Fay, your commitment astonishes me. I'll just be hiding my metaphor in shame over in the corner.

Allyson, could I possibly steal/share/borrow your brain for a day to know the terrificness of seeing Firefly filming? I'll try not to dirty it, I promise.

And yup, the Baldwin is a comedy genius.

I guess I just wish I worked for a company who had the esprit de corps that Serenity does. And the loyalty. And the code of honor.

Without having to drop a bunch of years and join the armed forces, I mean.

I guess I just wish I worked for a company who had the esprit de corps that Serenity does. And the loyalty. And the code of honor.

It was a bit like that when I worked for a Czech beer company, actually. Small team, everyone supportive and friendly and pulling together, everyone very much believing in the noble cause of promoting and selling a really lovely and quality beverage with a long and noble history. Plus, free beer!

...and then the parent company sold us out, and the UK offices were closed, and we all lost our jobs.

rassensassenfrassen stupid world

I loved the "My food is problematic" line. Very good. Wash and the cow fetus was fun, Jayne and the hat. The guy likes his crap hats. Holden was top class again. Just too good to be cancelled.



Or, you know, not. Fuckers.

WASH

A man walks down the street in that

hat, people know he's not afraid of

anything.

JAYNE: What'd you all order a dead guy for?

OH! And a great line from the script:

Zoe produces a FUTURISTIC DEVICE! That is a tape recorder -- of the FUTURE! (Somebody design this please.)

ROFL

WASH: Mal, your dead army buddy's on the bridge!

Bwah!

Another bit from the script, inclusing dialogue around the second comment:

Book walks out from behind some crates and stuff.

BOOK

You won't be searching the ship,

Womack.

WOMACK

That so?

BOOK

It is. You won't be taking us in. Nor

that boy who's dying up there. You're

going to turn around, and just fly

away.

WOMACK

You know, I'm authorized to kill as

I like, shepherds not withstandin'.

Book is so cool here it's making my hands sweaty.

BOOK

There's nine armed and dangerous

desperados on this ship. You count in

at three. Why is it you didn't call

in for back-up?

And of course:

Written by: Joss Whedon & Tim Minear

The Message

At the start, I was a little disappointed by this episode, somehow-- I think Out of Gas and Trash made me expect something clever, structually, and a simple story felt odd to begin with. But it picked up-- the Simon/Kaylee is sweet, and how wonderful are Wash and Zoe? A lot, that's how much. very wonderfully excellently marvellously wonderful. Especially Wash, with the flying, and Zoe, with the lecture about silence, and then Mal comes in yelling, and "there are other schools of thought".

And her being friendly with Simon. They actually related like human beings for a moment there, which was nice to see.

And poor Simon, with the cow feotus, and then annoying Kaylee again, and oh, poor Simon, and isn't he a real darling? I want to take him home and wrap him in a blanket and cuddle him. (Okay, so maybe I want to be on the inside of the blanket as well. Um. Bunk. Yeah. Good plan.) And I'm coming round to liking Kaylee, too. And you should see the look on my little brother's face when Kaylee was being all adorable looking at the not-an-alien. I think he's crushing on her as much as I am on Simon. Anyway.

Snow planets! I want a snow planet. River was so lovely, looking so baffled by it. And Jayne has great lines. "Girl's a mind reading genuis and she can't even work out how to eat a snow planet."

Jayne also has a great hat. I love Jayne's hat. It makes me grin like a loony.

And once I got over my annoyance that Tracey wasn't really dead (somehow, it reminds me of a Trek plot, that scene where Simon starts cutting and Tracy wakes up-- I can't remember which one, but it's nagging at the back of my mind, that I've seen this before), he was fun, as well as tragic. Nice to have that insight into Mal and Zoe and their past. His amazement that Zoe got married was fascinating, and well acted.

Inara wasn't there that much, and when she was she wasn't annoying-- and Book was fabulous, and River was great (love her lying on the coffin).

And I love the racing-though-the-canyons bit. I have an weird and screwed up love of all such scenes (I even manage to like the one in Phantom Menace with dreadful!Anakin, so this is hardly a rational judgement), but those special effects were lovely, and I'm still in love with the fact that there isn't any sound in space! It's lovely. And I may be overusing the word 'love' here.

I haven't yet used the word 'woobie' once, though. Let me put that right: Simon! Woobie! Hat-wearing Jayne! Woobie!

Although I was a bit confused by Tracey's "what are you hanging around with a preacher for?" line to Mal, since the last time I checked Mal only lost his religion at the end of the war. Unless Tracey was there right to the end or had met Mal again after the war, he shouldn't have known about that, I'd have thought. More backstory there that there wasn't time for in this episode, I guess.

So, yeah. There is love.