Amph Still Flying: Serenity

Kaylee: (pointing to a pink frilly dress) "Say, look at the fluffy one!"

Zoe: "Too much foofaraw. If I'm going to wear a dress, I'd want something with some slink."

Wash: "You want a slinky dress? I can buy you a slinky dress. Captain, can I have money for a slinky dress?"

Jayne: "I'll chip in."

Zoe: (to Jayne) "I can hurt you."

 

Mal: "Does, uh... does this seem kind of tight?"

Kaylee: "Shows off your backside. Did you see the chandelier? It's hovering."

 

Kaylee: "These girls have the most beautiful dresses. And so do I-- how 'bout that!"

Mal: "Yeah, well, just be careful. We cheated Badger out of good money to buy that frippery, and you're supposed to make me look respectable."

Kaylee: "Yessir, Captain Tight Pants."

 

Don't know if this has been done, but:

Afferton: You belong here with me, not flying around on that piece of goh-seh.
Inara: It's not a piece of goh-seh.
Herald: Miss Kaylee Wynn Frye and escort...
Kaylee comes in in the frippery.
Inara: Goh-seh.

Oh, and...

Wash Upon entering the chamber of a supposedly alien creature that is actually just an upside down mutated cow baby in a jar, just after Simon and Kaylee have had another falling out.: Oh my god, it's grotesque! And there's something in a jar...

and...

River trying to eat a big ball of ice cream: This food is...problematic.

 

I know I'm breaking the chain of quotes, but I found this "article" written about the "feminist" perspective on Firefly/and Serenity at another site.

This was good for a laugh on my end, and it really shows how far feminism has fallen from when it actually meant something. My thoughts will follow,


Article

Unfortunately feminism as it stands today is pretty much a joke, and is no different than any white supremacist group searching for reasons for someone to be inferior or black power groups searching for reasons for the white man to hold them down. There are still people out there who understand what feminism really is, but the great majority do not and so they post trash like this. To be honest, it's like my grandpa used to say, "If you go into a commode looking to find ****, well then you're going to find ****." She/he went into watching Firefly/Serenity looking for attacks against women and so she made them up at every chance she had and took things out of context or twisted them to suit her own needs at every turn. As a simple, little hint, when you want your argument to be taken seriously then don't go searching and digging for the proof that you want to find, instead look at something simply and objectively and if your proof is there it will show itself.

But, everyone really should have stopped reading, myself included, the moment she made her first argument about a black woman saluting and yelling sir at a white male. In the armed forces they don't give a **** if you are white, black, yellow, pink, purple, green, or maroon or if you are man, woman, transsexual, dinosaur, dog, or rodent, if you are addressing a superior officer then you salute when required and call whatever that superior officer may be "sir" every damn time you address them. That is the way the military life works, and any moron would know this, well I guess any moron but this author.

Edit: Also, I wasn't sure if this belonged here, or in another forum, so feel free to move it if it is in the wrong place.

 

I looked over that link. That woman clearly seeks to offend, and she succeeds marvelously at it. She mischaracterizes Joss, misrepresents his characters, and all-in-all distorts Firefly as she must to retain her point. While there may be a hint of validity buried deep under all her ranting and raving, I for one don't have the attention span to find it. She's single-minded (as evidence by the fact that she likes to delete comments that aren't even negative, much less offensive) and really offends more or less everyone who isn't a radical feminist.

And mind you, there's nothing wrong with feminism; if anything, the problem lies in radicalism.

 

I saw that a while back on the JCC. I think my response was something along the lines of "lol, feminists are stupid."



Edit: Here's a link to the JCC topic

 

Not only that, but Joss was honored for his fair and forward-thinking portrayal of women.

 

Dear God, I got to the part where she complained about Kaylee saying "I love my captain!" in the pilot and had to stop. This is the dumbest idiot ever. She also complained about Zoe calling Mal "sir" when they were in the army and he was her commanding officer. Moron.

 

Back on topic, here's my all-time favorite exchange:

Early: Where's your sister?
Simon: Are you Alliance?
Early: Am I a lion?
Simon: What?
Early: I don't think of myself as a lion. Heh, you might as well though. I have a mighty roar, heh!
Simon: I said ... Alliance.
Early: Oh, I thought ...
Simon: No, I was ...
Early: That's weird.
Simon: ...
Early: Where's your sister?

 

haha at Captain Tightpants. That's pretty much how I refer to Mal.

I love that one too.

 

Mal: "Okay, help me find our man; he's supposed to be older. Kind of stocky, wears a red sash crossways."

Kaylee: "Why does he do that?"

Mal: "Maybe he won the Miss Persephone pageant. Just help me look."

 

Zoe: "Cap'n'll have a plan... always does."
Kaylee: "That's good right?"
Zoe: "It's possible you're not recalling some of the cap'n's previous plans..."

and the movie....

Wash: "This landing is gonna get pretty interesting"
Mal: "Define Interesting"
Wash: "oh god, oh god , we're all going to die?"

 

Jayne: Don't much see the benefit in gettin' involved in stranger's troubles without a up-front price negotiated.
Shepherd Book: These people need assistance. The benefit wouldn't necessarily be for you.
Jayne: That's what I'm sayin'.
Zoë: No one's gonna force you to go, Jayne. As has been stated, this job is strickly speculative.
Jayne: Good. Don't know these folks, don't much care to.
Mal: They're whores.
Jayne: I'm in.

Oh yeah, almost forgot about this one, which to me, sums up Mal perfectly.

Simon: I'm trying to put this as delicately as I can... How do I know you won't kill me in my sleep?
Mal: You don't know me, son. So let me explain this to you once: If I ever kill you, you'll be awake, you'll be facing me, and you'll be armed.
Simon: Are you always this sentimental?
Mal: Had a good day.
Simon: You had the Alliance on you, criminals and savages... half the people on the ship have been shot or wounded including yourself, and you're harboring known fugitives.
Mal: We're still flying.
Simon: That's not much.
Mal: It's enough.

 

Harrow: "I know him. And I think he's a psychotic lowlife."

Mal: "And I think calling him that is an insult to the psychotic lowlife community."

 

Harrow: "You have to finish it, lad. You have to finish it. For a man to lay beaten... and yet breathing? It makes him a coward."

Inara: "It's humiliation."

Mal: "Sure. It would be humiliating. Having to lie there while the better man refuses to spill your blood. Mercy is the mark of a great man. (lightly stabs Atherton with the sword) Guess I'm just a good man. (stabs him again) Well, I'm all right."



Harrow: "You didn't have to wound the man."

Mal: "Yeah, I know, it was just funny."

 

Mal: "So, she's added cussing and hurling about of things to her repertoire. She really is a prodigy."

Simon: "It's just a bad day."

Mal: "No, a bad day is when someone's yellin' spooks the cattle. Understand? You ever see cattle stampede when they got no place to run? It's kind of like a...a meat grinder. And it'll lose us half the herd."

Simon: "She hasn't gone anywhere near the cattle."

Mal: "No, but in case you hadn't noticed, her voice kinda carries. We're two miles above ground and they can probably hear her down there. Soon as we unload, she can holler until our ears bleed." (to River) "Although I would take it as a kindness if she didn't."

River: "The human body can be drained of blood in 8.6 seconds given adequate vacuuming systems."

Mal: (to Simon) "See, morbid and creepifying, I got no problem with, long as she does it quiet-like."

 

And a justly famous classic:

"Jayne: (mock reading Simon's journal) "Dear Diary...today I was pompous and my sister was crazy." (flips page) "Today, we were kidnapped by hill folk never to be seen again. It was the best day ever."

 

Mal: "Cut her down."

Villager: "The girl is a witch."

Mal: "Yeah, but she's our witch-" (cocks gun, points it at him) "-so cut her the hell down."

 

A favorite of mine. Jayne at his finest.

 

This is pretty much my favorite episode ANYWAYS, but this line (and I believe later in the same episode "I said 'You're my crew;' why we still talkin' about this?") really helps push it over the top.

 

Serenity Continues Its Voyage Online

 

E-comics. Sweet. I wish studios would take note that Serenity comics are doing so well and talk to Joss about another movie instead of turning every other comic book into a crappy film.

 

Eh, probably blasphemy, but i'm at the point where i wish they'd just let Firefly die...Either that, or if you're going to write story...Show us a continuation FROM "Serenity", and not some rehashed adventure...

 

I want Book's story this Christmas (or whenever). After that it can die.