Ramblings on Our Mrs. Reynolds

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TINYTIMM

Saturday, October 5, 2002 11:56 PM

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Originally posted by Delvo:
[BOf course, this notion of needing to go to an academy to learn how to seduce people is a bit silly, but then so are the hours required at cosmetology schools...

You miss the point. Inara is a highly trained and skilled seductress from a very tough school. Think of her as a Neurosurgeon with a glance as a scapel.

Jeff
Who suspects this generation has no appreciation of sex. They may do it alot, but are they really enjoying it?

JAYNESGIRLFRIEND

Sunday, October 6, 2002 2:16 AM

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Originally posted by Delvo:

Of course, this notion of needing to go to an academy to learn how to seduce people is a bit silly, but then so are the hours required at cosmetology schools...

You've gotta be a man. Women know better than this.

"I was gonna get me an ear, too." - Jayne

JORGASNAROVA

Sunday, October 6, 2002 5:37 AM

AArgh! It appears KTTV in Los Angeles pre-empted this episode due to a baseball game.

Got home, checked the VCR, and had a hour of not Firefly, but baseball. Went to bed sobbin' into the ol' pillow.

Have heard rumors the episode actually aired that night at 2 AM, but if so, I missed it.

Anybody have a VHS tape of the ep and willing to discuss terms?

MELEE

Sunday, October 6, 2002 8:11 PM

I've got a tape of it, and the ability to make copies. E-mail me, and I'm sure we can work something out! sasakat@aol.com

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ZICSOFT

Sunday, October 6, 2002 9:01 PM

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Originally posted by Jorgasnarova:
AArgh! It appears KTTV in Los Angeles pre-empted this episode due to a baseball game.

Seems to be happening a lot. I screamed out loud when I tuned into the premiere, only to see the tail end of a pathetic stomping of the Brewers by the As. (Show finally started about 45 minutes late.) I guess a lot of Fox stations are former independents with long-standing Friday Night Baseball contracts. You have to think that Fox takes this into account when judging ratings. Maybe we should take ratings stats with a grain of salt until the baseball season ends.

JOSS, WHERE'S MY CHECK???!!!

SCIFISPACE

Monday, October 7, 2002 6:29 PM

I don't think it's the same Academy. A lot of schools use the word and my guess is there is a Companion Academy as well as the one where River was.

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AVALON

Monday, October 7, 2002 6:55 PM

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Originally posted by Delvo:

Of course, this notion of needing to go to an academy to learn how to seduce people is a bit silly,

I can't agree, Delvo. Unless you're born with that er, certain way of walking and talking, instruction in the fine art of seduction would be helpful. And if you learn the art well, it can mean a huge difference over a Companion who is merely physically beautiful but not necessarily as skilled. I mean, I know guys are supposed to be visually oriented, but beauty isn't always the only consideration when it comes to attraction.

Also, seducing someone isn't the entire job. Neither is the performance in the bed, I would expect. I suspect a Companion's greatest skill would really be in Conversation/Listening -- another skill that not everyone is born with, but can learn.

I was also thinking about this today -- what about self-defense? To the best of our knowledge, Inara doesn't have any sort of bodyguard accompanying her. And when she plies her trade, her shuttle is generally detached from Serenity, so she isn't looking to Mal, Jayne or Zoe for protection -- she's on her own. Now, granted, she chooses her clients, and presumably they would be refined as well as rich, but -- sometimes the nicest exterior hides a vicious heart. And Serenity is flying out where things are a bit rougher, anyway. So wouldn't it make sense that whatever Academy the Companions attend also have compulsory courses in Self-Defense?

That'd probably be right after the courses in Advanced Accounting and Business Management...

REYVNDARKNIGHT

Monday, October 7, 2002 7:04 PM

It is official. I couldn't decide who the most interesting character was until "Mrs. Reynolds".

Ron Glass as the Preacher definitely has my attention except when Inara is on screen of course .

When Jayne made the comment about one day finding out how a preacher would know about operations such as the one those salvagers was using, I immediately began fixated on the character and wondered what Whedon has in mind.

QUILL

Thursday, October 10, 2002 6:17 PM

I would really, really love to see the bloopers for this episode. I would probably pay money to see the bloopers. I want to see Mal and Inara having a helpless fit of the giggles. I want to see Wash screwing up the geese-juggling line repeatedly and Zoe losing it. I want to see Kaylee mispronouncing her Chinese lines. Oh, the possibilities...

Inside every cynic there's an idealist desperately yearning to be let out, and when they are let out they're usually a real pain and cause all sorts of trouble. --Chris Boucher

RHEA

Thursday, October 10, 2002 11:21 PM

^I completely agree. I've watched my tape a number of times (we were laughing so hard when we first watched it that we didn't hear some of the lines).

I cannot even IMAGINE what the bloopers must be like.

Did anybody see the Firefly blurb on one of the Entertainment magazines this past weekend?

They had Nathan, Gina and Adam sitting on a couch. Adam reached over and grabbed his gun. Gina gave him The Look and said "don't touch me." Adam said "I'm just getting my gun. It's my binky."

And all three of them cracked up.

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