Your Favorite Fireflygasm ...
POSTED BY: CapnRahn
UPDATED: Friday, April 30, 2004 12:55
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Twice, both from Serenity:
-Mal's bitter "we won" after stealing the loot from the corpse ship.
-Kaylee eating the strawberry. Though admittedly for entirely different reasons. 
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But Joss is right (duh)--visually stunning is also a big deal. The entire "Objects" episode could almost be watched with the sound off, as could "Out of Gas."
What a great idea! I would love to have that as an option in language section (music and sound effects only, or even music only).
Before we mention every line in every episode...
Jubal: "...I don't think of myself as a lion..."
How many TV shows have people mishearing things?
River: "No power in the 'verse can stop me."
The key to this line (I think) is that she is quoting Kaylee back to her. Without that it would be too spooky. And I think Kaylee would never be comfortable with her again, as it is, she can eventually come to terms with it.
Best use of silence in a TV program goes to... 'Out of Gas'
Joss - (since you might still be reading this) Thank You Kindly, you have changed my life.
kermit didn't know the half of it.
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Two that come to mind for me would be:
first, at the end of Jaynestown when Jayne says they are probably putting the statue back up right now, and Mal says something like "I guess every person who's ever had a statue made of 'em was a son of a bitch in one way or another." too true!
second, the last scene in The Message, ending with the recording "... find someone to carry you." and then the zoom in on Mal. Never was Whedon's goal of building extended families more poignant for me then in that moment
"What's sanguine mean again?"
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Awesome thread.
I have lots of favorites; but for me the most scintillating is at the very end of Season 1.
In OiS, River and Kaylee are playing jacks and River holds the ball up to her eyes (from profile view). To me, the ball looks like Jupiter without the Great Red Spot, and may even be CG'd to enhance that illusion.
So she holds this world up to her eye, says "I can win this", then lets it fall as she scoops up jacks, and the season fades to black...
I'd call that foreshadowing.
Joss wrote, above:
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"...-- The part where the crew finds out about River's REAL... oh wait. That's the movie. Never mind.
Or mind in a while.
Thanks again.
-j."
Respectfully,
zoid
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"River didn't fix faith. Faith fixed River."
- Senator Richard 'Book' Wilkins, Independent Congress
author of A Child Shall Lead Them: A History of the Second War of Independence
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Glad thread was revived. My favorite moment is actually a camera shot: Mal and Zoe going up against Patience and her posse in "Serenity", when they pull out their guns and the camera pans around them. Every time that shot goes by during the credits, I 'bout cream my pants.
"Dear diary, today I was pompous and my sister was crazy."
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The 2-hour Pilot got me.
Struggling through all that, everything going against them, an open firefight on the planet while trying to unload that marked food ... Jayne comes down, they're discussing things ... and the call comes down from Wash that there's incoming. Cut to a shot of a Reaver ship entering atmosphere.
I hit pause, jumped up, and screamed out something to the effect of "Wow, this is amazing. Who thinks of this stuff?"
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The one part that absolutely convinced me this was the best show ever was in War Stories when Zoe sees Book picking up a rifle and asks "Doesn't the bible say some pretty specific things about killing preacher?" to which Book replies "Yes, but it gets a bit fuzzy around the area of kneecaps."
I noticed some other people loved this part, but what actually sold me was the part when he follows through on that statement on the skyplex. Mal - "Cover our backs preacher"
/Armed goon comes running down corridor
/WITHOUT shouldering his rifle, Book shoots the goon in the knee, followed by the best stunt I saw the whole series... Wonder if he hurt his face any!
That and in Safe, the "Dear Diary, today I was pompous and my sister was crazy. Dear Diary, today we were captured by hillfolk never to be seen again. It was the best day ever!"
And when Simon comes back at the end and Jayne is in a rush to return all the things he took from Simon's room and is caught in an awckward moment
Or when Jayne was going to offer the deck of cards to Simon and River in Trash.
Those were the funny bits... But there are TOO MANY
The most dramatic part in the whole series that just touched sooo deep was in Safe, Pretty much the whole second half of the episode, from Simon's "I didn't realize it would be that easy [to destroy this family]" to when he's willing to get burned alive with his sister (postholer: digging holes for posts) and Mal's simple retort "You're on my crew. Why are we still talking about this". Now THAT's family.
I still swell up with emotion everytime I think of it.
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Other than simply posting all of the episode titles, I guess I can add one thing here that I'm pretty sure no one else has mentioned.
I watched "Out of Gas" again last night, and it has one of the best Mal moments in the entire series. They bring Zoe to the infirmary and Wash is frantic about her condition. Mal tells him to get to the bridge to help figure out what happened. When Wash says "Don't ask me again," then Mal says "I wasn't asking, I was telling." Then he grabs Wash and bangs him up against the wall, and even Jayne backs up and seems frightened of Mal's force of will.
As much as Zoe means to Wash, you know she means as much to Mal, but the entire crew and his ship have to take priority over the welfare of just one of them. Speaks volumes about Mal, and you know he would have done the same thing no matter who was on the table and who was defying him.
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Originally posted by ecgordon:
As much as Zoe means to Wash, you know she means as much to Mal, but the entire crew and his ship have to take priority over the welfare of just one of them. Speaks volumes about Mal, and you know he would have done the same thing no matter who was on the table and who was defying him.
The interesting thing about that scene is the original script actually had Mal saying something along the lines of if Wash had didn't help save the ship, it wouldn't matter if the doc saved Zoe, since they'd all die. They changed or cut that part to make Mal more uncompromising and not willing to explain, just insisting on and expecting people to follow his orders when they are in peril. This is also evident in The Message, where an earlier draft of the script had Mal and Book at least trying to explain that they had a plan and Tracy waving the gun around and not listening/believing them. (another example is when Mal tells Simon to go get her sister in Bushwhacked and doesn't explain why, causing Simon to ask "why, are you going to put her in plain view, too?!?" and Book to chastize Simon, since Book always knows what's going on)
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I can't believe in this whole thing, nobody has mentioned this one:
In Serenity, right after they've pulled the Crazy Ivan and escaped the Reavers, and they're all celebrating, and they show Kaylee sitting there, patting the bulkhead, and in the sweetest voice she says, "That's my girl. That's my good girl." I fell in love with Kaylee and Serenity in that moment.
I fell in lust with Kaylee when she ate the strawberry... 
Mal in the desert: "Yep... that went well."
Jayne: "I'll be in my bunk."
Jayne in "Our Mrs. Reynolds": "I call her Vera."
Jayne in "Heart of Gold": "My John Thomas is about to pop off and shoot around the room, there's so much tasty in here!"
Wash: "Would be you'd get your most poetical about yer pecker." [Jayne nods.]
The closing scene of "The Message."
All of the bits with Mal and River; has anyone noticed that Mal actually gets River more often than anyone else? I think he has a lot of soul, and River really takes to Mal (when she's not viciously insulting him in Mandarin).
Chuckybones
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