Oh, I remember how masterful I thought this was, how you came in right in the middle of the camaraderie and the comfort, and just how everything is *working* and it's just such a great thing. You don't hear the story, so you don't have to judge it on that, you just react to how they're reacting.

Like how someone is scary because everyone's scared of them, not because you're told how scary they are.

I'm at Mal on the grate for the second time.

Somebody mark me. Where are you now?

I vaguely recall someone, maybe Tim, saying that Mal was originally conceived to be a decade or so older than Nathan Fillion, but they couldn't NOT give Nathan the part.

I have a cat sitting between me and my computer... which is on my lap, so you can imagine how crowded I feel.

Love the dinner table convo here.

"Yeah, cuz sick people are HI-larious."

"Oh heh heh heh, do I ever..."

"So there is kissin'?"

Inara talking about whoring, around the dining table. oh, cake!

Aww, and he feels all left out, but no, they're celebrating him.

fire!

light out

The timing in this episode is insane.

We're at explodey, bonny.

"I let you through, we all die."

Jayne as safety officer.