BB Firefly Rewatch Day 8: Ariel

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Hard up for cash, Serenity takes on a job from Simon: help him get a thorough diagnostic of River in return for the opportunity to loot the vast medical stores of an Alliance hospital on central world Ariel. But River's pursuers are hot on their trail, and they receive some unexpected inside help.
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Love how Simon is trying to get River to eat, then realises why she wont when he tastes it!
Wash trying to persuade Zoe to go out on Ariel, not doing a good job
And then Mal agrees with her and no one is going out on it
It beats just sitting! It is just sitting!
Oh River!
Playing horseshoes!
Simon with a job, shows how far he's come!
Trying to teach Mal, Zoe and Jayne medical terms!
haha Jayne, saying what he leant, even though he didn't need to
Oh Jayne what are you up to?
Doctor Simon!
Clear!
Love how Simon now refers to the ship as home
Uh oh
Well Jayne that didn't go to plan
Naked beach!
Like how Simon takes care of his guy before Jayne does
Hands of blue
With their weird device
And everyone's back on the ship
Love Mal and Kaylee, Kaylee's had a small part but been great this ep
And Mal wasn't stupid he knew Jayne screwed it up
Love Mal, defending Simon, Simon truly is part of the crew now.
 
43 minutes ago - Buffy Summers:
Okay starting up Ariel.
GwenRaiden:
Me too!
Buffy Summers:
"Could you not do that while we're...ever?"
Buffy Summers:
I really am surprised they allowed River to stay after this
GwenRaiden:
I know. That seemed uncharacteristic.
Buffy Summers:
Slashing someone is a pretty big thing lol
GwenRaiden:
Yeah, anyone else would have got booted for doing that!
Buffy Summers:
Simon sure knows a lot about breaking into a hospital lol
GwenRaiden:
LOL at Kaylee moaning at having to dig through trash then finding "synchronizers!"
Buffy Summers:
It's weird that Jayne is wearing two different shirts in that montage
Buffy Summers:
LOL! So Kaylee!
GwenRaiden:
Maybe he bled on one of them!
GwenRaiden:
I love them trying to remember the jargon.
Buffy Summers:
I can't believe they just found an ambulance lol
Buffy Summers:
"Maybe I'll give him a tattoo while he's out."
Buffy Summers:
Ah, Jayne.
GwenRaiden:
Jayne Jayne Jayne.
GwenRaiden:
He can be such a disappointment.
GwenRaiden:
Owned. I like ER Simon.
Buffy Summers:
Me too lol
Buffy Summers:
I love the smile on River's face lol
Buffy Summers:
Poor RIver
GwenRaiden:
Poor River
GwenRaiden:
HA! snap
Buffy Summers:
I like how Simon refers to Serenity as home
GwenRaiden:
Yeah, and I like how much more brave he's become
Buffy Summers:
It's cool they have cryo department at the hospital lol
GwenRaiden:
two by two, hands of blue
GwenRaiden:
SO creepy
Buffy Summers:
No joke
GwenRaiden:
Oh thank god, Mal
Buffy Summers:
His look is hilarious
Buffy Summers:
I think Mal hitting Jayne is still shocking, even when you know it's coming.
Mr. Pole:
Yeah, because he sucker punched him like a little punk
Buffy Summers:
Aw, good episode.
Buffy Summers:
War Stories tomorrow - another good one
 
In my memory I was not looking forward to this episode. In my head it was dull.
I was pleasantly surprised to find that I had either misremembered or just changed my mind. I really enjoyed this episode. Though my favorite part might be how well Mal knows Jayne and how he deals with him at the end (as well as Jayne not wanting the others to know what he had done) I thought the whole episode was funny and entertaining and worrying toward the end.

Having not read any comics and it being a while since I last watched the show... did we ever find out the significance of the blue hands?


Question: if River had slashed at someone other than Jayne...do you guys think that the crew would have reacted more negatively? Now, while concerned, they were kind of passive...
 
I think Mal may have acted the same way if it was anyone other than Kaylee or Inara, Wash may have reacted differently if it was Zoe but I think Zoe would have been fine it if was Wash.
 
I'm not saying Zoe wouldn't have cared about Wash getting hurt, but she would see the bigger picture and understand that it couldn't have been helped and River wasn't well
 
I too didn't think this was a great episode, but after watching it remembered how much I liked it lol

Taake said:
Having not read any comics and it being a while since I last watched the show... did we ever find out the significance of the blue hands?
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I haven't read the comics either, but my guess is it lets them handle that wand thing without dying.

🙂
 
I guess I am just dense because I never much thought cared it.. I just figured they were surgical gloves.
 
Buffy Summers said:
I haven't read the comics either, but my guess is it lets them handle that wand thing without dying.

🙂
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Good point. But how? We probably should read those comics when this re-watch is over! 🙂

Mr. Pole said:
I guess I am just dense because I never much thought cared it.. I just figured they were surgical gloves.
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Just seems like they make a "big deal" out of it. Like why would they walk around with surgical gloves if not for a good reason? I mean I guess it could be to look "cool"... if the show had gone on, maybe all the cool kids would've been wearing blue gloves, who knows? 😉
 
Taake said:
Like why would they walk around with surgical gloves if not for a good reason?
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So you don't get contaminated by actually having to touch and feel the real world around you. Why do people walk around with surgical masks on? for fear of breathing something in... same difference. I just figured they got their hands dirty, but didnt want to get their hands dirty.
 
Mr. Pole said:
So you don't get contaminated by actually having to touch and feel the real world around you. Why do people walk around with surgical masks on? for fear of breathing something in... same difference. I just figured they got their hands dirty, but didnt want to get their hands dirty.
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I still think there's something more to it...
 
For some reason I thought River cut Jayne to save him, like maybe he had a blood clot and she was relieving pressure. Like how she knew that heart patient was dying. I was surprised that she had just attacked him.

I love how Jayne, Mal and Die were practicing their doctor so each and they didn't even need it.

I'm watching this with my mum (who hasn't seen previous episodes) and she's just asked if Jayne is a baddie. I explained he's just in it for the money 🙂
 
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