I may be a bit late getting started with this rewatch, but it has only been about 3 months since I’ve seen Serenity/Firefly last.
Boy oh boy, have I missed Wash. I love his dinosaur introduction. Also he’s a great mime, just after he completes the Crazy Ivan maneuver, it cuts back to a shot of Mal, Zoe and Wash, with Wash holding the steering wheel… only he’s not actually holding the steering wheel, he’s holding nothing but air because the chair he’s sitting in has been pushed back to a larger part of the bridge.
We may love to hate Badger, but in the verse, he is correct, he is in a higher economic class than the crew of Firefly. While our big damn heroes are hauling souped up power bars and salivating over Book’s fresh fruit he brought on board, Badger has enough money that he’s able to use that super cool apple peeler, so he can eat the apple and he can afford to NOT eat the skin if he doesn’t want to.
It was fun watching how they set up Reavers starting from when the crew lands on Persephone, anything that makes Jayne scared is DEFINITELY something to fear and then, when we hear Zoe’s description of what the Reavers would do to them, it’s easy to understand what makes them so scary.
