Actually, that makes good sense. What confused me was just that he didn’t appear to be floating away from his ship in the final scene; I thought that Mal had kicked him in another direction.
I can’t account for the directional thing, but I always thought “Here I am” meant that Early always knew he’d end up the way he did, so he was kind of resigned to it and (oddly) didn’t much care. He was as indifferent about his OWN life as he was about anyone else’s.
Having just watched the series over the weekend, I’d say this was not a concern. Even Vera, Jayne’s biggest and most favorite gun, was not capable of punching through Serenity’s hull. About the worst that could happpen would be busting out some windows (as happened to the space station in Our Mrs. Reynolds).
That was in Safe. Trash was the one where the crew meets up with “Saffron” again, and conspire to steal the Lassiter.
Are you watching them out of order? Objects in Space is actually the last episode. Heart of Gold and Objects in Space both come after The Message, chronologically.
Objects In Space is a damn fine piece of work.
When I first saw it, I was charmed by the idea (later revealed to be a ruse, of course) that . . .
[spoiler]. . . River had somehow become Serenity. Granted, running with the idea would have wrenched the show into a decidedly non hard-sci-fi direction.
But let’s face it: Firefly was already exceedingly Heinleinesque; adding a ship imbued with the consciousness of a young girl could have put it over the top! [/spoiler]
And then cancelled.
This thread caused me to break out my Firefly box set this weekend and rewatch the episodes again, and I noticed something i hadn’t seen before.
In Ariel, when Simon is looking at River’s brain on the scanner, and Jayne comes up and says the plan has changed, watch the image of River’s brain reaalll closely.
As Jayne’s telling his lie, her brain “flashes” briefly front-to-back with a pinkish-red color.
One other favorite little bit that shows up on repeated viewing.
In “Our Mrs. Reynolds”, Mal succumbs to the drugged lipstick. When Simon says he used to see cases like that back in the hospital, Jayne comments, “That’s why I never let them kiss me on the mouth!”.
And later in “Heart of Gold”, Jayne subtly moves his mouth away when his whore tries to kiss him on the lips.
Nice!
Ahh… Firefly… people would call me obsessed. I’ve met Sonny - actually spent 5 days on the same cruise, he performed for us several times… I’ve also met…
Joss Whedon (1x)
Nathan Fillion (3x)
Alan Tudyk (4x)
Adam Baldwin (1x)
Sean Maher (1x)
Ron Glass (3 x)
Jewel Staite (2x)
Summer Glau (1x)
Morena Baccarin (2x)
also
Jonathan Woodward aka Dead Army Buddy (2x)
Mark Sheppard aka Badger (1x)
Christina Hendricks aka YoSafBridge (1x)
Michael Fairman aka Niska (2x)
Nectar Rose aka The Love Bot (2x)
Fun times! And not bad for someone who lives outside the USA
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I just watched Firefly with my 12-yr-old a couple of weeks ago. He loved it, but he missed a lot of the jokes, particularly from Jayne. (“I’ll be in my bunk” went completely over his head.) Also I think Jayne confused him by not sliding easily into a good-guy or bad-guy role.
He doesn’t have much use for girls yet, but he was enchanted by Kaylee.
You speak as though that’s a bad thing.
Two fathers are talking about a sexy movie that just came out. One says, “I took my twelve-year-old son with me to that movie and he kept asking me questions about what was going on. It made me uncomfortable.” to which the other retorts, “You’re uncomfortable? I took my twelve-year-old daughter and she didn’t ask any questions!”