sumi if you have the same version as me then there should be a codec here!
- goes back into lurkdom*
Angel: I appreciate you guys looking out for Connor all summer. It's just—he's confused. He needs time. That's all. Fred: Right. Time, and some corporal punishment with a large heavy mallet. Not that I'm bitter.
'Just Rewards (2)'
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.
Kessie - Dec 07, 2005 9:23:03 am PST #7342 of 10001
The thing about life is :You can rehearse it all you want,
But nobody else ever sticks to the script. So why bother?
sumi - Dec 07, 2005 9:46:12 am PST #7343 of 10001
Art Crawl!!!
Thank you! That totally worked.
Una - Dec 07, 2005 9:55:24 am PST #7344 of 10001
when i die, please bake my ashes into a brick and use me to hit fascists.
Oooh, thanks for the link, Kessie. I was having the hardest time figuring out how to get this to play!
*watches, dies laughing* I love our crew.
Dana - Dec 07, 2005 10:12:21 am PST #7345 of 10001
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
I would have hated Mal's guts if that scene had been left as it was.
I wondered if you were talking about what I thought you might be talking about. And you were.
I love it, personally. Micole mentioned it in one of her LJ posts about the movie, and it made sense, because otherwise, why would they have Book's body with them at the end to bury?
ETA: Unless it's a joke, actually. I can't really tell from the gag reel.
Kalshane - Dec 07, 2005 10:19:24 am PST #7346 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.
Not just the bit about Book's body but his words and attitude as a whole during that scene. From what others posted here earlier, it continues after the point of the flub in much the same vein. The scene in Serenity is painful, but we understand where Mal is coming from, how far he's been pushed, but the Mal in the original scene is unnecessarily cruel to his crew. Just the bit that was on the gag reel upset me and I knew it wasn't "canon". Had that occured officially, it would have likely changed some of my feelings about the movie.
Mr. Broom - Dec 07, 2005 10:20:33 am PST #7347 of 10001
"When I look at people that I would like to feel have been a mentor or an inspiring kind of archetype of what I'd love to see my career eventually be mentioned as a footnote for in the same paragraph, it would be, like, Bowie." ~Trent Reznor
Thought it was a joke, myself, on account of I could swear his next comment to Jewel had her crying turning into laughter. That and his next remark is almost certainly an ad-lib.
Kalshane - Dec 07, 2005 10:31:42 am PST #7348 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.
Mr. Broom, it's not a joke. Discussion of the original scene starts here: Kevin "Firefly 4: Also, we can kill you with our brains" Oct 21, 2005 4:04:51 pm PDT The funny in that bit on the gag reel was supposed to be the cartridge falling out of Mal's gun.
ETA: I didn't see Jewel laughing when I watched it last night. I saw Kaylee in horrified tears. I'll double-check again when I get home from work.
tiggy - Dec 07, 2005 10:34:38 am PST #7349 of 10001
I do believe in killing the messenger, you know why? Because it sends a message. ~ Damon Salvatore
Kalshane, i think you're talking about a different scene than Mr. Broom.
Tamara - Dec 07, 2005 10:51:48 am PST #7350 of 10001
You know, we could experiment and cancel football.
Yep. Those are two different parts of the same scene. The real dark Mal that was being discussed early is later dialogue (right after Mal shoots the Alliance soldier) not the part in the gag reel where he telling them to put the bodies on the ship.
Kalshane - Dec 07, 2005 11:05:11 am PST #7351 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.
Well, I think the whole bit from Mal exiting the ship to us seeing Reavered-up Serenity as part of the same scene. The point I was trying to make was the part of that scene we see on the gag reel was bad enough. The tone set by the bit on the gag reel (and the discussion here) gave me a pretty good idea of how the scene would have played out, and the likely result is I would have ended up hating Mal.