Blog 7

In the Firefly episode 8 ‘Out of gas’, it was mostly focusing on Mal. In the first part of the episode, Mal was injured and looked painful. The second part of the episode showed why Mal got injured. However, I am going to write about the first part first, then the second part which are both flashback of Mal. The first part of the episode was about Mal buying Serenity. It seemed like Mal got fall in love with Serenity. While this is a flashback, I could not know when did this happen. Also, I was curious about where did Mal get the money to buy Serenity. I could think that Mal was a rich who can buy what he wants from the beginning. Then, there was a scene which Mal was hiring the crew. It was the time when Mal met with the crew members. They were kind of fresh to me which is better than the crew members now. The second part is when the crew members were celebrating Simon’s birthday. There was an explosion in the engine room. While they wer having difficulties to figure out the problem, Mal decided everyone except himself to leave the ship. Then Mal waited for help for a long time. When the other ship came, they shoot Mal and tried to steal things from Serenity. However, although Mal got injured, he pulled the gun and made others to leave the shuttle without stealing anything from him. Then, it was the part that Mal got injured and stayed alone in the ship which was the very fist part of the episode. I was impressed by Mal that he thought about his crew for the first place and tried to protect them. If I was Mal, it would be hard to leave alone in the dangerous place.