Now, I can hold a note for a long time...actually I can hold a note forever. But eventually that's just noise. It's the change we're listening for. The note coming after, and the one after that. That's what makes it music.

Host ,'Why We Fight'


Firefly 4: Also, we can kill you with our brains  

Discussion of the Mutant Enemy series, Firefly, the ensuing movie Serenity, and other projects in that universe. Like the other show threads, anything broadcast in the US is fine; spoilers are verboten and will be deleted if found.


Betsy HP - Oct 03, 2005 9:41:16 am PDT #5738 of 10001
If I only had a brain...

Joss's grocery list leaked.

Oh, the happy. The happy in buckets. The happy so great that I'm forming a fanclub chuckling a lot.


bon bon - Oct 03, 2005 9:44:26 am PDT #5739 of 10001
It's five thousand for kissing, ten thousand for snuggling... End of list.

In the same scene, did Simon sneak something into a storage compartment of the mule? Or did I misread that?


Jesse - Oct 03, 2005 9:45:56 am PDT #5740 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

Maybe it was there to establish This Simon Guy Is A Doctor?

Yeah, I thought it was that. Kind of like, "River! It's Simon! Simon, your brother!" right at the beginning. Heh.


Kalshane - Oct 03, 2005 9:46:42 am PDT #5741 of 10001
GS: If you had to choose between kicking evil in the head or the behind, which would you choose, and why? Minsc: I'm not sure I understand the question. I have two feet, do I not? You do not take a small plate when the feast of evil welcomes seconds.

In the same scene, did Simon sneak something into a storage compartment of the mule? Or did I misread that?

Not that I noticed. I remember Jayne (I think) saying "spare clips are in the rear compartment" and then a shot of clips being dropped into said compartment. I don't remember Simon doing anything around the Mule other than being pissy with Mal and telling River to be careful.


beekaytee - Oct 03, 2005 9:50:01 am PDT #5742 of 10001
Compassionately intolerant

It immediately struck me as Summer's voice. She has some very distinctive inflections.

As for the injection...although I can't recall the dialogue, I remember thinking that it might have something to do with Inara's schmancy seringe-in-a-box from the pilot. (Joss did say it would someday be revealed...)

Which later led me to speculate about an 'anti-Reaver' something the Alliance came up with after inflicting Paxil-whatever (won't Tom Cruise love THAT connection...see, see? haven't I been telling you psychopharmaceuticals are evil?!) on the unsuspecting.


lisah - Oct 03, 2005 9:51:45 am PDT #5743 of 10001
Punishingly Intricate

I don't so much care about the explanation of the injection -- more about why it was left in without a context.

exactly


Zenkitty - Oct 03, 2005 10:26:58 am PDT #5744 of 10001
Every now and then, I think I might actually be a little odd.

Shooting script has Mal saying to Simon something about getting "innocked" before going down, I can't remember if it's in the movie or not. I think not, because I wondered about that scene too. I also think it must have been left in without context to establish that Simon is a Doctor, and not cut because the dialog around the inoculation was important.

It also struck me that it was important in establishing Simon's character, because it showed that he would do his duties as the ship's doctor even when he was arguing mightily with the captain, and that the captain took for granted that he would - indicating that he always had before. Maybe it's a nothing thing, but I saw it as a thing.

Didn't Simon have River's boots in his hand, and she refused them? Maybe that's what he put in the mule. Did I imagine that?

Also, I loved that the little girl playing River sounded just like her, and I'm a little disappointed to learn that it was actually Summer's voice! Not that that isn't cool, I just was really impressed with the young actress, nailing the inflection like that.


DavidS - Oct 03, 2005 10:35:00 am PDT #5745 of 10001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."

Also, I loved that the little girl playing River sounded just like her, and I'm a little disappointed to learn that it was actually Summer's voice! Not that that isn't cool, I just was really impressed with the young actress, nailing the inflection like that.

Sort of how I felt when I discovered that Vincent D'onofrio didn't do that spot on Orson Welles voice in Ed Wood but that it was Maurice Lamarche (Pinky & the Brain).


§ ita § - Oct 03, 2005 10:40:36 am PDT #5746 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

But Mal and Simon talk about Simon having the job of patching people up -- I thought that was plenty clear, early on.


Zenkitty - Oct 03, 2005 10:42:44 am PDT #5747 of 10001
Every now and then, I think I might actually be a little odd.

Yeah, but again, maybe it was left in just because the dialog was important, and they didn't want to reshoot the whole scene?