Blog #7 - Episode 6 of Firefly

This episode was quite possibly the funniest thing I have watched in a long time. From the opening scene that had the captain in a dress to him marrying a con artist, this episode was primarily about humor. Although it did introduce a new character, and explore some more between the captain and the Companion, everything was done in as humorous a light as possible. In a short summary, the captain accidentally marries a rather attractive a woman. This woman ends up seducing (or trying to) everyone who comes near her, and then steals a lifeboat and sends the crew to their deaths. The crew manages to escape this fate of course, and go get their revenge on the con-woman. Naturally, when the captain gets married, Inara the Companion becomes quite jealous of the newlyweds. She is told at one point that the captain is dead, and immediately rushes to his room, kissing him once she finds out that he is alive. Humorously enough, she also gets some of the drug that knocked him out when she kisses him, and promptly passes out herself. This leads to some funny moments later when she tries to deny her actions and pretend that nothing happened. Most of the show's humor does tend to be darker; most of the jokes seem to revolve around death or tools of death. This kind of humor really fits the setting of a harsh, western-style life, since the characters are constantly in near-death situations. They seem to be the types that joke about the things that scare them, or that they're familiar with.