It's the little things
POSTED BY: sab39
UPDATED: Friday, April 14, 2006 12:21
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I always liked Zoe's straight-faced answers to Mal, either agreeing or disagreeing, adding the "Sir" every time.
Also, Jayne hunkered down near the infirmary after Kaylee was shot in the (original, not Fox) pilot episode. Big man's got feelings!
Holding until you get back , Captain.
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Originally posted by IndigoStarblaster:
And just what a good leader Mal is. In "Out of Gas", he speaks gently and patiently to Kaylee to get her to focus on the engines, but gets in Wash's face and even deliberately makes him angry to make him do what he needs to (similar to what Mal does for Wash in "War Stories", come to think of it).
What I especially love about Mal's treatment of Wash in Out of Gas is that you can actually see the moment when he decides to get mad because he knows that that's how you motivate Wash.
In a similar vein, toward the end of Jaynestown, when Jayne is shaking the dead mudder and telling him to get up, there's a very brief reaction shot of Mal looking away ashamed. It can't even be a second long, but to me it says, "I've seen this before, and it never gets any prettier."
And in Our Mrs. Reynolds, when Saffron says, "I'm your wife," and you can actually see no fewer than three distinct reactions pile up on Mal's face over the next several seconds.
Okay, so, Nathan's performances, always a highlight. But it's so much more than that... it's everything you guys have said and then some. What an amazing show.
Good gorram, I need to watch the entire series over again right now.
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Been meanin' to post something along these same lines, but on the non-dialog stuff that is either funny or great. Like...
The running shot of the Eavesdown docks in the Serenity pilot that shows the sign "Good Dogs" followed by the vendor slopping some very un-hotdog looking meat on the grill. I crack up every time. Surely, I can't be the only guy who gets the asian food joke here. [and don't call me shirley...]
The bar sign in The Train Job that is a hologram -- so it can't be busted out by all the barfights.
The look on Niska's face -- total exasperation -- 'cuz Mal and Wash will NOT pay attention to him during his torture session.
The Crazy Ivan scene. The engines flipping around. Also, from the BDM when Wash reignites the engines after the EMP zaps them. First one engine refires, then the other. Coooooool!
Mal's Johnny Cash impression in War Stories after he advances on Niska: "You ready to meet the real me now?" Or Mal's reaction to Zoe's line: "No Jayne. This is something the Captain wants to do for himself." Mal: "Whaaa? No I don't" followed by the Quentin Tarantino shot of the thresome blasting the bad guy away.
The way River says "No." after Simon gets shot in the BDM. So sisterly. It's line deliveries like that and throughout the series that made you really believe you were watching real people and not actors -- their acting was so natural.
The scene after Simon and River get back on the ship in "Safe" where Jayne hurriedly empties his stolen booty from Simon's room back onto the bed and tries to pretend nothing's happened as Simon walks past him.
Inara looking all loopy and wasted as she leans back and pretending she's OK in Our Mrs. Reynolds. Insisting "I'm OK. Just hit my head is all. Like Wash."
That's all I can think of for now, But you get the idea.
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Originally posted by IndigoStarblaster:
I loved how careful Mal was when Jayne first approached him with Vera during "Our Mrs. Reynolds".
His hands are conspicuously open (and weaponless), he's gingerly dealing with what looks like a murderously jealous Jayne... and then the deadpan reaction when he realizes what's going on: "Well, my days of not taking you seriously are certainly coming to a middle."
LOL!
Oh, and his absolutely heroic effort not to get sexually involved with Saffron when she was naked in his room and there had to be no blood flowing to his brain by that point at all...
And pretty much all of his solo effort in fix the engine in "Out of Gas"...
And, to switch characters, Wash talking to the dead cow fetus in "The Message": "Ours is a peaceful race..."
Dang, the more I write, the more I think of. What an absolutely wonderful series...
Indigo S.
Yep I get it all :). WHy don't any of my friends/work mates get it?. They haven't even seen Serenity. All they wanna do is 'DOwnload' the latest movie , which is usually crap. Im always saying 'DOWNLOAD SERENITY!'. Their attitude is 'well if everyone else doesn't like it it must be crap'. ABsolute media idiots. My friends , but idiots . LOL
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