JACQUI'S BLOG
What I missed the first three times - Serenity
Sunday, October 16, 2005 1:35 PM
Saw Serenity for the fourth time today. I was very impressed, my friends kinda wanted to see it, but hemmed and hawed about it, because they hadn't seen the series yet and didn't want to be confused. I begged and pleaded and eventually convinced them with the tried and true "If you see it, I'll pay for your ticket".They agreed, but then wouldn't let me pay.
Anyways, what I noticed that I hadn't before was this... and it was very cool, because it answered one of those little things that had been niggling at me since the first time I saw the movie and everyone else probably saw it first off, but I hadn't, not the first three times, anyway.
In the very last scene, where Mal returns to the group, *everyone* has been injured by the fight. Zoe was slashed, Jayne shot, Simon shot, Kaylee got darts in the neck, River was pulled back into the Room'O'Reavers... everyone but Inara, yet she was sitting there with this big ol' patch of blood on her face. I had just figured she'd scratched it in the tussle. And it *did* bother me, because, hey, why everyone but Inara? What did it mean?
But no...
There was actually a few seconds, it was very quick, where you see a reaver LEAP onto Inara and force her to the ground, then BITE HER FACE. Simon pulls it off her at the last second and then helps her into the room.
I so totally missed that in the first three viewings.
I wonder, does it make me somewhat disturbed and sick to be relieved that Inara got hurt?
I mean, it's not like I wanted her to be hurt, because I was so totally upset in that first scene she had with the Operative where he punched her and threw her up against the wall ("What? oh no he *didn't*! You don't HURT INARA!"), but... I don't know, it kinda bugged me that she was the only unscathed one in the fight... now it doesn't bug me anymore.
that's all, that's the entire point of this blog
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