Blog 7

For my next episode, I decided to watch “Out of Gas” from ‘Firefly’. At first I didn’t understand why, that at the beginning of the episode, Mal was on the floor and looked as if he was dying. The ship was gloomy, dark and had a blueish tint to it. After watching the episode, I started to put things together about death. Even the name of the episode strongly correlates with death. When you are “out of gas” usually that means something bad is going to happen, and in Serenity’s and the crew’s case they are literally out of gas, meaning fuel and oxygen. Throughout this rough situation, Mal tries to hold everyone together since everyone is down and believes they will all die. I personally think Mal thinks he will die however he has to be strong for the crew since he is the captain. Kaylee says, “We’ll start to feel it, then feel nothin’ at all,” and Simon says, “Suffication’s not really the most dignified way to go.” After realizing the way the crew will probably die is suffication it makes sense to me how the director made Mal seem throughout the episode. As I mentioned before, whenever Mal is shown when the ship is going down, the surroundings have a blueish tint. I believe the director did this as some sort of symbolism because when you suffocate you turn blue. This episode definitely has a lot of symbolism that somehow, someway ties into suffocation.