Rank the individual DVDs

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UPDATED: Tuesday, March 30, 2004 02:02
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SPLIBERTARIAN

Monday, March 29, 2004 8:19 PM

Keeping with the trend, I have to go with disc three as my favorite. Out of Gas and War Stories are two of my favorite episodes, but of all the discs, this one seems to have the most continuity between episodes - especially between Ariel, War Stories, andTrash.

To me, though, each disc has its own personality/role within the overall set that keeps me from ranking them more specifically. Disc one is the intro, and I love watching it over as if with fresh eyes, meeting the characters all over again. Disc two takes the characters we've gotten to know fairly well, and lets us just have fun with them - the honeymoon, if you will. I think of disc three as the meat of the series, taking the drama up a notch and really developing the character relationships. By disc four we've earned the heavy stuff - the not so happy endings of The Message and Heart of Gold, and finally the crew really dealing with River as a person in Objects in Space. The special features on disc four are like dessert, though I think of the deleted scenes as part of their original episodes.

All in all, I'm pretty happy with my purchase!

HANS

Monday, March 29, 2004 8:30 PM

I'll break the trend and say disk #4 as my favourite, just because I love "Objects in Space" so much. Plus it has Adam Baldwin singing "The Ballad of Jayne" and all those other funky extras.

Disk three is great but not perfect. I enjoy Out of Gas (it's one of my top three favourite episodes), and while the Ariel/War Stories duo are true classics I don't revere them quite as much as others do.

I don't think the pilot gets enough love so I'll rank disk #1 third.

Our Mrs. Reynolds is also in my top three episodes, but the others on disk #2 aren't quite as good so that one goes last.

Damn, for such a short lived show there's a huge amount of "must-see" TV. even if you put my four least favourite episodes (HoG, Train Job, Safe, Trash) on one disk it would still be great television!

Hans

CHAOTICDREAMER

Monday, March 29, 2004 11:00 PM

Hmmm- ok so was I the only one who enjoyed Disc 3 at least in part- due to a certain nekked Captain?;)
I thought Trash was a great ep, and fit in with Out of Gas & Ariel as one of my favorires- making this yes- another vote for Disc three as my top fav ;).

KARENKAY99

Monday, March 29, 2004 11:14 PM

Disc #5 and it's missing!!

my fav is OiS, then OoG, then Serenity

then there are parts of others that i think of my favorite. jaynestown - when they first see the statue, in the pub, singing, toasting, river & book's hair. safe - they way they edit together rivers dance and the gunfight, the end where simon shows he'll give everything for her, and she knows mal is coming. the message - at the end, the music, presenting tracy's body to his family, kaylee gives them the recording and walks over to simon and takes his hand. war stories - the banter between mal & wash, the part where mal explains to zoe they have to sleep together, trash - 'yeah that went well', every episode's around the dinner table.

it probably easier to say what i don't like, which ain't much.

"They say the snow on the roof is too heavy. They say the ceiling will cave in. His brains are in terrible danger."

SAINT JAYNE

Monday, March 29, 2004 11:22 PM

This should be a poll question. Me? I like 3, 1, 2, 4. Serenity is very strong and I loved Bushwhacked, but all the stories on disc 3 are just excellent.

SHINY

Tuesday, March 30, 2004 12:52 AM

Disk 5. Can't beat all the cast bathin' scenes...err, I mean "auditions". ;)

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RITA

Tuesday, March 30, 2004 1:33 AM

Disc 2's my favorite. Our own Mrs. Reynolds HELL YEAH

OKKAY

Tuesday, March 30, 2004 1:36 AM

War Stories is my favorite episode of all time, I've probably watched it at least 20 times by now, and certain parts of the episode even more than that. Disc 3 also contains Trash and OoG, which are two of my other favorite episodes. Ariel is also a great episode.

I'd have to say that Disc 2 comes a very close 2nd because of Shindig, my 2nd favorite episode. Also a solid disc because of OMR and Jaynestown, but I'm not as fond of Safe.

Disc 1 is 3rd for me, because it's always nice to look back at how everything started.

Disc 4 is my least favorite. The Message and Heart of Gold are my two least favorite episodes, and whenever I watch the special features I end up really sad so I can't watch them too much.

Disk 5 sucks because it doesn't exist.

FIREFLYTHEMOVIE

Tuesday, March 30, 2004 1:51 AM

I'd probably answer differently on a different day (or even a different hour), but:

3- My 3 favorite episodes (assuming you don't count "Serenity", because I can't quite figure out how to place it in there) are on it: OoG, Ariel, War Stories. Plus, nummy commentary on two of those. This one would stay where it is, regardless of the day. The rest might shift all over.

1- How can a disc with Serenity be any lower than 2nd? TTJ and Bushwhacked aren't my favorite episodes ever, but they've grown on me a lot over time. Plus the commentaries on Serentity and TTJ are awesome.

2- I adore every one of these episodes, but none of them strike me as the bestest television ever. Plus not a whole lot of commentary, and what's there isn't that entertaining, at least relatively speaking.

4- This disc just depresses me, because then there's no more. I get all choked up watching the gag reel. Also, Joss's commentary on OiS makes me feel like I'm back in school being forced to read philosophy. It's better philosophy than anything I read in school, but I'm a little scarred still. It was definitely interesting to watch once, but it's not something I want to watch over and over like, say, the War Stories commentary.

COSMICCONCUBINE

Tuesday, March 30, 2004 1:54 AM

Disc 3 is definitely my favorite. My two favorite eps are "Out of Gas" and "Trash". It depends on the criteria though--for me, both disc 1 and disc 3 stand up very well to repeated viewings whereas I'm finding that while I really like "Our Mrs. Reynolds" and "Jaynestown" a whole heck of a lot, after seeing each a few times I'm kind of tapped out on them (at least for now). I guess I have to go with 3,1,4 and 2.

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