"He lost more than the war. He lost a sense of compassion and forgiveness. He lost his faith in God." - Nathan Fillion on Mal
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TITLE
 War Stories
CODE
 1AGE09
WRITTEN BY
 Cheryl Cain
AVERAGE RATING
 8.54
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ORIGINAL AIR DATE
Friday, December 06, 2002
 

War Stories


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RATING: 10.00   READ: 45119   COMMENTS: 3401
'So, Um, I have no problem with Firefly surpassing every best episode yet with another best episode yet. Not too shabby a tradition if one is to exist.'
- Novagrass		RATING: 10.00   READ: 17875   COMMENTS: 924
'My heart is still pounding. What more can I say?'
- Poetic4U
RATING: 10.00   READ: 14109   COMMENTS: 1547
'Man, this is good stuff!'
- kef		RATING: 10.00   READ: 14983   COMMENTS: 2257
'Moments of intense violence, sporadic humor, and loyalty all wrapped up in a "Parental Discretion Advised" box. Revelations aplenty in this episode. *Bows to the producers* You've done it again.'
- Gaheris
RATING: 10.00   READ: 6350   COMMENTS: 468
'A character episode disguised as an action episode'
- Ringwraith		RATING: 9.00   READ: 21030   COMMENTS: 311
'[b] This review is one large spoiler. [/b] All I could think was, "It can't be over. Can it? Is it over already?!" '
- bzzo
RATING: 10.00   READ: 28991   COMMENTS: 673
'It's become a tradition. Every next episode of FF just keeps getting better.'
- ChampagneSupernova		RATING: 10.00   READ: 20599   COMMENTS: 2869
'This show as everyone else easily notices gets better each week. I have NEVER watched a show that outdoes itself every time you think it CANT outdo itself. Firefly is simply put the best show to ever get off the ground and flying in my opinion.'
- Gleebo
RATING: 10.00   READ: 21871   COMMENTS: 545
'Each and every week Firefly surpasses the previous episode with more action, more drama, more revelations, and more excitement. "War Stories" flat out continues the tradition and we FINALLY get to see Wash and Zoe close up.'
- Captain		RATING: 10.00   READ: 27037   COMMENTS: 2269
'Inarguably the Best episode so far...'
- InvisibleGreen
RATING: 10.00   READ: 18693   COMMENTS: 614
'What did I do to deserve the best episode of any tv show this year? '
- Persephone1113		RATING: 10.00   READ: 15590   COMMENTS: 1182
'Here I was thinking that “Out of Gas” and “Ariel” were Firefly’s big shockers. I underestimated the best new show on television. I beg your forgiveness. '
- GThing
RATING: 9.00   READ: 10310   COMMENTS: 3593
'good the tourtre seans were great'
- dudeguy345		RATING: 10.00   READ: 12420   COMMENTS: 1217
'The bar's getting pretty damn high now... [SPOILERS]'
- KithKill
RATING: 6.00   READ: 22261   COMMENTS: 1131
'The good character moments make up for the unneccessary violence.'
- Maysa		RATING: 8.00   READ: 21922   COMMENTS: 1595
'Very intense episode.'
- WrongArturo
RATING: 8.00   READ: 11578   COMMENTS: 1828
'two gratuitous scenes vs. a boatload of questions'
- Channain		RATING: 10.00   READ: 21040   COMMENTS: 713
'Artful relationship packaging. '
- lj
RATING: 0.00   READ: 19601   COMMENTS: 2046
'Good deeds always come back to haunt you.'
- Dragonsreach		RATING: 10.00   READ: 4868   COMMENTS: 168
'An awesome episode with awesome action and diologe. And the best scene with river shooting everyone.'
- Trilly
RATING: 9.00   READ: 16107   COMMENTS: 991
'Outstanding in conception, breathtaking in execution, and as always side splittingly funny all the while.'
- lucasdigital		RATING: 0.00   READ: 18899   COMMENTS: 2890
'Dissapointing'
- Donovan
RATING: 9.00   READ: 17296   COMMENTS: 1394
'character building galore'
- Washpilot		RATING: 7.00   READ: 3186   COMMENTS: 7
'Ummm, Nice try on humanizing Wash'
- audacitymedia
 

Below are point of analysis for the episode.  These analysis should be objective and based on facts within this episode or other episodes of the series.
- Hans
- Fliko
- lokki

 

Below are unanswered questions from the episode.
Why does Jayne carry Vera for the firefight, but not use her?
Niska , what in space happened to him?
HELP!!!!!!! My room mate messed with my VCR. I did not get War Stories. Will some one please give me a detailed synopsis. Thank you
When Wash says there are too many husbands, does he mean Mal or Zoe?
so, does jayne get shot? it does not appear that he is wearing armor (like zoe in serenity).
Is anybody besides me creeped the fzck out by River shooting three guys dead with closed eyes?
To WildheavenFarm- Wash says 'what this marriage needs, is one less husband!' He's being entirely serious so I think we can be pretty sure he is referring to Mal here as being the other person that Zoe gives her loyalty/devotion to in addition to himself.
When we first see Niska again, he is torturing someone (partially verbally with Sun-Tzu) but the face of this guy looked familiar. Is that Keith Richards (of Rolling Stones) on the torture rack? I have searched the web for this hoping not to ask a stupid question, but could not find anything, so I thought I would ask here. Thanks, Kirk
Someone ***PLEASE*** Explain to me why he didn't kill Niska!!! Jim.

 

Below are speculations about events or items in the episode.  These speculations are subjective.
I bet you that this episode continues the Jayne saga. Either a "war story" about Jayne will clear up reasons for his latest corruption in "Ariel", or he will be pushed further away from the rest of the crew. As it stands, I can't imagine Mal accepting what happened and moving on, he will deal with it further.
According to the script preview, [spoiler] Mal and Wash are abducted by Adelei Nishka, the mobster from Train Job. [/spoiler] They seem to be discussing their relation with Zoe.

I think there's going to be lots of flashbacks on Mal and Zoe's involvement with the Serenity military campaign.
I'm guessing that War Stories will be the source of the half dozen scenes or so in the Firefly intro sequence that haven't yet appeared in episodes. Like in Buffy, the intro is made up of clips from the show, and certainly no clips are made *just* for the intro, so they all have to come from somewhere. Yay!! We get to see Mal firing that big-ass twin-linked .50 anti aircraft gun!!!!

 

Below are notes about events or items in the episode.
The ear that was sliced off Mal's ear now rests in an Altoid can.

 
 
 
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