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- Jason Sansbury
- “Whoa. Good Bible.” In one episode, Mal winds up unknowingly taking a wife as a thank you gift from the local people. And when he refuses to sleep with her, she does the best seductive reading of the Bible I have ever seen or heard, which culminates in Mal’s oddly appreciative line above.
- “Quite specific. It (The Bible) is fuzzy about kneecaps.”- Shepherd Book. Shepherd Book is maybe my favorite character from the series. When we meet him, he is essentially a science fiction traveling monk, wandering the universe, sharing the Story.
- “No more running. I aim to misbehave.” At his core, Captain Malcolm Reynolds is a rebel, rebellious against those who have power and those who use it harm those who are weak.
- “She’s tore up plenty, but she’ll fly true.” I am not going to spoil it if you haven’t seen it but towards the end of the movie, the character of Zoe has been put through the ringer and Mal has every reason to wonder how she is doing.
Over the past two decades, I've heard many times about how awesome Firefly is and how it is a must-watch. I recently got a Hulu subscription and finally got around watching it now, 20 years (!!) after the show first aired. AND I'M LOVING IT!
The film is a continuation of Whedon's short-lived 2002 Fox television series Firefly and stars the same cast, taking place after the events of the final episode. Set in 2517, Serenity is the story of the crew of Serenity, a " Firefly -class" spaceship.
- "Trash"
- "Bushwhacked"
- "Heart of Gold"
- "The Message"
- "War Stories"
- "Safe"
- "The Train Job"
- "Serenity"
- "Shindig"
- "Jaynestown"
It's just too easy when given a title like this. Although none of the episodes are actually trash, some are better than others. "Trash" is the worst of the best. "Trash" begins with a naked Captain Mal (Nathan Fillion) in the dessert, and that's pretty much the high point. You would think bringing back Christina Hendricks' Saffron would be a good t...
Ah, those pesky Reavers. It seemed that Mal and crew are always stuck between a rock and a hard place. On one side of the galaxy: the calm, silent, crushing force of The Alliance. On the other, the mirror opposite: the cannibalistic space chaos of the Reavers. Sadly, the introduction to Reavers in "Bushwhacked" is done in such haphazard way you're ...
There's something to be said for a good old-fashioned western shoot-out to make a claim for what's yours. We just wish "Heart of Gold" wasn't sort of dull. This episode takes place inside the brothel of an old companion friend of Inara (Morena Baccarin), jokes about prostitution are made, and in the end the episode culminates in a ten-minute long s...
The message of this episode is that you can't go home again, not really. And that's about that. Sadly, any parts in Fireflyabout Mal and Zoe (Gina Torres)'s time in the war are the bits that create the most yawns. Private Tracey (Jonathan M. Woodward) is a frustratingly childish addition to an episode that's supposed to be about camaraderie and the...
Even after only a few short episodes, Fireflyfans knew this episode was coming. The (non-romantic) relationship triangle between Zoe, Wash (Alan Tudyk) and Mal had issues that needed to be addressed. However, we wouldn't have gone with a machismo flexing contest. This story nicely ties up an earlier thread where Mal disobeyed fan-favorite and vague...
How strange is River Tam? Stranger than you could possibly know - and it all starts in the town of Jiangyin. While the first hal of "Safe" was a little bland - can you remember what happens before River is kidnapped? We had to look it up. However, the second half takes everything up a notch. Here, we learn that two valuable lessons: people on the r...
Fireflyis at its absolute best when this bunch of lovable criminals get to be bad... but in a delightful Robin Hood kind of way. That's what "The Train Job" does so beautifully. It’s the first time we really get to see the whole crew in action doing more than just a little B&E in space. Fireflyis first and foremost a Western, so there had to be a t...
Ah, the pilot, right smack in the middle of the list. Neither fantastic, nor terrible, it does its job by introducing characters and makes you want more, but, like many pilots, it lacks a lot of the things the show does best. We begin at war, a scene, with a scene that is more explosions than exposition and drags on. From here, we gather the crew, ...
A good shindig should have great music, excellent people and just a little bit of excitement. What do you know, "Shindig" has all of those! This episode’s a party - we get to see the other side of the crew's work, not the dirty-hands dealing with the criminal underground, but the lighter, more shadowy kind of nefariousness. Plus, there are adorable...
"Jayne! The man they call, Jayne!" "Jaynestown" is probably the silliest episode of them all, playing out almost like a live-action cartoon. Yet, who cares? It’s so much fun; it doesn’t matter that it’s ridiculous, it’s still great television. We love Jayne Cobb as folk hero. When the town realizes their man has returned it's a moment where even th...
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- Michael Hoff
- "Shiny" In the future, intrepid earthlings will use a new form of slang, including Chinese terms and the repurposed word “shiny.” For the crew of the spaceship Serenity, this means a variety of things, as it appears more than once in the script.
- "We’re All Just Folk Now" The crew of Serenity are interplanetary outlaws, who perform illegal activities while trying to stay one step ahead of the planetary Alliance.
- "Eta Kooram Nah Smech" The story of Serenity starts and restarts several times before settling into the heart of the plot, which begins in earnest with brother and sister Simon and River Tam escaping from prison.
- "Reavers!" In the fictional universe of Serenity, a mysterious and vicious race known as Reavers skulk about the galaxy in search of innocent victims. Think of them as space zombies - they attack and bite and disembowel, but can also apparently assemble and pirate spaceships.
Serenity, like Firefly, is a science fiction story with strong elements of westerns, spy movie intrigue, and lots and lots of spine-tingling action, and wry, irresistible humor throughout - the humor that comes from a cast that has incredible chemistry.
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In this continuation of the television series "Firefly," a group of rebels travels the outskirts of space aboard their ship, Serenity, outside the reach of the Alliance, a sinister regime that...
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- Sci-Fi, Action, Adventure
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