Your Favorite Fireflygasm ... by CapnRahn

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Your Favorite Fireflygasm ...

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Monday, January 26, 2004 5:15 PM

My favorite: it starts the series, and colors everything that follows (and makes the series so smar t and complex and moving)--

When Mal looks up, in that moment of battle, and sees what he thought would be his angels of deliverance, but which are in fact angels of death raining down destruction. In that moment Mal loses his faith (clearly something he has held despite great hardships), and we see what Joss calls in the "Serenity" commentary "a man who has lost everything." What an amazing hero for a TV narrative--someone who has lost everything he believes in, but has somehow held to a system of honor and decency in spite of that. And what an amazing start for a TV show!!!!!

"Well, my days of not taking you seriously are certainly coming to a middle. . . ."

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Monday, January 26, 2004 5:34 PM

TEELABROWN

Quote:
When Mal looks up, in that moment of battle, and sees what he thought would be his angels of deliverance, but which are in fact angels of death raining down destruction. In that moment Mal loses his faith (clearly something he has held despite great hardships), and we see what Joss calls in the "Serenity" commentary "a man who has lost everything." What an amazing hero for a TV narrative--someone who has lost everything he believes in, but has somehow held to a system of honor and decency in spite of that. And what an amazing start for a TV show!!!!!

That part is so sad! It was amazing and beautiful and sad. Almost like the end of "Of Mice and Men" *sniff* poor Lennie.

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"Freedom is the Freedom to say that 2+2 makes 4. If that is granted, all else follws"-Winston, 1984
Keep flyin', and remember, THEY can't take the sky from US!

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Monday, January 26, 2004 9:57 PM

PAINISSCARY

So many, where to begin...

Here's a bunch.

The funny:

Mal and Zoe convincing Jayne to switch sides in "Out of Gas."

MAL: Use of a s-what?

MAL: Mercy is the mark of a great man. (stabs Atherton) Guess I'm just a good man. (stabs him again) Well, I'm all right.

ZOE: Jayne, this is something the captain has to do himself.
MAL: NO! NO, IT'S NOT!

JAYNE: I'll be in my bunk.

JAYNE: We applied the cortical electrodes, but were unable to get a neural reaction from either patient.

RIVER: I can kill you with my brain.

RIVER: They say the snow on the roof is too heavy. They say the ceiling will cave in. His brains are in terrible danger.
ZOE: River, honey, he's putting the hair away.
RIVER: It doesn't matter. It'll still be there. Waiting.

BOOK: It is, however, somewhat fuzzier on the subject of kneecaps.

RIVER: "Day" is a vestigial mode of time measurement based on solar cycles. It's not applicable. (beat) I didn't get you anything.

The warm, fuzzy/make me cry:

Any scene of the crew sitting around the dinner table, talking, laughing, eating.

MAL: We're still flying.
SIMON: It's not much.
MAL: It's enough.

MAL: Everybody dies alone.

MAL: We'll never be under the heel of the nobody ever again. No matter how long the arm of the Alliance might get... we'll just get us a little further.

MAL: Y'all gonna be here when I wake up?
BOOK: We'll be here.

Mal looking upon Serenity for the first time.

SIMON: No, mei mei. Time to wake up.

JAYNE: Make something up. Don't tell 'em what I did.

SIMON: Why'd you come back for us?
MAL: You're on my crew.

JAYNE (ruminating on the mudder dying to save him): It don't make no kind of sense.

The jump cut of Inara looking sadly away from her client in "Serenity."

Inara crying in "Heart of Gold."

RIVER: River's not on the ship. They didn't want her here, but she couldn't make herself leave, so she melted. Melted away.

RIVER:Permission to come aboard?
MAL: You know, you ain't quite right.
RIVER: It's the popular theory.
MAL: Get on in there. Give your brother a thrashing for messing up your plan.
RIVER: He takes so much looking after...

The warm, flirty glance Mal and Inara exchange at the dinner table in "Out of Gas," as Mal teases her: "So there is kissing?"

Mal keeping Wash alive as they're both tortured by Niska.

Mal defending Inara's honor by punching Atherton.

MAL
You think following the rules will buy you a nice life, even if the rules make you a slave. Don't take his offer.

INARA What?

MAL: Don't do it. Because in the case it happens it means he's the fella that killed me and I don't like fellas that kill me, just in general. I said before I don't have call to stop you, and that's true, but anyways, don't.

The eerie:

RIVER: No power in 'verse can stop me.

RIVER: Two by two, hands of blue.

The Blue Hands killing officer McGuinness.

River's flashes into the crew's thoughts in OIS.

MAL: You wanna meet the real me now?

Okay, I've gotta stop or I'll just wind up posting every word in every FF script. Besides, time spent posting here is time I don't have to watch the show.

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Monday, January 26, 2004 9:57 PM

PAINISSCARY

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Tuesday, January 27, 2004 3:04 AM

IAMTHESHIP

All of 'Objects In Space'. From River standing on the railings, to the Alliance/a lion mix-up, to "I am the ship", to "Well, here I am".

"Trash" - Mal naked, sitting on a rock, in the desert. "Yep. That went well."

Zoe's "Oh" in "War Stories".

Not using sound for the scenes in space.

Kaylee. *Sigh*.

The structure of "Out Of Gas".

One scene - for the life of me I can't remember which episode (I'm still waiting for R2 DVDs in April) - a long shot of the desert where Serenity has just risen up from behind a cliff and is hovering in a heat haze with the crew standing in front of her.

--
Well, here I am.

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Tuesday, January 27, 2004 4:02 AM

TJ63

From "Shindig", where the posh "ladies" have just slagged off Kaylee's dress. The old man (Murphy) strolls up and says to the leader:

"Why Banning Miller. What a vision you are in your
fine dress. It must have taken a dozen slaves a
dozen days to get you into that getup.

Course your daddy tells me it takes the space of
a schoolboy's wink to get you out of it again."

Makes me howl every time.

TJ

"Best not be taking it as a suggestion"

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Tuesday, January 27, 2004 5:09 AM

DORAN

What makes you think Jubal gets killed off? :O)

Think about whose plan stranded Jubal.. Watch the end of the show again and observe Jubal's ship take off by itself. Whouldn't it be just like River to have programmed that ship to pick Jubal up at some pre-determined time along his trajectory? I think it fits given the non-lethal bent of the episode; River is trying to show how not dangerous she is (no touching guns).. and ironically at the same time proves she is perhaps more deadly than ever. :)

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Tuesday, January 27, 2004 8:26 AM

ATHERTONWING

Quote:
Originally posted by Doran:
What makes you think Jubal gets killed off? :O)

Think about whose plan stranded Jubal.. Watch the end of the show again and observe Jubal's ship take off by itself. Whouldn't it be just like River to have programmed that ship to pick Jubal up at some pre-determined time along his trajectory? I think it fits given the non-lethal bent of the episode; River is trying to show how not dangerous she is (no touching guns).. and ironically at the same time proves she is perhaps more deadly than ever. :)

That or rub soup in our hair!...heh heh couldnt resist.

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Tuesday, January 27, 2004 8:46 AM

HATEHATEHATEFOX

Summed up Mal/Inara:
Inara: What did I say about barging into my shuttle?
Mal: That it was manly and impulsive?
Inara: Right, except that I said, don't.

Classic! Now if I could just remember which ep that was from! hahaha

2. Mal with the wrench in Ariel. That was the first time in a looooOOOOOoooong time that I was actually surprised at something in a tv show (or movie) for that matter. They totally didn't telegraph it from a mile out *AND* it wasn't totally out of character (which is a lame way of surprising the audience).

Too many more to mention. Why was this show cancelled again? Oh yeah, FOX SUX. Right, we're clear, thanks.

~~~~~~~~
Nothing is ever so profoundly regretted as a kind act.
Robertson Davies

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Tuesday, January 27, 2004 6:06 PM

HEROPA

Doran, I think Jubal said that like a person of such confidence that he was suprised to be about to use his ship recall control to rescue himself.
Make an escape, yes. Retreive a thief, likely. Rescue himself from open space? Never. But, well, here I am.

You can't tell how fast a rig is when it's parked.
It is better to teach a lesson than to be left as an example.

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Tuesday, January 27, 2004 10:40 PM

BRADY

Howabout on Ariel where Kaylee and Wash are rummaging around in the trash yard and Kaylee is complaining "Figures, first time on the Core and what do I ge to do; dig through trash. couldn't he send me shoppin' at the skyplex?" then she stops and picks up a part and a big smile comes across her face and she goes "Ohh, syncronizers!" it really shows Kaylee, and is a good laugh too.

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Wednesday, January 28, 2004 5:13 AM

WILDHEAVENFARM

For my part, I wouldn't discount Jubal Early because he was Paul Robinett on Law&Order. That made his (excellent) preformance all the more highlarious to me.

Quote:
Originally posted by makerofpaths:
Quote:
Sadlittleking wrote:
(Early) gets killed off at the end of his first episode. Does that seem right to you?

IMHO, I wouldn't count out a bounty hunter (or Joss).
Figure on a plan B or C. And: "Well, here I am" doesn't sound like the guy's terribly concerned by his predicament.

Mary
Always a beast, never a burden.

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Wednesday, January 28, 2004 6:31 AM

MELEAUX

ok...
now i gotta go watch some more firefly

She understands, she doesn't comprehend

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Thursday, January 29, 2004 1:15 PM

LEAFY

Too many good moments to choose one or even a few ... all the ones already mentioned, but especially:

Their original mechanic’s name, Bester - was his first name Alfred? :wink

Early: “Does that seem right to you?”

Wash: “There’s obeying going on right under my nose!”

Mal sitting naked on the rock. "Yep. That went well."

River: “No power in the 'verse can stop me.”

Book: “It is, however, somewhat fuzzier on the subject of kneecaps.”

Mal to Jayne: "Well, my days of not taking you seriously are certainly coming to a middle."

Jayne’s reaction to the mudder kid who jumped in front of the shotgun to save him.

River about the the Bible: "Noah's Ark is a problem."

Zoe: "It's OK, River; he's putting the hair away."
River: "It will still be there ... waiting."

Book reminding Mal, “The SPECIAL hell ...”

Wash with his dinosaurs: “We will call this land ... This Land .... “

Zoe: “I ain’t so afraid of losing something that I’m not goin’ to try to have it.”

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Thursday, January 29, 2004 1:18 PM

SERENA

Zoe is so perfectly deadpan all the time.
In Serenity 1 after they escape the Reevers -
Zoe: Sir, I'd like you to take the helm, please. I need this man (Wash) to tear all my clothes off.
Wash: Work, work!

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Thursday, January 29, 2004 1:19 PM

SERENA

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Thursday, January 29, 2004 1:32 PM

LTNOWIS

Quote:
Originally posted by makerofpaths:

Figure on a plan B or C. And: "Well, here I am" doesn't sound like the guy's terribly concerned by his predicament.

Yeah, but Jubal's not exactly sane.

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Thursday, January 29, 2004 1:50 PM

RPM76

the one line in war stories that at first i did'nt catch which i think made it funnier to me was when jayne said for the second time "i'll be in my bunk" directly after that zoe says "jayne grab your weapon"i love it he was just about to

i'll be in my bunk

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Thursday, January 29, 2004 1:58 PM

SERENA

I JUST got the DVDs - I'm SO excited.
Guess what I'll be doing this evening?!

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Friday, January 30, 2004 3:44 AM

BROWNCOAT1

May have been the losing side. Still not convinced it was the wrong one.

Quote:
Originally posted by Serena:
I JUST got the DVDs - I'm SO excited.
Guess what I'll be doing this evening?!

I would guess coming up w/ your own Fireflygasms.

I would just like to say how very cool it is to have Joss reading this thread, not only post in it, but to tell us that it reminds him of why he is working so hard for this movie.

I would encourage everyone to keep coming up w/ those Fireflygasms, and to check out the letter writing campaign to Universal in this thread:

http://www.fireflyfans.net/thread.asp?b=2&t=3578

I think we owe it to Joss, ourselves, the show, and the cast to do all we can to get the movie onto the big screen.

"May have been the losing side. Still not convinced it was the wrong one."

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Friday, January 30, 2004 10:24 AM

SEVRENN

First: Crow getting a up close tour of the left engine nacelle.

Best: A toss up between "Dear Diary: Today I was pompous and my sister was crazy... Today we were captured by hill-folk and never heard from again and it was the best day ever!" Man, I still laugh like heck over that one.

and

River's "mind-reading" in OIS. Especially Mal, Inara, and Book's deepest thoughts. Mal and Inara's weren't unexpected, but Mal's just gimme the jibblies. Made me despair. Book's though, huh, there's something to chew on for a spell.

and Absolutely the best thing ever on the extras from the DVD commentary track:

Chicken... Sweet!

Tons more too.

Firefly: The Movie soon, then series 2...

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Friday, January 30, 2004 12:08 PM

SERENA

Fireflygasm - Serenity 1
Inara: So, would you like to lecture me on the wickedness of my ways?
Book: I brought you some supper, but if you'd prefer a lecture, I've a few very catchy ones prepped. Sin and hellfire, one has lepers ...
Inara: I think I'll pass.

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Friday, January 30, 2004 12:11 PM

WILLIAMX

OiS: River: It's all right early, I'm going with. Nobody wants me here, too dangerous, can't be controlled. I'll be your bounty Jubal Early, and everyone can just go on with out me, live simple, no secrets . . . (paraphrase)

OiS: Mal: None of it means a damn thing.

Bushwacked: Mal: Nobody escaped . . . nobody.

OoG: Mal: Everybody dies alone.

The recruitment of Jayne from OoG
Not as dirty as a low down dirty deciever
well said, wasn't that well said zoe
had a certain poetry to it sir.
that whole scene rocks . . .

yeah, but she's our witch, so cut her the hell down.

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Friday, January 30, 2004 12:58 PM

IAMJACKSUSERNAME

Well, I'm all right. - Mal

Most of my favorites have been mentioned upthread, but I have to second Mal's "Well, I'm all right." in Shindig.

Some new ones for the thread; from Serenity: "Right... we win." - Mal

"Sweetie, we're crooks. If everything were right, we'd be in jail." - Wash (and "stealing from the rich, selling to the poor" in Ariel), hell, almost all his lines.

"Oh yeah, this is gonna go great." - Zoë

"Hey! Is there, is there a reward?" - Mal

In Shindig: "And I never back down from a fight." - Mal
"Yes, you do! You do all the time!" - Inara

Zoë's "Cause it's a deathtrap." - actually, pretty much all of Oog.

From Ois: Zoë's "Anyone we can't spare" and Summer's delivery of "It's the popular theory.", and, and...

When I get the region 2 DVDs I'm sure to remember more.
--
I am Jack's username
http://jack.p5.org.uk/ftl-firefly.en.html

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Friday, January 30, 2004 4:00 PM

SHINY

Just re-watched OOG for the millionth time. Love how Mal pats the catalyzer affectionately when he plugs it into the engine!

God, I love this show...

RIVER
Purple elephants are flying.
MAL
Good. Thanks for the update.

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Friday, January 30, 2004 4:32 PM

WILDHEAVENFARM

What ep was that?

Quote:
Originally posted by Leafy:
Zoe: “I ain’t so afraid of losing something that I’m not goin’ to try to have it.”

Mary
Always a beast, never a burden.

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Friday, January 30, 2004 4:44 PM

LEAFY

"Heart of Gold." About 16 minutes or so into the show.

Zoe and Wash are talking about having a baby. She wants one and he says it's not the right time.

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Friday, January 30, 2004 8:22 PM

GRATTO

ok here are a few of my top ones.

When Mal kicks crow into the engine, then goes over the same speel with the new guy and he is just like yes, yes yes ok, after watching crow get kicked into the engine.

Over the walkie talkie thingie you hear jayne say now if you miss you have to give jayne a special present! Or something on those lines.

When mal looks at the firefly in out of gas.

When kayle says she noticed that (some engine part) was broke while lieing on her back.

When Jayne explains the chain of command.

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Friday, January 30, 2004 8:22 PM

GRATTO

oops sorry bout the double post

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Friday, January 30, 2004 8:40 PM

SHSSAY

In 'Serenity': When Mal kicks the cover off the the cryo-chamber that River was being transported in and you see her lying curled up amongst all this mist....It was a very haunting image and all Mal had to say was: "Huh."

In 'Shindig': Mal has Etherton laying on the ground, but refuses to kill him. He says, "Mercy is the mark of a great man." Then he promptly stabs Etherton and says, "I guess I'm just a good man." This is followed by another stab. "Well, I'm alright."

In 'War Stories': River looks out at three men stalking Serenity for no more than a second, takes Kaylee's gun, closes her eyes, and shoots them all as if it were the easiest thing in the world. Then she looks at Kaylee, smiles, and says "No power in the 'verse can stop me."

In 'Trash': Mal is sitting naked in a barren desert all alone at the beginning of the episode and all he says is "Yeah....that went well."

In 'Objects in Space': Jayne is sleeping throughout the entire ruckus going on in Serenity in this episode. There's a point where a loud noise finally wakes him up. He sits up, reaches behind him, and pulls the blanket off his guns in what the viewer believes is in preperation to enter the fight...but he just rolls over, covers himself up with the blanket, and goes back to sleep!

In 'Serenity': When Book first met Kaylee, he showed her the unknown contents of a box, which managed to get him on Serenity as a passenger. When Kaylee goes to the common room and takes a strawberry out of the box like its a precious commodity....

In 'Messages': River is trying to eat something tied from the end of a stick and is obviously having a difficult time doing so. "This food is problematic." Also, when Jayne pulls out that hat his mom sent to him...and actually put it on.^^ Lastly, the scene at the end, where they're delivering the body to the folks and Kaylee takes Simon's hand.

In Objects in Space: Jubal says to Simon, "You oughtta be shot. Or stabbed. Lose a leg. Know what kind of pain you're dealing with. They make a psychiatrist get psychoanalyzed before they allow him to practice, but they don't make a surgeon get cut on. Does that seem right to you?"

"Two by two, hands of blue." -River Tam

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Friday, January 30, 2004 8:42 PM

SWITCHY

OK. So many favs are already spoken for but I think the one that landed me the hardest was the final exchange between Mal and Inara at the end of "Our Mrs. Reynolds"

Mal The Part I'm fuzzy on is just how a woman as graceful as yourself can hit her head and fall down.

I just knew you let her Kiss you

Best ending. I howled.

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Friday, January 30, 2004 8:44 PM

SERENA

Safe:
Zoe: The Captain will come up with a plan.
Kaylee: That's good, right?
Zoe: Apparently you're not recalling some of his previous plans ...

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Saturday, January 31, 2004 12:38 AM

WILLIAMX

OK geeks . . . awesome moement
who which ep . . .

" . . . someone could be hurt . . ."

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Saturday, January 31, 2004 7:51 AM

STEVE580

It's Jayne in, uh...damn...ah, Bushwacked, that's it.
-Steve

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Saturday, January 31, 2004 9:13 AM

TMURRIE

I remember the one part in "Train Job" when Simon doped Jayne and he fell over on the bridge, and Wash said, " Did Jayne just go crazy and fall down?"

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Saturday, January 31, 2004 9:13 AM

TMURRIE

I remember the one part in "Train Job" when Simon doped Jayne and he fell over on the bridge, and Wash said, " Did Jayne just go crazy and fall down?"

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Saturday, January 31, 2004 9:14 AM

TMURRIE

I remember the one part in "Train Job" when Simon doped Jayne and he fell over on the bridge, and Wash said, " Did Jayne just go crazy and fall down?"

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Saturday, January 31, 2004 9:14 AM

TMURRIE

I remember the one part in "Train Job" when Simon doped Jayne and he fell over on the bridge, and Wash said, " Did Jayne just go crazy and fall down?"

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Saturday, January 31, 2004 9:14 AM

TMURRIE

I remember the one part in "Train Job" when Simon doped Jayne and he fell over on the bridge, and Wash said, " Did Jayne just go crazy and fall down?"

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Saturday, January 31, 2004 9:15 AM

TMURRIE