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Snowflake Challenge - Day 3!
Jan. 12th, 2019 09:59 pmI'm just super, super enthralled by Firefly right now (and super, super late to this challenge but, you know, it's all good). It's tragic—the show has been off the air for well over a decade now, going on two! Even though the movie wrapped everything up nicely—or, at least I thought it did—I still find myself craving new episodes. (New rule, Afi. Don't fall in love with a dead series [again]. You'll only break your heart.)
The scenes I'm really fond of, I can't seem to find in clip form on YouTube. Surprising, I found full length episodes posted? Which would have been great to know back when I was scouring the internet for episodes after they took the series off of Netflix, but I digress. Since this show is older, a lot of the content I'm finding for this show feels... dated. Fanvids, songfics, those complications where folks chop a bunch of scenes together and play some music overtop of it all. I have nothing against these medias at all, but they do feel like a slice of fandom past as I can't say the last time I've seen something similar in more contemporary fandoms—even if they exist, I don't think they're as common. A lot of the lingo I'm finding within the snippets of the fandom that I'm coming across feel dated as well, which is surprising to me? I never really considered that fandoms age, but they most CERTAINLY do. The age of lemons, limes, 'slash-fic', all feel like so long ago, and yet these terms are all alive and well within this bubble of time that is the height of the Firefly fandom circa 2003. (Fifteen years is a LONG time; I just hadn't realized just how long?)
Anyhow, let's look at my favorite scenes (that I could find).
I like this scene because I love River. She's grown on me SO much in these past few weeks! River is complicated and well-meaning and I feel like we really see her struggle as she fights against her mind and body and her struggle to return to her old self, if that's even possible. Because her character can be so weighed down in negativity and difficulty, I love that Firefly gives us scenes like this, where River is just as loopy and incoherent as ever, but you can just tell she's doing things with good intentions. Like, yes, ripping up Bibles is bad. But you know she's not doing it with any ill-intentions.
And she's so intelligent! You can just see the gears in her mind spinning as she's thinking this all through, right down to her favoritism of prime numbers.
Another of my favorite scenes (and episodes!) is Our Mrs. Reynolds, particularly the early scenes in which Mal is first introduced to the idea of having accidentally married a girl one night at shindig. The reactions from everyone in the crew are absolutely priceless, and these three minutes alone show SO MUCH of each of the character's personalities. The teasing, the banter, the GLARES from Inara. This is another one of the more silly scenes, not as angsty or heart-wrenching as other moments in the series, but I love it just because everyone is just so... unique? Even without having seen any other episodes of the show, I feel that you get such a strong sense of who's who in this moment. The character relations in this show are so well thought-out, I swear, I couldn't love this series more if I tried.
Also? Accidentally marrying Joan Harris from Mad Men? I love the actress here, and she does such a great job!
