Five Year Firefly - Our Mrs. Reynolds

Five years later and Fox still sucks. They had my Bug video yanked off of YouTube. Mind you, there's still a TON of Firefly AND Dire Straits videos up there, including whole clips of episodes. Just not mine. But hey, who am I to try and sell their stuff, right? Grrrr. (Arrrgh.)

Gasp! We skipped an episode! Two! Not REAL sure why. I mean, the episode opens with horses, wagons and floral bonnets. To say nothing of the folk talking all manner of peculiar like. So it's not like Our Mrs. Reynolds had a more "westerny" feel (which I gather Fox, um, disliked) than Shindig. But this is OBVIOUSLY why the show was canceled, right? Because they shifted two episodes. Ok, not airing the pilot wasn't bright, but they essentially aired the SECOND pilot. Star Trek did that. I think it was more not having a clue how to advertise it and not accepting anything that didn't have 24 / American Idol ratings. Oh, and their ravenous lust for canceling sci-fi. There's a REASON why Chris Carter shouted loud and often that X-Files wasn't sci-fi.

So here we are with Our Mrs. Reynolds. Written (but not directed by) Joe Sweedon! (Written AND directed by leads to leaf on the wind time. But he totally brings the funny.)

Five years ago I am now officially watching Firefly. Huzzah! And it is one of the best. It has it all. Except River. It has no River to speak of. (Simon has some moments. River has some DISTURBING deleted scenes.) Took me about seven seconds (after I said "Hey! That's Ron Glass! And Adam Baldwin!") to say "Ah. That's the Willow character. And that's Xander flying a spaceship." I didn't figure out that Adam B. was the Cordelia character, but what can you do? Oh, and they had no SOUND when things blew up in space! How COOOOOOL is THAT?

This is an astonishingly quotable ep. "That's a DUMB planet!" "A very special level of hell that they reserve for child molesters and people who talk at the theater." "Nobody's saying that sir." "Yeah, we're pretty much just giving each other significant glances and laughing incesently." "I call her Vera." "QUAINT!" "Some people juggle geese!" "My days of not taking you seriously are definitely coming to a middle." "I wish you hundreds of fat children!" "Is it Christmas?" "I will riddle you with holes." "Isn't that... SPECIAL?"

Inara has some good lines. Morena B. is actually pretty funny. (As opposed to Ron Glass who is high-larious.) YoSafBrige (I'm skipping ahead with the jokes, but I'm a leaf on wind, so sue me) is the companion gone BAD, so Inara actually has something to do! Again, not sure how long they could have kept this up. Yes, I will mention this again. Next week in fact. But it's a nice ep for the Mal/Inara 'shippers.

It's got the classic Joss twist twist twist fakeout. (It's funny! No, it's sexy! Or, funny again. Oh, wait, no, it's actually scary!)

This may be the first mention of "Earth that Was". (Don't recall it in either of the previously aired eps, the skipped eps, or the Unaired Pilot.)

It's got Wash and Zoe being extremely Wash and Zoe at each other. They're very sweet, but they do fight like cats and dogs.

Of course, Saffron was interesting enough to bring back.

And Mal gets to say again how folk don't suck (except Fox). More to the point, someone else gets to tell him how everybody sucks (including Fox) and he gets to say "Oh no they don't either (except for Fox)." Mal is still the BDH. (I'd explain what that means, but we skipped that episode. Stay tuned.)

JAAAAAAAAAAAYNE! The man they call JAAAAAAAAAYNE! See you next week.