What is your favorite episode?

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KNIBBLET

Tuesday, February 10, 2004 4:15 AM

Now here's where I differ from 99.9% of everyone else here.

I think that the most sensual scene EVER put on film or video is the scene between Mal and Nandi when they finally kiss.

It was slow, full of yearning and pain on both sides. Sexuality was simmering, boiling even. I can watch it over and over.

The cut to the bed scene ... nah... Watching people fake coitus is never all that interesting.

Watching those two characters GET to the bed scene, now that children, is hot hot hot.

It is one of my very favorite scenes in Firefly.

AMANDA4U

Tuesday, February 10, 2004 5:14 AM

My favorite:

Serenity: When River is lying down and she looks up at Simon and just touches his face to make sure he's real, I love it.

Ariel: When Simon says to River, "It's time to go to sleep mei-mei.", and then at the end she says "Time to go to sleep again." and then he says "No, mei-mei, it's time to wake up." Those scenes just touch the heart.

Objects in Space: Well, Simon with his shirt off, but more than that, I love listening to the commentary with Joss telling the story and philosophy behind it. It just opened my mind.

Trash: The tattoo

Heart of Gold: Not for the story, but for when River says "Who do you thinks in there?" That's awesome. And the whole Kaylee\Wash exchange.

Out of Gas: The three different time lines and how they melded into each other, and then listening to the commentary and catching even more.

Safe: Because of the whole River\Book\Book's hair exchange. I crack up every time I watch it.

Of course the others have their merits with strong points mentioned in other posts. They are all good!

To Jayne! The box dropping man ape gone wrong thing!

DTT

Saturday, February 14, 2004 7:38 AM

I have to say that I think you're all wrong.

The best episode of Firefly is the first one that airs when it comes back to TV.

"You didn't have to wound that man."
"Yeah, I know. It was just funny."

KINGOFKOINS

Sunday, February 15, 2004 10:29 PM

Well, my top three keeps switching, so I really don't know. All I know is that it comes between Serenity, Out of Gas, and Objects in Space.

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DEANNAMAY

Monday, February 16, 2004 4:05 PM

Amanda4U, I couldn't agree more with your selections, and for the reasons you stated. Simon is my favorite, not that the entire cast isn't just perfect, and scenes with him and River just touch the heart. And well, Mal's tatoo, that just touches the funnybone.

JEWEL

Monday, February 16, 2004 8:14 PM

This is a tough one. I really love them all. Lets see...my favorites... in no particular order --

Serenity -- How could they not show this one first??????

War Stories -- I really liked how Mal and Wash really try to keep each other focused in the torture scene.

Objects in Space -- loved the existential bent. Early is one twisted fella. Also really enjoyed how very similar and how very different River and Early are.

Out of Gas -- The photography for the flashbacks really made it for me. Also, the way that Mal looks at Serenity when he first sees her -- it's obviously love.

The Message -- The music at the end is so heart wrenching, it makes me cry every time.

SERENA

Tuesday, February 17, 2004 4:25 PM

The reason I haven't responded is because just when I think I know what my FAVOURITE episode is, I watch at different ep and think to myself "Oh, I LOVE that one!"

But at the end of the day, I'd have to say Out of Gas. Everyone are so connected in that show. It illustrates the depth of their connection. I love it at the end when Mal says "are you going to be here when I wake up?" Brings tears to my eyes.

"Every well bred, petty crook knows that the small, concealable weapons always go to the far left of the place setting."

MANTICHORUS

Thursday, May 20, 2004 2:53 PM

Hmm. Tricky. In no particular order, probably:
Serenity~~it just sucked me in whole into Firefly. That and the infamous 'This Land' scene.
War Stories~~"No power in the 'verse can stop me." :gulp:
All of them~~With characters and plots of this calibre, it's damn near impossible to choose!

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"BADGER: You think you're better than other people.
MAL: Just the ones I'm better than."
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"MAL: Gotta say, doctor, your talent for alienatin' folk is near miraculous.
SIMON: Yes, I'm very proud."

ATHERTON

Thursday, May 20, 2004 8:40 PM

My top three would be;

1) Our Mrs Reynolds
2) Out Of Gas
3) Ariel

NICOLACLARKE

Thursday, May 20, 2004 9:31 PM

eeek, too many possibilities! And quite often it depends on what I've just watched. That said, my top three:

3) Heart of Gold

I seem to be in a minority here, but I really like this one. First, it's an effective protrait of how the distribution of technology affects how people live their lives on the border worlds. Second, it has a great guest character in Nandi (she's a female Mal!). Third, the Mal/Inara subplot here is IMHO the best exploration of their relationship in the show's run - I much prefer the painful, contradictory, utterly human moments here to the stilted banter of 'Shindig'. Oh, and Kaylee's conversation with Wash ("Were I unwed, I would take you in a manly fashion.") cracks me up every single time.

2) Serenity

What's not to love? I've converted everyone I've shown this to. Cast chemistry, dialogue, setting - everything is in place from the very beginning, and at twice the length it's given the room it needs to breathe. For me, it's embodied by the whole section surrounding Kaylee's shooting - quick, brutal action, character conflict, that doc-style camerawork, and not a word nor a gesture out of place. Perfect.

1) Out of Gas.

The first Firefly ep I ever saw. I love the backstory on the characters, I love the contrast between the early interactions and what the dynamics have developed into (most notably the juxtaposition of the two scenes between Inara and Mal in her shuttle: "You never could fly this thing..."). From editing to writing to acting, it's a masterpiece in tightly-controlled, highly-expressive film-making. Ahhh...

Bubbling under: 'Objects in Space'

But y'know, there are billions of great moments in every episode. Off the top of my head:

- Zoe and Mal at the end of 'War Stories' ("Take me, sir. Take me hard.")
- Jayne looking through Simon's belongings in 'Safe'.
- Kaylee and Simon waking up together in 'Jaynestown'. Simon's bumbling attempts to explain himself to Mal, and Kaylee's righteous indignation, are just perfect character moments.
- Inara closing the rubbish dump on Saffron in 'Trash'
- 'Bushwhacked' - the way the interviews are edited together

and many, many more

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