LVS2READ

Well, my second story is now posted. It's not as introspective as my first, but is still M/S slash. What can I say, I like those two guys together. :biggrin: Thanks, again, to kispexi2 for being my beta reader! It's been a real pleasure working with you. Looking forward to doing it again in the new year. Yes, that means I probably will not be posting another story until after Christmas. I'm working on a long one, but this time of year gets really hectic, as I'm sure everyone knows. So, while I'll continue working on my story, having someone beta it is a lot to ask right now. In the meantime, enjoy "Exhaustion" and let me know what you think! "I love my captain."

HAKEN

An intersting read if you're a budding pickup artist this Christmas.

BROWNGOATS

Tomorrow is a big day at work... my performance tomorrow will determine if I am employed or not... but whatever happens I'm still going to make a 2 hr car ride to go see Serenity probably at the last theater running it to celebrate. (PS: no power in the 'verse can stop me)

PIFFLE101

I leave for the Flan in exactly... 6 hours. (PST) I leave the house at 4 am. (ugh.) I'll post so many stories you wont be able to read them fast enough and so many pictures your brain will implode! LOL Wish me luck! xPiffx

HERA7

If you have not seen the Serenity movie, read no further. In the movie Serenity on Miranda after watching the recording by the rescue team scientist, River vomits then states she is 'better'. I don't think this means she was cured of her condition, but the part of her that was affected by the nightmares from the images from the minds of the parliament leaders was resolved. Everything else that was done to her still affects her. River was the subject of a series of experiments where she had her brain pathways modified and special condition training programmed in her mind. They cut off her ability to suppress emotions. Her psychic abilities were enhanced. River was still traumatized by all the experiments performed on her. The Miranda images were accidental. River psychic abilities are still wild, she does not have complete control over them. She has demonstrated three different type of psychic skills. First and most important, there is reading the current thoughts and emotions of a person. This is demonstrated several times in the series and in the movie. There is the ability to read the psyche or memories of someone. This is shown quite well with her reading Badger in 'Shindig' and with the mute girl Ruby and the town Patron in 'Safe'. Also she can sense events happening near her. In 'Out of Gas' she said Fire just before the explosion and fire in the engine room. This may have been just heightened senses not a psychic precognition, where she felt the engine start to fail. In 'Objects in Space' her abilities are a part of the story. She senses the bounty hunter Jubal Early close to Serenity and reacts by searching the ship and reading all the crew. She reads a secret or emotion from each person on board except for Kaylee. Then she ends up on the floor of the cargo bay picking up an object, a stick in her mind, but in reality a loaded large caliber pistol. There is much speculation on how she got the gun in the first place, Mal blames Jayne for leaving a loaded unsecured weapon where River can get it. Jayne is blameless in this instance. In 'War Stories', Book is handing out weapons to Simon and Kaylee from a locker in the back corner of the cargo bay. I think this is where River got the weapon. At first I thought she may have kept the gun she used in 'War Stories' but the gun was different and she would have been spotted sooner carrying it through the ship. I agree with the thought River sensed a threat in Early and went into defensive combat mode, searching out the threat and arming herself. Just before she picks up the stick/gun an overhead shot shows the deck littered with leaves and branches, I think this symbolizes the weapons and ammunition in the locker in the cargo bay. The crack of the stick may represent her loading the gun which got Mal's attention who was on the catwalk above talking with Inara. River's combat mode is like a possession, where the normal River psyche (if you can call her normal) is suppressed into a dream state. The interaction with the crew and her friends allowed her normal psyche to push back and turn off the combat mode programming even though she was not aware of it being active. At the end of the movie River is more cogent but even with out being haunted by the Miranda images anymore, she is still a complex, scarred and traumatized person. So is she cured? I don't think so.

BELLONA

Helloooooooooo!!! :biggrin: got 2 baby teeth taken out today and you know something? when you're doped up on gas and air, it's very easy to convince yourself that you're not in a dentist's chair but instead you're leaning on the chest of a mercenary with a cunning hat...but then i had to wake up again, didn't i? :disappointed: ooh!!! think i'm getting the firefly boxset for xmas!!!! *dance of joy* dad was on amazon and i walked past. saw something vaguely space-y on the screen so i backpedalled BIG time to be told to "bugger off" (his words, not mine) haven't stopped grinning since... anyway, babble time over...have to go re-draft a 700-800 word report on drink driving in britain today for tomorrow...yay!! fun!! :knife: b

JUSTSHINY

Well, I was surfing all the threads and stuff when I ran accross this one talking about saving Firefly. :biggrin: Finally, someone posted a link on where to petition. I think there are probably a billion places to petition because lots of people start them. :banghead: My point being: we should all stick to one. This is the only link I've found for a petition, so you can all 'sign' it if you haven't already. I don't know if it was in a post before...there is already 4,300 something 'signatures.':disappointed: I think we can do better than that. :evil: