Can I just say, for UKers who don't know, that Jubal Early was played by a guy who spent several years on Law & Order, that most straight-laced of shows, where he played a straight-laced assistant prosecutor. He didn't really come into his own as an actor till he left L & O and got his weird on. (He was also in the short-lived G vs. E, which was, or so I thought, basically The Mod Squad as written by Saint John the Divine on amphetamines.)

happy phantom, I couldn't agree more. As you'll have gathered.

Did you mean that on the shots in space you could see her in his ship, or that she was always in the b/g on Serenity

All through the scene on the Bridge, where you could see the star-scattered darkness behind Early's head and hear River's voice, whenever you could see his ship (which was most every frame with the sky in the background) there was some kind of motion going on inside it. i.e. River. Which is a fucking lovely detail.

...He didn't really come into his own as an actor till he left L & O and got his weird on

Really? 'Cause I've got to say, his weird was pretty well and truly on. Props to him.

(SO wish we knew what Early knew about Book, too...)

Also that the only person's secret thoughts we didn't hear were Kaylee's.

Perhaps because they didn't want us to think Kaylee had inner demons. Or perhaps River did not think of Kaylee as having any ill will towards River. I feel that everything we saw with River were products more of her mind than psychic. She was seeing things, and the whole cargo Bay scenario was a part of her medications acting as a psychotrope.

Also that the only person's secret thoughts we didn't hear were Kaylee's.

We didn't hear Zoe & Wash's either, but I think we can guess what they were thinking at that moment (which was the point).

So I, one holiday, two battles with the video, and a lucky Sci-Fi repeat late, finally saw Objects in Space.

Wow. It literally took my breath away. After 'Heart of Gold', I had fears that Firefly would leave me broken, because this great concept had been wasted.

I'm still broken, but in a better way. This episode was fantastic-- let me count the ways.

1) River. She was wonderful. Creepy. Weird. Funny. Clever. Beautiful. Fucked up in a thousand different ways. I was stunned, repeatedly, by the quality of the performance-- on a second watch. The first time, I was so wrapped in the story I didn't notice the acting.

2) Early. What a wonderful villian. With a plan, and dealing with Kaylee, and... ooo. Just... good villian.

3) Wash and Zoe. Wash the skeptic, and the funny man; Zoe the calm, the open-minded, and the taker-of-bullets-out-of-poor-Simon. I love them.

4) Simon. Oh, Simon. Simon, Simon, Simon. Teaching a complete beginner surgery by talking her through taking a bullet out of your own leg, because you were all brave and attacked Early to save your sister. God, Simon. And even I, dyed-in-the-wool slasher, was cheering for you and Kaylee.

5) River-as-Serenity. When that began, I hadn't worked out that River was on Early's ship, and I had a sudden flash of a whole future for Firefly in which River and the ship really *were* melded into one being. That was great. And the way it was filmed? Eye candy. And not just any old candy. Best quality Belgian chocolate.

6) Mal, especially at the end. And at the start. And all the way through. "Glad we made that distinction." Welcoming River back aboard at the end. Oh, Mal. Wonderful captain.

7) Jayne. What more do I need to say?

8) The sequence of River walking through the ship and hearing everyone's thoughts, though they don't see her.

9) Book. Not a Shepard? WTF? I need to know more about Book. Now.

10) The FX. The whole look of the show. It's beautiful-- River in the leaves. Her dancer's pose as she listens to the conversation a floor above her.

11) Summer Glau.

Wrod to the 'I just want to hug the show'. That's just how I feel, too.

12) Simon without a shirt. Although with this danger overtone, because of what Jubal had just said to Kaylee.

13) The dinosaurs are still on Wash's piloting desk.

14) Everyone and everything. Mal, Inara, Wash and Zoe, River, Simon, Kaylee, Jayne, Book. The sets, the stories, the sounds. I love them all. I'm still in love with this show. I can't quite believe it's all over.

I believe in movies.

Book. Not a Shepard? WTF? I need to know more about Book. Now.

does happy IN YOUR FACE dance of insider knowledge

I know whether Book is a good guy or a bad guy, and I AM SO NOT TELLING!

Because there will be a goddamned movie, or a comic, or some fucking thing that will tell us all his story. Or I'm going to lose my shit.

So at a con Joss was asked what was going to happen in S2 of Firefly.

"Reavers," he said. le sigh.

I think he was talking about the movie, UTTAD.

Hmm, well just saying what it said in SFX magazine, but Reavers + Movie = Hud me back!

I know whether Book is a good guy or a bad guy, and I AM SO NOT TELLING!

Taunter McTauntypants.