Firefly REBORN!
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herewiss13Today has been a very good day for me. I'm house-sitting at a place with a cable modem. And I just happened to run across a webpage hosting the three unaired Firefly eps. Ten Minutes to download 'Heart of Gold'! For someone who usually gets about 50kbs, this is truly miraculous. Try not to stampede the place, but here is the place.
For those few not yet in the know, here's a quick summary: An old friend of Inara's asks the Serenity crew to help protect her House (capital "H") from the local headman, who's fathered a son off of one of her girls. Your regular "last stand against overwhelming odds" plot done exceedingly well with some good chemistry between Mal and Nandi (the Madam), good UST between Mal and Inara, and Jayne at his funniest and randiest.
I was going to post a quote to demonstrate how unbelievably cool this show was, but there were too many to select from...in the first fifteen minutes! Then the quips quieted down as the drama mounted. Then you get a scene between Mal and Inara with no words at all...just eyes carrying a conversation back and forth (and not an UST-y one either). Sheer genius on the part of actors and directors. The muddled soap-opera Angel became toward the end of last season (and the non-arc of s7 of Buffy) had me worried...but truly, In Joss We Trust (still).
Ok, one quote, just because this would have become some sort of fangirl call-sign if it had actually aired.
Kaylee (upon entering the House for the first time): Look, they've got boy whores. Isn't that thoughtful? [wistful]Wonder if they service girl-folk at all?
...oh hell. It's worth revisiting the ep again to mark down some more sparklers.
Mal (having been surprised while gun cleaning): You know, it's not altogether wise to sneak up on a man when he's handling his weapon.
Inara: 'Sure I've heard that said.
Inara: Every well bred petty crook knows that the small, concealable weapons go to the far left of the place setting.
Inara: I suppose you heard most of that?
Mal: Only because I was eaves-dropping.
Zoe: No one's going to force you to go, Jayne. As has been stated, this job is strictly speculative.
Jayne: Good. Don't know these folks, don't much care to.
Mal: They're whores.
Jayne: I'm in.
Mal (meeting the Madam): Well, any friend of Inara's is a strictly business-like arrangement of mine. This is my first mate, Zoey. I'll introduce you to the rest of my people later. They're good folk.
Jayne: Can I start getting sexed already?
Mal: Well, that one's kinda horrific.
Jayne [giddy as a kid in a candy-shop]: My John Thomas is about to pop off and fly around the room, there's so much tasty in here.
Wash: Would be you get your most poetical about your pecker.
Kaylee: Everyone's got somebody. Wash, tell me I'm pretty.
Wash: Were I unwed, I would take you in a manly fashion.
Kaylee: 'Cause I'm pretty?
Wash: 'Cause you're pretty.
Mal (going off to meet the bad guy): Inara? Think you can stoop to being on my arm?
Inara: Will you wash it first?
This actually comes before "Heart of Gold", but only because of one little scene of Mal/Inara UST-ness. It is, however, loaded with continuity of it's own. Mal's "wife" Saffron, from the hysterical "Our Mrs. Reynolds" drops back into his lap again with a fool-proof/get-rich quick caper. No one trusts her, but that doesn't help. Also, Simon discovers Jayne's betrayal from 'Ariel'.
This is truly hysterical episode (or maybe it was just me) with some poignant bits about just how far divorced from reality a con-woman can get. And any episode that starts with Mal sitting all alone, on a rock, in the middle of the desert, naked, going "Yep, that went well..." has got to be good.
No quotes this time because most of the funny is involved and heavily context laden. It's still there though, in spades.
::sigh:: Last one...
This one starts really funny, but gets really un-funny really fast. Without spoiling too much, Zoe and Mal get mailed a body, and things complexify from there. Oh, and Jayne's mom knits him a funny hat.
It's actually a damn sad ep about wasted potential, especially poignant because of Firefly's own wasted potential (though that wasn't its own fault).
I was giddy starting out, and now I'm just depressed. Because now it's really over. All that time I knew there was more out there, even if I hadn't seen it. Now I've seen it and it's done. The Fat Lady has sung, the set deconstructed and the cast disbanded. All the stories and laughter and tears and moments of quiet beauty will never be seen no more. Not even the next time Joss pulls something out of his hat, because it will be different.
Good gorram it.
For those few not yet in the know, here's a quick summary: An old friend of Inara's asks the Serenity crew to help protect her House (capital "H") from the local headman, who's fathered a son off of one of her girls. Your regular "last stand against overwhelming odds" plot done exceedingly well with some good chemistry between Mal and Nandi (the Madam), good UST between Mal and Inara, and Jayne at his funniest and randiest.
I was going to post a quote to demonstrate how unbelievably cool this show was, but there were too many to select from...in the first fifteen minutes! Then the quips quieted down as the drama mounted. Then you get a scene between Mal and Inara with no words at all...just eyes carrying a conversation back and forth (and not an UST-y one either). Sheer genius on the part of actors and directors. The muddled soap-opera Angel became toward the end of last season (and the non-arc of s7 of Buffy) had me worried...but truly, In Joss We Trust (still).
Ok, one quote, just because this would have become some sort of fangirl call-sign if it had actually aired.
Kaylee (upon entering the House for the first time): Look, they've got boy whores. Isn't that thoughtful? [wistful]Wonder if they service girl-folk at all?
...oh hell. It's worth revisiting the ep again to mark down some more sparklers.
Mal (having been surprised while gun cleaning): You know, it's not altogether wise to sneak up on a man when he's handling his weapon.
Inara: 'Sure I've heard that said.
Inara: Every well bred petty crook knows that the small, concealable weapons go to the far left of the place setting.
Inara: I suppose you heard most of that?
Mal: Only because I was eaves-dropping.
Zoe: No one's going to force you to go, Jayne. As has been stated, this job is strictly speculative.
Jayne: Good. Don't know these folks, don't much care to.
Mal: They're whores.
Jayne: I'm in.
Mal (meeting the Madam): Well, any friend of Inara's is a strictly business-like arrangement of mine. This is my first mate, Zoey. I'll introduce you to the rest of my people later. They're good folk.
Jayne: Can I start getting sexed already?
Mal: Well, that one's kinda horrific.
Jayne [giddy as a kid in a candy-shop]: My John Thomas is about to pop off and fly around the room, there's so much tasty in here.
Wash: Would be you get your most poetical about your pecker.
Kaylee: Everyone's got somebody. Wash, tell me I'm pretty.
Wash: Were I unwed, I would take you in a manly fashion.
Kaylee: 'Cause I'm pretty?
Wash: 'Cause you're pretty.
Mal (going off to meet the bad guy): Inara? Think you can stoop to being on my arm?
Inara: Will you wash it first?
This actually comes before "Heart of Gold", but only because of one little scene of Mal/Inara UST-ness. It is, however, loaded with continuity of it's own. Mal's "wife" Saffron, from the hysterical "Our Mrs. Reynolds" drops back into his lap again with a fool-proof/get-rich quick caper. No one trusts her, but that doesn't help. Also, Simon discovers Jayne's betrayal from 'Ariel'.
This is truly hysterical episode (or maybe it was just me) with some poignant bits about just how far divorced from reality a con-woman can get. And any episode that starts with Mal sitting all alone, on a rock, in the middle of the desert, naked, going "Yep, that went well..." has got to be good.
No quotes this time because most of the funny is involved and heavily context laden. It's still there though, in spades.
::sigh:: Last one...
This one starts really funny, but gets really un-funny really fast. Without spoiling too much, Zoe and Mal get mailed a body, and things complexify from there. Oh, and Jayne's mom knits him a funny hat.
It's actually a damn sad ep about wasted potential, especially poignant because of Firefly's own wasted potential (though that wasn't its own fault).
I was giddy starting out, and now I'm just depressed. Because now it's really over. All that time I knew there was more out there, even if I hadn't seen it. Now I've seen it and it's done. The Fat Lady has sung, the set deconstructed and the cast disbanded. All the stories and laughter and tears and moments of quiet beauty will never be seen no more. Not even the next time Joss pulls something out of his hat, because it will be different.
Good gorram it.
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Date: 2003-12-12 05:17 pm (UTC)-Z