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Originally posted by platinummongoose:
And finally, it's not really a line but, once again, Mal's expression (emoting god) when he's listening to Mr. Universe's recording. How he touches his shoulder, and it's clear that while Mal was kind of unsure of him earlier, he just dragged himself across the floor to (pretty much) save the 'verse and that makes him Mal's comrade-in-arms.

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Originally posted by GreatBlackthorn:

Edit: Forgot one; The entire "Out of Gas" episode...It's my favourite episode cus I get so involved every time. Even when I know what happens, I still say: "Damnit, Mal, get up!" and shout obsenities when that guy shoots him...And Jayne's little silent goodbye almost brings tears...

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Originally posted by STDOUBT:
Pretty much anything River says
can make be blubbery.
Especially:
"I took you away from there. I know I did. You don't think I do, but... I get confused. I remember everything. I remember too much, and... some of it's made up, and... some of it can't be quantified, and... there's secrets. But I understand. You gave up everything you had to find me. And you found me broken. It's hard for you. You gave up everything you had."
Summers acting in this scene, along with the idea that even though she's been traumatized, and is still not "safe", she has the strength to reach out and express regret for someone elses suffering just plain old kills me.

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Originally posted by ThePistonEngine:
Ah, but you missed the real tear jerker there... There is a warmth to what she says, because it looks like she's getting better, like she's coming to terms with reality. There is a definate hope, and then... "Daddy will come and take us home." That part gets me everytime, especially looking at it from Simon's perspective.

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Originally posted by STDOUBT:
Pretty much anything River says
can make be blubbery.
Especially:
"I took you away from there. I know I did. You don't think I do, but... I get confused. I remember everything. I remember too much, and... some of it's made up, and... some of it can't be quantified, and... there's secrets. But I understand. You gave up everything you had to find me. And you found me broken. It's hard for you. You gave up everything you had."
Summers acting in this scene, along with the idea that even though she's been traumatized, and is still not "safe", she has the strength to reach out and express regret for someone elses suffering just plain old kills me.

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Originally posted by milford:

Last, though it's not from the film or the series, is the one that puts me over the edge. In the special features for the film, Joss's intro to the screenings, at the end when he says, "We have done the impossible, and that makes us mighty."

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Originally posted by jpstargazer:
"You spin me about, you always have. I wish to God you were somewhere else..."

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Originally posted by thesoapboxer:
Inara: You don't have to die alone!

Mal: Everyone dies alone.

And in "Safe"

Simon: Captain, why'd you come back for us?

Mal: You're on my crew.

Simon: Yeah, but you don't even like me. Why'd you come back?

Mal: You're on my crew. Why are we still talking about this?

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Originally posted by ThePistonEngine:
Ah, but you missed the real tear jerker there... There is a warmth to what she says, because it looks like she's getting better, like she's coming to terms with reality. There is a definate hope, and then... "Daddy will come and take us home." That part gets me everytime, especially looking at it from Simon's perspective.

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Originally posted by STDOUBT:
Pretty much anything River says
can make be blubbery.
Especially:
"I took you away from there. I know I did. You don't think I do, but... I get confused. I remember everything. I remember too much, and... some of it's made up, and... some of it can't be quantified, and... there's secrets. But I understand. You gave up everything you had to find me. And you found me broken. It's hard for you. You gave up everything you had."
Summers acting in this scene, along with the idea that even though she's been traumatized, and is still not "safe", she has the strength to reach out and express regret for someone elses suffering just plain old kills me.

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I suppose from Simon's perspective its a sad line because he think she is still bonkers but it shouldn't be sad at all from our point of view. Taken literally you'd think that she is still seriously disconnected from reality and holding on to a false hope of family, but as we know that she understands things very differently and is "deeply intuitive" to qoute Simon, I think its a powerful line that shows how the crew of Serenity is starting to become a family and that River sees that. "Daddy will come and take us Home" is imediately followed by Mal and showing up with the ship. The ship that Simon says in Objects in Space is becoming her home ("she loves this ship") and that Mal at the end of Serenity says is made a home by the love of the people in it for the her and each other.

So the line may be a tear jerker, but not because its sad that she doesn't get things, but because she sees the situation so much clearer than everyone else and for one of the first times in the series, the love and family of the Serenity crew is expressed.

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"Storms getting worse."
"We'll pass through it soon enough."

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