just one of that many things that I love about the Zoster. Oh, and her legs, and that part just above her legs, that whole region. lol, I'm not really into that, but I just love quoting Wash.
--totally against the point, but I was talking to my friend the other day and we were talking about how she might die from the weight of all her studies (or something like that) and quoting Wash almost exactly, I gave the speech about how beautiful she was, but less so now that she was all corpsefied and gross.... Killed the room! THey thought I was the funniest person ever. And so now we've just got to supplement the diet with some Firefly, and they'll appreciate it all the more.
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to me out of gas was the most touching and teary episode, but they still made it funny. i was remembering when book was reading the bible and river walks by and ask if he was afraid and that he was worrying of running out of air and die gasping. then says that we are not that that was not going to happen you see book's expression of hope rise and completely falls when she says we are going to freeze to death. in that moment of sadness my sides were ripping with laughter.
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Fictional weeping - "Look, Raist, bunnies..."
Sturm's death gets me every time...
Glänzend!
You ain't kidding...
"Browncoats always have family in my corner of the 'Verse.."
"...let's not ruin an otherwise pleasant day with unnecessary bloodshed..."
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I'm known (especially where I work) for being rather icy and often less than pleasant to customers (long story, but it's appropriate), yet I have no trouble in admitting that I bawl during Nandi's funeral when one of her ladies sings Amazing Grace, but not because of the story. I cry because of some rather deep-seated pain associated with that song.
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There has not been a showin a long time that makes me experience emotion the way firefly does...its rather remarkable..
Knitter of Cunning Jayne Hats
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that episode was hard to get through, definatly when mal got shot, so sad!!!!!!!
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It is a very hard episode to watch, and at the same time more than any other makes me feel closer to the other characters. then at the end when everyone is together and you can rejoice, the problem comes that after that you have to switch off the tv and come into work where you have to smile politely and suck up to customers who have no respect for you and feel that having a payment taken a day late is the end of the world!!
That's the problem, once you escape to a much better place you then have to come back, most people are not like the crew and life has no adventures!
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