Comments | musesfool: what a ship is, is freedom

musesfool

what a ship is, is freedom

Jul 30, 2007 10:25

Good god, they actually expect me to do work-related work today! Why is it always when I have important writing to do that this happens? Gah!

Anyway, before I start that, remember that poll I did a while back, giving me topics to talk about when I am topic-free? Here's another one.

florahart wanted me to discuss why available modes of transport are ( Read more... )

tv: supernatural, memes: fannish, oh dean, tv: firefly, mal

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lessthanpie July 30 2007, 14:51:33 UTC

The memory of watching a fictional spaceship crashing should not make me all sniffly.

Out of Gas makes me tear up every time; the way Mal's looking at the ship at the end just kills me. I still, after many many many viewings, have a really hard time watching the entire crash sequence in the film, from the EMP hit all the way through to the end of it. (Wash. Woe. :() That ship, that we've come to love because it's home to the characters we love, hitting the ground so hard with pieces falling off her.... It's so traumatic. And that speech of Mal's at the end remains one of my very favorite bits of canon, no question.

And, well, the Impala is just cool. :)

musesfool July 30 2007, 15:10:08 UTC

Out of Gas is SO AWESOME. It wars with War Stories as my favorite episode. And Ariel. Man, SO AWESOME.

I still, after many many many viewings, have a really hard time watching the entire crash sequence in the film, from the EMP hit all the way through to the end of it. (Wash. Woe. :() That ship, that we've come to love because it's home to the characters we love, hitting the ground so hard with pieces falling off her.... It's so traumatic.

It is!

I just... it hurts so much to see her get shredded like that, but there's no time to cry because then Wash gets it, and oh, it hurts so much!

*sniffle*

lessthanpie July 30 2007, 15:25:00 UTC

If you make me cry at work I will hunt you down! (And, um... cry on you or something. :D)

I love and hate Joss so much for those minutes of film, from the crash all the way until "It's done." I have never been so scared for fictional people I loved so much, when I truly thought he was going to kill them all. He is an evil genius, truly, and I don't think I am ever going to get over wanting more Firefly. (Even through I am secretly glad that it never got a chance to suck. :P)

musesfool July 30 2007, 18:58:53 UTC

Yeah, I thought they were all goners at that point. Well, once Simon got shot. But yeah, it was like, how in hell are they getting out of this one with no ship and no pilot. Sigh.

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valarltd July 30 2007, 14:58:44 UTC

The only time I cried in a movie in my teens was when they blew up the Enterprise.

If i ever go back to vidding, I'm doing a Jack Sparrow/Han Solo/Mal Reynolds love letter to their respective ships...

musesfool July 30 2007, 15:10:32 UTC

If i ever go back to vidding, I'm doing a Jack Sparrow/Han Solo/Mal Reynolds love letter to their respective ships...

That would be awesome.

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musesfool July 30 2007, 15:11:52 UTC

I can't believe I'm sitting here with that swelly-chest feeling going on over the vehicles, but damn it, they are important!

They are! All the ones you name. Sometimes the car is just as important as the human characters!

And it struck me as oddly sad that Serenity no longer needs cut tags

I know! but it's been almost two years. Sigh.

I just got this crazy mental picture of the Impala being back in the garage, and Dean getting a VW Beetle as a loner, 'cept the Beetle has racing stripes, the number 53 on the bonnet, and a mind of its own.

bwahahahahahaha!

heidi8 July 30 2007, 15:22:15 UTC

Did you see what JKR said about the motorbike in her chat today?

musesfool July 30 2007, 18:46:26 UTC

I saw the transcript, yeah. I'm so glad Harry has it.

kelex July 30 2007, 16:15:59 UTC

I'm gonna go one step further and throw in Jim Kirk and the Enterprise. I'd even go so far as to say he was one of the first "man and his ship" types that I remember, and since I've always loved Jim Kirk, that probably explains why I love Mal (with having only seen like, three eps of Firefly) and why I love Han Solo/Millennium Falcon and Dean Winchester/Impala and Captain Jack/Black Pearl and even the Duke Boys/General Lee.

I don't know why the lure of a man who loves his car more than anything else is so great, but it's obviously a combination that *works* because so many of our favorites have that part to their personality.

musesfool July 30 2007, 18:49:03 UTC

Well, I've never been a big Kirk fan, but yeah, Han Solo also falls into this category, which is probably where I imprinted on it.