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Unexpected Firefly analysis
So I rewatched "Jaynestown" the other day, for the first time in quite a while.
It never occurred to me before to compare Jayne in this episode to Simon in "Safe," but there's a striking parallel in the climactic scenes. Our boy is facing a crowd of locals, his back to the focus of their attention (the clay statue; the pyre), and shouting at them:
"She has done nothing to you! ...If she dies tonight, it won't be God's will that killed her; it'll be you! Your lunacy, your ignorance!"
"You think someone's gonna just drop money on you? Money they could use? ...Well, there ain't people like that! There's just people like me."
And he trails off, because it's clear to him that not one person in that crowd understands a word he's saying. With Simon it's just their blank stares; with Jayne it's made even more obvious, with the small boy reverently offering him his knife back.
Words are futile. Gestures are futile too, but that's all he has left. Simon backs away and steps up onto the pyre; Jayne turns and pushes down the statue.
I don't know what, if anything, to make of this parallel. I just noticed it and thought I'd share.
It never occurred to me before to compare Jayne in this episode to Simon in "Safe," but there's a striking parallel in the climactic scenes. Our boy is facing a crowd of locals, his back to the focus of their attention (the clay statue; the pyre), and shouting at them:
"She has done nothing to you! ...If she dies tonight, it won't be God's will that killed her; it'll be you! Your lunacy, your ignorance!"
"You think someone's gonna just drop money on you? Money they could use? ...Well, there ain't people like that! There's just people like me."
And he trails off, because it's clear to him that not one person in that crowd understands a word he's saying. With Simon it's just their blank stares; with Jayne it's made even more obvious, with the small boy reverently offering him his knife back.
Words are futile. Gestures are futile too, but that's all he has left. Simon backs away and steps up onto the pyre; Jayne turns and pushes down the statue.
I don't know what, if anything, to make of this parallel. I just noticed it and thought I'd share.
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I think I'll eat it *evil grin*
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When do want it: Brains!
(Overheard at the Zombie March on Washington)
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