"oh..."

BLAM BLAM BLAM! Tarantino poses. 😅

Honestly it feels a little hamfisted. Added just for comedy. I mean it's still funny. But they could have done it better x)

@@Offbeaten It's like something you'd see on The Orville. This was ahead of its time.

Book was by far my favorite. The most dangerous and complex man on the crew, next to Mal.

@@zylaxis RIP Ron Glass

@@jeremydanchuk1897 Aw dammit. There go my chances of a reboot that explain his backstory, because you can be DAMNED sure there was enough of it to fill 7 seasons with mystery!! I've seen a summary of the comics, but for some reason they don't feel like they mesh with the TV show very well...

@@c182SkylaneRG they could do a prequel with a younger actor

Shortly after that: Kaylee: River killed them without looking Simon: She calculated the angles in her head. Mal: She killed them with math?

That made me laugh.

Me too

The best thing is when I watched that first time, after her words I thought "Oh no don't go into that cliche", and they didn't :D

He was hurt bad enough that even if he wanted to do it for himself, he probably couldn't.

I really laughed out loud at that part!

As he decides to go and kill people, aiming center mass.

@@Zachomara I actually watched for that, but I think he was true to legs. It was everyone else that followed up with kill shots.

@@Zachomara "If you do not have a sword, sell your cloak and buy one." - JC While the Bible is quite specific about murder, with malice, without cause, etc, it is quite clear on the expectation of self defense and the possible inevitable outcomes. There is a passage about encountering a theif in your home and dealing a deadly blow in the night vs in the day. One can simply read this as killing a at night good, killing during day bad. But you have to remember the bible is all about metaphor(as the teachings of pandimentional meta-beings tend to be). 'Dark' and 'light' sway towards knowledge and ignorance. If I KNOW you have a weapon and intend to do me or mine harm I am justified in my defense of your aggression. If I KNOW you are unarmed, looking for some food so your belly stops hurting, not so much. If I DO NOT KNOW why you are skulking around my living room after forcing open my door, well... That's going to be an interesting conversation, and i suggest no sudden movements. Everything is clear in hindsight. But hindsight by its very nature is after the event occurs. And let's not forget the Bible was written by warmongers during times of intense tribalism. Do not kill yours, but those other jerks? Ice 'em. [Seriously, there's some effed up stuff done by the supposed heros of scripture, but because it was done to the not us groups its all ok....right?] This encounter is clear. Niska's guards have taken Mal and Wash, obviously intent on doing harm. For the protection of the flock the wolves will spill their blood. Disclaimer: Not a theologian/follower/theist/etc, but have spent some time and effort disecting their arguments. Im just some jerk on the Internet. Ultimately the vast majority of religions, when boiled down to their base message, convey one simple idea I feel we can all get behind: DONT BE A DICK, or god help you for I wont. ;)

@@zombieregime Oh no, I completely agree with that statement. I'm just saying he's got a way of saying one thing and doing something completely the opposite.

The Bible prohibits murder, not killing. If you're a soldier defending a point, there's the expectation of potential combat, and with that, death.

Agreed

I second that

Yep, I agree. Same thing is with FOX's other shows from the 1980s-2010s like Alien Nation (1989), Harsh Realm, Greed with Chuck Woolery, Fastlane (2002), Wonderfalls, Point Pleasant (2005), Drive (2007), Lone Star (2010), Terra Nova and The Chicago Code. All these shows had one season as well because FOX never gave them a chance. Sad part is that all of those shows that had one season are good shows too.

The movie tried to tie up some of the loose ends but just ended up creating more questions with a solidly hollow taste at the end.

@@movietv20249 terra nova really hits home, that show had a great cast great writing it would still be running today if the @#$€¢©%™ numbskulls hadn't have cut it

Hard to argue with an ounce of high speed lead.

Sadly this was one of the reasons some moronic higher-ups didn't liked this show, too low tech, no lasguns, no Rubber forhead aliens and so on. It's incredibile how the Expanse wasn't equally cashered

@@alessiodecarolis it sort of was. Canceled in the first season. Amazon will just sell anything.

Yeah...I would have thought even something like a M14 or something at least. But seriously, a Winchester?

@@JnEricsonx its super reliable, good magazine capacity, fairly accurate, good stopping power, fast firing with skill, its not a terrible choice.

There are a few firefly comics, one is about Shepard's past, all very nice.

Scared the crap out of Kaylee, too!

He kneecapped no one. He shot then dead!

@@shelliecarlson7015 You need to watch the show again. I am referring to a line delivered by Shepherd Book...😐

@@rooramblingon895 I know the line. Yet, he shoots to kill.

@@shelliecarlson7015😐😐 So....You watched the show, know the line yet do not understand simple irony and good-natured humour when you read it? What exactly are your unnecessary comments for? 🤔🙄

Should've left this Kayleigh back on the ship because she was ass useless ass a 3 dollar bill'/!!! Lmao 😉😆🤣

The three hardest things to say: 1. I need help 2. I was wrong 3. Worcestershire

@@rileymclaughlin4831 There's so much worse than Worcestershire (which is just said like "Wuhster" anyway). Words like "sixths" and "isthmus".

Yeah we only got a few peeks into Mal's inner mind. River reading his mind: "none of it means a damn thing". The look on Mal's face in the first episode when the battle/war was lost. Then this scene. He's absolutely, resolutely determined to persevere, but his outlook on life is bleak and he's long since succumbed to despair. People wonder about why he won't admit his feelings for Inara. Partly it's because she's The Enemy: part of the power elite who took everything from him, she even supported Unification. Being with her, he would be surrendering to a power and a system that makes him boil over with rage. Partly, because he knows a relationship like that could never work. But also mostly I think because he's overcome with despair. There's no point being with Inara because there's no point being with anybody, no purpose in life, no happy ending, no hope. Just surviving and plodding on. People aren't used to seeing that kind of nihilism in a TV show protagonist. It's something they're supposed to overcome (I guess something he WOULD have overcome, eventually, if the show hadn't been cancelled). Badger says that Mal is still fighting the Unification War. Mal was going to dump Simon and River, but kept them AFTER Simon accused Mal of sucking up to the alliance by dumping them (and after it became clear how much the alliance wanted those two). I think Badger was right. Mal is still fighting the war, and while Inara is a good business partner and friend, and while he loves her, she's still on the other side. Mal will fight until he dies, no matter what, and that is his biggest strength and his greatest flaw. And that's revealed in this scene.

I came back to this episode after reading the Serneity official novelization. And when he said this with that tone of voice, all I could think of was the Operative's thoughts on how if Mal had been found by the Alliance as a child and molded properly, his natural talents and drive would have made him a terrifyingly effective Operative.

@@theprogram863 I start fighting a war, I guarantee you will see something new. - Malcom Reynolds

And the way his voice shook... Chills.

Considering she psychically aimed, that was aimbot right there.

She is one of the only characters who can say that and not have it come off as arrogant.

Plus that's a DSM type rifle, he'd be better off taking pot-shots down the hallway.

Honestly I wish they had not made Vera so obvious that its a Nerf gun. I mean at least paint over teh fake bullets and use some real shell casings in the back stock LOL

He uses Vera to kill the guard at 0:42 but that was it.

@@beamerstrumpet Vera isn't a Nerf gun, it's a Saiga-12 shotgun with sci-fi modifications, and is a reused prop from the movie Show Time. All of the guns in Firefly are real guns. Jayne's revolver is even a real LeMat black powder revolver; there's a couple scenes where you can see it's still a cap-and-ball gun, not a cartridge conversion, where it's backlit and you can see light through the holes in the percussion cap nipples shining through the chambers, which shows the gun is actually unloaded.

@@Swindle1984 Maybe so man, I have the firefly encyclopedia, and the "mag" certainly looks Nerf. im gonna check the book tonight for sure.

The whole show was so character focused. That's why it was so good!

Great observation about Kaylee and River. I never thought about that.

Yeah, and I love that Kaylee can be a coward but the show frames it in a realistic and gentle manner, showing that she can still be heroic despite the fact that violence, while necessary in this case, just isn't something she's capable of. As viewers, nobody thinks less of her for not being able to handle the fear and brutality of combat.

But Kaylee Fry's gentle spirit was one of the Keys to River Tam returning to " Sanity " , back to the real world .

To be fair, maybe it was Kaylee's first firefight. In the book Black Hawk Down, a veteran US special forces operator, says that basically, in your first firefight, you spend the first ten minutes scared shitless, and that after about the ten minute mark, is when there's a change, that internally the mind starts saying things like 'how dare they shoot at me,' etc and that's when you start to fight back. It's like how my Kali instructor talks about how being punched in the nose is also kinda a wake-up call in a fight as well. Also, with Kaylee & River, River shoots three guys with her eyes closed and says 'No power in the 'verse can stop me,' that's gotta be a little creepy.

Just her Bad Ass ending scene in the Movie tells it all. One girl slaughters a dozen reavers, then is twitching to let loose on the Alliance troops.

True, she wasn't the first, either, according to the books. Plus, they weren't finished with her when Simon broke her out. Guess nobody cared enough to risk everything to get her predecessors out.

@@Creasy5678 He also sacrificed EVERYTHING he had, and was to save her. His fortune, his career, his reputation, his future.

@@MrShadowpanther3 Or perhaps her predecessors were unable to get the word out to someone who was smart enough and wealthy enough to figure out the code, find where they were, get the resources together and do the rescue!!!

He played a villain in the final season of Buffy. The season itself is iffy but he's great in it.

Caleb in Buffy the vampire slayer

Which itself was a _quite_ _literal_ payoff for the conversation they had while everyone was loading up for this. Zoe: "Don't the Bible have specific things to say about killing?" Book: "Quite specific. It is, however, somewhat fuzzy on the subject of kneecaps." Then he proceeded to kneecap every one of his targets in the actual fight. Effortlessly. Which means he had some sort of (at this point) unexpected and unexplained marksmanship training. Unfortunately, that only ever gets revealed in "A Shepherd's Tale" instesd of the intended slow burn for the life of the series.

Wouldn't be the same. You'd never get the whole cast back together and that was the biggest part of its charm.

​@@Aethgeir I can still dream......

@@ScottJackson117 Live Forever and Prosper, ScottJackson117.

Nathan Fillion supposedly tried

@@WBenson1985 Live Forever and Prosper, Wayne Benson. Live Forever and Prosper, Nathan Fillion. Live Forever Young and Prosper, Nathan Fillion.

They didn't know that at the time

River's really not right in the head. "Sending her in" implies she could connect the part of her mind that knows someone needs rescuing with the part that know how to do that. There are only a few points in the series where she comes close to that connection, and none of them involve planning ahead.

@@sarahmesser3359 I think your entirely missing the real river. She appears to be crazy on first glance, but as you continue to watch you realize she's alot more there than people give her credit for. There isn't a line that comes out of her mouth that doesn't carry meaning with it, it's just that the people around her lack the necessary knowledge to understand it. Example: "Two by two, hands of blue" It is also important to keep in mind that river is a telepath, she is literally always in the minds of the people around her. She is more aware of the situation than anyone, because everything they know, she knows. Don't get me wrong, the training at an early age and the knowledge in her head has left her cracked to say the least, but not full blown.

Except, at this point her combat skills are more of a reflex reaction - it's not something she can control until later after Miranda. Which, unfortunately, we'll never get to see now except for that one awesome fight with the Reavers.

"... without wasting any bullets." Withhout using any bullets.

Two words: Joanne Wick.

One Woman John Woo Movie

This is unusual compassion from Mal. Book's response plays well as a put-down zinger, but it also might be pastoral reassurance, meant to ease Simon's feelings.

Everyone loves Shepherd Book.

There was a graphic novel, if that counts. I can't remember if it was any good.

True, the guy would have shot her 3 times while doing that :-D

@@TheAxxon he had a plot jam.

Same here, that was just too far out there.

yeah. actually mal died during the turture and was reanimated just before that scene

She is not danger averse, only killing averse; remember when they got reeves on their six and Wash needed to pull crazy Ivan, she was cool as a cucumber.

She is not danger averse, only killing averse; remember when they got reeves on their six and Wash needed to pull crazy Ivan, she was cool as a cucumber.

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I came back to this episode after reading the Serneity official novelization. And when he said this with that tone of voice, all I could think of was the Operative's thoughts on how if Mal had been found by the Alliance as a child and molded properly, his natural talents and drive would have made him a terrifyingly effective Operative.

If it is done the a woke Hollywood, ain't gonna be watchable. Imagine if you will, Mal as a cross dressing black female waiting for her gender reassignment surgery. Stunning brave.

​@@bugwar5545Please. Leave your disgusting political beliefs where they belong: inside your twisted little pea brain.

With woke Hollywood, no. No you don't want a Firefly 2.

Oh, WOW this comment is old.

Woooo decade later gang!! This sort of thing is going to get so weird as the internet gets older.

"That ain't no Shepard."

Can you imagine if River had an opportunity to "read" Bauer's old Delta Force/CIA skills?

@@danielhaire6677 That would be awesome!

@@movietv20249 For us fans - yes. For her enemies? Not so much.

@@danielhaire6677 I just wonder what Jack is doing in Russia for 8 years now.

@@movietv20249 What do you think has been causing the Russina maintenance problems in the Ukraine.

they also didnt bother to air the episodes in order

"Starships"? er - no. No FTL in this story.

That seems to be the opinion and might even be cannon. If it is then whatever solar system they're inhabiting must be many dozens (hundreds) of times larger than our solar system. Between the TV series and the TV movie Serenity the crew must have visited dozens of planets capable of supporting human life without the need for space suits. All the travel times between planets was done within weeks if not days or less. It must be a very interesting solar system to say the least.

@@jackbrown8052 There's a canon map that shows that this is at least a five-star system with multiple planets. What the gravitational stability of such a place would be like is pretty doubtful. I really don't think there'd be any habitable planets at all.

@@NorthForkFisherman Just took a look at some of the maps. Don't know how canon the ones I saw are but none of them are that detailed regarding distances between worlds or size of stars. I agree the system does not seem that realistic.

still 10 times better and more realistic then disneys mulan or similar crap. 20 years ago and with a fraction of the budget. also firefly was never really an action show. people liked it for the characters, storytelling, worldbuilding, and tons of cool quotes

Yeah, it was an attempt. Overall this fight scene was great. I don't even think it needed the "high action" roll thing. Dive roll to cover and then pull out two guns behind said cover is sufficiently "western shootout".

Stormtrooper training camps. :D

Wash was laying cover fire, but yeah…

@@uzrdutiutfiztdf3545 disneys mulan........hate that crap.......

Actually, if they were stormtrooper rejects they would be hitting what they shot at!!! (LOL)

The Torah is quite specific in the Ten Commandments about *murdering*, not about killing people in the execution of a military objective or in self-defence.

lol and really without aiming. A kneecap is a small enough target. Add in moving because your target it running and the level of accuracy for a Shepard is downright disconcerting. Mal : You will have to tell me that story some time... Book : No... I wont. This plus the complete change of attitude from the Alliance when Book is shot and brought onboard a cruiser for treatment hints at the possibility the Shepard has held an extremely high Alliance rank at one time (or still does). Possibly even a previous Agent.

It's almost like allowing your characters to have flaws and strengths makes them well rounded Though Firefly did have that massively cringey plot with the brothel. It got so over the top, with the town public bj, lol. Too bad because even that episode had it's good moments.

Serenity is the wrap up movie of this TV series. So yes, you are correct!

War Stories.

Unpowered, from how many hundreds of thousands of miles out too!

Gunpowder is nothing more than chemical propulsion. There are probably any number of other chemicals you could use to create rapid high pressure, to propel a projectile. A fuel, and a built in Oxidizer is really all you need. Although it is said in the episode where Jane has to fire Vera in a vacuum that Vera needs "air around her to fire"... which typically is not the case for propellants. They come with the oxidizer built into the chemical. Thus can fire underwater, vacuum of space, wherever. I have seen people shave a bunch of Strike Anywhere match heads to get the Phosphorus Sulfide(fuel)/Potassium Chlorate (oxidizer) to pack in a reloaded shell casing. Does not provide the velocity of modern powder, but still quite effective... if inefficient. So absolutely plausible the weapons could be operating with some other propellant mixture.

As much as I hate to say it though, I think the movie pretty much finished the series for them. I'd still love a post-Serenity season or two, but I don't know where else they'd go.

@@legozelda2090 I'd rather see one that takes place between Firefly and Serenity so Wash and Book would be back, but that won't happen.

@@explosionsandstuff7787 Yeah, that would be good. I forgot about Wash and Book dying in Serenity. I guess I blocked that painful memory.

The actors are too old now to simply pick up where they left off. Any revival of the series would need to be set 20-years into the future for them to be able to plausibly reprise their roles.

they're too old, anyway. we need a new story and crew in the same universe

Description says tenth episode.

I think the narrative name of the episode was 'War Stories'.