Favorite Firefly words and phrases...

[Datt]

Yeah or while Mal is kissing her he says "I'm gonig to a special hell."

 

[Pielorinho]

Jayne, in "Objects in Space": "Yeah, and if wishes was horses, we'd all be eatin' steak."

I'm partial to that line too .

My favorite slang from the show is "ruttin'", used in place of an obvious synonym. It comes across simultaneously as an end-run around the censors, a sly poke at the censors, and a perfectly plausible cuss word. Won't let us use one harsh Anglo-Saxon word for sex, huh? Why then, we'll just use another!

My other favorite line is River's "Keep on walkin', preacher-man."

Daniel

 

[Welverin]

Mal, in shindig: Mercy is the mark of a great man.... (poke) I guess that just makes me a good man.

You forgot the rest of it (something like): Well, I'm just ok.

 

[Wolf72]

to many to choose from!

book's Hell phrase was great, as was River's "plus I can kill you with my brain" comment

 

[Harp]

book's Hell phrase was great, as was River's "plus I can kill you with my brain" comment

As you can tell, these are a pair of my favorite as well. (Theater talkers really are among the lowest form of life.)

But I have a question for the forum -- River was just so awesomely bizarre that I still haven't been able to decide if she was telling the truth or just trying to freak Jayne out. Could she, in fact, have killled him with her brain?

 

[Crothian]

Of course she could. She "did the math" too shot three people with three shots while her eyes were closed. And that she said "no power in the verse can stop me." or something like that.

 

[John Crichton]

But I have a question for the forum -- River was just so awesomely bizarre that I still haven't been able to decide if she was telling the truth or just trying to freak Jayne out. Could she, in fact, have killled him with her brain?

River, being a playful type as witnessed in flashbacks and her interactions with Kaylee, I would say she was screwing around with him.

 

[John Crichton]

Of course she could. She "did the math" too shot three people with three shots while her eyes were closed. And that she said "no power in the verse can stop me." or something like that.

While, I don't agree that she could have killed him just using her brain (and nothing else) one of the great things about the show is that it is certainly something that could be proven to be true in future episodes.

I think Mal had it right when he called her a "reader, or close enough." I think the "doing the math" part is accurate. We already know she is an uber-genius from Simon. Her emotions are not able to be kept in check and the Blue Hands folks definately did something else to her but there is nothing in there to make me believe that she had the pure mental ability to do harm to another with only her brain.

Was a damn funny line, tho.

I just think that River is a bit of a trickster. She showed it against the bounty hunter (out-thought him), again Badger (mind games) and she has a certain wit to her - "I threw up on your bed." Just makes me think she was messing with Jayne for selling them out. That and she wants to keep him in check.

 

[John Crichton]

double post

 

[Crothian]

Well, I'm pretty sure we know she's at least a reader. In Objects in Space she was getting a different perception of people in the beginning. She also presicted things in earlier episodes moments before they happened. And Killing with her brain can mean many things.