Things you DIDN'T notice the 1st time you watched FF

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UPDATED: Friday, August 13, 2004 10:00
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TMURRIE

Sunday, March 28, 2004 5:14 AM

I didn't notice the fact that they spoke Chinese, I just thought only they knew a few Chinese phrases. Plus, in Trash, when Mal sits down beside Saffron to comfort her as she's crying, it took me a couple times to figure out that before he even sat down she had his gun. But really, none of entire series made sense, since it was aired just weird. But now it all sets into place.

SPOOKYDONKEY

Sunday, March 28, 2004 6:45 AM

In Our Mrs. Reynolds, when Mal is telling Jane what to shoot for on the "net", Jayne mentions something about a window, and Mal says something along the lines of "No, that might kill some folk" and to aim at one of six breakers to just short out the system. When Jayne fires Vera, the first shot does indeed take out the breaker, but after pausing for a beat, Jayne fires subsequent rounds that slam into the window he was just told not to shoot, exposing the shipjackers to the void and sucking them into the black.

I didn't realize on my first couple of viewings that Jayne purposefully disobeyed Mal's order to get in some quality vengence time.

OKKAY

Sunday, March 28, 2004 6:59 AM

Quote:
Originally posted by SpookyDonkey:
In Our Mrs. Reynolds, when Mal is telling Jane what to shoot for on the "net", Jayne mentions something about a window, and Mal says something along the lines of "No, that might kill some folk" and to aim at one of six breakers to just short out the system. When Jayne fires Vera, the first shot does indeed take out the breaker, but after pausing for a beat, Jayne fires subsequent rounds that slam into the window he was just told not to shoot, exposing the shipjackers to the void and sucking them into the black.

I didn't realize on my first couple of viewings that Jayne purposefully disobeyed Mal's order to get in some quality vengence time.

I didn't see it that way. The way I understood it, all Mal was saying was that if they shot the window, it wouldn't do anything except kill those two guys, but the Serenity crew would still be dead because the net would still be active. Mal wasn't saying "don't kill them" because he didn't want to kill anyone, he was saying go for the net instead because that's the only way they're going to live through this. After Jayne took care of the net, then he was free to go for the window.

ANKHAGOGO

Tuesday, March 30, 2004 3:44 AM

I found the Han-Solo-in-carbonite, thanks to you guys! Stuff like that is why I purposely try to see what's lyin' around in the background.

Something I noticed with part of my brain the first time, but only just recently realized what it meant:
In Heart of Gold, when Jayne's refusing to go help, he's got on one of his t-shirts.
When they're walking up to the whorehouse, he's got on a striped button up shirt.

He dressed up for the whores! That's so sweet, in an extremely Jayne way....

"So...would his job be available?"

CYBERSNARK

Tuesday, March 30, 2004 3:19 PM

Something I just noticed last night when rewatching Objects in Space.

Whatever Early is, he's no River (i.e., the BlueHands haven't made him telepathic or anything).

When Early locks the crew in their quarters, Kaylee's lock doesn't engage (or if it did, I didn't see the red light come on). that's probably how he knew her name when he found her in the engine room; he probably woulda' checked that room. When he finds the young girl (not River [the warrant would've included a picture], and definitely no Companion) puttering around the engines, he puts two and two together and calls her "Kaylee."

Only a minor thing, but that always bugged me as to how he knew her name.

The "knowing Book isn't a Shepherd" thing is still problematical though. Maybe there was some subtle physical quirk that Early picked up on.

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BLAZINGBUG

Tuesday, March 30, 2004 7:16 PM

Well, it's probably been pointed out somewhere else, but I literally just noticed that the opening credits run through the colors of the spectrum.

It's a combination of special effects (in the logo), lighting, and filters, but if you look at it in sequence, it goes from red to orange to yellow to green to blue to purple. Only at the end when you see the ship flying over the horses does it switch to all colors.

Symbolic of the crew and ship combined make a whole? You decide.

Quote pending.

SHINY

Tuesday, March 30, 2004 7:38 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by Ankhagogo:
Something I noticed with part of my brain the first time, but only just recently realized what it meant:
In Heart of Gold, when Jayne's refusing to go help, he's got on one of his t-shirts.
When they're walking up to the whorehouse, he's got on a striped button up shirt.

Great catch, Ank -- I agree, it's totally in character for Jayne!

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LINDYCAT

Tuesday, March 30, 2004 10:42 PM

The "knowing Book isn't a Shepherd" thing is still problematical though. Maybe there was some subtle physical quirk that Early picked up on.

I think Early knew book was not a shepard because Book is actually a retired bounty hunter.

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SHINY

Wednesday, March 31, 2004 12:57 AM

Quote:
Originally posted by LindyCat:
The "knowing Book isn't a Shepherd" thing is still problematical though. Maybe there was some subtle physical quirk that Early picked up on.

I think Early knew book was not a shepard because Book is actually a retired bounty hunter.

Except that Joss explains why in the commentary to Objects in Space -- something along the lines of "it's not anything he read in a file or anything like that, it was just from watching him, and knowing he was a man of action that needed to be taken out quickly"

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TEELABROWN

Wednesday, March 31, 2004 2:31 AM

First Time watching- I thought I heard Mal say Whitefall.
Second Time watching- I notice Mal actually said Whitehall.
Or some such thing.

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