Your top 3 Firefly Episodes

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Originally posted by Kwicko:
I can't have a top 3, because each and every episode is my favorite - including Serenity, the big damn movie.

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But, wasn't Bushwacked kinda lacking IYO? The Simon stuff was good, but the Reaver reasoning sort of done on the fly, not consistent with their origin IMO.


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Chrisisall, Buchwacked is in my top three. Sure, the guy going crazy doesn't quite make sense with how the movie explains the reaver's origins, but the interview scenes are classic. I feel like it was the first episode that really fleshed out each character beyond what was established by the pilot. Its also in there because it was the first episode I ever saw (I was a week late to the party and missed the train job).

However, I do agree with something you've implied. Favorite episode threads come up all the time. How about a least favorite episode thread?
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p.s. Out of Gas
Jaynestown
Bushwacked

I pray for one last landing,
on the globe that gave me birth.
Let me rest my eyes on the fleecy skies
and the cool, green hills of Earth.

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Originally posted by chrisisall:
But, wasn't Bushwacked kinda lacking IYO? The Simon stuff was good, but the Reaver reasoning sort of done on the fly, not consistent with their origin IMO.

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Which Reaver reasoning? Never seen anything about that, interesting.

I think Bushwacked is underrated sometimes, not a great ep but not as low as some suggest.

It gave us:

- hoop ball! That's a pretty great opening.
- underscored the "dangers of space," which helps inform following eps like Out of Gas + added to that the very real, gothic horror element of the Reavers (not just camp fire stories).
- Aliens! I swear that Reaver booby trap looked like a living creature (yeah, I know what JW has said).
- the interrogation sequences are good character studies, "Ever been with a warrior woman?"
- and another puzzle piece in Book's back story, his Ident Card rushing him to the head of the line (hmmm!).

My top 3:

Out of Gas - most complete from beginning to end - it covers so much ground it almost feels like a 2 hour ep. Great back story telling. Inara & Mal's first meeting, sparring, the cold spark of things to come.

Jaynestown - I'm in awe of the pure imagination, how original this ep feels. What an improbable story that rings true, and a perfectly ironical plot for Jayne. I thought this was an example of the great minds JW had collected around him and was a sign of equally great things to come... how he would be giving us the unexpected. (In terms of originality Objects in Space is a match for Jaynestown).

Our Mrs Reynolds - ok, make that 3 matches, stories that didn't feel derivative, wholly unique to this new 'Verse. And it has the best chunk of dialogue/performances of all the eps imho - forward to right after the first commercial break when everyone is in the cargo bay discussing Saffron- brilliant.


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I always make a "best" and a "favorite" distinction.

Best is hard to argue with, IMHO,
Serenity - The Introduction to our World
Out of Gas - The History of our World
Objects in Space - The Heart of our World

Favorite is impossible to argue with, mine is actually War Stories. Also Jaynestown makes my list because it was the episode where I went from wanting to love the show to loving the show. My third is probably Serenity, although Our Mrs Reynolds and Out of Gas are hard to leave out.

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Objects In Space

Out Of Gas

Our Mrs. Reynolds

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