Things you DIDN'T notice the 1st time you watched FF
POSTED BY: GunRunner
UPDATED: Friday, August 13, 2004 10:00
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I noticed this the second or third time I watched Serenity: When they land on Persephone, looking for boarders, Kaylee mentions that she really needs a new compression coil. When Mal denies her request, she lets him know that Serenity will be dead in the water if it busts. She never ends up getting a new one, and this is the part which breaks in OoG.
I caught the bread thing and the Blue Sun references pretty early on, but didn't notice Jayne's habit of touching everything until I watched the commentaries. I love it when characters have those subtle attributes. That attention to detail is one of the things which made Firefly so great!
"Once in flight school, I was laconic..." -Wash
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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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Yeah, plus Joss also explains in th commentary that Jubal is not psychic, but he is so intuitive that he is near psychic. So he listens in on the crews conversations from "above" = outside the ship while River listens from below on the catwalk and with his intuition he suss' out who's who and what the relationships are. Kaylee's door is open, so it can't lock, so he knows she isn't inside and knows who she is when she finds her from his innate deductive/intuitive abilities.
Still eery, though.
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Thank you for this very informative thread. I missed so many little things, and caught a few up-front that others didn't.
I definitely missed, then caught Kaylee's reference to the compression thingy...but never got that Wash threw a good one at the transport they refurbish in Ariel.
I didn't catch the significance of all the out of time frames that come in Serenity the first time through -- especially with Inara.
Great thread!!
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This was an awesome thread! Thanks, everyone! I learned a lot. I have to admit that I'm one of those people who never saw the series when it was actually on TV -- it was only after it went to DVD that my sister-in-law said I *had* to see it. Sigh. I even remember the commericials for this show, but they didn't do a very good job explaining what the show was all about, and I didn't think it looked interesting. Then I see the DVDs and I'm hooked by the end of the first episode!!! ARGH!!!! Stupid Fox!!!! They did a horrible job on marketing this show. I'm sure all of you who were fans from the beginning probably hate people like me who only discovered the show after it was too late, but I still would like to blame Fox for that. ;-)
But enough bitterness... Just to throw in my $.02, here are things I noticed on my second viewing:
- In "Serenity", Book is able to easily disarm the agent that shoots Kaylee. In fact, with two seemingly easy moves, he takes the guy down completely.
- Kaylee complains about the compression coil twice -- in "Serenity" and "The Train Job". I only noticed this because I saw "Out of Gas" before seeing the earlier episodes a second time and because I had a bad day at work that day and identified with someone trying to alert uncaring management of a potential blow-out.
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There are at least two times that Zoe is seen not wearing her cord necklace: in Shindig and most all the episode Objects in Space. And we all know that she supposedly NEVER takes it off....
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The main thiing for me would be Jubal Early saying "That ain't no Shephard" about Book in "Objects in Space." First couple of times I just laughed there, but then third time around I actually thought... wait a minute... OH MY GOD! REALLY? Ya think?
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i'm not sure this has been mentioned before. but i'll type it out anyway.
in Safe when Mal is telling Simon to keep River's voice down, River mutters something about a person's blood being drained in 8 point something seconds.
later, in Ariel...we see the men with blue gloves using a tool to drain blood out of people, and killing them in a matter of seconds.
is there some sort of connection? how does River know that little piece of information? i think that she has seen the men with blue gloves drain blood out of another human, right infront of her eyes.
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Most of things I didn't notice have been mentioned already, plus some stuff I had no idea I hadn't noticed. ;)
This is totally cheating, but there are two things that have not been mentioned (though might be common knowledge on fff.net):
My second time watching 'Bushwhacked', I heard Kaylee say to Mal, "But did you hear what that purple belly called Serenity?" and I thought, oh, so *that's* where Purplebelly got his name! Made me laugh out loud.
Ditto for my second time watching 'Safe', when the Alliance officer asked Mal, "And this is your ship, Captain...Harbatkin?" Hence, CaptainHarbatkin, and CapnHarbatkin.
Julia
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Believe it or not, I never heard Wash whisper "Run, run!" to Zoe when she shows up in War Stories. Wow, that was powerful once I'd noticed it!
-Mrs. Embassy
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The look on Jayne's face in the last scenes of "The Message" (when he takes his hat off) and "Jaynestown" (when he's talking to Mal and looks away).
In the aforementioned "Jaynestown" scene, I didn't notice that the last bit of music was a reprise of "The Hero of Canton" until my roommate mentioned it; I backed up the DVD, listened carefully, and started to bawl.
Also, possibly my favourite little touch of the entire series: in the pilot, Dobson wears a wedding band.
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