Things you DIDN'T notice the 1st time you watched FF
POSTED BY: GunRunner
UPDATED: Friday, August 13, 2004 10:00
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Thanks for this thread and for giving me an excuse to go and watch the DVDs again. I missed a lot of those things mentioned above.
This is an oldish thread but I'm kinda new to Firefly and this site so I'm rummaging a bit. Anyhow, thanks for this guide to easy-to-miss-little-but-significant details about Firefly.
And my personal contribution to things missed 1st time around: I actually needed three viewings to catch the smooth papernote slipping between the waitress and Mal at the beginning of TTJ.
"And then I fell. My head got hurt like Wash."
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Ljosalf said:
In Serenity, Simon wears a pair of blue latex gloves in the surgery scene when he is working on Kaylee. They are common, everyday medical gloves in the Firefly 'verse. Adds to River's aversion to the Infirmary.
Hmmm ... well, actually, blue gloves are used *now* as everyday medical gloves ... they are blue/dark purple to indicate that they are *latex free*. 
Great thread ... wish I'd found it earlier.
Cheers,
Annik
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In 'Trash' during the shuttle landing sequence you can see an SR-71 flying in the background. That's pretty cool. Also in 'Ariel' when Wash and Kaylee are in the salvage yard looking for parts, Wash picks something up and throws it at the vehicle they end up getting. I think the thing he threw was the broken part in 'Out of gas'.
"Curse your sudden, but inevitable, betrayal" -dinosaur
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Originally posted by Shiny:
If you look closely at right above the stampeding horses in the opening credits, you can see the top spoiler(?) of a car that is actually scaring the horses.
I think that is the cross piece above the gate the horses came out of.
"I ain't crazy and I've got papers to prove it"
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Quote:
Originally posted by Saint Jayne:
I still haven't seen River steal bread off of Jayne's plate, and I've seen the series 5 times.
Really? that, i definately remember from the first time round.
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"Here's to Jayne, the box dropping man-ape-gone-wrong-thing"
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Quote:
Originally posted by Okkay:
The word "shiny". I swear I never heard them say that word until after I got the DVDs.
I didn't notice Shiny until i came on this board and everybody was saying it...now i hear it everywhere on there.
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"Here's to Jayne, the box dropping man-ape-gone-wrong-thing"
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Actually, I think it's just the top of a gate in a wooden fence. The camera moves a bit, that's why stuff in the background seem to be moving.
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"Damn it Mal... I forgot my line!"
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One of the most remarkable things about re-viewing the episodes was how much subtle foreshadowing went on in the early episodes. Take for example, Wash's goofy little bit with the dinosaurs:
"Curse your sudden, but inevitable, betrayal!"
Beyond the obvious hinting that Jayne might betray Mal, this little bit basically tells us its inevitable.
"Oh no god.."
"Dear god in heaven."
The religious paths of Mal and Book mirroring each other. Mal being a pious man who lost his faith due to traumatic loss and Book, according to my pet theory, being a worldly man who turned to faith from, perhaps, and equally traumatic experience.
Later, when Inara is with her 'client', he's asking her about Sihnon and says "I can't imagine ever leaving". There's a funky cut and we see, more or less out of sequence with the literal action, Inara looking forlornly aside as if regretting something. Of course we still don't know exactly WHAT that was foreshadowing...
Uh oh, I slipped into "Damn fox all to hell" mode. hmmm no resisting it I guess.
Damn fox all to hell!!!! 
SergeantX
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OK, this is getting a bit nit-picky, but I remember from the commentaries that Adam Baldwin asked to have Jayne eat with his fork held in his fist, using it like a shovel. In Serenity, when they are all at the dinner table (time marker 32:57) just before Kaylee asks Simon "You're a doctor, right?" you can see Jayne's hand come out from behind the light in the center of the table, and he's holding his fork normally.
MAL "You only gotta scare him."
JAYNE "Pain is scary..."
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I don't remember which episode, but there is a conversation with Inara and she says, "we're all running from something." Yet another background left unexplored.
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