annoying things in firefly

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SAFFY

Wednesday, January 19, 2005 4:25 PM

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Originally posted by zoid:

Saffy wrote:
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...BTW, in "Jaynestown," how did Stitch lose his eye?

Falling from the aircraft, after Jayne pushed him out at 30 feet AGL.

HIGGINS
...How high up was that shuttle
when he pushed you out? Thirty feet?
Jayne Cobb cost you four years of
your life, plus a perfectly good
eyeball...

I do know the line, but I don't get how falling from a plane causes you to lose an eye. I wondered if the Magistrate removed it as punishment (because he cut off someone else's hands and feet), but I don't know if there's anything to support that.

ZOID

Wednesday, January 19, 2005 4:42 PM

Saffy opined:

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I don't get how falling from a plane causes you to lose an eye.

Well, I'm not really sure either, since I wasn't there. But, I always assumed he fell on a point-ed stick, or a banana, or other hazardous vegetation/fresh fruit. (With apologies to Monty Python for ruining a perfectly good joke.)

*20-ton weight falls from sky, putting zoid's eye out*

Speculatively,

zoid
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"Burn the land and boil the sea, you can't take the sky from me." The Ballad of Serenity

EST120

Wednesday, January 19, 2005 5:49 PM

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Originally posted by zoid:
But, I always assumed he fell on a point-ed stick, or a banana, or other hazardous vegetation/fresh fruit. (With apologies to Monty Python for ruining a perfectly good joke.)

at least it was not a bicycle with no seat.

CAPTAINNAPALM

Wednesday, January 19, 2005 10:44 PM

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Originally posted by Jumpy:
Oh yeh, one line, Book says to Inara:

"I don't think the Captain would much like me praying for him."

What priest in their right mind would care if someone wouldn't like them praying for them? As a faithful person, just because someone doesn't believe in God or has some problem with God in general, doesn't stop me praying for their safety or happiness or whatever.

Lol its just funny that Book, a Shepherd, would not understand such a fundamental part of the Christian faith and Inara would. That's pretty much the one line in firefly that annoys me

If I remember the comversation correctly, Book was complaining about not being useful - to the Captain. It's not that Book doesn't pray for Mal & the others or that Book considers it useless, it's that he wants Mal to feel he has contributed.
And that doing something that Mal wouldn't want him to do won't relieve him of freeloader status - in the Captain's eyes. I'm sure his transportation fee to Boros has long since run out and he wants to provide some service to the function of the ship that it's Captain will appreciate so that he doesn't feel guilty about freeloading.

Besides it sets up the great lines that follow it showing that Inara has at least some Faith, and cares enough about Mal to pray behind his back.

Captain Napalm

FREAKYSINS

Wednesday, January 19, 2005 10:45 PM

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Originally posted by Zeek:
Don't get me wrong Out of Gas is one of my favorite episodes. However, when Mal grabs a pistol and somehow convinces a whole other crew that they can't take him, that doesn't sit well with me. Especially since there was one guy holding his semi-automatic weapon very nearly pointing at Mal anyway. One twitch and he could have taken Mal out.

Actually, this is pretty easy to understand from the other captain's point of view. Possibly they could have taken him out with a twitch, but that also means he's got a chance at a twitch or two even if mortally wounded. If they can take the ship with little effort and no loss, it's a win/win... if suddenly there's a chance of losing one or more crewmen and/or the captain himself, suddenly the stakes are much higher. Okay, we tried, we got busted, let's just back the hell out and go our merry way before this crazy gut-shot bastard starts throwin' slugs around.

'Course, that's just my $.02.

Peace

FS

They say there is strangeness, too dangerous
In our theatres and bookstore shelves
Those who would know what's best for us
Must rise and save us from ourselves

CAPNERIC

Wednesday, January 19, 2005 11:17 PM

I started a thread like this on the Serenity movie site before I found this one.

My least favorite line is in The Train Job:

Book,"That young man is very brave"
Mal,"yeah, he's my heero"

To me, a cheesy effort to make Mal funny.

And, I agree with Indigo, where are all the orientals? There are a lot of oriental themes and a few people in the background but no one in the foreground that I noticed.

Has the human race blended so much in 500 years? Personally I think that would be a good thing but I can't see it happening in that short a period.

"How drunk was I last night"
"I dunno, I passed out"

KASUO

Thursday, January 20, 2005 12:27 AM

How was Stitch about to walk out of his little wooden box? I assumed he had been in that box for years so his legs would've atrophyed (sp?) from lack of walking.

NEUTRINOLAD

Thursday, January 20, 2005 12:34 AM

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Originally posted by Saztronic:
Saffron has been gone *six years*, but her security entry codes are still valid, despite the fact that she disappeared with the former security chief who later turned up dead, for crying out loud.

At the risk of being dragged off to a gulag, I'll admit that I still have a keycard I received 4 years ago (May 2000, says so right on it, so almost 5) when working at a very large and well known computer company in my area. I still have friends there and when I go to see them for lunch, guess what? Yup, my card still works. The door goes *BEEP* real nice, I hear the bolt release with a clunk, and I walk right in.

Security is just as lazy as Marketting, as far as I can tell.

JUMPY

Thursday, January 20, 2005 2:26 AM

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Originally posted by CaptainNapalm:

If I remember the comversation correctly, Book was complaining about not being useful - to the Captain. It's not that Book doesn't pray for Mal & the others or that Book considers it useless, it's that he wants Mal to feel he has contributed.
Captain Napalm

I totally disagree I don't think that's the case, otherwise Book's line would have been phrased differently. He could have said

"I don't think the Captain would much like me JUST praying for him..."

The fact is the Captain wouldn't like it at ALL even if Book WERE doing other tasks.

And besides even if it WERE so it really makes Inara's next line make no sense. She'd be suggesting other tasks he could do rather than saying not to tell Mal that he prays for him. If Book had no problem with praying for Mal he wouldn't have said his line and Inara wouldn't have had to tell him hers.

I understand what you're saying but it doesn't fit in to me.

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There's no show I'd rather see, than the one with Serenity.
You can't take the sky from me...

CAPTAINNAPALM

Thursday, January 20, 2005 3:45 PM

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Originally posted by Jumpy:
[I totally disagree I don't think that's the case, otherwise Book's line would have been phrased differently. He could have said

"I don't think the Captain would much like me JUST praying for him..."

The fact is the Captain wouldn't like it at ALL even if Book WERE doing other tasks.

Which is why adding a "just" to the line makes no sense no matter what Book meant. He's saying the only way that he can think of to help out wouldn't be appreciated by the Captain.

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And besides even if it WERE so it really makes Inara's next line make no sense. She'd be suggesting other tasks he could do rather than saying not to tell Mal that he prays for him. If Book had no problem with praying for Mal he wouldn't have said his line and Inara wouldn't have had to tell him hers.

...and Inara's line means, that just because Mal doesn't believe in it, doesn't mean that it's not being helpful. (and sets up her next line)

Besides Joss seems to like having the Whore be the Shepherd's Shepherd.

I had more of a problem with Joss doing that role reversal in Serenity where Book comes to Inara seeking absolution and questioning why he is here. It just doesn't fit his character of well-grounded, world-wise vetran.

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