Meme-y mood

[shivver]

I feel like talking about something but not like thinking of what to talk about, so you tell me. I am making up my own meme here.

Name an episode (or episodes, as many as you like) from one of the following shows and I will tell you the following about it.

Doctor Who is of course preferable (modern or classic), but also Star Trek: The Next Generation and Firefly are fair game.

What I like about it.

What I don't like about it.

Favorite line.

Best performance.

A scene/idea from it that's particularly interesting to me.

Something I would have changed to make the episode better.

An idea for a fanfic relating to it.

Comments

[a-phoenixdragon.livejournal.com]

Ohhh!! Firefly: Out of Gas (one of my favs...yes, I'm terrible).

*HUGS*

[shivver13.livejournal.com]

It is so hard to have a favorite Firefly episode because they are all so good! :) I'll note here that I haven't seen Firefly in a long time, so my responses are based on rather shaky memory.

What I like about it: Brilliant storytelling. I love the way that Whedon showed us the crew's backstory woven around the immediate urgent situation.

What I don't like about it: Two things. First, I recall being a little put off by the rather pat way it ended, with the two shuttles going off in different directions and one of them happening to run smack dab into help. My memory could be wrong. It was just a little too convenient. Second, the science in the episode is bad, sacrificed for the story. Neither suffocating nor freezing to death would have been that fast - the ship has plenty of air to support the crew for at least a day or two (same with the hospital in "Smith and Jones" btw), and heat doesn't dissipate into space quickly through radiance (which is why astronauts can walk on the moon without freezing immediately).

Favorite line: I'm going to go with favorite scene. I loved the scene where the prospective engineer is, ahem, making out with his girlfriend in the engine room and she turns out to be the far more competent engineer. Kaylee and Mal were fantastic.

Best performance: Sorry, I don't remember individual performances well enough to answer this. I do remember that Mal's despair was palpable in the end, though.

A scene/idea from it that's particularly interesting to me: I love the idea that Kaylee intuitively understands Serenity, that she hears the ship and empathizes with her.

Something I would have changed to make the episode better: I'd go for what I didn't like about it - I'd change the end so that the salvation of the ship wasn't left to chance.

An idea for a fanfic relating to it: I'd love a setup story, in which something happens to the crew/ship and in the process of solving the problem, they do something and it's implied that it eventually causes the ship's failure in the episode.

[a-phoenixdragon.livejournal.com]

Ohh, it has been a while! In the first episode, Kaylee complains that they need to get another compressor coil for the engine before it leaves them stranded. Eight episodes later, it did just that...*beams* but I'll take fic on Firefly anyway. LOVE that show!

*HUGS*