Concerning Kaylee in Serenity *SPOILERS*
POSTED BY: Rakarr
UPDATED: Wednesday, October 5, 2005 20:40
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OH YEAH! Can't believe I forgot about Simon saving River and Inara lighting that fuse. Damn... I need to see the movie again BADLY! So I can remember every thing.... hopefully. It's kinda nice to forget stuff that happens in a movie though so when you watch it again it's like its new.... kind of....
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Originally posted by reginaroadie:
Simon's hero moment was in the opening prologue when he detonated that sonic bomb and breaking River out. Along with him opening the doors of the cargo bay for the "barn swallow" as well as setting off the extinguishers, and attending the wounded crew during the final Reaver battle. Actually, one of my favorite bit's of character development was that Simon was no longer the punching bag he was on the show. That is someone pushed him, he pushed back.
Oh yeah... I liked seeing Simon finally kick ass in the movie. You saw that the number-one thing that triggered him going all at it was anything endangering River.
I mean, you saw him with his shirt off. He's about as unconvincing of being a 'nerd' stereotype as Alfonso Rivera was in Fresh Prince. KF
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Originally posted by reginaroadie:
I strongly diasgree. I think that with the short amount of time given to each character, Joss did give them their moments to shine and to show their personalities and how they related to each other on the ship. The Jayne/Kaylee scene where he's putting the Reaver debris into the pit and she's picking through random parts (Did anyone notice that the piece that she raised her eyebrows at was the same part that was desperately needed to fix the ship in OUT OF GAS) showed her love of all things mechanics and how she sometimes served as the heart and the conscience of the ship ("One by one, Cap'ns gonna drive us off the ship. Just like Simon and River. Just like Inara." and the vid that Kaylee shoots of Inara packing things up shows her sensitivity to the crew members and her respect and adoration for Inara). This also comes across in her tearful speech to Simon (with the comment on the Capison 38 engines really showing that she's a motorhead). Admittedly, I think the scenes with Simon admitting his feelings for Kaylee and them getting it on in the end with River watching were probably more for the closure of the fans and for all Simon/Kaylee shippers (myself included), but for the unitiated, the scenes do drive home the point of FIREFLY in that it's a search for meaning in a meaningless world. Because of that, I do think that "To Hell with this. I wanna live." is probably the most important line of the flick, as well as the funniest.
So no, I don't think Kaylee as a character got the shaft, nor anyone else for that matter. And if we do end up with sequels, maybe we'll see more of Kaylee.
You're right -- the moments you mentioned did show Kaylee's real spirit. I had forgotten about them (obviously I need to see the movie a few more times) ;-). I think that they were lost on most people who saw the movie for the first time. They will just remember the randy Kaylee lines. But one of the great things about this movie is that we will notice more and more on repeated viewings.
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In response to something said earlier, yes, there are female reavers. We never see any, persay (not that you could probably tell), but in the stage directions in the shooting script for Serenity, there is one that mentions a female reaver attacking a man.
I also feel like some of Kaylee's lines are flat, shallow. I don't really feel like she got an especially short end of the stick, but I just thought that some of her lines weren't quite her.
For example, when she goes rushing by Jayne, who was impaled in the leg, and goes to Simon and asks if he's alright. It just didn't seem to me to be something that she would do, because she loves everyone, especially the captain. It just didn't seem quite right. It was played for the laugh, and not really for her character. I do like most of everything else she had, especially that confrontation with Mal in the bar, but there are just a few things that seem to present her as flat.
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