Absolutely everything that River Tam says is important and meaningful, don't miss a word. "Two by two, Hands of Blue" -- the two guys at the end of the show...
Yeah I love the battle of serenity valley with the emplaced weapons. You look at the guns logo and it belongs to Wayland yuitarni corporation from the alien franchise.
Good catch on this episode, the network HATED the pilot after it was completed and asked him to write essentially another pilot, that was on a Friday, and he had to deliver this script the following Monday! And he once again nailed it. The first 6 episodes are all really written as little pilots, making sure new viewers could tell what was going on and who everyone was, it was in joss's contract that had had a GARENTEED 22 episode season, the episodes would be aired in order, and the first six would be aired without a break... NONE of which happened, to make matters worse fox had no faith in the show and dumped it on their Friday night death slot where no show had flourished since x files... so of course... it didn't, which is a shame, the ratings it got then weren't horrible but not good enough, if it had aired now with the same ratings it would be considered a huge hit :(
To make matters worse episodes were preempted for Major League Baseball games and a Brady Bunch reunion movie. Some of those were aired at two or three in the morning without letting anyone know so that they could stay up or set a VCR. I was lucky enough to catch Firefly from this episode. As I was watching it I kept thinking that this is great but I must have missed the pilot last week.
I almost gave the show a pass after watching this as the 1st episode. If gave me the sci-fi I hate, sci-fi reskinned from another genre. Fortunately I was dying for sci-fi, any sci-fi, so I stuck with it. Good thing I did.
@@Tampahop I was there from this ep, too. And, like you, I almost gave up on it. But then Shindig happened and I was a life long Browncoat from that moment on.
Joss wrote the one hour two part pilot (what you watched first) and was pushing the network to air that first. The network disagreed and told him to write a new pilot episode over a weekend (this episode) that was more action packed and got into more of what a week to week episode would be like. So there is ton of exposition in this episode, because it was going to air first. But to be able to write a quality 45 minute episode (half a movie script) in one weekend is more proof to me that this series was Whedon's masterpiece. You had to be in love with this Universe to be able to pull something like this off.
Every fan I know sings the theme song. Glad you're reacting to this. Enjoy your quips and I appreciate you pausing to make bigger points. Welcome to the rabbit hole.
You are so hooked, was that a tear I saw you shed at the end of the episode when the sheriff and Mal share a moment? One of us! Great reaction my friend.
I like how they show Mal with a cross around his neck and mentioning God and Angels in the first scene of the pilot, then twice show that hes lost his faith and is now jaded and slightly broken
I never thought the pilot was slow or boring. I think I’d watch them doing mundane things all day and still love it, haha. Though, I did watch the movie first back in the day. So, I was already invested when I started the show.
I love this rewatch! Can't wait when he reaches Our Mrs. Reynolds. I don't remember the exact moment when I fell in love with Firefly. I really wish I did. I think when Mal kicks the guy into the engine, that was one of those moments when I realized how good this would be.
Your reaction to Firefly is exactly what I've observed from all my friends who I've forced to watch the program. Before: "It can't be very good/cancelled early" etc etc etc. After: "Wow/awesome show/Fox was stupid to cancel!". One convert at a time!!!
In the DVD extras, it's revealed that you're right about the world building. Joss was influenced by the book "The Killer Angels", about the losing side of the American Civil War. Also good call about the mix of Chinese, he envisioned in the future everyone spoke English and Chinese all the time because of the evolution of the mix of superpowers. (Now we've got Covid, so who knows...) Oh yeah, don't watch the DVD extras til you see the whole season. But then definitely watch it. It will make you weepy.
CinemaBlend out here with multiple good reactors who really analyze and breakdown what they watch, you guys go through a training course or something? Anyway, loving it, keep it up!
Anyone else notice how in episode one they lost the battle of Serenity valley because of a lack of air support, but at the bar fight they live because of it?
The FOX network execs didn't like/didn't get the pilot episode. They wanted something with more action. That's where The Train Job comes in. Joss purposely added the brief recap about the war at the beginning since this was going to be the premiere episode.
I wanna say that Joss wrote this episode over a weekend and started shooting it that Monday when the Fox execs said they wanted a new pilot. I'm probably remembering wrong, but bottom line this wasn't taking an episode that already existed and changed bits of it to make it a pilot, it was new material.
10:38 this scene made me laugh so hard, when Mal starts the speech over with guy #2, too funny. Yeah, Fox apparently didn't like the pilot they'd written and told them to figure out something else out so they pulled this episode together to be the Fox pilot episode (hence the rehashing). Onto episode #3!
Glad I came upon this _now_ (don't have to wait to watch them all). To *your question (**2:45**)¹* ─ _Yes._ This was written with foreknowledge of it replacing the pilot. I believe it was written over a weekend by *Joss* and *Tim Minear.* •••●◎●••• *¹* ─ I imagine others have already answered this. 🤷🏼♂️
Having this as the second episode was a bad mistake on Fox's part. I was a huge Buffy fan back in the day so was excited to see this series. I watched this supposed pilot episode and was left confused and underwhelmed (I still think it's actually a weak episode compared to most of the others) and didn't catch the next episode. I then picked up the DVD box set for cheap around a year later and it became one of the best series I've ever seen. It cannot be understated how much Fox fucked up with Firefly and how many shows since then have been influenced by it. Think about it, this was basically a TV show of Millenium Falcon + Guardians of the Galaxy, a station would kill for that now! I've never heard anyone who has watched Firefly complain about the real pilot episode though.
God i love this show. Had forgotten just how much til i watched your vids so thank you. Damn, now i have to re-up for whoever has it here in the uk - cant remember if its netflix or prime - so i can watch it again for the umpteenth time. Cheers.
"The Train Job" is to the pilot "Firefly" as "33" is to the 4-episode miniseries that introduced the _Battlestar Galactica_ reboot - both give us a little tl;dr recap re-intro to the world they're building. The Algorithm just led me to these. I watched the reaction to the pilot, and now this, and I've just surrendered myself to having to binge the rest, just as I did the series itself when it first came to my awareness.
Depending in which version of the lore you hear. The "verse" consist of three stars, with major inner planets and several gas giants with terraformed moons.
Not sure if it's been mentioned but the big guy with the tattoo face is played by Andrew Bryniarski who played Leatherface in the Texas Chainsaw Massacre remake.
When the network decided not to air the pilot, Joss Whedon and Tim Minnear spent a weekend writing this episode so that viewers had some background for subsequent episodes.
You caught the Starship Troopers armor. Rumor is the old costumes from Starship Troopers were in a closet somewhere and they were reused for the Alliance troops.
They knew. FOX told them the pilot episode was too slow, so they shot a new episode, which then became episode 1, and what was originally episode 2 stayed episode 2, while the pilot was not aired until several weeks later. It was a mess.
I had forgotten that Jayne had no idea what day (or even month) it was, suggesting that’s how little he cared about the war, either way. 🤣 Also I remembered “time for some thrilling heroics,” but forgot it was about a HEIST. I’m sure Jayne considered it heroic. Risking his life to benefit himself AND, as a byproduct, others.
Part of the reason this show was canceled was the ratings and the ratings sucked because Fox didn't promote it and they kept changing the time slot. One week it was on Thursday, the next Sunday, etc. I never even heard about it until the last couple episodes.
as far as the chinese influence, basically the lore has the alliance as a mixture of chinese and western cultures blended over generations as the original colony ships were a mix of those two.
Sort of a weird take at the end to list Buffy as an example of an episodic show as someone who is in to film and tv... Buffy is generally accepted as one of the first, and most watched shows that took on full season story arcs (along side Star Trek Deep Space Nine in the same era.)
The order was chosen by network executives trying to match episodes to their competition at the time, nonsensical thinking that they could get better ratings. The pilot wasn't aired until Episode 11.
The way Fox handled this series has puzzled fans for years and years. Somehow the Fox suits were immune or oblivious to what was blindingly obvious to the rest of us, that Firefly was well written, funny, sad, dramatic and just damn good. If I'd seen a screening of the original pilot I would have been gobsmacked, and would have wanted two seasons, up front. But, obviously, I don't have what it takes to be a Fox programming executive.....
Joss and Tim showed Serenity to the Fox executives. Fox didn't like it and demanded a new pilot. Joss and Tim wrote The Train Job as a new pilot over a weekend.
Can we just appreciate how bold it was to write that kicking that... soldier or whatever he was into the turbine? They managed to mix a little bit of dark comedy into a pretty serious scene just for the sake of character development, but it's not unbelievable either. Mal is a man who knows when another man means what he means when he looks you in the face and tells you he's going to kill you. They established that in the opening sequence of the show. "The last thing you see will be my blade." He believed him. So... he kinda had to die right then and there. It comes of as cheesy and cringey with the violin in the background until you think about it and accept that it's actually pretty believable, and if you had read the scene in a book, you'd probably take it pretty seriously. Yeah. This show just didn't get a fair chance. Shame. I'm not one to say it was perfect and didn't fall short in some areas, but where it excelled, it really won me over. Character development was extraordinarily good in this show. It only got better with age too which sucks. It's like they were right at the brink of turning this thing into a Game of Thrones level masterpiece and then it just died.
The FOX network did everything they could to sabotage Firefly. FOX rejected the first pilot at the last minute and Joss Whedon had to write a new pilot script at the last minute. This second episode is that reworked pilot. Be certain to watch these in Whedon's intended order as FOX broadcast them out of order to disrupt the story flow. The theme song - Joss Whedon wrote the song, the lyrics and visuals to accurately represent the show all in a short clip.
I haven't seen "Firefly" in some time. I bought the complete DVD set, then foolishly lent it to my brother-in-law who NEVER returns any SF DVDs. I may have to visit Amazon or eBay to correct this hole in my collection. Or are DVDs far too obsolete in this "Subscribe to our streaming service if you want to see anything good from the past decade" world?
There are also some books which fill in a lot of unfufilled background. Normally that might not be considered cannon since I think the writers took some liberties but this far out from the end of the series it's as cannon as anything.
If Jayne had gotten his way and taken the loot to Niska, Niska would have skinned him and everyone else on the crew alive for failing to follow his *very* simple instructions. "Two boxes Alliance goods." Mal found six boxes with Alliance labels, and stole them all. Seems things between the Serenity crew and Niska not so solid after all.
if you do reaction video to "The Expanse" I will subscribe. "The Expanse" is by far the best sci-fi I have seen. It's started as an RPG, became a series of 9 books, the authors are very involved with the show. The show is very realistic. Character development is off the chart. I guarantee you will not be disappointed.
I'm a huge fan and I hate the theme song. I literally despise it. I skip it whenever I rewatch the series. I appoint a huge chunk of blame for the show not being more widely popular on that stupid song. People heard it and went, "Ew" and avoided the show thereafter. I realize that amongst the fanbase, I'm a rare fish in this hatred of the song though. Of course, how many other people mightve become members of the fanbase if they hadn't been turned off by the horrible thing, we'll never know. That said, I'm loving your reaction to Firefly and hope you did Serenity after you got through the series!
Don't worry. He is watching it in the correct order. Serenity was the original pilot but Fox didn't like it and demanded a new, shorter, more action-packed pilot. Joss then wrote The Train Job to fulfil this role. The DVD has the episodes in Joss's preferred order which has Serenity as Ep1 and Train Job as Ep2. Having watched the show in this order I can confirm everything makes sense. (However, if you try to watch it in the order it was aired you'll find it's a mess).
Though the proper story order is Objects in Space -> Trash -> The Message, as they reference the events of OiS in both of those episodes. OiS is just a better thematic bookend is probably why he put it last on the DVD set.
Hey fellow FIREFLY fans just heard a song I think fellow fans might like, it’s called (WE WON’T BE FALLING). It’s an opening for a Chinese drama called (GAURDIAN) When I first heard the song I got FIREFLY vibes. It’s sung in English. The singer is XUERAN CHEN.🤗
Absolutely everything that River Tam says is important and meaningful, don't miss a word. "Two by two, Hands of Blue" -- the two guys at the end of the show...
That is not just a little Starship Troopers. That IS the Starship Troopers repainted armor.
Yup! Whedon Reuses props like crazy. See if you can spot the gloves and gun that eventually ended up in Dr. Horribles Sing Along Blog!
Yeah I love the battle of serenity valley with the emplaced weapons. You look at the guns logo and it belongs to Wayland yuitarni corporation from the alien franchise.
Hi, I am enjoying your reaction to Firefly, but you won my heart with the Double Indemnity poster on your wall.
Good catch on this episode, the network HATED the pilot after it was completed and asked him to write essentially another pilot, that was on a Friday, and he had to deliver this script the following Monday! And he once again nailed it. The first 6 episodes are all really written as little pilots, making sure new viewers could tell what was going on and who everyone was, it was in joss's contract that had had a GARENTEED 22 episode season, the episodes would be aired in order, and the first six would be aired without a break... NONE of which happened, to make matters worse fox had no faith in the show and dumped it on their Friday night death slot where no show had flourished since x files... so of course... it didn't, which is a shame, the ratings it got then weren't horrible but not good enough, if it had aired now with the same ratings it would be considered a huge hit :(
To make matters worse episodes were preempted for Major League Baseball games and a Brady Bunch reunion movie. Some of those were aired at two or three in the morning without letting anyone know so that they could stay up or set a VCR. I was lucky enough to catch Firefly from this episode. As I was watching it I kept thinking that this is great but I must have missed the pilot last week.
I almost gave the show a pass after watching this as the 1st episode. If gave me the sci-fi I hate, sci-fi reskinned from another genre. Fortunately I was dying for sci-fi, any sci-fi, so I stuck with it. Good thing I did.
@@Tampahop I was there from this ep, too. And, like you, I almost gave up on it. But then Shindig happened and I was a life long Browncoat from that moment on.
Yeah but less people are tuning in on flow tv so the old rating are really different from today
It was an excellent catch. This guy really knows his stuff. Watching him enjoy this show so much--and with very convincing arguments--is vindicating.
Joss wrote the one hour two part pilot (what you watched first) and was pushing the network to air that first. The network disagreed and told him to write a new pilot episode over a weekend (this episode) that was more action packed and got into more of what a week to week episode would be like. So there is ton of exposition in this episode, because it was going to air first. But to be able to write a quality 45 minute episode (half a movie script) in one weekend is more proof to me that this series was Whedon's masterpiece. You had to be in love with this Universe to be able to pull something like this off.
Every fan I know sings the theme song. Glad you're reacting to this. Enjoy your quips and I appreciate you pausing to make bigger points. Welcome to the rabbit hole.
The theme song is my self-soothing song when I have bad cluster headaches.
I also sang it to my kids when they were babies.
You are so hooked, was that a tear I saw you shed at the end of the episode when the sheriff and Mal share a moment? One of us! Great reaction my friend.
stumbled across this on my recommended so thanks ... now I got to go watch it all over again ... I could hug you for that.
I like how they show Mal with a cross around his neck and mentioning God and Angels in the first scene of the pilot, then twice show that hes lost his faith and is now jaded and slightly broken
I was going to mention the same thing.
@@steveaustin2686 thats how many people feel when they give so much and still get dropped
I never thought the pilot was slow or boring. I think I’d watch them doing mundane things all day and still love it, haha. Though, I did watch the movie first back in the day. So, I was already invested when I started the show.
This episode got me hooked ..soon as Mal kicked Crow through the engine
That's what I remember having a huge impact on me the first viewing to. I went from "this is interesting" to "hey, everybody--you have to watch this!"
I really like that you pause to discuss what is happening. Can't wait til you get to the movie!
This show does indeed have a lot of heart. :)
I love this rewatch! Can't wait when he reaches Our Mrs. Reynolds. I don't remember the exact moment when I fell in love with Firefly. I really wish I did. I think when Mal kicks the guy into the engine, that was one of those moments when I realized how good this would be.
Your reaction to Firefly is exactly what I've observed from all my friends who I've forced to watch the program. Before: "It can't be very good/cancelled early" etc etc etc. After: "Wow/awesome show/Fox was stupid to cancel!". One convert at a time!!!
In the DVD extras, it's revealed that you're right about the world building. Joss was influenced by the book "The Killer Angels", about the losing side of the American Civil War. Also good call about the mix of Chinese, he envisioned in the future everyone spoke English and Chinese all the time because of the evolution of the mix of superpowers. (Now we've got Covid, so who knows...) Oh yeah, don't watch the DVD extras til you see the whole season. But then definitely watch it. It will make you weepy.
CinemaBlend out here with multiple good reactors who really analyze and breakdown what they watch, you guys go through a training course or something? Anyway, loving it, keep it up!
that was my reaction to this and whats her face doing the tiger kind ones. these are very well done.
Anyone else notice how in episode one they lost the battle of Serenity valley because of a lack of air support, but at the bar fight they live because of it?
Rupert Murdoch was on Sheldon Cooper's enemies list because Murdoch owned Fox and Fox cancelled. Firefly.
The FOX network execs didn't like/didn't get the pilot episode. They wanted something with more action. That's where The Train Job comes in. Joss purposely added the brief recap about the war at the beginning since this was going to be the premiere episode.
I wanna say that Joss wrote this episode over a weekend and started shooting it that Monday when the Fox execs said they wanted a new pilot. I'm probably remembering wrong, but bottom line this wasn't taking an episode that already existed and changed bits of it to make it a pilot, it was new material.
@@DustoMan You're not wrong about that.
"Two by two, hands of blue."
10:38 this scene made me laugh so hard, when Mal starts the speech over with guy #2, too funny.
Yeah, Fox apparently didn't like the pilot they'd written and told them to figure out something else out so they pulled this episode together to be the Fox pilot episode (hence the rehashing). Onto episode #3!
"I didn't kill you, I just carried the bullet for a while"
Keep flying!
Glad I came upon this _now_ (don't have to wait to watch them all). To *your question (**2:45**)¹* ─ _Yes._ This was written with foreknowledge of it replacing the pilot. I believe it was written over a weekend by *Joss* and *Tim Minear.*
•••●◎●•••
*¹* ─ I imagine others have already answered this. 🤷🏼♂️
Having this as the second episode was a bad mistake on Fox's part. I was a huge Buffy fan back in the day so was excited to see this series. I watched this supposed pilot episode and was left confused and underwhelmed (I still think it's actually a weak episode compared to most of the others) and didn't catch the next episode. I then picked up the DVD box set for cheap around a year later and it became one of the best series I've ever seen. It cannot be understated how much Fox fucked up with Firefly and how many shows since then have been influenced by it. Think about it, this was basically a TV show of Millenium Falcon + Guardians of the Galaxy, a station would kill for that now! I've never heard anyone who has watched Firefly complain about the real pilot episode though.
You really need to listen to the episode commentary for Joss' insights and background
Great reactions! I love this show!
God i love this show. Had forgotten just how much til i watched your vids so thank you. Damn, now i have to re-up for whoever has it here in the uk - cant remember if its netflix or prime - so i can watch it again for the umpteenth time. Cheers.
"The Train Job" is to the pilot "Firefly" as "33" is to the 4-episode miniseries that introduced the _Battlestar Galactica_ reboot - both give us a little tl;dr recap re-intro to the world they're building.
The Algorithm just led me to these. I watched the reaction to the pilot, and now this, and I've just surrendered myself to having to binge the rest, just as I did the series itself when it first came to my awareness.
I wish we saw more of Patience. That's the sad part... so many unexplored plots. 😥
Yay! I knew you'd love the show, I think it's impossible not to.
Depending in which version of the lore you hear. The "verse" consist of three stars, with major inner planets and several gas giants with terraformed moons.
I have a map from the RPG around here somewhere...
firefly.fandom.com/wiki/Maps_of_the_%27Verse
Not sure if it's been mentioned but the big guy with the tattoo face is played by Andrew Bryniarski who played Leatherface in the Texas Chainsaw Massacre remake.
"Darn..." Booted in to running engine
I’m a Brown Coat, and have watched a ton of reaction videos. Yours has been the best so far
A lot of good scenes in this one
The Alliance soldiers outfits are old Starship Troopers
6:31 - LMAO...I'm dead. 😂😂
I’m glad you ended up doing fun things. That Fresno State education was definitely out to good use.
When the network decided not to air the pilot, Joss Whedon and Tim Minnear spent a weekend writing this episode so that viewers had some background for subsequent episodes.
You caught the Starship Troopers armor. Rumor is the old costumes from Starship Troopers were in a closet somewhere and they were reused for the Alliance troops.
He caught it a little too easily.
Not a rumour, it's a fact.
I am guessing that you are also now catching on some pop culture memes that came from this series, from "inevitable betrayal" to "shiny"
They knew. FOX told them the pilot episode was too slow, so they shot a new episode, which then became episode 1, and what was originally episode 2 stayed episode 2, while the pilot was not aired until several weeks later. It was a mess.
I had forgotten that Jayne had no idea what day (or even month) it was, suggesting that’s how little he cared about the war, either way. 🤣 Also I remembered “time for some thrilling heroics,” but forgot it was about a HEIST. I’m sure Jayne considered it heroic. Risking his life to benefit himself AND, as a byproduct, others.
Love the firefly class ship? Here's one delivering the Mobile Suit Gundam in Ready Player One: ruclips.net/video/jd9KkOfGMYI/видео.html
Part of the reason this show was canceled was the ratings and the ratings sucked because Fox didn't promote it and they kept changing the time slot. One week it was on Thursday, the next Sunday, etc. I never even heard about it until the last couple episodes.
as far as the chinese influence, basically the lore has the alliance as a mixture of chinese and western cultures blended over generations as the original colony ships were a mix of those two.
Sort of a weird take at the end to list Buffy as an example of an episodic show as someone who is in to film and tv... Buffy is generally accepted as one of the first, and most watched shows that took on full season story arcs (along side Star Trek Deep Space Nine in the same era.)
The order was chosen by network executives trying to match episodes to their competition at the time, nonsensical thinking that they could get better ratings. The pilot wasn't aired until Episode 11.
Opinion: If the series had run, ALL of the guest stars had the potential to be recurring characters.
When I saw the train scene in Solo, I immediately thought, "total Firefly ripoff". And only a third as good.
The way Fox handled this series has puzzled fans for years and years. Somehow the Fox suits were immune or oblivious to what was blindingly obvious to the rest of us, that Firefly was well written, funny, sad, dramatic and just damn good. If I'd seen a screening of the original pilot I would have been gobsmacked, and would have wanted two seasons, up front. But, obviously, I don't have what it takes to be a Fox programming executive.....
Joss and Tim showed Serenity to the Fox executives. Fox didn't like it and demanded a new pilot. Joss and Tim wrote The Train Job as a new pilot over a weekend.
A recurring theme throughout the series and movie... beating up Mal.
3:34 one-of-us, one-of-us
Can we just appreciate how bold it was to write that kicking that... soldier or whatever he was into the turbine? They managed to mix a little bit of dark comedy into a pretty serious scene just for the sake of character development, but it's not unbelievable either. Mal is a man who knows when another man means what he means when he looks you in the face and tells you he's going to kill you. They established that in the opening sequence of the show. "The last thing you see will be my blade." He believed him. So... he kinda had to die right then and there. It comes of as cheesy and cringey with the violin in the background until you think about it and accept that it's actually pretty believable, and if you had read the scene in a book, you'd probably take it pretty seriously.
Yeah. This show just didn't get a fair chance. Shame. I'm not one to say it was perfect and didn't fall short in some areas, but where it excelled, it really won me over. Character development was extraordinarily good in this show. It only got better with age too which sucks. It's like they were right at the brink of turning this thing into a Game of Thrones level masterpiece and then it just died.
The FOX network did everything they could to sabotage Firefly. FOX rejected the first pilot at the last minute and Joss Whedon had to write a new pilot script at the last minute. This second episode is that reworked pilot. Be certain to watch these in Whedon's intended order as FOX broadcast them out of order to disrupt the story flow.
The theme song - Joss Whedon wrote the song, the lyrics and visuals to accurately represent the show all in a short clip.
I remember seeing the pilot 1st so I assume they were shown in order where I live.
I haven't seen "Firefly" in some time. I bought the complete DVD set, then foolishly lent it to my brother-in-law who NEVER returns any SF DVDs. I may have to visit Amazon or eBay to correct this hole in my collection. Or are DVDs far too obsolete in this "Subscribe to our streaming service if you want to see anything good from the past decade" world?
I have 2 copies. One to loan. One to not loan.
Do you guys have a Patreon where we can see full reactions?
Looks like starship troopers.... good eye. Its the same helmets
Same armor entirely
There was no reshot (I think) but there was rewrite in a hurry for the first 10-15 minutes before the shooting.
10:51 LOL
There are also some books which fill in a lot of unfufilled background. Normally that might not be considered cannon since I think the writers took some liberties but this far out from the end of the series it's as cannon as anything.
If Jayne had gotten his way and taken the loot to Niska, Niska would have skinned him and everyone else on the crew alive for failing to follow his *very* simple instructions.
"Two boxes Alliance goods."
Mal found six boxes with Alliance labels, and stole them all. Seems things between the Serenity crew and Niska not so solid after all.
you said nothing about the "hands of blue" at the end.
The unseen horror is scarier
Joss and Tim had to write this episode in a couple of days because Fox didn't like Serenity as a pilot.
Do you know what the chain of the command is?
Purple-bellies = Union/blue-coats. Browncoats = Rebels.
You skipped over the "Chain of Command" joke though =P
Jaime234 That’s right! It’s the chain that Jane beats you with until you understand who’s in command!! LOL!!
if you do reaction video to "The Expanse" I will subscribe. "The Expanse" is by far the best sci-fi I have seen. It's started as an RPG, became a series of 9 books, the authors are very involved with the show. The show is very realistic. Character development is off the chart. I guarantee you will not be disappointed.
detrix42 I second that!! Amazing show! You might also consider the Stargate franchise.
How come no one noticed the female deputy is Patience?
the episodes where shown out of order
Sigh it's been 2 months since you asked about what was up with the episode.... so you probably know the answer by now
FARSCAPE!!!!!!!!!
That episode screamed bi-?
I'm a huge fan and I hate the theme song. I literally despise it. I skip it whenever I rewatch the series. I appoint a huge chunk of blame for the show not being more widely popular on that stupid song. People heard it and went, "Ew" and avoided the show thereafter.
I realize that amongst the fanbase, I'm a rare fish in this hatred of the song though. Of course, how many other people mightve become members of the fanbase if they hadn't been turned off by the horrible thing, we'll never know.
That said, I'm loving your reaction to Firefly and hope you did Serenity after you got through the series!
I'm not sure you are watching the episodes in the order that Whedon intended.
Don't worry. He is watching it in the correct order.
Serenity was the original pilot but Fox didn't like it and demanded a new, shorter, more action-packed pilot. Joss then wrote The Train Job to fulfil this role.
The DVD has the episodes in Joss's preferred order which has Serenity as Ep1 and Train Job as Ep2.
Having watched the show in this order I can confirm everything makes sense. (However, if you try to watch it in the order it was aired you'll find it's a mess).
Though the proper story order is Objects in Space -> Trash -> The Message, as they reference the events of OiS in both of those episodes. OiS is just a better thematic bookend is probably why he put it last on the DVD set.
Hey fellow FIREFLY fans just heard a song I think fellow fans might like, it’s called (WE WON’T BE FALLING). It’s an opening for a Chinese drama called (GAURDIAN)
When I first heard the song I got FIREFLY vibes.
It’s sung in English.
The singer is XUERAN CHEN.🤗