ReWatchable is back! This week we discuss the second episode of
Firefly - which to some viewers will have been the first - titled "The Train Job."
Don't forget that this podcast is spoiler-free, featuring both
Firefly fans and newbies. So it's safe for everyone to listen!
Announcement: we've been reading all your comments and have decided to start doing these shows on a weekly basis. So look for the discussion of 1x03 "Bushwacked" next week!
- Selina is back, and she's much happier with
Firefly this time around
- We explain why Fox made Joss Whedon write "The Train Job" as an alternate pilot, and discuss whether or not it was a better intro to the show than the "Serenity" pilot
- The western tropes: a bar fight, a train heist... appealing to both Western fans and non-Western fans
- The experiments on River: what could have happened to her?
- Shipping time! Simon/Kaylee, Mal/Inara exposition scene
- Selina and Kristen think that Shephard Book is hella shady
- Cartoonish villains, muahaha
- A Simon/Kaylee/Jayne love triangle?!
- Would Mal turn River over to the Alliance?
- Mal and Zoe pretending to be married
- Another example of a bad guy playing a good guy
- Inara proves why she's useful
- Jayne saves Mal... but why?
- Are Jayne and Mal two sides of the same coin?
- Mal is the worst criminal ever. And he has no time for your evil revenge speeches
- "Two by two, hands of blue." What does it mean?!
- Favourite scenes and quotes
- We check in on how we're feeling about the characters in the second episode
- Caitlin and Kristen are shocked when their favourite character is dissed!
- Listener feedback: new
Firefly fans, old
Firefly fans, and
Firefly flans (mmm, yummy)
And that's the show! Do you think that "The Train Job" worked well as an alternate pilot episode?