Firefly – The Message

I said I was gonna watch to see if there was a lot of shaky cam on the show, but I kinda forgot that. Makes me wonder if there wasn’t that much of it. This time I saw a lot of it though. Maybe that’s why I didn’t connect much with the episode, I dunno. Old war friend involves the crew in some crap, crap goes down, the crew gets through it, old war friend doesn’t. I’m not calling it a bad episode, but it never grabbed me.

There’s good stuff, though. The market on a space station is impressive enough. While most of what we see during the war flashbacks is on a small set, they do some one or two second shots of the city that make it look more like a sprawling battle.

It does make me happy to see some villains who threaten to kill someone but then don’t. That’s usually such a cheap and easy way to make villains seem threatening that not having it is actually more effective. Shame they also make some hacky prison rape jokes.

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