Film Student FALLS IN LOVE with *FIREFLY* | Episode 1 Reaction | Serenity

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Seeing someone become a fan of Firefly is like getting a puppy: it's exciting and fun but you know it's going to end in heartbreak. Stupid Fox execs.

This is a fertile show, and this reaction will thrive. Yes, we will rule over this platform, and we will call it... this platform. Raar!

NEW BROWN COAT PEOPLE!!!!

The Chinese is a way of having swaering on the show without it getting an adult rating. It's basically an alternative to BSG's "Frak" or Farscape's "Frell". Funny story: they wrote the swearing by having the writers come up with something ridiculous and OTT in English and then having a young Chinese lady, on her first job in Hollywood, translate it into Mandarin. However, she'd grown up speaking mostly English so she sometimes had to ask her dad about the more obscure words they wanted. Her parents had been very dubious of her getting a job in Hollywood, so she would end up having phone conversations that went something like: "Dad, how do you call somebody the spawn of a syphillitic camel and a dung beetle so dirty it disgusts other dung beetles in Mandarin?" "Errrrm, tell me again what exactly this job of your's involves...." 🤣

Not a lot of people notice Malcom lost his faith this early

I've seen a few reactors watch Firefly now, and you're the first one to not break my heart by cutting around "and if we're very, very lucky they'll do it in that order." Which may be my favorite line in the series just because of how incredibly dark it is

The take away from the beginning of the episode is that Mal was fighting on the losing side of a civil war against the alliance. The independents were the ones that surrendered at the beginning as the alliance (big glowing ships) bombarded the area. Mal obviously is a little sore about the issue.

"He thrives on the chaos because it doesn't allow him to slow down enough to think". I think you're the first person to point this out, but it is absolutely his character. He's 'troubled', but in a way that makes him seem like a perfectly capable and heroic person. The death of his faith, as you rightly point out, must be a part of it, but it's more than that. I think Joss Whedon was exploring something we all go through, mostly silently, in our quest to make our lives worth living; Sometimes we get broken and ain't nothing going to fix it, least not anything we can conjure. For me, that kind of insight is definitely a subscribe. I hope you surprise me for the rest of the series, but ain't no trouble if you don't. Once was plenny.

“Cry, baby, cry… Make your mother sigh” is a line from the Beatles song “Cry Baby Cry.”

9:56 This moment is so unbelievably perfect from a writing standpoint. Masterclass in “show don’t tell” characterization. Inara goes to comfort Kaylee, Simon goes to help as a doctor, disregarding his own peril until Wash tells them about the Alliance. Mal goes for the gun, Zoe gets her shotgun and gets to high ground. The shepherd goes and disarms him non-lethally, fully pacifist, and Jayne gets there the slowest but with the most bloodlust. Also as soon as Mal sees the fed is down he rushes to Kaylee too, but Zoe doesn’t, knowing she has to keep an eye on Jayne while the captain is distracted. Just. All that in a matter of seconds and you learn exactly who each character really is and where their priorities lie. I absolutely love this show

Take my love. Take my land. Take me where I cannot stand. I don't care, I'm still free. You can't take the sky from me.

Twenty years later, I still sing along with the theme song. And I'm still desperately in love with Kaylee.

"Crazy Ivan" is a real maneuver from the Cold War submarine days. Russian subs rarely used a towed array to see what was behind them which meant they had a 15deg or so cone that was a blind spot. To cover it they'd randomly stop engines and do a 360 in place while they coasted forward to check their six. If a NATO sub was behind them the crew would verbally pass, "crazy Ivan" so everyone would stop what they were doing and be still and quiet until the Russians re-started their engines.

4:04 Kudos for noticing that right away—the lack of sound in space is just one of the many little touches that makes Firefly special.

Oh this is going to be a shiny voyage! You're going to love this series Jacqui!

This Pilot is so incredibly good, it genuinely is one of the best pilots I've ever seen, because it tells you everything you need about the show: There's cowboys, sci fi governments, Terrifying Space pirates, and there's so many set up expectations that immediately are proven to be misdirections that you already know from the beginning that you need to be open for the unexpected, because not everything or everyone is what it all seems. Welcome to the 'Verse.

Welcome browncoat. The chinese is very deliberate, basic explanation is that it's an easy way to slip a swear or two into the dialogue without the censors throwing a fit. The in universe explanation is the the US and China were the two biggest superpowers that remained of earth when we went to the stars so English and Chinese culture and language kinda blended together. Also Mal has very much lost his faith after the war, though he does have a code which you will see in the coming episodes is both complex and often contradictory.

And Jacqui is instantly a Browncoat. Pretty soon, she will be calling things "shiny", saying "gorram it" and other Whedonisms. All while wishing nasty things upon the FOX executives who intentionally aired the show out of order and cancelled it too early.

Can you believe that Fox aired this out of order as the ELEVENTH episode?! Criminal. 😭