Xander has spoken

@@funnylilgalreacts All hail Xander

Excellent! Un unspoiled reaction is the best reaction.

Kneel before Xander!

Thank you Xander.

She is like Buffy's Willow.

Have you, by any chance, seen Liam Duke's reactions to this and/or Buffy? I ask because he constantly refers to Kaylee (and Willow, and Oz, and Fred) as cinnamon rolls.

Never thought of it that way. Good catch!

@@francischambless5919 Yeah, Mal's way of judging someone's character is … unique … but seeing that this young man was more concerned for his patient than himself in that moment absolutely told Mal everything he needed to know about what kind of man Simon was. Mal is a bad man … but he's also a good man.

@@knghtbrd we've all done dark things.

Never heard anyone put it that way or thought of it myself, and I've prolly watched this show like ten times. Very good point.

Wow...just....wow. I've lost count of the number of times I've re-watched this series, and I never considered that. And it makes sense, a very "Mal" way of testing someone's character.

gallows humor

Terrifying. Perfectly described to freak me the hell out

Ok nerd me has to correct, sorry it's "of we're very very lucky, they'll do it in that order" for some reason that lucky line is extremely scary. Gina delivers it so well.

@@coachmikesfilmroom3111 If. ;p

@@coachmikesfilmroom3111 That moment when; not only do you fail at the correction, but fail in the edit of that correction....

It's also a very clever way of shoehorning in a lot of information in a very short amount of time.

... more like the GIRLFRIEND I wish I had.😏😍🔥

So cute! And an engineer, mmmm.

Yeah, till she sees how she go her job a the ships Chief mechanic...lol...and being so young..

As Kalee says, "there's nothing wrong with it. I saw it while i was laying on my back".

She’s also from my City here in San Antonio

his daughter says, what are you supposed to be? he says, space cowboy she says, again? 😁

And SUCH a nice guy! He was always so generous and loving with the fans.

@@Fanporium Very much so. I met him twice at Cons a few years apart and he remembered me from our first encounter which I didn’t think was all that memorable but he tried to remember all his fan encounters.

I'll never forget sitting on the back of the ship with Ron and Jonathan Woodward on the Browncoat Cruise, staring out at the nighttime sea, debating whether or not whales sleep. (I stand by my argument that yes, they do sleep, and they use manta rays as blankies.)

First saw him in Barney Miller...a thoroughgoing class act!

@@Fanporium All animals sleep. It seems to be an essential biological function.

"The 'Verse" is short for Universe.

Space: Above and Beyond was so great. Way ahead of it's time. It's all been HD remastered and posted on youtube if anyone's interested. kzfaq.info/sun/PLMD9ghErEvtxvdsWQIoWqN2kPbl6nLKv2

its not just that it was half the population, on the Earth That Was, the major power was a Western and Chinese alliance...they became The Alliance

Space: Above and Beyond what a great show! Character focused, world building. If Stallone directed Top Gun. Farscape- my favorite space romance Any campaign for Buckaroo Banzai?

@@baron7755 It was US, Russia, and China, wasn't it?

And by the end, breaks yours with the fact that there is only 14 episodes and a movie

This

What HTG said!!

I'm pretty sure the right of passage was The Expanse... just saying

@@jamesholland5761 maybe the Expanse was the right of passage, but Firefly is definitely the rite of passage 😜

Frell yeah

There are strong parallels to the US Civil war.

Love "Castle"!

FOX ? Insane ? What else is new.

The entirety of Fox's mishandling of Firefly was bonkers. The order that they aired the episodes was 2 - 3 - 6 - 7 - 8 - 4 - 5 - 9 -10 - 14 - 1 with episodes 11 - 12 - 13 never aired.

Clearly Fox was reading from the NBC playbook on airing TV shows as was developed for Star Trek TOS!

Fox definitely fucked this show by airing things way out of order, shame, because it really had potential.

i remember catching the first episode that was aired, Train Job, when it aired on our local fox affiliate. I remember being blown away at the quality of the program and tried to make sure that I kept up with it. Not only did Fox screw everything up when they aired this, but I was in the bay area at the time and Fox covered the A's games. Oakland had made the playoffs that season, so two out of every three Friday's worth of episodes got pre-empted and bumped. It was impossible to follow the story and until I could rent it at blockbuster and see it as it was meant to, it was always this big regret of mine that I had somehow read a great book but read the chapters out of order and I only got to read each chapter once. This is the single greatest season of serial television of all time.

Yes.

Wacky fun.

was gonna say the same thing

We're all Browncoats at heart. We aim to misbehave.

Just to add on, the reason for Chinese and English being the two languages was only the USA and China developed the ships to be able to make the trip. Plus, the words said in Chinese was a way of dodging network censor. The writers assumed they wouldn’t check into what they were saying. So it’s not just cursing, they wrote the most offensive, vulgar lines imaginable, in Chinese.

Yes most of the Chinese is hard R rated. For instance one phrase that is spoken often is Ti-ma-Da this is basically F--k me.

@@jfu6413 Yeah, there's a whole in world reasoning, but let's face it Joss seemed to enjoy getting cursing past the sensors. I mean, they did it with British curse words on Buffy. It took me years to realize how many terrible words I learned and thought were basically "heck".

So dark! I wish we weren’t robbed of more seasons but I do like the ongoing story being told

I think Tim said that it was last case scenario for Ambassadors like Inara to take down the Reavers in case she unfortunately get jumped by them and is subjected to all the horrifics. Man I so wish this show gets renewed somehow in the future. I sometimes wonder that out in the multiverse there are universes where Firefly wasn't cancelled and there were more seasons that the fans would have loved and universes where Joss Whedon wasn't so awful in the future. Aah, what I wouldn't give up to have that universe!

@@DhavalShukla I think Joss Whedon is getting a bad rap. From what I have researched, he said some hurtful things to people on set, called two pregnant women on set "Fat", was a bit of a bully and was "verbally abusive" to actors/actresses dating back to his days of "Buffy" But here is the thing, in our current "Social/Political" climate what isn't considered "Rude/Inappropriate/Hurtful/Homophobic/Transphobic, This That and the Other" It almost is a given that if you say more than three words there will be people who take offense to two of those words. Everyone's a victim, Everyone's Offended, White people are the Worst and of course since Joss Whedon is a ---------> Straight, White, Rich, Man, Then he is the worst human being to ever walk the face of the Earth. During the whole #Metoo uproar Joss Whedon's name was never mentioned, which should say a lot about him, but "OMG he is a dick to people on set!!!" People need to lighten up, you think Tarantino never yelled at someone on set? Scorsese? Spielberg?

@@DhavalShukla to be fair he did fight to cast Gina Torres in a interracial marriage. But lost in casting Asian actors as the Tam siblings.

and if you like the whole Space Cowboy thing, then I would suggest the Classic Anime Cowboy Bebop. A Jazz inspired Space Western following a group of Bounty Hunters.

See you space cowboy!

Live action Cowboy Bebop rip off done right.

Always good to hear. I feel this happens more often with scifi shows, I dunno why. And those with a lot of theater background actors/actresses usually bond more. More mainstream sitcom type shows seem to be pretty cuthroat and filled with awful people. Some of the more dramatic shows with a lot of money seem to have some big egos and aggressive personalities. But I usually hear about people liking each other a lot and staying friends after science fiction shows wrap.

They also try to cast each other together in each other's shows 🥰

what an immense show of restraint.... i could not wait that long..... i think about 3 month was my longest until i got back to it again....

Same.

#Browncoats

And not to forget Dr Horrible's sing along blog 😍

One of the things that I really liked about Castle was seeing the Firefly actors show up. Clearly this group bonded. I don’t know how common that is, but it warms my heart

Also Saving Private Ryan

I actually remember him introducing Ryan Reynolds to twitter, being like “hey my old 2ggpp costar is joining show him some love”, well before the deadpool thing

Waitress too

I will be watching the movie!

@@funnylilgalreacts After watching the last episode, but before watching the movie, watch the "River Tam Sessions." Four minis.

@@funnylilgalreacts It's best to wait until you've watched the series to see the movie. :-)

​@@funnylilgalreacts watching the series, then the movie and then (I know they can be found on youtube) the series extras called the river tam files, only about 15mins but really impactful for showing a lot of Rivers character and past, it adds to the overall visual of the story.

I liked this show, but the real crime is The Expanse seasons 7-9 were not put to screen.....yet!

Fillion was in Saving Private Ryan and Dr. Horrible's Sing Along with Neil Patrick Harris too

This is a truth I hadn’t considered until now…

Like mold on rotting fruit. Couldn't stand him.

@@cryofpaine 😨

Personality-wise, Amos is more of a cross between Jayne and River.

@@aboubenadhem9066 you aren’t wrong. I was referring more to the presentation as the big, “dumb,” occasionally terrifying and occasionally comedic meatheat archetype. Amos took it to a deeper level, and in doing so, yeah more like River

Yeah I think it comes from the book. It's referred in other media since then too. Red Alert springs to mind.

A 'Crazy Ivan' is actually a real maneuver that Russian sub captains would do during the Cold War. But yeah, it was brought into the public consciousness from Hunt for Red October. Clancy would do that alot...bring real world, declassified info (some not so declassified...apparently he had a LOT of inside contacts in the US military) and put it into his novels. Obviously he'd spice it up to make it more exciting, but there was a surprising amount of reality in his novels.

A “Crazy Ivan” is a submarine term for clearing baffles. Baffles are the sonar dead spot behind the boat due mostly to the noise of the screw. This is accomplished by changing course a specific amount of degrees so the passive sonar array can check the area that was previously to the rear (aft) of the sub. This is a highly fictionalized term coming from books and movies when NATO subs are covertly trailing Russian or Soviet Era subs and they clear their baffles. A lot of SCI-fi programs implement Naval traditions and terminology into their lexicon.

@@arklytte The Red October shouldn't have needed to perform a Crazy Ivan. She was a fictional 'improved' Typhoon class. They are fitted with a towed-array sonar. The Los Angeles fast attack boats are as well. Towed array sonar was worked on in WW1, but dropped and picked up on again in the 60s or something. Your most effective passive sonar array, it is towed at anything up to miles behind the submarine or ship it is fitted to, where the noise from your own travel is minimised. The dead zone for your towed array is directly in front of itself, where your ship is stirring up the ocean. It hears perfectly well astern and you would always have it deployed if you have any sort of depth under your keel to stop it dragging. So following a submarine directly astern of it is not something you would do since the invention of the towed array. You are in the best spot for it to detect you and the worst spot for you to detect it. My guess is you would try to shadow it off to one side, attempting to maintain a solution on it. Someone in another comment suggested part of the Crazy Ivan was to start pinging active sonar when you turned, which would indeed be 'Crazy'. But it would certainly illuminate anything stealthing along behind you. I don't know if there is any mention in the book or movie about Red October not having one, but the LA Class following it couldn't have known that I don't think.

Guessing the 2004 one?

So say we all!

@@Vexkun no, everyone compares shows like Firefly and The Expanse to the 1978 one.

@@baron7755 I was talking about the 2004 one.

The show which *does* have Katie Sackhoff in it!

That’s the plan!

@@funnylilgalreacts Angela I see what you did there! 🤣❤️

@@funnylilgalreacts eeeeexcellent!

You and me both 😭

@@funnylilgalreacts Both of these shows stand up to multiple rewatches AND have non TV media to fill the void. Looking forward to watching this along with you :)

​@@funnylilgalreacts same😢

It was not coined for Red October - it was a standard tactic of the USSR submariners to randomly turn 360 degrees every now and again to see if anyone was following them in the dead zone behind their towed array sonar (the baffles). US navy termed the move "Crazy Ivan" because it was unpredictable (the point of the exercise)

@@womblissimo6666 I think I mean it entered the sphere of being known through The Hunt for Red October. For sure, it's an actual thing. Tom Clancy researched well. 👍

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They even showed a bit of love to it by putting Serenity in the first episode of the BSG Miniseries.