Firefly 1x09♡Uncut Reaction &Review ♡
Ariel
A Serenity crew member turns traitor to help the government catch fugitive siblings River and Simon, who has hired the crew to break into an Alliance hospital to steal medical supplies and to learn more about experiments done on his sister.
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They didn't build an ambulance from scratch. They bought a cheap wreck from the junkyard and repaired it. Wash threw a catalyzer at it, if you notice (maybe shoulda kept that catalyzer in case it was good lol)
"They took Christmas away..." That whole bit is River reading Jayne's childhood memories and spouting them back. Simon (and we) hear basically nonsense but Jayne is spooked by this and by her - and not for the last time, nor the first... Also by this point, Jayne has been double-crossed by the Alliance, so he's going to do whatever he can to get them all out, IF an opportunity arises... No Sofie, she can't see the future. She can obviously read minds and is also highly intuitive, insightful and intelligent; but she's not prescient. She read the other doctors' minds casually and knew that one doctor had given the wrong meds to the patient. Simon had to ask.
Yes, Sofie, you were so correct suggesting that something must have triggered River to slice Jayne's shirt with part of Jayne. To expand on Gillian's point, The true "Big Bad" in the show in not the Alliance, but the Blue Sun Corporation. Blue Sun is a mega-sized, all-powerful corporation that makes everything from canned food to T-Shirts. The corporation is so large that it is the puppet-master of the Alliance government. It also seems the Blue Sun Corporation is behind the "Academy" that tortured River (two by two, hands of blue). The "Blue Hands Guys" show that they have no regard for anybody, including government officials. Killing the Feds reduces risk to the corporation, so they do it without hesitation.
Its subtle and was never fully developed in the show, but in Shindig River rips Blue Sun labels off the cans, and here she cuts the Blue Sun logo on Jayne's tshirt
Exactly. Blue Sun was being set up as a major story element right from the pilot. In Serenity, when they are on Persephone, there are several times when you can clearly see the Blue Sun logo in the background. They are the corporation 'behind' the government - or at least the most important one. The Academy River 'attended' was definitely run by Blue Sun. Jayne was wearing a Blue Sun shirt and the labels she tore off the cans in Shindig had Blue Sun logos on them.
I'm pretty sure River tried to stab Jayne at the beginning because she knew he was going to sell them out. A lot of River's actions and dialogue make a lot more sense on 2nd viewing.
I could be wrong, but I think she didn't actually know he was betraying them until she woke up in the hospital with, "A copper for a kiss". You can see her body language change as she reads his mind.
I'm not 100% on this but in re-watching @26:41 it sounds like: "got up before him". (That's when River wakes up.)
I thought it sounded like "A copper for a kiss".
I always thought that since they were in a hospital on a Core-world, there should have been more Asian actors in the hospital scenes
There should have been more Asian actors in the show, period. We hardly see any after ep1 Serenity.
The scene with Jayne and Mal at the end... Obsessed. Jayne shows the littlest care and Mal lets him back in... Such beautiful insight into these two characters in just a few seconds. So good.
Yeah you totally got it Sof, River was making fun of Jayne for not getting his reward in her usual cryptic ways 😆 she's awesome 💜 Also I think it's safe to assume Jayne has had the idea of betraying them for a long time and he was probably toying with the idea a lot more prior to the attack because he knew they were going to a core planet, but he perhaps wasn't sure if he would have a good opportunity this time; but River attacking him (cause she sensed that he was thinking about it) and then Simon coming up with the job made him decide it was actually the perfect opportunity.
She didn't attack Jayne, she attacked his Blue Sun shirt. He was just in the way. He probably was thinking about betraying them for some time. "Well, that'll be an interesting day," or episode in this case lol, and yes, perhaps River sensed it (Jayne was probably the easiest to read out of all of them). The rest of what you said is right on. River even used Jayne's own memories for that teasing about the reward.
I know you're gonna love this one... I'll come back after watching to say more 😍