favourite romantic firefly moments? by iamzoe

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favourite romantic firefly moments?

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Friday, December 2, 2005 12:51 AM

PsychicRiversaid :
Mine has to be in "Serenity" Part 2, when Mal tells Inara to go to her shuttle and take the passengers and she says no, and he puts his hand on her shoulder, and that was intense... end quote

Yes.. Mal just BURNS in that moment!!! Everything we need to know about the way he feels about her is there!

I also love in BDM when Mal askes Inara if she is ready to leave or something ( at the end) and she says may be not quite, and Mal nods and smiles and walks off "all as it should be"

He is so open in that moment. He loves her, she loves him, they love each-other, and yet nothing has happened and who knows what will or when? They are on Serenity, they are in the black, both alive and all is good
it is a very Buddhist love affair in that moment..
I want to live my life like that moment...
no grasping
no fear
no future
just the perfection of the now

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Friday, December 2, 2005 12:52 AM

SHINYONE

also of course
end of BDM about Serentiy
we are all in love with that ship!!

"love is what keeps her"

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Friday, December 2, 2005 9:11 AM

DONCOAT

They're not romantic, exactly, but I dearly love the several private scenes between Simon and River.

"We're on a ship!" (TJ - wonderful reading on that line.)
"I'll knit!" (OMR)
"Everything that matters is right here." (Safe)
"Time to wake up." (Ariel)
"I threw up on your bunk." (WS)
"Am I talking to Miranda now?... No. Right." (BDM)
"Don't say that, not ever. We're going to get through this." (BDM)

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Ain't about you, Jayne. It's about what they need.

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Friday, December 2, 2005 11:21 AM

HERA

Quote:
Originally posted by Carbonel:
Late to the party but it's such a good thread!

I got invested in the Mal-Inara romance in 'Serenity Part 2' when Inara says something like 'If you throw them off the boat, I'm going too' and Mal replies 'Perhaps that's for the best'. It seems kind of harsh, but if you watch his face for the couple of milliseconds before he replies, you can see that the idea of her going absolutely kills him, but then he pulls himself together and gives a tough guy response. It's a beautiful piece of screen acting.

I agree! You can see the struggle in his eyes, yet what wins is the fact that he realizes it would be safer for her NOT to be on the ship if things go south. He doesn't want her to go, but he believes it could be in her best interest to leave. And when he turns and walks through the bulkhead door and down the hall, he's a little unsteady on his feet and reaches out to the wall for support before he starts to turn the corner when Simon stops him. Almost like he was so emotionally affected by her threat to leave that it made his knees a little wobbly. He was that disappointed.

How can actors put so much into their work? It's so cool!

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Friday, December 2, 2005 11:35 AM

SAMEERTIA

HobanWashburn called it.
That moment in "Our Mrs. Reynolds", when Zoe and Wash are snuggled together in the firelight. It's so natural- not forced, or strained. Just comforting.

The other is that moment in "Objects in Space" and Kaylee mentions rescuing them from Niska and Zoe just reaches for Wash's hand. To me, that's love- that comfort shared.

(Damn you Joss, damn you to Hades!)

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Friday, December 2, 2005 11:40 AM

HERA

My favorite moment is from OoG, where Mal and Inara are in her shuttle just before the crew uses them for lifeboats. They look at each other after he’s finished giving her all the instructions, and he can tell she’s about to say something important, and he stops her with “And try not to talk. There ain’t no need for it, it just uses up air.” But she plows on and says for him to come with them in the shuttle, “You don’t have to die alone!”, and his response “Everybody dies alone.” And they just stand there and look at each other.

That affects me so much — it feels like when you accidentally hit your head so hard that you lose your balance, and it hurts so much you just want to throw breakable things.

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Friday, December 2, 2005 12:53 PM

SHINYONE

when river floats down from Early's space ship "permission to come aboard" and Mal so obviously wants to welcome her, like she doesnt need to ask...
and he tells her to get down inside

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Friday, December 2, 2005 1:03 PM

SHINYONE

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Originally posted by Hera:
Quote:
Originally posted by Carbonel:
Late to the party but it's such a good thread!

I got invested in the Mal-Inara romance in 'Serenity Part 2' when Inara says something like 'If you throw them off the boat, I'm going too' and Mal replies 'Perhaps that's for the best'. It seems kind of harsh, but if you watch his face for the couple of milliseconds before he replies, you can see that the idea of her going absolutely kills him, but then he pulls himself together and gives a tough guy response. It's a beautiful piece of screen acting.

I agree! You can see the struggle in his eyes, yet what wins is the fact that he realizes it would be safer for her NOT to be on the ship if things go south. He doesn't want her to go, but he believes it could be in her best interest to leave. And when he turns and walks through the bulkhead door and down the hall, he's a little unsteady on his feet and reaches out to the wall for support before he starts to turn the corner when Simon stops him. Almost like he was so emotionally affected by her threat to leave that it made his knees a little wobbly. He was that disappointed.

How can actors put so much into their work? It's so cool!

yes! and then he is really mean to Simon! and it is like his heart break is turning into poisen in his mouth and he spits it over the poor Simon, who then runs to check Haylee, he we all think everything is gone... then Mal is pissing himself laughing with Wash Zoe and Jayne! That was a strange emotional leap... he knew Kaylee was fine, was he just hurting because he thought Inara was more loyal to the yuppie children than to him?

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Friday, December 2, 2005 1:13 PM

SAMEERTIA

No, I see that moment, Mal telling Simon that Kaylee was dead, was a chance to test Simon's reaction. Was this someone who truly cared whether Kaylee lived or died?
If Simon's first thought had been for himself, or for River, Mal would have thrown him right out the airlock. But Simon's expression turns to shock, and he turns and runs for infirmary, with Kaylee being his first priority.

And yah, it was a GREAT joke on poor Simon!

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Saturday, December 3, 2005 8:03 AM

IWASAFRYCOOK

Hands down, in The Message, when Simon and Kaylee are standing in the snow, he's in his big coat, and they're holding hands to that sad sad music. That scene makes me want to cry everytime. It's kind of like "You may do stupid things, simon, but when I need to hold someone's hand, I'm going to hold yours."

I just have a thing about holding hands.

Same with the BDM when they're holding hands at the gravesite.

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Saturday, December 3, 2005 7:19 PM

GIRLASKEW

I love the MALMALMALMALMALMAL in "OMR". Inara afraid he's hurt. I love that bit. I don't know if this counts, but I fell for Mal in "OMR". Him trying to toughten Saffron up for the real world, telling her that she should try to kill someone right back, I just loved that. And he's so cuuuuuuute. Drat. I have to go watch that now.

Some people juggle geese!- Hoban Washburn

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Saturday, December 3, 2005 7:19 PM

GIRLASKEW

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Sunday, December 4, 2005 3:13 AM

CBY

This is one for the sad romantic category:

The scene in TM when Kaylee is listening to the message again lying in her hammock. Simon obviously wants comfort her, but he can't find the strength to enter the room. His heart looses the battle against his brain once again.

Just like me sometimes.

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Friday, December 16, 2005 1:16 PM

J6NGO1977

Quote:
Originally posted by thatweirdgirl:
Quote:
Originally posted by manwithpez:
Kaylee: "What's so damn important about being proper? It don't mean nothing out here in the black."
Simon: "It means more out here. It's all I have..."

I love that as well. Simon lets Kaylee know that him being proper to her is his way of showing that he likes and respects her.

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Friday, December 16, 2005 1:24 PM

FOREVERSHINY

Also,
That bit in "The Train Job," when Mal's in Inara's shuttle at the beginning. When he's looking down at her as she's putting something away, and then again when she's facing him. It's like he really, really wants to just hug/kiss her and get it over with, but--for some idiotic reason--doesn't. And then that hilarious scene later where she slaps him! I laughed sooo hard!

The "proper" one's a good one too.

~ForeverShiny~
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Can't stop the signal!
"No, Cap'n, I think it's shiny!"--Kaylee, o'course.
"Yeah, but she's our witch, so cut her the hell down." --Mal in "Safe."
"Love. You can learn all the math in the 'verse, but you take a boat in the air you don't love, she'll shake you off as sure as the turning of worlds. Love keeps her in the air when she oughtta fall down, tells ya she's hurtin' 'fore she keens. Makes her a home." --Mal in "Serenity" My all-time fav quote. Love it!

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Saturday, December 17, 2005 1:59 PM

HAFTHAND

Why favourite romance moment is at the end of Objects in Space when Mal and Inara are silhoeted in the infirmary doorway and he notices she has bit hit. The way he reaches for her without thinking....ooohh the air just crackled!!!!

Love, Ally
'Comfort me with apples for I am sick of love' -Solomon

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