Mean Girls In Shindig
POSTED BY: Jmartine3592
UPDATED: Tuesday, December 25, 2007 14:17
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Originally posted by BruisersMom:
I was watching Out of Gas and Tim Minear mentioned that Kaylee was kind of a girl from the docks who likes engines, so I think Kaylee is from a blue collar background.
Yeah, but in the ep itself, Kaylee says she's from a farm, I believe. No?
It's Mal who calls her a "prairie harpy" (before he knows anything about her, of course). Kaylee just mentions that her familiarity with fixing machines comes from helping her daddy when he's got work, which ain't that often. So it sounds like her father's a mechanic or repairman of some sort, who would probably find most of his work around the docks. Since there doesn't seem to be a whole lot of agricultural machinery in use on the border worlds, most heavy machinery would probably be in the industrial areas around spaceports.
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Originally posted by Jmartine3592:
MEAN GIRL: This party is not as good as last year.
KAYLEE: What'd they have?
MEAN GIRL: Standards....
I'm a bit confused, i'm not that good in english but i think that mean girl was referring to the buffet table.
Kaylee: ...Theres some kind of hot cheese there.
Mean Girl: It's not as good as last year.
Kaylee: Oh, what did they have last year?
Mean Girl: Standards...
Kaylee: Oh...
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Originally posted by whispering:
I'm a bit confused, i'm not that good in english but i think that mean girl was referring to the buffet table.
Kaylee: ...Theres some kind of hot cheese there.
Mean Girl: It's not as good as last year.
Kaylee: Oh, what did they have last year?
Mean Girl: Standards...
Kaylee: Oh...
Actually. . .look at the COMPLETE context. . .
K: Isn't this the greatest party? Everyone's so fancy. . .and there's some kind of hot cheese over there.
MG: It's not as good as last year.
See. . .Kaylee's original statement was about the party as a whole.
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"Wash. . .we got some local color happening. A grand entrance would not go amiss."
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I always took that response of "Standards" as a reference to something like a "Standard government meal pack" or some such.
So Banning was responding to Kaylees delight in the Posh, high quality buffet table with a poorly veiled insult that says she thinks the food provided was'nt up to the ranks of a K-ration or something.
Kind of like saying that only "trailer trash" like Kaylee could possibly see the food on the buffet table as anything to get excited about.
Then Banning (being the wonderful person that she undoubtedly is) followed that insult with one about Kaylees dress.
Am I a Lion?... No, I think I'ma tellin' the truth.
BarnStormer
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Standards = standards of people they invited to the party last year.
The mean girl is implying that last year they had higher standards for the people they let in, thus also implying that Kaylee is low-class.
I think Gracedom and a few other people have already nailed the insult on the nose without the need to get overly complicated.
Kozure the Kamikaze Highlander
Proud Citizen of Canada-That-Was
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It's Cabott that says the "standards" line. (i always saw it as in "standards of people invited" -- like, "how did you get in?" and i stick to that). Then Banning mentions the dress.
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Now me, I figure if the old gentleman didn't intervene, and they pushed, someone was gonna get their head dunked in a punch bowl... Kaylee may be the sweetest lil thing, but insulting a womans dress and personhood at their very first gala is sure suicide not matter how sweet they are.
I dunno. Much as I relish the image of Kaylee assisting Banning in a little involuntary bobbing for orange slices, the look on her face was so crestfallen and woebegone, and other fancy words for bummed, I strongly suspect she would simply have moped away and had a positively ghastly time. As opposed to the shiny time she was having till Mal..you know..kicked some Ath.
Keep flyin'!
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Is it my imagination. . .or is the fact that we only have 14 episodes to discuss causing us to WAYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY OVER THINK EVERYTHING?????
Gorramit I want my movie.
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"Wash. . .we got some local color happening. A grand entrance would not go amiss."
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Trust me, the sweet, happy, cheery ones ?
When they snap, they snap ALL THE WAY.
Trust me, while Kaylee isn't the violent type, she does come from a rough and tumble backwater, and prolly wrestled with her friends and kin - big difference between shooting/killing folk (which she's not the type for) and whuppin someones ass when they've pushed your buttons.
That little pouty look the sweet ones get, that's a STOP SIGN, cause if you push it, you gonna have a fist in your eye, seriously... listen to the voice of experience here.
-frem
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That happens in the supposedly equal U.S of A. I had a friend who went to a party at Brown University. She's attending UC Santa Barbara. The girls at Brown told her that she wasn't Ivy League material and shouldn't be cruising their parties for men. Ivy League Snobs!
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