One of the best episodes of the series. The back and forth of the timeline is slightly confusing at first, but allows for so much more story to be told.
As you said, I love how the flashbacks show how the various crewmates contributed to Mal's survival. The episode demonstrates the inverse of Mal's statement, "Everyone dies alone" which is, "When you're not alone, you will live."
Yes, she says it in the first episode (by production) "Serenity." Lots of foreshadowing in the episodes. The one for this coil going out crosses a few episodes, as written by Angela Quarles at her website: "When they land on Persephone, Kaylee asks for a new one, saying 'if the compression coil busts, we’re drifting.' In the next episode, The Train Job, we see her makeshift repair: 'Were there monkeys? Some terrifying space monkeys that maybe got loose?'…someone won’t replace the crappy compression coil!' It gets put away and enough episodes go by for the viewer to forget, and then… BANG! They’re drifting, just as Kaylee said they would be all that time ago."
This episode really shows Jayne's strengths.....he is good in a crisis. At the start, he keeps everybody in the kitchen while Mal vents the fire. He stops Mal and Wash from arguing and using up the air. And he even fixes a suit for Mal if he needs it. Handy guy to have around despite his obvious flaws.
Prepping the suit also shows he cares. He's not good with words, but his actions reveal that there's more to him than just his crudeness (like in the pilot when we see him crouched by the window to the sickbay watching over Kaylee).
@@rudewalrus5636Truth. What did it take for Mal to win Jayne over to his side and buy his loyalty? Just a tiny bit of respect for what Jayne brings to the table, by way of a slightly better share of the profits and a bunk of his own. Jayne's a simple man, and good at what he does... even if his bedside manner is suboptimal. Manners aren't really a big priority in a firefight. A little bit goes a long way with Jayne.
My favorite episode! Aside from everyone’s origins, which are each perfect, and showing what Mal learned from all of them to keep himself alive, the basic concept is amazing. For as dangerous as it is to just be flying in space inside a vessel with generated air I don’t remember ever seeing a story before based around a ship just breaking down. Stories are always so concerned with laser fights and killer aliens that it always gets forgotten that just being in space is the most dangerous part.
Not sure which one's my favorite, truthfully. But we're at the point in the season (and sadly, series) where the episodes are all of such high quality. There aren't any bad episodes, but from here on out there aren't even any good episodes. They're all great.
@@fakecubed I generally agree but the only episode that is by far my least favorite is still coming up. I’ll give you a hint: it has a hat in it (which is the only aspect of the episode that I like).
The ship breaks down in Star Trek all the time, but it's usually because of a spacial anomaly or an unknown lifeform, and the crew are the most competent people in the universe and can always figure it out. They don't have to worry about the ship not working because they deferred maintenance too many times because fixing things is expensive.
@@christopherlundgren1700 right, there’s always a main conflict going on and the ship gets damaged and Scotty is off-screen fixing it while the main conflict plays out on camera. The ship just naturally breaking down and them being stuck in space is never the main story like it is here.
In an outtake of the flashback scene with Wash, obviously just for laughs, right after we see him with a mustache, the camera reverses to Zoe and Mal, who also are donning mustaches.
It's been said that each person on the crew represents something Mal lost, or needs. For instance, he hired Zoe as his second-in-command because she was a fellow soldier who fought with him in the war against the Alliance. He keeps her around because he needs someone who has been in the same boat as himself from a soldier's perspective, and have at least one person who will remain fiercely loyal to him without question. He keeps Wash around because he needs an excellent pilot, as well as someone with a sense of humor. He keeps Kaylee around because he needs a great mechanic and someone to remain hopeful. He keeps Simon around because he needs a doctor who can patch up his crew in his dangerous line of work and help him heal from within. He keeps River around because she's a mindreader and needs someone who possesses a sense of wonder. He keeps Book around because he needs someone who has faith and also serve as his conscience. He keeps Inara around because he needs to love and to be loved. He keeps Jayne around because he needs the extra muscle when the going gets tough, and while Jayne is a self-preservationist, he has also shown to be unexpectedly generous at times when it involved the safety of the crew.
This is my favorite episode of the entire series. The flashbacks are great(Kaylee's is my favorite). The part that always brings a tear to my is Mal asking if everyone will still be there when he wakes up again. But my absolute favorite part is the end of the episode and the look on Mal's face the first time he sees the ship that will become Serenity. That was beautiful.
This has been my favorite episode of the series since the first time I watched it. The backstory of each crew member... The way the scenes were shot and their color grading letting you easily know if you're in the present, recent past, or far past... The hook at the beginning catching the viewer and drawing them in for the entire show! This was Firefly at its best!
Great reaction especially to the Kaylee backstory. In the pilot and the Train Job, Kaylee kept reminding Mal that he needs to replace a part. I love all the back stories. Gina had a small part in thus episode because she was getting married to Lawrence Fishburne.
It was probably just written that way because it's funny, but I like to think that the thing she didn't like about him was that she DID like him right away, and that made her feel uncomfortable because it was challenging what she thought she knew about herself.
"Public Service Announcement": Oxygen is a gas. Running out of it is BAD. We all look to River's unique mind for that glimmer of hope... River, "We'll all freeze to death first." Gee... thanks, River.
This I’d one of the episodes that I didn’t see, as Fox TV messed with the schedule, showing Baseball instead. Saw on the dvd set with three unbrodcast episodes in 2003.
Firefly is a show, where every episode you just watch feels like the best episode. But if I really had to make a choice, I would rank Out Of Gas first place. It's just great storytelling. We have 3 timelines, perfectly intertwined together, we have lots of suspense, we get all the backstories of the crew-members (and all of them are great little stories on their own, you could probably made a whole episode out of each of them), we learn a lot more of the characters and the whole group dynamic of the crew, and we heave a heart-warming ending, without being cheesy.
Jayne is my favourite character, and that's saying a lot because I love the others. But Jayne is the one I'd get drunk with, and he's *absolutely* the guy you want on your side if you get in a fight. Yeah, he's an asshole, and he'll turn on you if the money is good enough, but that's how real people are. Doesn't mean you can't have friends, you just need to know how far the friendship will go, and with Jayne that's crystal clear. Maybe that's just it, he just strikes me as real, the most believable.
As always a great reaction and thoughts on the plot. Personally my own favorite episode. It's great to see where a lot of the original crew, before the Tam's and Shepard came onboard. Be safe.
The flashbacks are well signposted with the lighting used. The past/origins use the kind of whide spectrum lighting scheme of the 70s/80s tv shows, the incident flashbacks use modern lighting schemes for contemporary shows and the present scenes use the blue lighting scheme of sci-fi space thrillers/horrors
when the Sh!t hits the fan, jayne is the man that holds it together, he did not talk pretty at the departure, but he did something usefull, that could safe mal´s life, instead....
I tend to regard reaction videos as a guilty pleasure; but you vocalize my my own reactions so straightforwardly, I feel like a kindergartner just going "yeah, yeah...yeah." Like reconnecting nostalgia to innocence... well, *fei hua*
This episode is considered by many to be the best episode, for obvious reasons. It's a very special piece of storytelling that I wish I could experience for the first time, like some of Doctor Who's best episodes.
"Out of Gas": Simon's birthday party is rudely interrupted by a fire in the engine room. Kaylee's been bugging Mal to replace an engine part since episode 1, and it's "time to pay the piper." Three timelines have different color casts, and we get origin stories for the crew. What to do? Send out a noisy distress call and send the crew out in the shuttles as a last resort. Mal hails a passing ship and tries to make a deal, but they're Pirates. Mal has a gun on the Top Dog, keeps the "nothing part," installs it, but misses The Button. Mal awakens to see his crew has returned, and remembers when he first saw "Serenity." The gas in question is Oxygen. 14:22 In the movie, "Stand By Me" (1986), all Gordie had to do was target Ace; the gang backed down and left.
What attracted Mal to Serenity is that it was something that needed fixing. Same with every member of the crew, and even Mal himself. They are all lost, discarded or broken in some way.
I can shed some light on your questions about the fire. (I am a 10 year veteran of the US Navy). Navy Ships, by nature are compartmentalized. In case of emergency, the damaged section can be sealed off to prevent further damage. On ships especially submarines, fire is the biggest threat a crew can face. In a sealed container filled with oxygen, a fire is absolutely deadly. Look up the history of the Appollo 1 mission. 3 astronauts died in that exact situation. Show runner Joss Wheadon used that knowledge and had technical experts who would have known this. Once the ship was sealed, opening the outer doors, due to the vacuum of space, the fire would be pulled out of the areas of the ship and putting it out on the ship.
Jayne is not a man you have empathy for, or need to. His worth is in what he is. He's a fighting man, the kind you want on your side in a tight spot. He was a very common sort in the settling of the West. You won't discuss Socrates with him or share deep feelings and hug and cry and learn and grow. You pay him to do a job, you don't tempt him with weakness, and you treat him like a strong rambunctious and dangerous dog. He always has to know who's the boss.
Minor thing that always bugged me about this episode is that it isn’t the lack of oxygen that gets you in a situation like that, it’s build up of CO2 (or freezing).
For me, while I think objectively this is my favorite, in practice whatever episode I'm currently watching is my favorite at that moment. The show is just that epic...
When you go out for a stretch, get stranded and the only way to get hydrated and stay alive is to steal some water, then get arrested for it... 🥲 then miss eme's uploads... 😢
✂[Edited Out] : The ten minutes it took emme to figure out why Kaylee was on her back. 🤔"That's freakin' crazy." Yes. Yes it is. Next up: Discovering what Inara _actually_ does... 🚫🫖
LOVED this episode with the funky timeline. As a reminder i’m a month ahead on patreon so episode 12 just posted there! patreon.com/emmereacts
Another reactor said, “When Jayne is the voice of reason, you know you’re in trouble.”
The look on your face when you realized that it was Kaylee who was Bester's "prairie harpy" was the best.
This episode is the one that shows whether a reactor has been paying attention to Kaylee's personality or projecting assumptions onto her.
The instant you heard Kaylee's voice- I've never seen anybody's eyes go wider. Luv ya...
Love hiw they use the three different color filters to indicate the different timelines.
You KNOW when Jayne is the voice of reason, you're in DEEP gǒushǐ!
One of the best episodes of the series. The back and forth of the timeline is slightly confusing at first, but allows for so much more story to be told.
As you said, I love how the flashbacks show how the various crewmates contributed to Mal's survival. The episode demonstrates the inverse of Mal's statement, "Everyone dies alone" which is, "When you're not alone, you will live."
The part that broke is also what Kaylee says in one of the first few episodes they need a spare of but Mal says they don't have the money for it.
Yes, she says it in the first episode (by production) "Serenity." Lots of foreshadowing in the episodes. The one for this coil going out crosses a few episodes, as written by Angela Quarles at her website: "When they land on Persephone, Kaylee asks for a new one, saying 'if the compression coil busts, we’re drifting.' In the next episode, The Train Job, we see her makeshift repair: 'Were there monkeys? Some terrifying space monkeys that maybe got loose?'…someone won’t replace the crappy compression coil!' It gets put away and enough episodes go by for the viewer to forget, and then… BANG! They’re drifting, just as Kaylee said they would be all that time ago."
Probably my favorite episode of the series. I really liked getting some backstory for everyone.
This episode really shows Jayne's strengths.....he is good in a crisis. At the start, he keeps everybody in the kitchen while Mal vents the fire. He stops Mal and Wash from arguing and using up the air. And he even fixes a suit for Mal if he needs it. Handy guy to have around despite his obvious flaws.
Prepping the suit also shows he cares. He's not good with words, but his actions reveal that there's more to him than just his crudeness (like in the pilot when we see him crouched by the window to the sickbay watching over Kaylee).
@@rudewalrus5636Truth. What did it take for Mal to win Jayne over to his side and buy his loyalty? Just a tiny bit of respect for what Jayne brings to the table, by way of a slightly better share of the profits and a bunk of his own. Jayne's a simple man, and good at what he does... even if his bedside manner is suboptimal. Manners aren't really a big priority in a firefight. A little bit goes a long way with Jayne.
Loved that we got some much back story in this one.
Your reaction to Kaylee’s introduction alone makes the whole video.
My favorite episode! Aside from everyone’s origins, which are each perfect, and showing what Mal learned from all of them to keep himself alive, the basic concept is amazing. For as dangerous as it is to just be flying in space inside a vessel with generated air I don’t remember ever seeing a story before based around a ship just breaking down. Stories are always so concerned with laser fights and killer aliens that it always gets forgotten that just being in space is the most dangerous part.
Not sure which one's my favorite, truthfully. But we're at the point in the season (and sadly, series) where the episodes are all of such high quality. There aren't any bad episodes, but from here on out there aren't even any good episodes. They're all great.
@@fakecubed I generally agree but the only episode that is by far my least favorite is still coming up. I’ll give you a hint: it has a hat in it (which is the only aspect of the episode that I like).
@@jabecker21 Fair enough.
The ship breaks down in Star Trek all the time, but it's usually because of a spacial anomaly or an unknown lifeform, and the crew are the most competent people in the universe and can always figure it out. They don't have to worry about the ship not working because they deferred maintenance too many times because fixing things is expensive.
@@christopherlundgren1700 right, there’s always a main conflict going on and the ship gets damaged and Scotty is off-screen fixing it while the main conflict plays out on camera. The ship just naturally breaking down and them being stuck in space is never the main story like it is here.
In an outtake of the flashback scene with Wash, obviously just for laughs, right after we see him with a mustache, the camera reverses to Zoe and Mal, who also are donning mustaches.
It's been said that each person on the crew represents something Mal lost, or needs.
For instance, he hired Zoe as his second-in-command because she was a fellow soldier who fought with him in the war against the Alliance. He keeps her around because he needs someone who has been in the same boat as himself from a soldier's perspective, and have at least one person who will remain fiercely loyal to him without question. He keeps Wash around because he needs an excellent pilot, as well as someone with a sense of humor. He keeps Kaylee around because he needs a great mechanic and someone to remain hopeful. He keeps Simon around because he needs a doctor who can patch up his crew in his dangerous line of work and help him heal from within. He keeps River around because she's a mindreader and needs someone who possesses a sense of wonder. He keeps Book around because he needs someone who has faith and also serve as his conscience. He keeps Inara around because he needs to love and to be loved. He keeps Jayne around because he needs the extra muscle when the going gets tough, and while Jayne is a self-preservationist, he has also shown to be unexpectedly generous at times when it involved the safety of the crew.
This is my favorite episode of the entire series. The flashbacks are great(Kaylee's is my favorite). The part that always brings a tear to my is Mal asking if everyone will still be there when he wakes up again. But my absolute favorite part is the end of the episode and the look on Mal's face the first time he sees the ship that will become Serenity. That was beautiful.
This has been my favorite episode of the series since the first time I watched it. The backstory of each crew member... The way the scenes were shot and their color grading letting you easily know if you're in the present, recent past, or far past... The hook at the beginning catching the viewer and drawing them in for the entire show! This was Firefly at its best!
Great reaction especially to the Kaylee backstory.
In the pilot and the Train Job, Kaylee kept reminding Mal that he needs to replace a part.
I love all the back stories.
Gina had a small part in thus episode because she was getting married to Lawrence Fishburne.
Jayne's expertise with words...well, he doesn't use 'em much... 😂 My favorite episode!
True! He does have a nice collection of hats… 😉
“I don’t like him” from Zoey about Wash is possibly my favourite line in the whole series
It was probably just written that way because it's funny, but I like to think that the thing she didn't like about him was that she DID like him right away, and that made her feel uncomfortable because it was challenging what she thought she knew about herself.
This one brings a tear to my eye every time.
One of the two best episodes for my money ♥
This is my favorite episode. The storytelling is superb. I also like the peeks we get into the backstories of the crew.
"Out of Gas" - Gas = Oxygen
That thumbnail is funny, it looks like you're laughing at Mal's pain
Everyone's favorite episode. Browncoats forever.
"Public Service Announcement": Oxygen is a gas. Running out of it is BAD.
We all look to River's unique mind for that glimmer of hope... River, "We'll all freeze to death first." Gee... thanks, River.
anyone who looks to river for hope is as lost as she is.
This I’d one of the episodes that I didn’t see, as Fox TV messed with the schedule, showing Baseball instead. Saw on the dvd set with three unbrodcast episodes in 2003.
Firefly is a show, where every episode you just watch feels like the best episode. But if I really had to make a choice, I would rank Out Of Gas first place. It's just great storytelling. We have 3 timelines, perfectly intertwined together, we have lots of suspense, we get all the backstories of the crew-members (and all of them are great little stories on their own, you could probably made a whole episode out of each of them), we learn a lot more of the characters and the whole group dynamic of the crew, and we heave a heart-warming ending, without being cheesy.
Jayne is really at his best when action is required. Like he said in the previous episode, he doesn't use words much.
Jayne is my favourite character, and that's saying a lot because I love the others. But Jayne is the one I'd get drunk with, and he's *absolutely* the guy you want on your side if you get in a fight. Yeah, he's an asshole, and he'll turn on you if the money is good enough, but that's how real people are. Doesn't mean you can't have friends, you just need to know how far the friendship will go, and with Jayne that's crystal clear.
Maybe that's just it, he just strikes me as real, the most believable.
Jayne is the sweetest drunk ever & I appreciate the fact that he doesn't try to hide who he is. He can be asinine, but at least he's honest. ❤🧡💛💚💙💜
Best episode of the series. :)
My favorite episode. Great reaction!
This one... this is my fav... and this reaction was every bit as exceptional - Great Reaction!
What many don't understand is Jayne was not tempted by more money; he was pissed off at previous guy lying to him that 7% was "standard".
"zoey, i'm paying you too much."
As always a great reaction and thoughts on the plot.
Personally my own favorite episode. It's great to see where a lot of the original crew, before the Tam's and Shepard came onboard.
Be safe.
To clarify the ending, Mal heard the salesman; the salesman was just showing Mal the wrong ship.
This episode, amongst others, always draws a few tears.
The flashbacks are well signposted with the lighting used. The past/origins use the kind of whide spectrum lighting scheme of the 70s/80s tv shows, the incident flashbacks use modern lighting schemes for contemporary shows and the present scenes use the blue lighting scheme of sci-fi space thrillers/horrors
when the Sh!t hits the fan, jayne is the man that holds it together, he did not talk pretty at the departure, but he did something usefull, that could safe mal´s life, instead....
I tend to regard reaction videos as a guilty pleasure; but you vocalize my my own reactions so straightforwardly, I feel like a kindergartner just going "yeah, yeah...yeah." Like reconnecting nostalgia to innocence... well, *fei hua*
jayne is evil, but in a way we love )
This episode is considered by many to be the best episode, for obvious reasons. It's a very special piece of storytelling that I wish I could experience for the first time, like some of Doctor Who's best episodes.
"Out of Gas": Simon's birthday party is rudely interrupted by a fire in the engine room. Kaylee's been bugging Mal to replace an engine part since episode 1, and it's "time to pay the piper." Three timelines have different color casts, and we get origin stories for the crew. What to do? Send out a noisy distress call and send the crew out in the shuttles as a last resort. Mal hails a passing ship and tries to make a deal, but they're Pirates. Mal has a gun on the Top Dog, keeps the "nothing part," installs it, but misses The Button. Mal awakens to see his crew has returned, and remembers when he first saw "Serenity." The gas in question is Oxygen. 14:22 In the movie, "Stand By Me" (1986), all Gordie had to do was target Ace; the gang backed down and left.
I love how everyone has the same reaction to seeing Fester😂
I love Kaylee. 🤣 Can't blame a backwater girl for making her own fun. And it landed her a job.
What attracted Mal to Serenity is that it was something that needed fixing. Same with every member of the crew, and even Mal himself. They are all lost, discarded or broken in some way.
I can shed some light on your questions about the fire. (I am a 10 year veteran of the US Navy). Navy Ships, by nature are compartmentalized. In case of emergency, the damaged section can be sealed off to prevent further damage. On ships especially submarines, fire is the biggest threat a crew can face. In a sealed container filled with oxygen, a fire is absolutely deadly. Look up the history of the Appollo 1 mission. 3 astronauts died in that exact situation. Show runner Joss Wheadon used that knowledge and had technical experts who would have known this. Once the ship was sealed, opening the outer doors, due to the vacuum of space, the fire would be pulled out of the areas of the ship and putting it out on the ship.
This is the best episode (in my opinion), with the next one being a very close second.
this is my favorite episode tho none are BAD... but i LOVE the back stories... espeacially Kaylees is super funny
Not sure if it has been mentioned but the part that failed has had a cameo appearance in almost every episode and the movie.
This and ep 10 are my favs. Looking forward to that one as well.
This is my very favourite episode.
I wonder if Zoe has some minor childhood trauma of Magnum PI being binge played during her formative years. Would explain her first reaction to Wash.
This is my favorite episode 🔥💜🔥
My favourite episode.
My favorite episode.😊
Jayne is not a man you have empathy for, or need to. His worth is in what he is.
He's a fighting man, the kind you want on your side in a tight spot. He was a very common sort in the settling of the West.
You won't discuss Socrates with him or share deep feelings and hug and cry and learn and grow. You pay him to do a job, you don't tempt him with weakness, and you treat him like a strong rambunctious and dangerous dog.
He always has to know who's the boss.
Minor thing that always bugged me about this episode is that it isn’t the lack of oxygen that gets you in a situation like that, it’s build up of CO2 (or freezing).
That's what River said - "We freeze to death first" 😀
Think is the best episode of the series. Anyone who says otherwise is wrong (unless they just lust for Saffron).
😂
My favorite episode is “War Stories.” It’s neither this episode, nor has Saffron.
@@Ernwaldo good answer.
For me, while I think objectively this is my favorite, in practice whatever episode I'm currently watching is my favorite at that moment. The show is just that epic...
@@ernesthakey3396 Hey, Ern! Best answer, probably. Especially since we were robbed of a complete story.
Hate to be "that guy," but you aren't literally dying. It you were, you couldn't talk! 😮
When you go out for a stretch, get stranded and the only way to get hydrated and stay alive is to steal some water, then get arrested for it... 🥲 then miss eme's uploads... 😢
✂[Edited Out] : The ten minutes it took emme to figure out why Kaylee was on her back.
🤔"That's freakin' crazy." Yes. Yes it is.
Next up: Discovering what Inara _actually_ does... 🚫🫖