In the episode "Ariel", when Jayne tries to get the reward for River and Simon, Mal has to "forgive" Jayne. He knows who Jayne is, he got Jayne on the ship by paying him more money than the crew he used to work for, so Mal totally knows what drives Jayne. But when Jayne asks that Mal make up a story about why he's gone, I think Mal sees there is a positive growth that has happened with Jayne. Instead of pleading for his life, Jayne just accepts that Mal will let him die, but he doesn't want people he's started to care about to think badly of him. Just my 2 cents.
I think you nailed it, but there's one more aspect to consider - I think Jayne learned a valuable lesson, and will never trust the Alliance again. he certainly won't be selling out the siblings
A freaking 4+ hrs marathon of Firefly? I hate you guys, that means all my plans I had for today are now thrown out the window. Guess my chores have to wait til tomorrow 🤪
I love at the end of the episode “Safe” when Mal says without hesitation that he came back for them because they’re part of the crew. But earlier in the episode, Simon’s own father said he would not come back for him if he got in trouble again while trying to free his sister. It’s a great contrast and a good look at Mal’s integrity and moral code.
I've always wondered about that. I don't think, as it happened, that it makes Mal's moral code shine so much; after all, he did take the decision of leaving River and Simon behind. It was later on, already in space, that Kayleigh and Inara talking to him made him change his mind. For a while he was like, well, we survived without them, we'll survive without them again. But then he was reminded of said code, and changed his mind. Sooo... he was ready to do the wrong thing, if his out-of-body conscience (Kayleigh) hadn't stopped him...
@@aerthreepwood8021 Because for Firefly they painted the armour purple, to try to differentiate it. It wasn't purple in Starship Troopers. "Do you want to know more?" 🤣
They were forced to make a new pilot by fox. They wanted to start with more mindless action than showing how 2 of them are veterans on the losing side.
Mal is my favourite character and my favourite epsiode is 'Out of Gas'. It's so clever with the three different timelines and it all coming together. I also love seeing how the crew came to be
If you liked Castle, you will remember the episode when he dressed up like a cowboy and told his daughter that he was a "space cowboy". In Castle, there are a lot of references to Firefly.
There was one Halloween episode of Castle where Nathon is wearing his Malcom Reynolds costume. When his daughter asks what he's supposed to be Nathan says "space cowboy".
@@mirozen_ Wasn’t there also an episode where he speaks Chinese and someone asks where he learned it and he responds with “I learned it from this one TV show”.
There is also another scene in Castle where he is at a crime scene and after putting on a pair of blue gloves, looks at his hands while flip-flopping them, then looks directly into the camera and raises his eyebrows.
River cut Jayne's t-shirt and took the labels off the tin cans for the same reason. The Blue Sun Corporation. They were the ones behind the experiments. Blue Sun is the biggest company in the Verse computers, genetics, military contracts, and food products. The tin cans had Blue Sun labels. Jayne was wearing a Blue Sun t-shirt. They were the intended big bad of the series if you closely look at the pilot you can see Whedon layering clues and easter eggs from the beginning. "Two by two hands of blue".
There are Blue Sun posters on walls in the background of several shots on the planet they land on to pick up the passengers, as well. You have to pay attention to subtle clues that don't hit you over the head with FIREFLY. That's what makes it so great: it's smart, made for smart people.
I think the "weird closeness" and River feeding Simon is less to be weird and uncomfortable, and more to show that River acts like a child, like the "found you" bit. Its not weird when a little kid feeds and older sibling or family member, because the kid is innocent and doesn't read anything weird in doing it. So the mix with the childish behavior and the genius behavior, show the arrested development River went through; she is 16 now but she went to that "academy" at 11-12, so she didn't have a chance to grow up and learn social cues while being tortured and experimented on. So River and Simon are specially close because they are trauma bonded, aside from River's arrested development, last time they were together she was his 11 year old baby sister, he got to grow up and live his life, and she stayed the same but traumatized, so he still sees her as his baby sister, who is extra vulnerable and needs extra protection and affection because of her mental state.
I feel like, added to that, is the fact that, before she went to the alliance "school", River was younger and smarter than the kids at her school, so she probably didn't really have friends, a lot of geniuses have trouble connecting with people, and their parents were probably busy with work and social stuff, leading River to lean on Simon more and Simon to take on a semi-parental role.
Some of us grew up in households where such interactions were discouraged as unsanitary.While I'm sure my older siblings fed me as a child, I'm also sure it was from my own bowl with my own spoon and never having touched the food directly. We did not drink out of the jug (that was enough to make my dad throw it away), or out or each other's cups/glasses; we each got our own ears of corn, our own slices/plates of watermelon, our own dinnerware, and handling, say, several biscuits from the platter before selecting one could get a sharp word from either parent. It's not that they weren't loving; they were teaching us to be A) sanitary and B) sovereign individuals, something lacking in today's society (no, egotism and entitlement mentality do not equate to sovereign individualism).
@@Hiraghm ... most people have their own eating utensils... I meant more as in a snack, when a small child, with clean hands because they are eating, offers you one of their cookies for example. I feel like you went really went on a tangent on this comment.
There is a nice review of the sword duel somewhere on YT, and bottom line is - Mal won fair and square. Everything he did was entirely legal; maybe not quite honorable, but within the rules. Including throwing a part of a sword, and hitting his opponent with a hilt. There were a few minor mistakes, but generally the fight was realistic and well choreographed.
It blows me away how often Mrs. Movie guesses major plot twists. I watch lots of Firefly reactions and she's the only one to guess Mal was married at the camp fire.
I watched all your Firefly reactions when you did them but this is very cool you edited them together. One of the best shows ever. I watched it when it aired and i'm still pissed it got canceled.
FireFly is one of my all time favorite shows. I love everything about it. Sadly it came out on FOX who had a really bad history of coming up with some great programs and then promptly canceling them. I think you guys will really enjoy watching the story unfold and seeing everyone's story develop. You will probably really enjoy "Serenity", the FireFly move also.. I am going to enjoy watching you react to it all.
I always figured Shepherd was previously an Alliance secret agent, or something similar, before retiring to his life of faith. Judging by the occasional unexplained things he would spout about that type of stuff. Especially in the movie regarding how such Alliance operatives go about their business. Might explain why he went to help the other agent out in the first episode, along with his Alliance ID. If the seasons had continued, I suspect there would've been a reveal about him being instrumental in the Alliance victory at Serenity which could cause some temporary friction between him and Mal (and possibly a bit for Zoe) for some extra drama.
@@phueal - Never saw them. Just felt the hints were already sprinkled in, but not the details. Are those official canon or their own things like my speculation?
One of the reasons the scene where they delivered their war buddy back home was so emotionally powerful, was that shortly before they filmed it the cast was told that the show was cancelled.
It's really tough to have a "favorite" episode of this series. Our Missus Reynolds was great because it was hilarious. War Stories was great because it really showed what the entire crew was made of. The Message was great because it shows the heart of the entire crew. Heart of Gold is great because it finally admits how Inara feels about Malcolm.
I always wished we could have seen more of bounty hunter Jubal Early. His oddness was pretty amazing, and while being very unsettling, he had the personality to be a great recurring character.
@@johnscott4196 Entire TV series have been based around psychopaths. They are often the most interesting characters on many stories. Just look at Hannibal Lecter or Joker.
So many of my friends were head over heals for Inara, but I was always enchanted with Kaylee. The show overall just had this great flow to it, never got boring.
I just finished your reaction to Ariel, and I completely understand how you feel about Jayne. But after multiple viewings of the entire Firefly/Serenity saga, I have a different take than most. Yes Jayne turned them in, but I don't think it was about the money. He obviously wanted the money, but I don't think that's why he did it. He had multiple opportunities to turn them in before. I think it's significant that he doesn't do so until after River attacked him. His talk with Mal in sickbay I think tells his whole motivation. He's come to care for the crew and is worried that River will attack one of them next. Mal shuts him down and Jayne knows him well enough to know that nothing he can say or do will change Mal's mind. So even though it was an asshole move, I honestly think that Jayne selling out the Tams was his way of protecting his friends and crew. I think it was less disloyalty and avarice than it was a seriously misguided attempt to do what he thought was best for everyone. I think his conversation at the end with Mal backs up this take. When he accepts his fate, his "last request" is that Mal not tell the others what he did. If he didn't care about them, he wouldn't care about what they thought of him. I could be wrong, but that's how I see Jayne's motivation.
Those are probably the two most elegantly structured episodes, with "Ariel" a close third. Really, the only episodes I don't like are "The Train Job" (not their fault-Fox put them in an impossible position with almost no time for that one) and "Bushwacked" (because I don't believe the Alliance would have let them go).
I personally love the hidden meaning of River's random things she says. 2 by 2 hands of blue..easy one. The daddy is coming to take us home, is not about her previous family. It's Mal, daddy, coming to take them home to Serenity. Lots of hidden meaning in what she says and does.
Thank you guys for sharing this! Having fun with reliving the show with you guys' fun and cute comments. Not saying with this next part that you're a "background" watch for me, but I work from home and miss busier workspaces sometimes. Fun to have long commentaries like this going while I'm working on long projects.
So happy you enjoyed this show...one of my all time favorites. Out of Gas is my favorite ep. For this episode, it is mentioned on the DVD commentary that this is the 1st time Mal really is able to welcome River on to the ship...she of course was in a box when she first came aboard...so with this being the last ep. - at least this crew is all on the ship by choice. And the crew of Serenity can go on to have adventures.
That's exactly how The space shuttle would enter the atmosphere. Flying upside down and backwards, they lite off the engines for a de orbit burn and do a belly flop into the atmosphere.
When I'm not sure if I can make it up a mountain because I'm exhausted from pulling the trailer behind my bike with my nine year old son in it, I start repeating a thought in my head. Over and over. Then my bike reaches the top. When I think I can't keep pedaling I just look directly in front of my wheel, and remind myself: "no, it's okay! I'm a leaf on the wind!"
Objects In Space did air on network TV, as the final episode (before the pilot, which aired at noon on a Sunday). The unaired ones were Trash, The Message, and Heart Of Gold.
this truly was one of the best shows. loved the world, loved the characters, loved the relationships and interplay between characters, loved the way they speak, loved the secondary characters (Badger always gets me thanks to Mark Shepherds charm). this had so fricken much potential. thank goodness we at least had the movie to answer some of the questions we were left hanging with. My fav episodes are out of gas and objects in space as well as the original pilot (serenity) which i thought was so much better than the train job. but really i loved every ep for one reason or another.
1:20:48 And that dress is never seen again in the series. 1:23:30 Simon Tam Ladies and Gentlemen. 1:30:33 "Your on my crew." 1:45:22 The "Special Hell". 1:56:27 One of the best songs on the series. 1:57:19 Fear the Hair.
16:32 me too, me too 😊 Thanks for glueing these videos together, I like to watch reaction videos while gaming and so you skipped me a lot of headaches.
Re: Braces - putting wax on the brackets is your friend - reduces how much prominent teeth cause cuts inside your cheeks, but also provides a smoother transition (tooth-bracket-tooth) so your lips don't get caught when smiling/talking.
I have 2 favorites. Kaylee and River. River holds a special place in my heart and always will. Through her torture and plight, she still managed to hold onto a bit of herself, even if stunted and come right back when shes around Simon. Sometimes, its like no time has passed and they are back home, young still and happy. That girl is amazing. Kaylee, theres never enough space to say things about her. She sees the good in every single situation, even when she got shot at the beginning of the series. She tells Mal "It's nobodys fault. Promise you'll remember that." Shes a beautiful soul through and through. Out of gas is and always will be, without a second thought to it, my favorite. You see so much in that episode that I have to sometimes remind myself that it was literally just 1 episode. All the crew, how they came to be, where they were before Serenity and some of them why they are there as well. Mal, as someone that loves that ship more than he could ever love anything, refuses to leave it and you see more in depth with him as well. Love at first sight with that ship. Its a beautiful episode all around.
Heh, this was fun. Thank you. 😀 I loved how she realized the first part of "Our Miss Reynolds" that Saffron had performed some kind of marriage ceremony with Mal right away ("You got a crown, you drank out of her bowl... you just married her!") As for Saffron's long-con gameplan and the possible involvement of the villagers; I think she was just scouting for _any_ potential marks that came along, and Mal had a ship to steal.
alright I'm at 3:15:33 in and how does this woman correctly guess EVERYTHING?!?! She just keeps calling it, but you know what makes this show great? There's always a little extra twist on things that just tugs the heart strings. It's a joy to watch, you got a subscribe from me.
It was such a travesty they cancelled the show. One of the best shows to come out around that time period. And yea... Cancelling my saturday plans to watch this marathon :D Damn you!
Yeah,they showed the episodes out of order,did very poor promos of the show,one such promo showed our heroes on horses,I thought it was a western and changed the channel. LOL.
the original Jubal Early was a Confederate General. Joss learned that Early was an ancestor of Nathan Fillion so he made the name into an Easter egg. turns out Fillian was wrong, he comes from German stock & Early's was Irish. he's also responsible for the quote "I aim to misbehave".
1:11:01 "I didn't mind it." -- Along with the laughter, this has got to be one of my favorite YOU, ME, & THE MOVIES moments. (If that's corny, then corn me up.)
Did you notice the Weyland-Yutani logo on the HUD for the gun Mal shoots the ship down with in the beginning of the first episode??? Firefly takes place in the same universe as Alien
This was fun spending the day with you two. Kaylee was my favorite character. Badger is my favorite side character. Shindig... Our Mrs. Reynolds... Out of Gas are my favorite episodes. Cannot wait for your Serenity reaction video. Take care!!
Out of Gas is my favourite - it's very very close to the perfect science fiction episode. Too many people don't know about Con Man which was written and directed (mostly) by Alan Tudyk about an actor that played the pilot in a tv show that was cancelled early in it's run but later gained massive cult status that starred an actor that bears a striking resemblance to Nathan Fillion - it's very funny and well worth a watch, and has a huge cast of well known tv and movie actors, some playing themselves some playing fictional characters.
"there's six of them with guns." it's not a videogame. they're each much more concerned with staying alive than winning the battle. yes, mal would die for sure, but none of them want to be the one he takes with him.
@@ernesthakey3396 I think she knew before this - after all see her expression when Mal finds out he's married, or the fact that she kisses him later that episode. She knew she couldn't be with him, but it obviously hurt her if other women would be.
My favorites are probably (and subject to change) "Ariel" and "Objects in Space"... with the pilot close behind, or swapping out one of the others, depending on my mood.
This show was so good that me and my friends had a Firefly rpg with all original characters and story and it was almost as good as the show. It just rubbed off on us. Damn, I miss all that
Criminal what they did to this remarkable, brilliant show. The writing, the cast, everything about this was pure and unadulterated perfection. This is how you make a meaningful, memorable show. The stupidity and ignorance of the studios squandered what has to be one of the finest shows ever made. Criminal. Thank you Joss, for a least giving us the movie to wrap it up - and the studio system managed to ruin the success of that too. You have to watch Serenity to complete the story.
"Crazy Ivan" Submariners term See: Hunt for Red October Russian submarine captains would take hard turns to make sure another submarine isn't hiding in their wake. Like serious hard turns, if another submarine was hiding in their wake, they would have to hard reverse, causing the screws to cavitation making a lot of noise. US submariners took to calling the maneuver a Crazy Ivan.
"So, six seasons, and they only got one?" No.. we got just a little more than HALF a season! A typical Joss Whedon season of that time was 22 episodes long. Firefly only made it to ep 14.
Nerd alert: the reason River tears the labels off the cans in Shindig, and also why she slices Jayne in Ariel, is because of the Blue Sun logo. Blue Sun is a ubiquitous company that has their fingers in pretty much everything, including the “academy” where River was tortured. The Blue Sun logo is a bit of a trigger for her as a result.
Throughout the whole series, and in the film. Nathan only ever rides one horse, he is called Fred. Nathan still owns him, as he took him home after doing all of the filming. Fred is Awesome
Dortmund is a city in Germany. There is an imported German beer, Dortmunder. It can also be a Family name, like "person from Dortmunder.". I knew it as the name of Donald Westlake's hard luck burgler. Westlake needed a character name, happened to be in a bar considering that, and saw a neon beer sign. He liked the name. Joss needed a name for a ship, happened to be in a bar considering that, saw a beer sign, liked the name.
VFX done by Zoic Studios in Burbank. I visited the studio once and dreamed of working there for years but it was not meant to be. I did get to know one of the 3D artists who worked on this though, Lee Stringer.
If you rewatch the Battlestar Galactica miniseries, there is an Easter egg cameo where the serenity flies overhead in the scene where Roslin finds out she has cancer in the doctor's office. There is a skylight in the office and you see serenity fly over.
One thread that was just starting when the show go cancelled was that the Blue Sun company (the ones behind River's... "conditioning") products were not her favorite. When she tore the labels off the cans, they were Blue Sun products; likewise, when she slashed Jayne, he was wearing a Blue Sun t-shirt. See the logo/label of that company could set her off (or trigger her, as the kids say); we learned the company was evil, but that seeing the logo flipped her switch we didn't really get as much of (since the show was cancelled).
"Shindig" and "Mrs. Reynolds" are my favorite episodes. There is a lot of memorable lines but those two episodes have my favorite lines. "Mercy is the mark of a great man. (stabs Aetherton) Guess I'm just a good man. (stabs Aetherton) Well I'm alright." "I swear by my pretty floral bonnet I will end you."
Fun Fact: Jewel Staite is allergic to Strawberries. 21:32 "... and if we are very very lucy there will do it in that order." Gee thanks for the nightmare fuel. 47:54 "Darn" *Epic Kick*
I believe Shepard was the second son of an alliance big wig. Typically, second sons of bigwigs would go either into the clergy or the military. They weren’t going to inherit anything so clergy was a pretty safe place to go. Typical of high society during certain periods of history. They are replicating the Victorian/Guilded Age society. I’m also reminded of the post civil war reconstruction, so it also reminds me of Jose Wales.
As many times as I have watched this series including the first run, I just noticed something. As Mel and Saffron landing the shuttle, in the background, it looks like an SR-71 is flying by. Its just silhouette but sure looks like one. And I note one other thing - where you record your videos, I saw up above and to the screen right, a Tom Servo figurine! Cool.
In the episode "Ariel", when Jayne tries to get the reward for River and Simon, Mal has to "forgive" Jayne. He knows who Jayne is, he got Jayne on the ship by paying him more money than the crew he used to work for, so Mal totally knows what drives Jayne. But when Jayne asks that Mal make up a story about why he's gone, I think Mal sees there is a positive growth that has happened with Jayne. Instead of pleading for his life, Jayne just accepts that Mal will let him die, but he doesn't want people he's started to care about to think badly of him. Just my 2 cents.
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I think you nailed it, but there's one more aspect to consider - I think Jayne learned a valuable lesson, and will never trust the Alliance again. he certainly won't be selling out the siblings
Yup yup, those were my thoughts as well.
A freaking 4+ hrs marathon of Firefly? I hate you guys, that means all my plans I had for today are now thrown out the window. Guess my chores have to wait til tomorrow 🤪
Ditto. I didn't know this existed. I want to savor this by making it last, but I know I'm doin' a Firefly Allnighter. Woo-hoo
Right?!
It’s one of the best Sci Fi show ever. The movie is no slouch either.
Really enjoyed the movie.
AGREED.
movie kind of sucked.
Firefly and The Expanse compete for #1 in my book.
@@SciFiCatGuy What about the rebooted Battlestar Galactica ????
I love at the end of the episode “Safe” when Mal says without hesitation that he came back for them because they’re part of the crew. But earlier in the episode, Simon’s own father said he would not come back for him if he got in trouble again while trying to free his sister. It’s a great contrast and a good look at Mal’s integrity and moral code.
I've always wondered about that. I don't think, as it happened, that it makes Mal's moral code shine so much; after all, he did take the decision of leaving River and Simon behind. It was later on, already in space, that Kayleigh and Inara talking to him made him change his mind. For a while he was like, well, we survived without them, we'll survive without them again. But then he was reminded of said code, and changed his mind. Sooo... he was ready to do the wrong thing, if his out-of-body conscience (Kayleigh) hadn't stopped him...
@@Asehpe There is no Kayleigh in Firefly. She's Kaywinnet Lee "Kaylee" Frye.
I love the use of actual 'Starship Troopers' uniforms for the Alliance soldiers on this show.
😱Damn 20 years later and I've never noticed that xD holy hell 🤯
@Darkstar What does that mean? Nobody uses that phrase in Starship Troopers.
One of the first things I noticed first time watching the train job ep. on tv.
@@aerthreepwood8021 Because for Firefly they painted the armour purple, to try to differentiate it. It wasn't purple in Starship Troopers. "Do you want to know more?" 🤣
They were forced to make a new pilot by fox. They wanted to start with more mindless action than showing how 2 of them are veterans on the losing side.
Mal is my favourite character and my favourite epsiode is 'Out of Gas'. It's so clever with the three different timelines and it all coming together. I also love seeing how the crew came to be
If you liked Castle, you will remember the episode when he dressed up like a cowboy and told his daughter that he was a "space cowboy". In Castle, there are a lot of references to Firefly.
There was one Halloween episode of Castle where Nathon is wearing his Malcom Reynolds costume. When his daughter asks what he's supposed to be Nathan says "space cowboy".
And his daughter says "Didn't you wear that, like, five years ago? Don't you think you should move on", to which Castle replies "I like it." 😂👍
@@mirozen_ Wasn’t there also an episode where he speaks Chinese and someone asks where he learned it and he responds with “I learned it from this one TV show”.
There is also another scene in Castle where he is at a crime scene and after putting on a pair of blue gloves, looks at his hands while flip-flopping them, then looks directly into the camera and raises his eyebrows.
@@paratus04 Yes! "A TV show I used to love" is what I think he said!
I think that same episode included a pan over some book shelves at Castle’s place, and the thing that was broken in Out of Gas is on a shelf.
River cut Jayne's t-shirt and took the labels off the tin cans for the same reason. The Blue Sun Corporation. They were the ones behind the experiments. Blue Sun is the biggest company in the Verse computers, genetics, military contracts, and food products. The tin cans had Blue Sun labels. Jayne was wearing a Blue Sun t-shirt. They were the intended big bad of the series if you closely look at the pilot you can see Whedon layering clues and easter eggs from the beginning. "Two by two hands of blue".
There are Blue Sun posters on walls in the background of several shots on the planet they land on to pick up the passengers, as well. You have to pay attention to subtle clues that don't hit you over the head with FIREFLY. That's what makes it so great: it's smart, made for smart people.
I think the "weird closeness" and River feeding Simon is less to be weird and uncomfortable, and more to show that River acts like a child, like the "found you" bit. Its not weird when a little kid feeds and older sibling or family member, because the kid is innocent and doesn't read anything weird in doing it. So the mix with the childish behavior and the genius behavior, show the arrested development River went through; she is 16 now but she went to that "academy" at 11-12, so she didn't have a chance to grow up and learn social cues while being tortured and experimented on. So River and Simon are specially close because they are trauma bonded, aside from River's arrested development, last time they were together she was his 11 year old baby sister, he got to grow up and live his life, and she stayed the same but traumatized, so he still sees her as his baby sister, who is extra vulnerable and needs extra protection and affection because of her mental state.
I feel like, added to that, is the fact that, before she went to the alliance "school", River was younger and smarter than the kids at her school, so she probably didn't really have friends, a lot of geniuses have trouble connecting with people, and their parents were probably busy with work and social stuff, leading River to lean on Simon more and Simon to take on a semi-parental role.
Some of us grew up in households where such interactions were discouraged as unsanitary.While I'm sure my older siblings fed me as a child, I'm also sure it was from my own bowl with my own spoon and never having touched the food directly.
We did not drink out of the jug (that was enough to make my dad throw it away), or out or each other's cups/glasses; we each got our own ears of corn, our own slices/plates of watermelon, our own dinnerware, and handling, say, several biscuits from the platter before selecting one could get a sharp word from either parent.
It's not that they weren't loving; they were teaching us to be A) sanitary and B) sovereign individuals, something lacking in today's society (no, egotism and entitlement mentality do not equate to sovereign individualism).
@@Hiraghm Your folks sound hella uptight🤣
@@Hiraghm ... most people have their own eating utensils... I meant more as in a snack, when a small child, with clean hands because they are eating, offers you one of their cookies for example. I feel like you went really went on a tangent on this comment.
@@Hiraghm You should talk to someone, because this comment did not merit that response and it clearly fucked you up.
Firefly, the best season ever!
There is a nice review of the sword duel somewhere on YT, and bottom line is - Mal won fair and square. Everything he did was entirely legal; maybe not quite honorable, but within the rules. Including throwing a part of a sword, and hitting his opponent with a hilt. There were a few minor mistakes, but generally the fight was realistic and well choreographed.
It blows me away how often Mrs. Movie guesses major plot twists. I watch lots of Firefly reactions and she's the only one to guess Mal was married at the camp fire.
I seen one before. It did surprise me as well.
And Mr Movies tries to tell her she's wrong. Lol
I've seen one other. It's interesting how often women quickly spot her for what she is, and men never do.
It's easy to guess when you know about different cultural rituals.
I watched all your Firefly reactions when you did them but this is very cool you edited them together. One of the best shows ever. I watched it when it aired and i'm still pissed it got canceled.
FireFly is one of my all time favorite shows. I love everything about it. Sadly it came out on FOX who had a really bad history of coming up with some great programs and then promptly canceling them.
I think you guys will really enjoy watching the story unfold and seeing everyone's story develop. You will probably really enjoy "Serenity", the FireFly move also..
I am going to enjoy watching you react to it all.
"Out of Gas" was my top episode. I love the story structure (Present, Past, Far Past) and the look into how the crew of Serenity came together.
And Kaylee's Introduction! :)
I always figured Shepherd was previously an Alliance secret agent, or something similar, before retiring to his life of faith. Judging by the occasional unexplained things he would spout about that type of stuff. Especially in the movie regarding how such Alliance operatives go about their business. Might explain why he went to help the other agent out in the first episode, along with his Alliance ID. If the seasons had continued, I suspect there would've been a reveal about him being instrumental in the Alliance victory at Serenity which could cause some temporary friction between him and Mal (and possibly a bit for Zoe) for some extra drama.
There's a comic which explains the full story, and there's a video on YT which summarises it in about 10 minutes as well.
@@phueal - Never saw them. Just felt the hints were already sprinkled in, but not the details. Are those official canon or their own things like my speculation?
@@NefariousKoel the comic is canon, and the YT video just summarises the comic.
@@phueal - Thanks!
One of the reasons the scene where they delivered their war buddy back home was so emotionally powerful, was that shortly before they filmed it the cast was told that the show was cancelled.
That's right. That episode stands out as a special show to me. Mal and Chloe's friend did an excellent portrayal of a dead man.
It's really tough to have a "favorite" episode of this series. Our Missus Reynolds was great because it was hilarious. War Stories was great because it really showed what the entire crew was made of. The Message was great because it shows the heart of the entire crew. Heart of Gold is great because it finally admits how Inara feels about Malcolm.
It took me over an hour to realise I had already seen these reactions last year. Might as well carry on and watch them again.
I always wished we could have seen more of bounty hunter Jubal Early. His oddness was pretty amazing, and while being very unsettling, he had the personality to be a great recurring character.
Oddness? He was obviously a psychopath. How would you include that regularly?
@@johnscott4196 Entire TV series have been based around psychopaths. They are often the most interesting characters on many stories. Just look at Hannibal Lecter or Joker.
So many of my friends were head over heals for Inara, but I was always enchanted with Kaylee. The show overall just had this great flow to it, never got boring.
I just finished your reaction to Ariel, and I completely understand how you feel about Jayne. But after multiple viewings of the entire Firefly/Serenity saga, I have a different take than most. Yes Jayne turned them in, but I don't think it was about the money. He obviously wanted the money, but I don't think that's why he did it. He had multiple opportunities to turn them in before. I think it's significant that he doesn't do so until after River attacked him. His talk with Mal in sickbay I think tells his whole motivation. He's come to care for the crew and is worried that River will attack one of them next. Mal shuts him down and Jayne knows him well enough to know that nothing he can say or do will change Mal's mind. So even though it was an asshole move, I honestly think that Jayne selling out the Tams was his way of protecting his friends and crew. I think it was less disloyalty and avarice than it was a seriously misguided attempt to do what he thought was best for everyone. I think his conversation at the end with Mal backs up this take. When he accepts his fate, his "last request" is that Mal not tell the others what he did. If he didn't care about them, he wouldn't care about what they thought of him. I could be wrong, but that's how I see Jayne's motivation.
During that funeral scene in the Message they looked really sad, like people who just learned the show they were on was cancelled.
Episodes “Out of Gas” and “Objects in Space” are tied for my favorite. River is my favorite character.
"War Stories" is up there in that mix as well.
Those are probably the two most elegantly structured episodes, with "Ariel" a close third. Really, the only episodes I don't like are "The Train Job" (not their fault-Fox put them in an impossible position with almost no time for that one) and "Bushwacked" (because I don't believe the Alliance would have let them go).
Jaynestown is my favorite episode, and named my daughter Kaylee Jayne. Im something of a fan.
lucky kid
The writing is so fantastic!! The snark, witty banter, original take on vernacular. ❤
#browncoatforevr
I personally love the hidden meaning of River's random things she says. 2 by 2 hands of blue..easy one. The daddy is coming to take us home, is not about her previous family. It's Mal, daddy, coming to take them home to Serenity. Lots of hidden meaning in what she says and does.
One of the best shows I’ve ever seen. I thought westerns were boring as a kid, this show is what opened up the whole genre for me
Mrs Reynolds episode every time I see this I’m in agony due to laughing so hard.
Thank you guys for sharing this!
Having fun with reliving the show with you guys' fun and cute comments.
Not saying with this next part that you're a "background" watch for me, but I work from home and miss busier workspaces sometimes. Fun to have long commentaries like this going while I'm working on long projects.
People don't realize that River's most iconic lines are her "channeling" another crew member's thoughts.
So happy you enjoyed this show...one of my all time favorites. Out of Gas is my favorite ep. For this episode, it is mentioned on the DVD commentary that this is the 1st time Mal really is able to welcome River on to the ship...she of course was in a box when she first came aboard...so with this being the last ep. - at least this crew is all on the ship by choice. And the crew of Serenity can go on to have adventures.
That's exactly how The space shuttle would enter the atmosphere. Flying upside down and backwards, they lite off the engines for a de orbit burn and do a belly flop into the atmosphere.
OMG-- the best series!!!! So exciting.
This format is great!!
good, yes, the best? no, never had the chance to be.
When I'm not sure if I can make it up a mountain because I'm exhausted from pulling the trailer behind my bike with my nine year old son in it, I start repeating a thought in my head. Over and over. Then my bike reaches the top. When I think I can't keep pedaling I just look directly in front of my wheel, and remind myself: "no, it's okay! I'm a leaf on the wind!"
Objects In Space did air on network TV, as the final episode (before the pilot, which aired at noon on a Sunday). The unaired ones were Trash, The Message, and Heart Of Gold.
My favorite character is Zoe. Perhaps that is why my favorite episode is "War stories", where she gets to really shine.
I'll take any excuse to revisit "Firefly." You guys are awesome!
this truly was one of the best shows. loved the world, loved the characters, loved the relationships and interplay between characters, loved the way they speak, loved the secondary characters (Badger always gets me thanks to Mark Shepherds charm). this had so fricken much potential. thank goodness we at least had the movie to answer some of the questions we were left hanging with. My fav episodes are out of gas and objects in space as well as the original pilot (serenity) which i thought was so much better than the train job. but really i loved every ep for one reason or another.
I love this show. 10 years ago I thought it was done and disbanded.. You made my day with this. Thank you.
Since you’ve watched all of Castle, you will now understand all the firefly jokes that Nathan Fillion slipped into Castle.
I'm surprised I missed you, me&the movies watching this - it's my favorite!!
Almost a haiku!
Watching this with them again.
Favorite as well. :)
1:20:48 And that dress is never seen again in the series. 1:23:30 Simon Tam Ladies and Gentlemen. 1:30:33 "Your on my crew." 1:45:22 The "Special Hell". 1:56:27 One of the best songs on the series. 1:57:19 Fear the Hair.
Funny how it reminds you of Star Wars Rebels, because when I started watching Rebels I thought about how it reminded me of Firefly!
16:32 me too, me too 😊
Thanks for glueing these videos together, I like to watch reaction videos while gaming and so you skipped me a lot of headaches.
YYYYEEEEESSSSSSSS finalyyyyyy!! I’m so happy that you’ve reacted to this!!
Re: Braces - putting wax on the brackets is your friend - reduces how much prominent teeth cause cuts inside your cheeks, but also provides a smoother transition (tooth-bracket-tooth) so your lips don't get caught when smiling/talking.
I have 2 favorites. Kaylee and River. River holds a special place in my heart and always will. Through her torture and plight, she still managed to hold onto a bit of herself, even if stunted and come right back when shes around Simon. Sometimes, its like no time has passed and they are back home, young still and happy. That girl is amazing. Kaylee, theres never enough space to say things about her. She sees the good in every single situation, even when she got shot at the beginning of the series. She tells Mal "It's nobodys fault. Promise you'll remember that." Shes a beautiful soul through and through. Out of gas is and always will be, without a second thought to it, my favorite. You see so much in that episode that I have to sometimes remind myself that it was literally just 1 episode. All the crew, how they came to be, where they were before Serenity and some of them why they are there as well. Mal, as someone that loves that ship more than he could ever love anything, refuses to leave it and you see more in depth with him as well. Love at first sight with that ship. Its a beautiful episode all around.
Heh, this was fun. Thank you. 😀 I loved how she realized the first part of "Our Miss Reynolds" that Saffron had performed some kind of marriage ceremony with Mal right away ("You got a crown, you drank out of her bowl... you just married her!") As for Saffron's long-con gameplan and the possible involvement of the villagers; I think she was just scouting for _any_ potential marks that came along, and Mal had a ship to steal.
Im a browncoat. Love castle cus so many references. Also kaylee is a treasure. No one hurt her.
alright I'm at 3:15:33 in and how does this woman correctly guess EVERYTHING?!?! She just keeps calling it, but you know what makes this show great? There's always a little extra twist on things that just tugs the heart strings. It's a joy to watch, you got a subscribe from me.
Jayne is my favourite
"what a bunch of idiots..." 3 hours in and She's got it.
Favorite characters -
1. Wash (note: Alan Tudyk is one of my all time favorite actors)
2. Mal
3. River/Serenity
4. Zoe
5. Inara
6. Kaylee
It was such a travesty they cancelled the show. One of the best shows to come out around that time period. And yea... Cancelling my saturday plans to watch this marathon :D Damn you!
I would totally watch this if I hadn't spent the last week rewatching all her reactions to this show already
So is this channel a fake or did their old one get taken down or something?
@@quick2bud o shit i didnt even realize i have no idea
Damn I miss this show, Fox really dropped the ball when they cancelled it.
Yeah,they showed the episodes out of order,did very poor promos of the show,one such promo showed our heroes on horses,I thought it was a western and changed the channel. LOL.
the original Jubal Early was a Confederate General. Joss learned that Early was an ancestor of Nathan Fillion so he made the name into an Easter egg. turns out Fillian was wrong, he comes from German stock & Early's was Irish. he's also responsible for the quote "I aim to misbehave".
1:11:01 "I didn't mind it." -- Along with the laughter, this has got to be one of my favorite YOU, ME, & THE MOVIES moments. (If that's corny, then corn me up.)
Did you notice the Weyland-Yutani logo on the HUD for the gun Mal shoots the ship down with in the beginning of the first episode???
Firefly takes place in the same universe as Alien
This was fun spending the day with you two.
Kaylee was my favorite character.
Badger is my favorite side character.
Shindig... Our Mrs. Reynolds... Out of Gas are my favorite episodes.
Cannot wait for your Serenity reaction video.
Take care!!
Out of Gas is my favourite - it's very very close to the perfect science fiction episode. Too many people don't know about Con Man which was written and directed (mostly) by Alan Tudyk about an actor that played the pilot in a tv show that was cancelled early in it's run but later gained massive cult status that starred an actor that bears a striking resemblance to Nathan Fillion - it's very funny and well worth a watch, and has a huge cast of well known tv and movie actors, some playing themselves some playing fictional characters.
"there's six of them with guns."
it's not a videogame. they're each much more concerned with staying alive than winning the battle. yes, mal would die for sure, but none of them want to be the one he takes with him.
I think Inara minded and cried not because she thinks sex is important, but because she knows how important it to Mal.
And she realized how attached she'd become...and she hates complications...
@@ernesthakey3396 I think she knew before this - after all see her expression when Mal finds out he's married, or the fact that she kisses him later that episode. She knew she couldn't be with him, but it obviously hurt her if other women would be.
@@phueal yeah, but then she suppressed it again. Both Mal and Inara have issues...
"The Message" was the episode where they found out that the show was cancelled. So it's a fitting ending to the series.
Best show on TV, ever, that only got a single season.
My favorites are probably (and subject to change) "Ariel" and "Objects in Space"... with the pilot close behind, or swapping out one of the others, depending on my mood.
This show changed my life.
The last episode filmed was actually The Message. The last scene with Mal at the funeral the music playing was their goodbye to the show.
Thank you for doing this. I love this show and missed most of the reactions.
This show is Awesome! the banter between you both is Hilarious - Thank you!
This show was so good that me and my friends had a Firefly rpg with all original characters and story and it was almost as good as the show. It just rubbed off on us. Damn, I miss all that
Criminal what they did to this remarkable, brilliant show. The writing, the cast, everything about this was pure and unadulterated perfection. This is how you make a meaningful, memorable show. The stupidity and ignorance of the studios squandered what has to be one of the finest shows ever made. Criminal. Thank you Joss, for a least giving us the movie to wrap it up - and the studio system managed to ruin the success of that too. You have to watch Serenity to complete the story.
3:50:46 event...What an appreciatible element of editing entertainment Thank yous.-Ernie Moore Jr.
castle was great... a lot of awesome characters, liking that series is enough to open ones mind to watch any movie i think
Inara’s face at the end of “Our Mrs. Reynolds” 😂
She’s definitely thinking “I’m in love with an idiot”
"Crazy Ivan"
Submariners term
See: Hunt for Red October
Russian submarine captains would take hard turns to make sure another submarine isn't hiding in their wake.
Like serious hard turns, if another submarine was hiding in their wake, they would have to hard reverse, causing the screws to cavitation making a lot of noise.
US submariners took to calling the maneuver a Crazy Ivan.
now you need to see the movie, serenity for a bit of closure! one of the best shows ever!
I love Jayne, he is just fun to me. but I love the whole crew.
"So, six seasons, and they only got one?"
No.. we got just a little more than HALF a season! A typical Joss Whedon season of that time was 22 episodes long. Firefly only made it to ep 14.
Nerd alert: the reason River tears the labels off the cans in Shindig, and also why she slices Jayne in Ariel, is because of the Blue Sun logo. Blue Sun is a ubiquitous company that has their fingers in pretty much everything, including the “academy” where River was tortured. The Blue Sun logo is a bit of a trigger for her as a result.
Throughout the whole series, and in the film. Nathan only ever rides one horse, he is called Fred.
Nathan still owns him, as he took him home after doing all of the filming. Fred is Awesome
Dortmund is a city in Germany. There is an imported German beer, Dortmunder. It can also be a Family name, like "person from Dortmunder.". I knew it as the name of Donald Westlake's hard luck burgler. Westlake needed a character name, happened to be in a bar considering that, and saw a neon beer sign. He liked the name. Joss needed a name for a ship, happened to be in a bar considering that, saw a beer sign, liked the name.
I liked the first and the last season best.
VFX done by Zoic Studios in Burbank. I visited the studio once and dreamed of working there for years but it was not meant to be. I did get to know one of the 3D artists who worked on this though, Lee Stringer.
Strawberries are good, and precious- valuable enough to be packaged it an individual, custom woodworked box. Keep that sense of value in mind.
If you rewatch the Battlestar Galactica miniseries, there is an Easter egg cameo where the serenity flies overhead in the scene where Roslin finds out she has cancer in the doctor's office. There is a skylight in the office and you see serenity fly over.
Can't wait to watch your reaction to the movie !
One thread that was just starting when the show go cancelled was that the Blue Sun company (the ones behind River's... "conditioning") products were not her favorite. When she tore the labels off the cans, they were Blue Sun products; likewise, when she slashed Jayne, he was wearing a Blue Sun t-shirt. See the logo/label of that company could set her off (or trigger her, as the kids say); we learned the company was evil, but that seeing the logo flipped her switch we didn't really get as much of (since the show was cancelled).
Seeing Summer Glau here makes me want Mr. and Mrs. to watch "The Sarah Connor Chronicles". Such a great show.
"Shindig" and "Mrs. Reynolds" are my favorite episodes. There is a lot of memorable lines but those two episodes have my favorite lines. "Mercy is the mark of a great man. (stabs Aetherton) Guess I'm just a good man. (stabs Aetherton) Well I'm alright." "I swear by my pretty floral bonnet I will end you."
Sorry, to disappoint the misses, but Dortmund is an actual German city.
You gotta see the bloopers to the series.
Fun Fact: Jewel Staite is allergic to Strawberries. 21:32 "... and if we are very very lucy there will do it in that order." Gee thanks for the nightmare fuel. 47:54 "Darn" *Epic Kick*
Not allergic. Just doesn't like them. It would be horrible to make her eat them if she were actually allergic.
I believe Shepard was the second son of an alliance big wig. Typically, second sons of bigwigs would go either into the clergy or the military. They weren’t going to inherit anything so clergy was a pretty safe place to go. Typical of high society during certain periods of history.
They are replicating the Victorian/Guilded Age society. I’m also reminded of the post civil war reconstruction, so it also reminds me of Jose Wales.
That line... once your in Serenity you never leave.
Dortmunder would be someone who comes from Dortmund, a city in Germany.
"Our Mrs. Reynolds" is my favorite episode also.
You should also have a look at Dollhouse.It’s another Joss Whedon show.
Jewel Staite aka Kaylee has said in interviews in the past said that Strawberries are her favourite food
As many times as I have watched this series including the first run, I just noticed something. As Mel and Saffron landing the shuttle, in the background, it looks like an SR-71 is flying by. Its just silhouette but sure looks like one. And I note one other thing - where you record your videos, I saw up above and to the screen right, a Tom Servo figurine! Cool.