There are some brilliant lines in that.

What else has he done?

That scene made my wife and daughter laugh when I finally got them to watch Firefly.

And he's done more than those. Check him out at IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0923736/

Lando?

That's Ron Glass from Barney Miller et al

crank wrote:That's Ron Glass from Barney Miller et al

Yep. He did age very well. Although, Abe looks exactly the same as he did on Barney Miller...

And I had no idea Joss was a screenwriter for Toy Story!

His speech made me cringe.

Paul G wrote:His speech made me cringe.

I was definitely doing this:

"You don't fix faith... it fixes you!" Too fucking right! Like a fix on a horse race, so that you can fool yourself into believing that your horse is always going to come in first, regardless of how long the odds are.

I r not broken.

Summer Glau...

I've got it on DVD. I love that scene.

Atheist director.

TV Shows about angels, demons, vampires, supernatural phenomena, etc etc.

Good one. LOL

Yeah. It's called 'fiction'.

Hey is that the same girl from Serenity?

Animavore wrote:Yeah. It's called 'fiction'.

Hey is that the same girl from Serenity?

Um, dude? Serenity is the movie follow on from Firefly after the (in the dumbest move ever) TV network axed the show. So yeah, same girl whether you're talking actress or character.
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Shit, forgot the point. If you liked Serenity, go git yourself a copy of Firefly. Now! How can you live without having seen Janestown?
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It's worth noting that the character talking about being fixed by faith (last name "Book") is not talking about everyone. He's talking about himself, and the sense of being "broken" he's talking about is not just the routine of everybody supposedly being a sinner or feeling lost & hopeless and in need of purpose or such, but some specific seriously awful things he's done before that most people would never do. The show and movie were rather vague about what exactly he's done, and when we first meet him he's already in his "walking away and trying to atone and help people" phase. This is background information that was known to fans of the show when this scene aired, so this scene would have been watched with Book's mysterious unpleasant history in the viewer's mind while he spoke.

I don't recall whether they had been introduced yet by the time this episode was broadcast, but there are people in this fictional world called "Agents", who are secret, super-trained, under-cover assassins & spies who work for the oppressive, abusive interplanetary government (the same government that had made a mess out of the brain of the woman in this scene), and the most common fan speculation about the hints about Book's past is that he was one of them.

I think it's about time I bothered to watch this.

You should, it is great fun, with some laugh out loud moments.

Delvo wrote:It's worth noting that the character talking about being fixed by faith (last name "Book") is not talking about everyone. He's talking about himself, and the sense of being "broken" he's talking about is not just the routine of everybody supposedly being a sinner or feeling lost & hopeless and in need of purpose or such, but some specific seriously awful things he's done before that most people would never do. The show and movie were rather vague about what exactly he's done, and when we first meet him he's already in his "walking away and trying to atone and help people" phase. This is background information that was known to fans of the show when this scene aired, so this scene would have been watched with Book's mysterious unpleasant history in the viewer's mind while he spoke.

I don't recall whether they had been introduced yet by the time this episode was broadcast, but there are people in this fictional world called "Agents", who are secret, super-trained, under-cover assassins & spies who work for the oppressive, abusive interplanetary government (the same government that had made a mess out of the brain of the woman in this scene), and the most common fan speculation about the hints about Book's past is that he was one of them.

Yeah, but do you like it?