you really kazzak'd those nubs

This is the correct way to deal with waking up to 50k views. Well done

you really should have made it just a few seconds longer, you cut it just as mal walks in picks up an apple and takes a big bite without cutting it.

@@pattygreen8064 i made a lot of questionable decisions in my 20, this was the least of them lmao

@@okamiseven Well, I can definitely say this is one of the top 10 videos on your channel!

Yeah had a real lived in feel in the ship as well.

Serenity was two sound stages. One was the Bridge, hallway with crew cabins, the lounge, the hallway to the engine room, and the engine room. The stairs down to the lower deck is where they would cut shots to the next stage which was the cargo bay, infirmary, and passenger quarters. Reportedly, whenever they were between scenes, the actors would usually hang out in the lounge if it wasn't being used, instead of going back to their trailers. Likely contributed to the family feel you get in the show.

@@testy462 It was basically a ship made out of two sound stages.

plus, why was jayne giving apples? i loved his charachter, he was not mearly the peice of shit they assumed he was....he also was the exact peice of shit they knew he was

Dang, I didn't realize it's been that long.

Make that 21...

Everything was perfect about Firefly. The acting, the casting, the writing, the soundtracks, the camera work, the set design. Absolutely everything. That's why we Browncoats still love it and talk about it.

That's not how I saw it, at all. My read was of him being so jealous of Zoe's history with Mal, that he tries to derail the story with his joke. It's great acting though, either way.

@@nifemi_o Could be both. The reason he might honestly give would be he was sparing Zoe (and Kaylee, too), but the underlying reason would probably be his jealousy towards Mal.

@@nifemi_o That's definitely it. She's told stories like this over and over, it doesn't bother her; Zoe's far tougher than Wash and he knows it. Given the narrative of this episode was their damaged relationship (by him, but still), it's absolutely him being sick of her war stories and connection to Mal. His look as soon as she slips into "Our platoon" was amazing subtle acting. I personally think that Gina's acting there is even subtler; that she likes telling the stories and likes reminding people of her past. Just a hint of ego, perhaps. Where she might have said offhandedly "oh, there was this time I saw someone eat an apple with a grenade in it", she goes full-blown.

@@nifemi_o I thought he was protecting Kailee, since she's so utterly innocent.

Should've thought about that before marrying a Black manlette with delusions of veteranhood and a whole lot of traumatic baggage.

Hey, what's worse than biting into an apple and finding a worm? Biting into an apple and finding half a worm...

I started eating apples with a knife. Scared the shit out of everyone at the farmer's market.

I stopped eating Pistachios for a few years after eating one on autopilot and finding a meal worm, or something similar. I got over it in five seconds and still somehow ate the second one on auto, which also had a meal worm. The second is what gave me the several year pause.

but extra bonus protein

@@samsowden I can tell these folk have never really been hungry aside from maybe you too.

Jst pushin' food safety...

And I thought pesticides was the worst thing you had to worry about😬

i think it was Chris Rock that did a stand up about the cost of guns, it was something along the lines of "guns doesn't need to be expensive but the bullet should, so when somebody kill somebody you know he/she really wanted kill the dude" sort of the same argument hahaha

Do you have the article where you read that? I looked for it, but I didn't find it, want to know if that's true or not.

Sounds like something Canadians would do in war. Civil civilians. Bloodthirsty combatants.

For a second there, I thought you meant veterinary.

Loved the Wash character, but sometimes he came off as being snide and arrogant. I think its his way of compensating.

@@jeffburnham6611 I saw it as him trying to shield Kaylee from the dark parts of the story, and his wife from having to relive/tell it. It's how he deals with negative situations and emotions.

...you lose the story.

Maybe people don't give a fuck about your war stories. Just a possibility.

HaHaHuzzah!

Easier to deal with losing a hand than a head; from the description given, it sounds like a Griswald isn't a particularly powerful grenade--just nefariously implemented in this case

the bite of a starving man is gonna be a hell of a lot more pressure than some careful slices with a small knife.

@@colinkulsa5324 Likely wouldn't lose the hand. Explosive force would be amplified in the confined space (mouth) where the pressure is forced into tighter area to escape. Whereas stabbing with the knife, got all 360x360 degree vectors to bleed the energy.

@@colinkulsa5324 It left them as "rib cages" so yeah, it's powerful

Better to lose a hand rather than a head. Also, look at how Mal and Zoe cut it. Zoe cut it slowly and just shy of the core, using minimal force to remove portions of the apple to see if a grenade is inside. Mal thrust his knife into the apple while on the table, does not touch it and handles it with his knife before he starts cutting it. Also, we don't know too much about the grenade other than their size, and they respond to pressure. Perhaps they are small enough to damage and make inert with a knife. And a bite force has more pressure than a knife. You only need 10lbs of force to cut an object like an apple, a human bite is on average 101lbs of force.

has to do with pressure/force dynamics. More enclosed space (chomping down with the mouth) will result in increased force as the blast has less area to disperse in. Stab it with the knife and it has nearly complete freedom of available angles to disperse out.

War Stories

The trigger is probably set to the pressure generated by a bite (possibly pressure exerted at a single point on the sensors), but not simply holding it or dropping it, while the fruit itself absorbs and/or distributes most shock that would otherwise set it off before it got to its target. They have to be able to transport them, especially after they'd be armed. It sounds like they were thrown in bulk, so they'd have to be carried together, too, possibly in a crate of some sort. Too sensitive, and all it would take is one Alliance solider with butterfingers, either in transportation or while chucking them - or just some guy too enthusiastic with their throw - to screw the whole scheme and ruin everyone's day.

@@williambodin5359 Didn't sound like rumor-mongering to me. While I wouldn't put it past Mal to do something like that (remembering the Pilot), at least with Simon, it's something that neither Zoe nor Mal bring up until Kaylee notices, and Zoe seems a little too haunted by the retelling for it to be made up, too clinical and detached. Also, since Kaylee is basically the only crew member that is universally liked by the rest, I don't think Zoe, straight-laced as she is, would make up or exaggerate something potentially traumatizing for her just for kicks or to simply make talk (I don't think Jayne would, either). It also gives a little more nuance as to why Mal hates the Alliance so much. Makes his anger seem a little more personal. Also, when is any piece of speculative fiction *not* over-the-top? How many times has Star Wars or Star Trek done something utterly ridiculous, but we rolled with, or even applauded it for the simple fact that it was interesting?

fucking what? if they were that sensitive, no one would carry them for fear of sitting down a bit too hard and blowing yourself to pieces.

@@augustwinterman6952 that's an enormously specific setting for even a future grenade

Agreed, but I'm grateful as well.

I don't think he's insecure, he just doesn't like Mal and Zoey's stories cause they tend to be gruesome, and also he might be trying to spare Kaylee there since she tends to be fairly innocent.

IIRC Wash was a pilot during the war. So not necessarily ground combat experience but definitely military experience.

I think he's probably uncomfortable hearing stories about his wife almost dying.

I also find it interesting how Kaylee notices this little detail about Zoe (and Mal), but Wash didn't.

@@geoffrose9647 Women tend to be good at noticing small details.