How did he get there? (**SPOILERS**)
POSTED BY: DonCoat
UPDATED: Tuesday, October 4, 2005 20:16
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Originally posted by BrownCoat1:
Mr Universe (most ridiculous character name ever, unless you are a comic book hero)
okay, this is a little OT for the thread...
but since we have online bloggers now-days who call themselves 'Hercules' I don't see what is so off-the-wall about a big blogger/tech nerd guy 500 years from now calling himself 'Mr. Universe'!
Made perfect sense to me...
what do you think, he'd be content to continue using whatever lame name his parents had given him?
No one online does that now.
Personally I loved the guy, his bot, and his name
(which also seemed like a shout to to Universal Studios and how they have helped to 'save the signal' of the show we all loved so much)
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Originally posted by embers:
okay, this is a little OT for the thread...
but since we have online bloggers now-days who call themselves 'Hercules' I don't see what is so off-the-wall about a big blogger/tech nerd guy 500 years from now calling himself 'Mr. Universe'!
Made perfect sense to me...
what do you think, he'd be content to continue using whatever lame name his parents had given him?
No one online does that now.
Personally I loved the guy, his bot, and his name
(which also seemed like a shout to to Universal Studios and how they have helped to 'save the signal' of the show we all loved so much)
Never considered it as a shout out to Universal for saving us by giving us the movie. If that is the case, it seems a fitting tribute.
If not, then I stick by my original opinion; "Mr. Universe" just seems too comic bookish for me personally. I want to bust out laughing every time I read it or hear it honestly. It just seems ridiculous that anyone would go by that handle. Sure there is a "Hercules" who does reviews over at Ain't It Cool, but he is not calling himself "Mr Universe".
To each their own I suppose.
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Quote:OOH, there's my sore spot.
Originally posted by BrownCoat1:
Never considered it as a shout out to Universal for saving us by giving us the movie. If that is the case, it seems a fitting tribute.
If not, then I stick by my original opinion; "Mr. Universe" just seems too comic bookish for me personally. I want to bust out laughing every time I read it or hear it honestly. It just seems ridiculous that anyone would go by that handle. Sure there is a "Hercules" who does reviews over at Ain't It Cool, but he is not calling himself "Mr Universe".
How does a guy get the name "Mr. Universe" in a place where everyone refers to space as "the 'verse?"
I keep wondering if something of a more Chinese vein wouldn't have been more appropriate? Of course the general public would have been completely confused by it... but Mr. Universe?
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Not everyone calls space the 'verse, do they? I would think the Alliance planets would certainly still use the word universe. Even if it had completely fallen out of use, a guy like him might use an archaic word.
I don't think Mr. Universe is an inappropriate name in the least, at least not in terms of believability. I mean, according to Wikipedia, someone changed his name to Optimus Prime, after the transformer. And Mr. U's probably not even his name, just an alias.
Back on topic, I don't think Mal would've done that to Book, but I guess it's not out of the question. Thinking back now, those memorials did seem kind of close to be graves, but I'll have to see it again to get a better look.
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Could very well be they were on a different planet at that point. We didn't see them leave but, when Serenity does take off again, they don't fly through any ion cloud to get out. We see what going through the cloud looks like when they do the camera shot that flies into the planet and to Mr. Universe's lair. We don't see the reverse effect on the way out.
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