That's my favorite episode as well (although I'd pick "Out of Gas" if I were trying to get someone hooked on the series).
I usually say "Out of Gas" is my favourite, and I watched it again tonight, and maybe it is my favourite - how to decide? Both those episodes are brilliant. "Objects in Space" is tighter, but "Out of Gas" has that wonderful structure of the three juxtaposed chronologies, and I love the way the relationships between each of the characters and all the others is delineated. there's a warmth between them all, too, that falls apart later.
Re funny: I laugh when hearing them on the show, but all my choices are both funny and not-funny, so whether they are meaningful or funny or something else (or all of the above) is unclear, and my thoughts on it are different at different times.
"We had a complicated childhood" - yes, I love that too, and the rather sweet irony of it. There are plenty of funny bits, but the story still manages not to be light or comical.
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Date: 2007-08-20 01:41 am (UTC)I usually say "Out of Gas" is my favourite, and I watched it again tonight, and maybe it is my favourite - how to decide? Both those episodes are brilliant. "Objects in Space" is tighter, but "Out of Gas" has that wonderful structure of the three juxtaposed chronologies, and I love the way the relationships between each of the characters and all the others is delineated. there's a warmth between them all, too, that falls apart later.
Re funny: I laugh when hearing them on the show, but all my choices are both funny and not-funny, so whether they are meaningful or funny or something else (or all of the above) is unclear, and my thoughts on it are different at different times.
"We had a complicated childhood" - yes, I love that too, and the rather sweet irony of it. There are plenty of funny bits, but the story still manages not to be light or comical.