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Firefly: Season 1, Episode 5Out of Gas (25 Oct. 2002) 8.9
When Serenity's life support system fails, Mal orders the crew off the ship - but he stays behind. Director:David Solomon |
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On Simon's birthday, Serenity's engine stops turning and an explosion knocks out auxiliary life support, severely wounding Zoe. With few options, Mal orders the rest of the crew off the ship, but he stays behind hoping for a miracle. The story is told in multiple time frames shifting from Mal's time alone on the ship to the events prior to the crew's departure. Flashbacks to Mal's initial meetings with many of his crew members are also a part of the narrative, showing how and why Mal and Zoe decided to buy the old Firefly-class ship, as well as revealing it wasn't love-at-first-sight for Zoe and Wash when he was hired as the Serenity's pilot, as well as how Inara charmed her way into letting Mal rent out one of the Serenity's shuttles for herself, how Mal met the mechanic/engineer Kaylee in a compromising position, and how the crew met Jayne who was an tough, but dumb, interplanetary bandit. Written by Azure_Girl
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life support | flashback | birthday | oxygen | husband wife relationship |Certificate:
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[everyone laughs]
Kaylee: But I tried to get the frosting as chocolatey tasting as possible.
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The red button Wash rigs to call the shuttles back and return the crew to Serenity was removed from the set on one of the last days of filming by Alan Tudyk, as by that time the cast and crew knew they were being canceled. Scenes on the bridge for Firefly: Out of Gas were filmed the next day, and the button is noticeably absent. Alan then mailed the button to series creator Joss Whedon, with a note saying "When you get your miracle, just hit this" (quoting Wash's line). Whedon was hoping to revive the series, which he did, in the form of the film Serenity. See more »Goofs
Kaylee has just put Simon's birthday cake down on the table when the explosion happens, but in many subsequent shots of both the table and the floor in the dining room, the cake is nowhere to be seen. See more »Quotes
Kaylee: [about Simon's birthday cake] Couldn't get ahold of no flour, so it's mostly protein. In fact, it's pretty much what we just had for dinner.[everyone laughs]
Kaylee: But I tried to get the frosting as chocolatey tasting as possible.
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I love Firefly, all of it. But this episode was so powerful that it should have been the final episode. We get to know the characters a little better and it sort of had a surrealistic feel to it that made it different from the other episodes. All the typical Whedon cleverness you've come to expect was present in all its glory, but it felt more dramatic and serious. It was like watching a family you really like fall apart after many, many years of bonding. It's very sad and disturbing to see a trusty spaceship, that's normally bursting with life and activity, completely abandoned. And for a while, I thought that we had seen the last of its crew,during the flashback sequences.
Fortunately, the ending could not have been any better. It may seem schmaltzy, but the director played it out exceptionally well. I'm a pretty jaded, cynical guy, but this really moved me to teary eyes. I don't want to tell what happens exactly, but I think that if you know your Whedon, you'll be able to sense it. It doesn't matter, though, because it was inevitable. And like I said, this whole episode would be even more powerful if it was listed as the final episode.