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So here's us, on the raggedy edge.
Huge orange flying boat rises off a lake / Thousand-year-old petroglyphs doing a double take / Pointing a finger at eternity / I'm sitting in the middle of this ecstasy — Bruce Cockburn, Wondering Where the Lions Are |
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I’ve been cocooning with Firefly this weekend, for the first time since my DVDs were stolen. That line…the one above…starts and finishes what I think is the best episode of one of the best TV shows of the last decade.
Out of Gas is a wonderfully structured story that loops from present day to the past, and firms up the history of the characters. It’s great writing of the sort that one would expect from Joss Whedon.
I realized on this viewing that Safe was the first episode I can remember seeing, years ago when it was first broadcast. It’s possible I’d seen others, but Safe didn’t click with me and I didn’t catch anymore that I can recall. I think it was the cattle at the time: I wasn’t expecting it, and it threw me.
Safe is a slow episode too, and that may also have been part of it. I laughed, though, when I realized that it contains what’s become one of the show’s most endearing lines.
Mal: Well, look at this! Appears we got here just in the nick of time. What does that make us?
Zoë: Big damn heroes, sir.
Big Damn Heroes indeed. It’s been a good weekend.
Posted by skooter at 5:46 AM
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