Out of gas
POSTED BY: GinoBiffaroni
UPDATED: Thursday, May 13, 2004 17:31
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Originally posted by Drakon:
"You buy this ship, treat her right, she'll be with you till the day you die." What more can you ask from a ship?
" Thats because its a deathtrap sir "
Great Line !!!!!
" Thats not fair !!!!
I didn't even have a soul when I did that!"
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This is with out a doubt the best Firefly episode.
That said I was wondering can you help me out about one thing. You see in the end Mal says to Wash "you got a thing in your arm" Wash says "yeah" why does Wash have a thing in his arm?
The only thing I can think of is Wash must have gave a blood transfusion to Mal. Is that why Wash has a thing in his arm? Or is it something I missed. Any way if you know please explain why Wash has a thing in his arm at the end of the episiode,because I don't know.
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Originally posted by dyairvatree:
The only thing I can think of is Wash must have gave a blood transfusion to Mal. Is that why Wash has a thing in his arm?
Correct.
I'm going to also chime in and add to the "I love this episode" crowd. This is my favorite episode next to Ariel.
"Let's moon 'em!"
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Sorry, my favourite bit comes just after the intro credits. We're back on the floor with Mal-the-recently-shot, and he hauls himself to his feet. And Mal lets out a little whimper.
Sounds like nothing, but hoo-blody-ray to Nathan Fillion. All too often characters seem to sustain serious wounds and shrug them off. They show manly pain; a grunt and a grimace, and off I go for some more thrilling heroics. But what Nathan gave us there was real. Hats off to the man.
Of course, the rest of the episode is great. But that's my favourite bit.
JK
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As I understood it, it was because Wash was giving Mal a transfusion of blood. Okay Simon was doing the actual doctor stuff, but it was Wash's blood. Same blood type, I suppose.
"Wash, where is my damn spaceship?"
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Very much a favorite episode, and two unmentioned points to go with it.
First: they put out the fire by venting it into space, which is the best way to do it.
Second: no bogus sound effects to that scene either, which is must appreciated by folks who know anything about space.
This has gotta be the best episode so far, and I am rather fond of War Stories as a close second, because in that episode they come together as a *unified* crew, all singularly focused on one goal, the rescue of their captain.
The torture scene was classic too, gallows humor at it's very finest.
-frem
diefxudie
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Originally posted by Fremdfirma:
Second: no bogus sound effects to that scene either, which is must appreciated by folks who know anything about space.
Totally. And the contrast there is remarkable. The fire creates chaos and sets off alarms, so we as viewers watch those scenes where everyone is talking and yelling and we can just barely hear them over the klaxons. There's actually a cut to Mal pressing buttons before the klaxons cut out-- again another detail that illustrates Firefly's superiority to most other television programming.
And then, to go from klaxons and chaos and the ship speaking to hearing the whoosh of the airlock and the tumble of the ship trying to adjust to the vacuum and then out to nothingness is so extraordinary. It goes by so quickly and is so extraordinary.
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This has gotta be the best episode so far, and I am rather fond of War Stories as a close second, because in that episode they come together as a *unified* crew, all singularly focused on one goal, the rescue of their captain.
The torture scene was classic too, gallows humor at it's very finest.
And their pilot! Don't forget about him. War Stories is my favorite episode for those reasons and so many more. Neither of them pull any punches and War Stories has the same visceral pacing that Out of Gas does.
I'm a dying breed who still believes, haunted by American dreams. ---Neko Case
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This and Objects in Space are my most liked eps.
Forgive me for reviving this thread, but I just watched OOG again with the subtitles on. At the end, when Mal is waking up in the infirmary listening to random mutterings, Inara and Jayne are speaking off camera. Inara says, "I think we should show it to him when he wakes up." and Jayne says, "He's seen blood before, a lot of it." Are they referring to Mal's blood from his gunshot wound? Or is there some other blood that is unexplained? If so, whose blood is it? Or am I just being too picky?
Mal-licious
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The music that begins as inara and the rest board the shuttles...camera pans across cargo bay to find Mal...standing...alone...and then CUT TO: Serenity dead in space (flotsam and jetsam floating around her) as the shuttles break off and fly into the vacuum...The music begins to climb and swell...the guitar kicks in..ever so delicately as Mal walks through the kitchen (the heart and soul of the home) sealing the ship behind him, and finaly, as he takes the blanket from the locker, wraps it around him and settles into the pilot's chair..to perhaps slip away into death and the MUSIC god the MUSIC hits the highwater mark...
I have watched that scene repeatedly over and over and i just get chills. It's one of the most beautiful sequences i have ever seen in a made for television production.
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