"Firefly" The Message (2003)

Director:

Tim Minear

Writers:

Joss Whedon (creator)
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TV Series:

"Firefly" (2002)

Original Air Date:

28 July 2003 (Season 1, Episode 14)

Genre:

Drama | Sci-Fi

Plot:

A pleasant day out at a space station turns sour when Mal and Zoe receive the dead body of one of their old army buddy's in the post office...

Plot Keywords:

Old Friend | Death | Heroine | Back From The Dead | War Veteran

Cast

Nathan Fillion	...	Captain Malcolm 'Mal' Reynolds
Gina Torres	...	Zoë Washburne
Alan Tudyk	...	Hoban 'Wash' Washburne
Morena Baccarin	...	Inara Serra
Adam Baldwin	...	Jayne Cobb
Jewel Staite	...	Kaylee Frye
Sean Maher	...	Dr. Simon Tam
Summer Glau	...	River Tam
Ron Glass	...	Shepherd Book
Jonathan M. Woodward	...	Tracey
Richard Burgi	...	Lieutenant Womack
Al Pugliese	...	Amnon Duul
Tod Nakamura	...	Fendris
Craig Vincent	...	Skunk
Morgan Rusler	...	Barker

Runtime:

44 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English | Mandarin

Color:

Color

Certification:

Australia:M

Company:

Mutant Enemy

Trivia:

When Kaylee is sitting in her hammock holding the message recorder, there is a 12" tall Star Wars figure of Han Solo in Carbonite figure to her left.

Goofs:

Continuity: When Tracey's coffin is opened aboard Serenity, Jayne takes off his "silly hat" in respect. In the very next shot, he has the hat back on his head. Also, the hat appears in Jayne's hand in the space station before he has even taken it out of the box.

Quotes:

Inara Serra: The Lassiter is universally known. Fencing it is like... fencing the Mona Lisa.
Mal: Well - The Mona who?

One of my favorite episodes, and possibly the best one.

*** This review may contain spoilers ***

Watching this episode actually got me choked up. Seriously, there could have been tears. (Ah, Serenity joke).

This episode was a beautiful goodbye to the series, and I loved the plot line. "When you can't run, you crawl, and when you can't do that..." is one of my favorite quotes. Being in the military, I fully understand a saying like that.

It really was a great episode, and I thought the acting as well as the directing was purely amazing.

I will continue to watch this episode over and over, and hope they make another movie/TV series.

Jayne is just gorram funny.