I have a device in my pocket that is the best camera I've personally ever owned, more powerful than most of the computers I've owned, as capable as any of the handheld videogame systems I've ever owned, and is also a phone.  And is lighter and sleeker than it has any right to be.  I marvel at this from time to time as…

Every time I watch this, I notice - and then forget – that Early’s ship is shaped a bit like Boba Fett’s ship, Slave 1.  Does anyone know if that’s been acknowledged as an intentional homage?

Every time I watch this, I notice - and then forget – that Early’s ship is shaped a bit like Boba Fett’s ship, Slave 1.  Does anyone know if that’s been acknowledged as an intentional homage?

Accepting the premise that it's functional body armor, it simply means that bringing Early down will be more complicated than simply shooting him a couple times, and the ship is not an ideal location for a gunfight. Any munitions you use that are powerful enough to puncture his armor could damage the ship.

Accepting the premise that it's functional body armor, it simply means that bringing Early down will be more complicated than simply shooting him a couple times, and the ship is not an ideal location for a gunfight. Any munitions you use that are powerful enough to puncture his armor could damage the ship.

I don't know that it's about atheism per se, but as Donna mentions, more about existentialism, which is an atheist philosophy.  The basic idea is that meaning is not inherent in things, be they the objects we use in our daily lives, or all of creation itself.  We assign our own meanings, which in turn means those…

I don't know that it's about atheism per se, but as Donna mentions, more about existentialism, which is an atheist philosophy.  The basic idea is that meaning is not inherent in things, be they the objects we use in our daily lives, or all of creation itself.  We assign our own meanings, which in turn means those…

Love that line from Simon; it really feels like an extension of the relationship we see between them in the flashbacks to their childhood.

Love that line from Simon; it really feels like an extension of the relationship we see between them in the flashbacks to their childhood.

I don't think you could win the game that way.

I don't think you could win the game that way.

Cuz he's a lion.

Cuz he's a lion.

SPOILERS?

SPOILERS?

You can have my ponytail when you cut it from my cold, dead head.

You can have my ponytail when you cut it from my cold, dead head.

Honestly, if they had said that it really was just tin foil, and that wrapping the house in reflective material was the only form of cooling they could afford, I would have been ok with that.

Honestly, if they had said that it really was just tin foil, and that wrapping the house in reflective material was the only form of cooling they could afford, I would have been ok with that.

Regarding Inara's actions and reactions in this episode, they are heavily informed by a bit of backstory that they never got around to revealing onscreen, but which Baccarin eventually shared with Joss' permission (as has been mentioned a few times in the comments for previous episodes).  Viewed through that lens, I…