Favourite bits that ARE NOT obvious!
POSTED BY: Littlemanlovesfire
UPDATED: Monday, October 4, 2004 23:19
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Does anyone have any favourite moments in Firefly which seem to connect with you but which you've never heard other people mention? Bits that really aren't obvious at all.
3 examples from me.
JAYNE: "Sorry preacher, was I making too much noise?" - The Message
I just love the relationship these two have - Jayne seems to develop a huge amount of respect for Book over the course of the series and I think it's also an extremely touching relationship they have. We've all seen the hints that deep inside Jayne is a kind and caring soul and I think when he's alone with Book is the only time he isn't ashamed to drop his defences - the sincere and considerate delivery of that line (you'd expect him not to care) sums it up perfectly for me and their conversation afterwards about death is also a highlight.
KAYLEE: "...and they have some kind of hot cheese over there!" - Shindig
Makes me want to hug Kaylee so tight - not that I usually don't of course. She's such a darling and seems to be so excited about the prospect of hot cheese! It really rams home for me how poor our BDMs are - I know they talk of real baths and how Simon's cake is made from the same crap they ate for dinner but...Hot cheese isn't exactly a big deal! But for Kaylee who probably grew up in quite a deprived family and now lives on a ship where real tomatoes and strawberries are a delicacy it's the most amazing thing she's ever seen!
Finally I'd go with Inara and Mal's faces in HOG after Nandi is killed. No words are exchanged but you can read a thousand things passing between their eyes in those couple of seconds. I particularly love the way Inara's face changes subtly and it's like a telepathic link between them all of a sudden - "That bastard Burgess did it. Kill him for me please Mal." An amazing moment and some incredible acting!
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I love a lot of River's mannerisms and things I didn't always appreciate on first viewing. For example, in Heart Of Gold, when Inara asks Simon how many babies he's actually delivered, and he replies, "As a primary? This would be my first." And then River chimes in, "Mine too."
I also love in Safe how she says, "A post-holer. For digging holes for posts." Or in Jaynestown when she comes back to Book, saying, "I tore these out of your symbol and they became paper. . ."
Summer is so cute!
I don't know how non-obvious these are, but I didn't appreciate them until subsequent viewings, and I've never really seen them too much on any "favorite moments lists."
"You've just gotta go ahead and change the captain of your brainship, because he's drunk at the wheel."
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Originally posted by Littlemanlovesfire:
...Hot cheese isn't exactly a big deal!
What have you got against hot cheese? I can live without fresh vegetables and eat protein cake, but hot cheese is a staple.
At Sam's Club you can get these big gallon size cans of nacho cheese along with party size tortilla chips...add heat and you've really got something, and that something is what makes America the greatest country in the world...Nachos!
Other nations build monuments to the greatness of humanity...the Great Wall, the Tower of London, the Parthanon...but Americans build monuments to prospertity and all upon a foundation of hot cheese.
H
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Originally posted by MohrStoutbeard:
I also love in Safe how she says, "A post-holer. For digging holes for posts."
Sorry if you already got this - I didn't on first viewing but you've noticed how that relates to later in the episode I take it? She says it again when she's tied to the stake (or "post").
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Originally posted by Littlemanlovesfire:
Sorry if you already got this - I didn't on first viewing but you've noticed how that relates to later in the episode I take it? She says it again when she's tied to the stake (or "post").
Yeah, sorry if I wasn't clear. I was talking about when River says it to Simon at the end of the episode, before our big damn heroes arrive.
"You've just gotta go ahead and change the captain of your brainship, because he's drunk at the wheel."
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Just reminded me of another one.
"Yeah but she's our witch. [chk-chk] So cut her the hell down."
Though that's possibly quite a lot more obvious.
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Finally I'd go with Inara and Mal's faces in HOG after Nandi is killed. No words are exchanged but you can read a thousand things passing between their eyes in those couple of seconds. I particularly love the way Inara's face changes subtly and it's like a telepathic link between them all of a sudden - "That bastard Burgess did it. Kill him for me please Mal." An amazing moment and some incredible acting!
I totally agree with you on this. For some reason HOG gets a bad rap, but I think there are several excellent things in this episode. Inara's look is the best example of that. It was an amazing performance.
Only difference of opinion I have is instead of 'Kill him for me please Mal' I take it as 'Mal, you go kill that gorram SOB'.
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Regarding the "post-holer" thing. I agree that it is mentioned twice in "Safe," but I believe the first time was by Kaylee in the store, and the second time was River, when she was tied up to one.
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Whenever I watch it with mates (who all love it and get all of the jokes) there's always one joke which is another favorite moment of mine that other people never seem to notice. The following exchange:
JAYNE: "I'll be in my bunk."
ZOE: "Jayne! Grab your weapon!"
Seems so obvious to me!
Not getting a joke reminds me of the last Buffy episode "Chosen" where she goes "I want you...to get out of my face." - I was appalled that I never got that was a pun until Joss mentioned it in the commentary. Doh! A genius pun at that, but one which apparently very few people got.
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Originally posted by MohrStoutbeard:
I love a lot of River's mannerisms and things I didn't always appreciate on first viewing. For example, in Heart Of Gold, when Inara asks Simon how many babies he's actually delivered, and he replies, "As a primary? This would be my first." And then River chimes in, "Mine too."
I also love in Safe how she says, "A post-holer. For digging holes for posts." Or in Jaynestown when she comes back to Book, saying, "I tore these out of your symbol and they became paper. . ."
Summer is so cute!
I don't know how non-obvious these are, but I didn't appreciate them until subsequent viewings, and I've never really seen them too much on any "favorite moments lists."
"You've just gotta go ahead and change the captain of your brainship, because he's drunk at the wheel."
Actually, the line I loved is one you can just barely catch, and you'd almost have to be lookin for it..
River - "I wonder who's in there?"
That was sooooo river.
-F
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