Firefly“Out of Gas”
Original Air Date: 10 October 2002
Rachel – Two Cents Staff Writer
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“Out of Gas” is number three on my Top 5 Firefly episodes. Not a hard list to come up with, really, since it only ran one season. But, boy, if this one isn’t a doozy! Right in the middle of Simon’s birthday party Serenity explodes. Maybe ‘explodes’ is a bad word… a chain reaction, really, causes some explosion-like events which in turn causes the ships life support to go all kerfloopy and knocks out Zoë. Damn that compression coil Kaylee warned Mal about several episodes ago! Didn’t he read the script? Mal orders the crew into the shuttles hoping for a miracle. They are to go in opposite directions and try to find help (which is a tall order since there are in the middle of nowhere outerspace) while he stays behind and tries to fix things, ignoring the fact that the oxygen is just about to run out.
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Original Air Date: 10 October 2002
Rachel – Two Cents Staff Writer
rachel@thetwocentscorp.com
“Out of Gas” is number three on my Top 5 Firefly episodes. Not a hard list to come up with, really, since it only ran one season. But, boy, if this one isn’t a doozy! Right in the middle of Simon’s birthday party Serenity explodes. Maybe ‘explodes’ is a bad word… a chain reaction, really, causes some explosion-like events which in turn causes the ships life support to go all kerfloopy and knocks out Zoë. Damn that compression coil Kaylee warned Mal about several episodes ago! Didn’t he read the script? Mal orders the crew into the shuttles hoping for a miracle. They are to go in opposite directions and try to find help (which is a tall order since there are in the middle of nowhere outerspace) while he stays behind and tries to fix things, ignoring the fact that the oxygen is just about to run out.
Flashback to how all of Serenity’s crew members got to be part of the whole thing. Zoë and Mal buy the Firefly-class ship, they hire Wash (with a Magnum P.I. ‘stache), they find Kaylee getting jiggy with the first guy they hired to be the engineer and decide to fire him and hire her instead, Inara rents the shuttle, Jayne switches sides in a shoot-out to become Serenity’s heavy, etc. Long review short – Mal’s miracle happens. He gets a new compression coil (after getting shot) and fixes everything in the nick of time. Why is this review so short, you ask? Because I want you to actually WATCH this episode. It is shot so brilliantly… the pace set by the director (David Solomon) and the writer (Tim Minear) is perfect. It is actually a quite haunting episode. Go. See. It.
My favorite quote:
Mal: Ship like this, be with you 'til the day you die.
Zoë Washburne: 'Cause it's a deathtrap.
Fun Trivia:
Missing Zoë? Gina Torres was absent for much of the filming of this episode because she was on her honeymoon with Laurence Fishburne. That’s right, Zoë married Morpheus.
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