Mal ,'Serenity'
Is it better the second time around? Or the third? Or tenth? This is the place to come when you have a burning desire to talk about an old episode that was just re-run.
Also? What the heck does "gimme the Spielberg" mean?
Who says this (and when)? I don't recognize the line, and can't find it in the transcripts or scripts.
Yeah, I'm with you there. I don't recognize that line at all, and I was fast-forwarding to catch up last night, so I don't even know what scene it was from.
Pity they left it in Pylea.
It did make a brief return engagement in "Carpe Noctem."
Exactly. Here's he sly, cynical, lazy, almost a tease. Which does not fit with the Angel who was supposed to have fallen in love with her back in L.A. and followed her to Sunnydale to "help" her.
At least they remembered he could do sarcasm well when the time came for the Evil Angel arc. This interpretation of the character was why I loved Angel from the very beginning, and was very slightly disappointed when he got all earnest in subsequent episodes.
I can't remember the context, but I wonder if "Gimme the Spielberg" is another way of saying, "Tell me the story."
It probably does mean something like that, but I can't for the life of me recall it, nor can I find record of it. The only Spielberg references I can think of in the series don't even include his name. There are a few
Jaws
shout-outs, and the like, the most memorable of which is probably Xander's, "We're gonna need a bigger boat," from GD I. Now I just need to know who says it in TH, and when. This time, it's personal.
IIRC from the commentary, "Gimme the Spielberg" was Joss's shorthand to the cameraman for "Give me a gorgeously lit, iconic shot of the central character that whomps the viewer in the heart and the gut," and the cameraman's response was that blue-lit zoom in on Buffy in the millisecond after taking Luke out, looking heartstoppingly cute but feral and unstoppable, which shot Joss fell totally and utterly in love with.
Okay, so nobody actually said it in the episode?
Because that may explain why I don't remember it.
Oh, good. Thanks, JZ.
Ah, now that makes more sense. I do love that shot. Didn't they use it in the opening credits for a while?
I think they did, Sail, as the power shot at the end of the credits sequence, maybe.
That sounds about right. I think it got replaced around season 3, though, with that shot of Buffy in "Hell" from the first episode of the season, "Anne." The lighting was very similar.