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More blow-by-blow Firefly episode reviews! Aren't you all just thrilled? I know I am.

Shindig

There are no words to describe how much I adore the opening scene for this ep. "As with most situations, the key seems to be giving Jayne a heavy stick and standing back." Hee hee. Also, "ball failure" hee hee hehehehe. Heeee! (Hello, I am five! :D )

I love how Mal is utterly unconcerned about the possibility of crashing. He has faith in his pilot, obviously. Aw.

Randomly, does that bumbling young wannabe-client of Inara's remind anyone else of Donny Osmond? Or is that just me?

Oh, god, shut up, Mal and Inara. No, shut up, I don't give two shits about you two and your angsty, "doomed" "love". Go away and die.

"I'll chip in." "I can hurt you." I love Zoe and Jayne. Especially the casual way she responds, like she's commenting on the weather. I bet they have conversations like this a lot. And Wash doesn't seem concerned, either. He probably knows that if Zoe ever did concent, Jayne would probably not know what to do with himself. Hee.

I covet Jayne's hat in this scene like a coveting thing. Waaaaant. Aaaand Mal is an arse to Kaylee. I want to smack him, dammit. Just because you're too stupid to cut your losses with Inara doesn't mean you should take it out on Kaylee, you penis.

Yay, Badger's back! And he invites Mal and Jayne to tea! I love Jayne in this scene, he's clearly barely even listening to the conversation, he's just there for the moonshine in teacups(!)--and god, there's something right sexy about him holding that delicate thing with his big, leather-gloved hands--and the wee sandwiches(!!) and the occasional random smartass interjection.

Okay, see, this is why I think Inara is stupid. She'll go off on Mal for his (admittedly obnoxious) harping on her job, but this Atherton sphincster gets a free pass? Why? Because he's rich? Because he couches it in politish terms and proper grammar? If that's the choice, I'd prefer Mal, at least he's upfront about it.

Okay, this just shows you how my brain works in the most cracked-out ways, but.
Announcer: "Miss Kaywinnit Lee Frye."
Melle's brain: "Huh, I wonder if she's related to a Phillip J. ..."
And then I had to remind myself that Futurama takes place five hundred years later than Firefly and that this is not a crossover the world needs to see.

I love Zoe and Wash. Love!

I love Kaylee at the party. She and Mal are clearly both out of their depth, working class folks in an upper class environment. But where Mal starts punching people because they're snobs, and he hates snobs, Kaylee just ignores the snobby girls and finds her own place and people at the party to get along with, carves out her own space. And I think I had a point with that observation, but it's three in the morning and I'm distracted by Inara's cleavage. Anyway, Kayle's got herself a gaggle of rich men of varying ages, hanging onto her every word, fetching her food ... I'm saying, it's not a bad way to spend an evening, and it certainly beats punching people and getting into duels.

"What we need is a diversion," in a very Legolas-esque tone of voice. I always giggle at that. Also, the way Jayne keeps looking over at Wash when he follows up his suggestion for Zoe to get naked with "I could get nekkid," as if he's asking Wash's permission. Mmmm, Zoe/Wash/Jayne thoughts ... (That would be the bunny that's gnawing on my left shoulder, by the way. Ow.)

Mal and Asserton duel. Mal dispenses witticisms, wins, and returns to the ship to get fawned over by the rest of the crew. Escept Jayne, who pretends to be all calm and disaffected but still feels the need to mention that hey, he was gonna rescue Mal, dammit. Awww.

Oh, and in conclusion: cows! Moooooo!

Safe

Awww, baby!Tams. Now with extra dinosaurs! I wonder if River and Wash sometimes bond over Wash's dinos. Awww.

Okay, I'm sorry, but the whole scene with the landing and the cows keeps affecting my brain. Jayne. Rope. "I like smackin' 'em." Dear Joss: You expected me to actually hear anything else in this scene? He's wearing a tigh holster for god's sake. What is this brain of which you speak?

And I've rewound the next scene about ten times now, and I cannot figure out what Jayne is laughing at when the camera cuts to him after Mal says "Can't he herding steers and your sister too." He's very amused, though. Is he mocking the cows? River? What? He's not laughing anymore once Mal puts his arm around Simon, though. Awww, don't worry, Jayne, they're not going off without you.

Over in the souvenir shop, Kaylee and Inara talk boys, and Simon channels Giles. Heee. Except Giles would know better than to allow a burst of annoyance to get Kaylee angry with him. Give the boy a break, Kaylee, he's young, you can still train him out of it.

Meanwhile, down at the farm (sorry!), there's more cow-smacking, Jayne chilling with the beef, and various shady dealings. It's a good thing Simon's not there, because he's hanging out in town, making a suspicious spectacle of himself. Oh, Simon. And then he goes and loses River. And runs like a girl to go find her.

Bla bla bla police show up to arrest Mal's business partners, but it's more interesting to watch Simon find River, who's stumbled into a dance type thing. Aw. Although:

River dances. People shoot. River dances. People shoot. Riverdance. Shooting. Riverdance. Shooting.

River. Dance. Irish music. Joss, if that pun was deliberate, I'm going to have to come over and shoot you.

"That's good. You lie there and be ironical." Heeee! And awww, in the infirmary, Jayne looks concerned as Mal and Zoe try to be effective. I bet Jayne wishes Simon was there, now, to make sure Book doesn't die.

Another flashback, and I'm starting to really come down on the side of the fandom that thinks the Tam parents knew what was happening with River. Because if they really thought Simon was going insane, they'd have insisted he seek help, but they just brush off his concerns. They might just not want to know, or acknowledge, what's going on with River, or maybe they've actively sent her there knowing what was going to happen to her (I don't think the higher society places much of a value on girls, and I get the impression that the Tams probably especially don't), but they know.

Jayne searching Simon's room is hilarious, with the diary-reading, and sticking random things in his mouth, and heeee! And the shirt! The shirt! Nawwww!

"This place gives me an uncomfortableness." Is it just me, or does that sound like a Jayne-esque euphemism for a hard-on?

...

Okay, fine, it's just me, then. I just get kinda bored with some of these plotty scenes the second time around, and the Simon-gets-kidnapped one especially, I prefer to skim past because of the aweful stereotype black girl. Blah, blah, blah, burn the witch, more flashback, more burning. I mute the TV and quote Monty Python at it. What? I make my own fun.

So does Jayne, apparently, because he's ... polishing money? The hell? Is he Scrooge McDuck now? Anyway. I'll admit that Simon getting on the pyre to die with River does make me sniffly. I can't even make any CSI comments, though they do share several "looks". I just. *sniffle* I almost wish Mal and Zoe hadn't shown up in time. Almost. And how the fuck does Jayne even manage to aim while dangling from that rope, anyway? *frown*

Anyway, the day gets saved, and like an Asterix strip, this episode ends with a meal. River nicks Jayne's bread, and he glares at her, but settles for grabbing another piece. Awww. Love!

Comments

[jaseroque.livejournal.com]

... it is so nice to see someone who reaches the same level of incoherent irritation as myself whenever Mal and Inara share a scene. Because LJKISGJKNSAG THEY ARE SO ANNOYING. I mean, Mal I love, because he is fantastic, though Inara is Just Plain Dull. But when you get them in the same place, it's like, buh-bye Mal characterization, since when are you so bloody stupid? *deep sigh* Oh, and also, River is love. Just 'coz.

*much difficulty with the choosing of the icons*

[bubosquared.livejournal.com]

See, I like Inara, I do, but we rarely get to see her in a scene where she's not interacting with Mal, so we get very little in the way of characterisation for her that's not tainted by this ridiculous USTing they do.

(I have this bunny that's pretty much all about the fact that Mal thinks love should be difficult and hurt and all that crap, or at the very least thinks that all this suffering makes his love for Inara much deeper than, say, the love between Wash and Zoe, which seems to me to be the kind of love that just kind of grows between people over the course of a relationship, if that makes sense.)

[jaseroque.livejournal.com]

Mm, my Dad started watching the series from about halfway through, and Inara gets some decent stuff that isn't Inara/Mal, and so he's quite fond of her. Whereas I started at the beginning, and I like Mal so much, and Inara makes him into a RAVING IDIOT and also she is dull, and so she makes me twitch most terribly. I began to develop a certain tolerance towards her by the end, mind you, but just... Inara/Mal=NO.