Favorite non-verbal character moments
POSTED BY: shambleau
UPDATED: Saturday, October 9, 2004 16:06
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No one mentioned the one in Object's in Space, where River is telling Mal to listen and asks if's he dreaming and River says they all are...and Mal rolls his eyes, making a face. But River knows what he is doing and says "Don't make faces." And then Mal is startled. I thought that was so funny...
And any Mal/Inara moments, the unspoken ones were the best and meaningful.
I love the silent Jayne in Bushwacked during the questioning...too funny!
Mal:"So how was business?"
Inara:"None of yours."
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I thought of a few, but all of them were stolen except one, by the time I got to the bottom of this thread. My favorite of the stolen ones is, hands down, Mal's reaction when Mrs. Reynolds offers to wash his feet. I fall out of my chair EVERY TIME I see this.
One I thought of while about to post this is Jayne's expression while playing that-there sport in the Serenity's cargo hold. Great face that probably goes by in a blink on the show, but is immortalized here on the boards. ;)
Miraculously, another of my favorites hasn't been mentioned yet-- the flashback (in "Out of Gas") when we first meet Kaylee, and she and former mechanic Bester are "busy" against the engine. It just flies in the face of everything I thought I knew about Kaylee.... and officially makes her the "Mary Ann" of the show. *rrrroooowrrr* Naughty girl.
XOXO
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And, oh yeah.
If you define "verbal" as, y'know, with words, then here are two non-worded, "AHH!" moments that I love:
1) - Pilot -
Mal: Is it true love? Because if it's true love--
River: (pops up from crate) "AHH!"
2) - The Message -
Zoe: The trick to combat is to be quiet, careful, they never know where you are.
Mal: (bursts in, guns blazing) "AHH!"
Zoe: Of course, others have different schools of thought on the matter."
(I'm paraphrasing, but you know the ones I mean)
XOXO
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Originally posted by Quicksand:
I thought of a few, but all of them were stolen except one, by the time I got to the bottom of this thread. My favorite of the stolen ones is, hands down, Mal's reaction when Mrs. Reynolds offers to wash his feet. I fall out of my chair EVERY TIME I see this.
Yeah, you're absolutely right. That is one of funniest moments on the show, period.
Actually, while we're on Our Mrs Reynolds, I think it's hysterical how often Saffron pops out of no-where and nearly gives Mal a heart attack. The constant "AAAHH!" just makes me giggle.
I thought of a total girly one, too, that I don't remember if someone's said.
At the end of Heart of Gold, Inara says she's leaving, and you can see how hard she's trying to keep it together. Then when she turns away, just for a moment you can see that she's breaking down. Aw.
"So...would his job be available?"
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Inara in HOG at the end, when Mal is saying he's feeling kind of truthsome. The tension and expectancy in her face is great.
Inara rolling her eyes as Jayne leers.
Saffron's stealing of Mal's gun- very smooth!
shambleau
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my favorite non-verbal moment has to be right in the begining of serenity, when mal looks over the bunker to see the ships opening fire on Serenity Valley...
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okay...i couldnt stop at one...
so shoot me :)
Another early scene...when Mal tells Inara to take everyone in the shuttle if the reavers attack, and he touches her shoulder. He becomes..intoxicated..for a moment with her. No other word to describe it.
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From the gag reel:
"Moustaches"
What more can I say?
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In Serenity, when they do the deal with Patience and neither of the groups leave. They just stand there for awhile, tense.
And then Mal says "Twofry, nice hat" BLAM. and then the shooting begins.
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My second favorite non-verbal has got to be Kaylee's colder and colder expressions in "The Message" while she and Simon are in the room with the upside-down alien cow fetus and Simon just keeps putting more and more feet into his mouth.
The number ONE is Mal's bare ass sitting on a rock in the middle of no and where.
Mal-licious
Simon to Jubal Early: "My sister's a ship. We had a complicated childhood."
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