showmeyourkizinti

Sorry I'm late but I needed to catch up. Just to start with this one is NOT a charming, funny romp, unlike The Train Job. Seriously tonally this episode sticks out like dog's bollacks, compared to the ones around it, and I love it. Creepy first look at the Reavers and what they do. "Reavers ain't men. Or they forgot how to be. Come to just nothin'. They got out to the edge of the galaxy, to that place of nothin', and that's what they became." I mean we hear Zoe talking about them but damn that reveal of the pile of corpses was chilling. The episode started slow for me but one River started Riverin' and we find the crazy guy I was all in on the space-western / slasher film combo.

More Stand Out Moments:

• The opener with the crew playing a modified version of Tlachtli was a hoot. Everyone getting in to the games with Inara and Simon sitting on the outside looking in. You get the feeling the cast was having fun with the game too.
• I especially like how Jayne keep going a little too hard with the trash talk. It solidifies him as an asshole but gives him room to grow.
• The mystery of River's powers are starting to grow and it one of the thing I really wish they had had the time to properly do.
• Book talking them in to the need to take care of the dead "How we treat our dead is part of what makes us different... than those did the slaughtering." and then the switch where it turns out Mal was worried about a bomb.
• Mal's plan to hide the Tams - the way he yells at Jayne to pull the cargo out the hidey-hole and his "I aint' fixin to argue" to the reveal of them being suits outside. Just an awesome bait and switch.
• The cops tossing the dinning room, like dude the Tams aren't under the place mats why are you throw the shit all over the floor?
• Interviews: -- Zoe going "We don't like to talk about our relationship" going to a hard cut of Walsh not shutting up about hot his wife is. -- Kaylee bitching about engines to the point where the officer is rolling his eyes. -- Inara ... what can I say she's just so cool. -- The whole thing is just little masterclasses in each character.
• Shout out to the whole bit from Zoe "You fought with Captain Reynolds in the war?" - "Fought with a lot of people in the war." - "And your husband?" - "Fight with him sometimes, too." - My partner wet themselves laughing at that one.
• The ratcheting up of the tension during Mal's interview is a nice touch too setting up that Brody vs the Mayor in Jaws vibe where he knows whats coming and nobody is believing him. <chef's kiss>
• I'd really like to point out the violence, or really the lack of on screen. The cuts in the Alliance emergency room where we see the survivor pull out his knife and then just blood splatters. The violence I'm imagining is going to be more horrifying then what they could have put on screen and so I'm more tense from not seeing it rather then if they showed it to me.
• And the same hold true at the climax when Mal has to snap the guys neck to save the commander, what we see isn't as important as what we don't.

Finally the ending where the Commander lets the Serenity go but seizes the cargo. Firefly was very ACAB way before ACAB was even a movement. Mal - "He had to (take the cargo). Couldn't let us profit. Wouldn't be 'civilized'."

I went back and watched the full credits on my version and I realized the voice-over introductions are only on the iTunes and any original TVRips you can find. The DVDs are lacking the voice-overs and the previously on. So I'm guessing the voice-over was added later by Fox.

Terrific was top notch, especially in the after credits scene. I really hope that he's going to be in Justice League when it finally gets put together.

"... maybe more immature, but also more adult" is the perfect tag line for Peacemaker.

Yea, but no too. It really more felt like a set up for Superman 2 then much of a plot development for the series. I mean it shows us where Rick sr. stands, but I think punching the shit out of Peacemaker did that already. As far as cameos go I really preferred mealymouthed Rick jr.

I'm jealous you got to experience it for the first just recently. Just an amazingly sweet movie. Don't forget to check out Babe: Pig in the City, a beautiful movie.

So she’s mastered Air Music, Water Music, Earth Music and Fire Music? She might be ready to take on the Fire Music Lord.

Well that's what I kept skipping over I guess. What threw me was the flag. We see it in the Train Job and it sure looks like a US/China Alliance. So who did the terraforming then?

Seriously I'm not a doctor but I'd say the best description of depression I've ever heard was when everything feels like cardboard tastes. If this is how you've been feeling for a while see a doctor get some help.

I'd hope so but I always thought the Alliance colonized the whole system. Isn't said that they're the ones terraforming moons and making them habitable? If that's the case the outer moons are breakaway colonies more like the US and Brittan, India and Brittan, and well most of the world and Brittan. 😆

Seriously I'm on Lemmy and nobody's said "The Princess Dick" yet!?!? You people are getting lazy

I just don't understand why God Emperor Trump cares more about the godless hippies in Portland and sending in the Army to protect them rather then sending in the Army to protect the righteous God fearing people of Southport, North Carolina

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