While Jayne opens a mail package from his Mom that contains a wool cap with ear flaps and a pom-pom, Mal and Zoe open their package to discover the body of their old war buddy, Tracey

Quite a sad episode really, back to their exploits in the war with a seeming naive Tracey and then receiving the message to bring back his body to his family :tear:

Simon dope saying Kaylee is the only girl to choose from, not doing too well is he.

Jayne's hat :lmao:

Really sad when Tracey betrays them after all they had done for him and then him breaking down once mortally shot and ending with his request to take his body back :(

LOL @ the hat! :lmao: This was one of the, for want of a better word, weaker episodes for me. Still loved it, just not as much as some of the others. The main thing that sticks in my memory is the ending which was very sad and very atmospheric with the music playing and everyone filing out of the ship with the coffin. Big girlie that I am, I actually welled up :rolleyes:

What's wrong with the hat?? :unsure: :lol:

Nothing. The hat is ace! The hat should have a show of it's own! :lmao: ;)

Now you're talking :thumbsup: :lol:

On one of the extras, it was stated that the composer was w**king on the score for the last scene with the idea in mind that the show had been cancelled. I doubt it would have been the same had the show not been cancelled, but it was an exceptionally fitting score.

I liked the hat too. You can also tell the order in which the scenes were shot by looking at the amount of straw on the hat - the earliest scenes had lots of straw, but by the end of shooting, there was no straw.

The thing which bothered me most was the dead guy staying dead for so long. w**king on the basis that it was at least a week (I refuse to believe that the Alliance post is any better than Royal Mail) since Tracey shipped himself to the outpost, not to mention not knowing how long it would be before Mal collected his post, the body should have started to decompose.

Another fine performance - I could end up sounding like a stuck record here.
I saw the thing on the extras about the music - makes you even more sad when you wath it.

This was the first time I've seen this episode the first thing I notice was Jonathan M. Woodward as Tracey :fear: I remember him or Knox and I still have got over what he did to Fred sorry off topic I have issues :blush: This was a very sad episode I thought for me it about war and what is does to people in this case Tracey. It was sad to see Mal was the one to kill Tracey as both Mal and Zoe were the only friends he had. His plan put Kaylee and the rest crew in danger. His scheme was stupid but it was full of good intentions just didn't think it through. It was quite moving and Mal and co brought him home to his family :tear: the score was great a fitting send off to a great show :thumbsup:

As aways they is humor and that provided it :lol:

Why hell can't Simon just tell Kaylee he like her that was all he had to say?

What a sad ending :tear: with great music.

Love Jayne's hat :lmao: looked so funny wearing it but it was also quite sweet as his mum made it for him, awww

:lol: the thing is Adam Baldwin can actually get away with wearing it without looking like a super freak :lol:

I was thinking that as I watched it last night, too. I like the music in Firefly anyway, but that final scene is incredibly moving.

Like Katie, I thought this was one of the weaker episodes originally, but it grows on me more and more each time I watch it. The first half of it is very funny and the latter stages are very sad, the kind of mood shift that this series was exceptional at.

Jayne is pure class throughout this episode, from the moment he tries to swindle Mal on the change for the ammo right through to the look on his face when Womack insults him at the end. Love his reaction when Tracey jumps off the table, too, just sits there watching "Spry for a dead fella!" :lol:

The chase sequence is brilliant :thumbsup:

Zoe: First rule of battle, little one. Never let 'em know where you are. (...Mal runs in shooting and yelling...) Of course, there's other schools of thought...

Mal: Everybody dies, Tracey. Someone's carrying a bullet for you right now, doesn't even know it. The trick is to die of old age before it finds you.

Tracey: Kaylee. I'm sorry... Every-- Everyone... Wasn't never no good at life, anyhow... Couldn't seem to make sense of it... Always running scared... 'When you can't run anymore, you crawl... and when you can't do that--'
Zoe: 'You find someone... to carry you.'
Tracey: Guess I did, at that...

Final mention for the hat, especially when the bits of straw are sticking out of it :lmao:

As Katie and Steve have already said, this epsiode grows on me the more times I see it.

LOL @ River trying to eat the 'Ice Planet' on a string (My food is troublesome :lmao: )

The end scene is especially sad, I always fill up just around where Kaylee hands the recording to Tracey's mother, then moves back to stand with Simon and holds his hand :tear:

This is my absolute favourite episode! :D

I'm sat nearly crying just reading what you've all put (pathetic i know :rolleyes: ) but it just gets me everytime :tear:

The tape recording scenes are particularly moving and the score for the final scene has me weeping :cry:

Initially I thought this was one of the weaker episodes of the series, but after watching "Here's how it was" I went back and watched it again with the commentary on. It was very sad (although the commentary with Alan Tudyk and Jewel Staite was very upbeat).

I agree with buffy_fan1 - what is with Simon? Silly boy. He was doing so well up until he pointed out that Kaylee was his only possible romantic interest on the ship :mad: .

I liked the flashback scenes to the battle and :lmao: @ Mal and Zoe's differing approaches to warfare. Really surprised that Mal killed Tracy though, but I guess that's just another example of how protective he is of his crew.

The scene at the end where they delivered Tracey's body to his family was very sad and made all the more poignant by the fact that this was the last scene the whole cast filmed together after the cancellation :tear: (unless I misunderstood what was said on the commentary?). And the music was fantastic.

a good episodebut not one of the best: funny because of jayne hat, sad because of tracey stupidity and his fate. the last scene was well done, the music and mood were right.

the flashback was interesting

simon and kayley: not good with girl, river being herself (even if lying on the coffin was a little weird)

shepherd to save the day by telling the fed what the what (knowledge of the procedure .... :ponder: )

Jonathan.M.Woodward has been in all three of the Joss Whedon shows and even though in each and everyone he has done something despisable and unlikable in each series God I love him. There is something about this gut that I just can't not like - he is endering and a fab actor.

This was also the first episode to make me cry, very sad.