Firefly Episode Discussions

As chocolatey as possible

POSTED BY: FutureMrsFIllion
UPDATED: Wednesday, April 13, 2011 22:27
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BYTEMITE

Thursday, February 24, 2011 4:14 PM

I'm sure the verse's version of cheap "cocoa powder" is ashes from an organic incinerator with a heaping of artificial sweetener treated with red dye...

Kinda one of those "you don't want to know" things, yeah? Don't even get me started on the "coffee."

Bonabon: I imagine Mal has learned how to ration out food and money for a while. If you look at all the characters, they look a little thinner, Mal even looks borderline gaunt. He might have decided to have someone cook up a decent meal for them with some of what they did have before they went out on the job, and maybe they were in too much of a hurry to clean up before they had to break atmo.

STORYMARK

Thursday, February 24, 2011 6:32 PM

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Originally posted by RionaEire:
So what about chocolate? I don't recall seeing chocolate ever on Firefly, and this thread has chocolate in the title too, strike that, I do remember Kaylee trying to make Simon's cake seem as chocolaty as possible, but did it have any real chocolate in it.

"A completely coherant River means writers don't deliver" KatTaya

They are now saying that we're running out of chocolate, and 20 years it'll be a rarity. A couple hundred years down the line, maybe no one knows what it is.

"I thoroughly disapprove of duels. If a man should challenge me, I would take him kindly and forgivingly by the hand and lead him to a quiet place and kill him."

BYTEMITE

Thursday, February 24, 2011 6:38 PM

...:o

I don't want to live in a world without chocolate. Someone please kill me before then.

CHANNAIN

Thursday, February 24, 2011 8:58 PM

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Originally posted by Storymark:
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They are now saying that we're running out of chocolate, and 20 years it'll be a rarity. A couple hundred years down the line, maybe no one knows what it is.
I just better be dead by then, that's all.

It's the fifth food group. You'd think someone would have more respect.

Heck with Nathan buying Firefly - SAVE THE CHOCOLATE!!! I do NOT want to be telling "uphill both ways" stories about how "I remember when you could buy Reese's peanut butter cups for $1.25 - not ¥100!!"

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RIONAEIRE

Thursday, February 24, 2011 10:49 PM

Don't get me started about the problems with the set in the BDM, it is one of my three golden reasons I dislike the BDM, the set seems fake, it looks different than the show, the lighting is different and thus, for me, the energy is completely off kilter. I watch it and feel like I have Capgras dillusion, "Someone replaced the good ship Serenity with some fake set that no one seems to recognize as fake except me, I'm the only one who really knows what is going on, everyone else is being fooled, and they don't even know it". ...

Yeah I agree with Channain, a world without chocolate is like a night without darkness, possible in extreme northern regions but not something I really would do well with. Then again that's a bad example because I've always wanted to see that: Okay, a world without chocolate is like ... an empty world, :(()

"A completely coherant River means writers don't deliver" KatTaya

BYTEMITE

Thursday, February 24, 2011 11:09 PM

Hi Riona!

If it makes you feel any better, the novelization of the movie explains the changes to the set and the hover mule as Mal finally finding someone to fence the lassiter to and blowing the money on upgrades. Which contradicts the earlier thing about them not having enough money for hydroponics... Maybe he had Kaylee write up a list from most important to least important, and there were some things he couldn't afford after everything else.

RIONAEIRE

Friday, February 25, 2011 12:43 AM

Sorry Byte, but that won't change my mind, lighting and energy don't usually change from a good payday. But as I said no one else sees it ... we're doomed ...

:)

"A completely coherant River means writers don't deliver" KatTaya

GREENKA61

Saturday, February 26, 2011 3:34 AM

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Originally posted by RionaEire:
So what about chocolate? I don't recall seeing chocolate ever on Firefly

Wasn't that strawberry that Kaylee got at the buffet table in "Shindig" dipped in chocolate? And wasn't she unwrapping and eating a piece of chocolate when she was in her quarters (sitting on her bunk) in the very last scene of that episode?

It does seem odd that there wasn't more chocolate in Firefly. It seems like it would be a very valuable commodity to smuggle around the 'verse, and definitely worth stealing from the Alliance. You just know that the Alliance muckity-mucks had chocolate.....

There's a story in this thread just waiting to be written....unless it's already been done?

RIONAEIRE

Monday, February 28, 2011 7:14 AM

In all my three years of fanfiction reading and reviewing I don't recall a story about smuggling chocolate, sounds like a good one though, I'd enjoy it probably as long as all my standards are met, as with any story. You could write it.

"A completely coherant River means writers don't deliver" KatTaya

TRAVELER

Wednesday, April 13, 2011 4:09 AM

Simon's birthday cake in "Out of Gas". Kaylee says something about trying to make it as chocolatey as possible.

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