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Originally posted by farfly:
River and Simon in their spacesuits on the outside of Serenity. Simon terrified and River with the most beautiful smile you've ever seen.

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Originally posted by farfly:
River and Simon in their spacesuits on the outside of Serenity. Simon terrified and River with the most beautiful smile you've ever seen.

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First one comes to my mind too...

She's just been staring deep into the black , and LOVES it !

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Originally posted by Jongsstraw:

So many great scenes in only 14 episodes, hard to choose. I'd have to say my favorite scene is the Hero Of Canton song scene from Jaynestown.

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Originally posted by Kayna:

The end of OoG.
"Y'all gonna be here when I wake up?"
"We'll be right here."
"Good. That's good."
Mal's ship is empty without his crew.

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The end of OoG.
"Y'all gonna be here when I wake up?"
"We'll be right here."
"Good. That's good."
Mal's ship is empty without his crew.

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I pray for one last landing,
on the globe that gave me birth.
Let me rest my eyes on the fleecy skies
and the cool, green hills of Earth.

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The end of OoG.
"Y'all gonna be here when I wake up?"
"We'll be right here."
"Good. That's good."
Mal's ship is empty without his crew.

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This is my favorite scene, too. That and the scene where Jayne is in Simon's room stealing his stuff.

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Originally posted by InvaderPet87:
Off the top of my head, the sequence I love most is River wondering around the ship barefoot at the start of Objects in Space, and her "reading" the others' thoughts and feelings. And her stepping on "the object".

"She understands. She doesn't comprehend."

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Originally posted by BROWNCOAT1300:
"were there monkeys?"

somehow I never expected him to say that! It was high-larious!

SHINY

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Originally posted by AQUA:
Interesting reading some of these. It might be more appropriate/interesting to list one or two moments for each episode/character, not sure if there was a thread for that. Anyway I'll post in this as it's more recent. It can just be stream of consciousness, might turn into a blog thingy. I'm afraid I'm going to have to be the embarrassing person who rambles on a bit.

So, anything with River pretty much. Mostly, River only has like 1 or 2 scenes per episiode - they seemed well thought out to me, like her scenes were perhaps so effective because they were so sparse. There are too many, pretty much all of them I like. I relate to that kind of awkwardness; morbid, creepy, cryptic etc. And also, somewhat relatedly, as my current, sig the Jayne 'We applied the cortical electrodes but were unable to get a neural reaction from either patient', and Mal and Zoe's expression after it. LOL. Which is also, at times, a kind of awkwardness I can also relate to, LOL. I tend to ere on being the cryptic, humorous side. So I relate to Jayne in a way, well actually a way that is fairly obvious to me.

My favourite *River moment* is probably the 'don't belong' speech in Objects in Spac.e. Yep, that's me. The aloneness rather than the loneliness, sometimes I think its my aloneness that gets me through conversation.

In 'Safe', the scene where Simon is going to sacrifice himself for River, and then Mal and Zoe turn up, 'That girl is a witch', 'Yeah, but she's our witch, so cut her the hell down'. Gotta love that scene.

Jaynestown was another milestone episode. I liked how they had the messages of someone that people greatly admired being a lie, that it was about what they 'needed' rather than the greatness of the thing being admired. They had that same theme going on with the bible, Book/River. Particlarly the speech in 'Jaynestown' where he says 'You think someone's just gonna throw some money at you? There aren't people like that, there's just people like me'.

It's interesting, though also somewhat mystifying in that it's difficult to be specific, to look back and wonder which scenes/episodes in particular sold me. Whether there was a scene that 'stuck out' and really sold me on the show. While I initially became interested mostly because of River, I think I really started to get into in those episodes, 'the crew' and overall vibe of the series, either 'Our Mrs Reynolds' or 'Jaynestown'. The humour combined with something more profound. There's the Book special speech but even moreso the line 'Well.. isn't that... special'.

In rewatching 'Our Mrs Reynolds', the 'Veera' speech Jayne gave. I was like, 'I totally forgot that even happened but now it's so obvious.' the line Mal gives 'My days of not taking you seriously are certainly coming to a middle'. I remember that used to be my favourite line in some other life. Now I don't like it as much as I did then, perhaps due to overfamiliarity.

An interesting moment to me now, one I didn't really notice it when I first watched the series, in 'Our Mrs Reynold's' two people who were working with Saffron are talking about the ship, 'Firefly class spaceship', and one of them says, 'it's got no flash', 'some people aren't looking for flash'. It has something to do with, growing up and being confronted with the mundane quality of everyday life that Joss described in the Buffy DVDs.

Also, on my recent re-watch of the series, I merged two of my favourite lines to create my attempt at fanfic:

Mal: I'm going to the special hell
River: We all are.

That was more extensive that I had intended, fun though! Might do it again some time.

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

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Originally posted by AQUA:
Yeah, I remember that. I think it was Nathan Fillion that said it originally in the Firefly featurette, though it's been a while since I watched that.

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Summer Glau was great as River.


It makes me feel nostalgic for the times where I used to collect photos of River/Summer, even though I wouldn't say it's necessarily my favourite pic of her. Admittedly, my interest in her eventually lessened after Serenity, but she's really the only actor I've ever had much interest in beyond the performance on the show. Usually I don't keep up with what actors are doing at all really.

Oh, and another moment can't help but include:

'This is something the captain has to do himself'.

'No, no it's not'.

That's something I can also relate to, except in my case I usually, don't actually get any help. o.O


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

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