Firefly 1x02-1x03

[oyceter]

I love this show!

Did I say Train Job was bad? I take it back! I love the scene at the bar -- Mal's comment on losing because they're outnumbered, Zoe remarking that it's a reenactment, except this time, unlike Serenity Valley, the cavalry (spaceships?) arrive in the form of Serenity! Small and subtle touch that I enjoyed. Plus, there's that awesome moment at the end when Mal kicks the guy into the engine. Not as startling this time around, but during the premiere, I wasn't that entranced by the episode, and that moment made me sit up and realize this was a Joss show.

I don't know why Firefly's hitting so strongly again -- I think it has to do with the fact that they're adults. I love that in Angel too. And while I can see resemblences to Buffy -- Wash as a kind of grown up Xander, Kaylee and Willow, and Simon and early Wes -- the crew are all very much themselves. And I enjoy the fuzziness of the morality and that they're just trying to keep flying. Loved the end of Serenity, when Simon is questioning Mal's good-ish mood: "We're still flying" "That's not much" "It's enough"

And I adore Simon. He reminds me a little of early Wes, not sure of what to do, highly intelligent but without the practical knowledge. And I adore him with River. The moment in Serenity when River stumbles out of the box and Simon tries to calm her down really gets me. I love the entire little sister bit (ergo the giant Dawn-fanness).

Comments

[rue10.livejournal.com]

I love it too! Mom got it for Christmas, so while I was home we watched the whole season. And the episodes they never showed were great. I am SO SAD we never got to learn all the things that were hinted at.

But I'm glad there's going to be a movie! (Not to mention a Seven Seasons of Buffy-style book courtesy of BenBella . . . :P)

[oyceter]

OOooo, stuff to look forward too. But, oh, I still feel so sad somehow that I'm not going to get long arcs because they're so being set up!

BenBella is doing a Firefly book?! That's awesome!

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[rue10.livejournal.com]

Yes, we here at BenBella are obviously all Joss-obsessed. It's a good place to be, I felt at home right away. :)

I heard some rumor somewhere (Whedonesque? lj syndication is a wonderfully horrible thing) that the Firefly movie script was shaping up to resemble a springboard for restarting the show. I can't bear to give it much credence, but it's such a lovely thought. . . .

[knullabulla.livejournal.com]

Hubby laughed for about 15 minutes straight at the kicked-in-the-engine scene.

Should I be worried?

[oyceter]

Tee hee hee!

Er. Maybe. I think I laughed that long too ;). But oh, that was a classic moment.

[hermionesviolin.livejournal.com]

Firefly is so good. And "The Train Job" wasn't the best of the episodes (further proof that FOX wanted the show to die, opening with that instead of the real pilot) but it definitely had moments, including the kicking the guy into the engine in particular. (And i think i recall Joss and partner wrote the ep. in a weekend. Mad skillz to be able to do that, yo.)

And whoa, someone who doesn't violently hate Dawn. I thought she was often poorly written, but i never had the hate on for her that so many people did, actually liked her at times and thought she could have been developed into a really amazing character (though i have no particular love for little sister characters as a trope in and of themselves).

[oyceter]

So impressed at the mad skillz ;).

And I love the little bits like having Kaylee mention the compressor every so often. And Bushwhacked was an awesome episode. Loved the sequence cutting between everyone's interrogations.

I think Dawn had a lot of wasted potential, but I loved her anyway. I think I'm also giantly sentimental about this sort of stuff because I have a little sister, and I loved her scenes with Spike (in S5). Wishing we could have seen that arc they had planned for her before they decided to end Buffy...