Things Noticed in Serenity Some Spoilers!

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DWAHN

Sunday, October 9, 2005 2:33 AM

at the end u an See waSh'S toy dinoaurS

DONCOAT

Sunday, October 9, 2005 2:37 AM

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Originally posted by joemo:
What is this comic you speak of and where do I go to buy a million copies?

The comic is called Serenity. There are three issues, each with three different covers available. I have 8 of the 9 permutations, which I bought from Midtown Comics online. It may be available in your local comics shop (if any).

The comics were written by Joss, published by Dark Horse, and beautifully drawn and colored. They depict events that occur between the TV series and the movie.

ANGELICANGEL

Sunday, October 9, 2005 3:23 AM

I have three of the comics I just bought. They only had three or four covers available, I want to get all of them.

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HANITRADER

Sunday, October 9, 2005 3:59 AM

Quote:
Originally posted by joemo:
Someone tried to say that the ship they are chased by in the beginning of the movie is the same one as the one from the end of the first episode. Thats definately wrong. The one from the episode was easily twice the size of Serenity herself. The one in the movie is barely bigger than the suped up mule.

True. That Puppy was not the nasty Trans-U from the pilot.

BUT...

As Serenity zooms along to go head-to-head with the Operative's Fleet, one of the tag-along Reaver nasties in the fleet is the Pilot episodes Trans-U, complete with lousey core-containment (Serenity center-screen, Reaver fleet behind: Trans-U on left and down).

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Wo han-yu shuo de na-me zao-gao ma?

DARKJESTER

Sunday, October 9, 2005 4:30 AM

1) The patch that Jayne finds under the shirt of the guard he clotheslines on Lilac (can you use 'clothesline' as a verb?) later shows up on his shirt in the Maidenhead bar. Guess he likes souvenirs.

2) Unfortunately, the CGI high-tech bow that Inara uses in the final battle does a disappearing act. Two seconds after we first see it, when she is in the background of the action, it is a regular target bow she is holding. A little later, she's holding the Battle Bow again. One of the very few "mistakes" I saw.

3) One other "mistake" - when Mal and Inara escape from the Operative at the Training House and get in her shuttle, Mal is carrying something in his hand, something about the size of a grenade. It's explained in the Visual Companion script, but the explanation is cut from the actual film.

MAL "You only gotta scare him."
JAYNE "Pain is scary..."

BUBBLEOFEARTH

Sunday, October 9, 2005 4:48 AM

Quote:
Originally posted by joemo:
What is this comic you speak of and where do I go to buy a million copies?

I bought from Things From Another World (tfaw.com), Dark Horse's suggested dealer, and they had the appropriate price and all the covers. I think they were running out of the Captain, maybe, but they were great to me when I got all antsy about a delivery date. Imagine that. An antsy Browncoat. :)

ALSO, there was a thread about the wild animal handlers credit and where were the animals, and I went back today, and YES! there were black chickens in a cage for about .01 seconds in the quick, shaky shots as the reavers land at the beginning.

I noticed a lot more Blue Sun stuff than I noticed the first time through Firefly.

Jayne wears his shirt with the gun on it... is it Fighting Elves or Troublemaker? Wasn't that in the series too?

I also noticed this time (not really from the show, just something bittersweet) the way that Zoe, our resident TOUGH LADY, after piloting an impossible escape and confronting her captain, melts without any defenses into her short, funny protective husband's embrace. :(

JADEHAND

Sunday, October 9, 2005 4:51 AM

I just got back from my fourth viewing. Some of these have been mentioned.

Blue Sun logos: 1 on a crate as Mal walks into the hold the first time (end of the 4.5 minute "1er"). Almost imediately after: loading the mule, Kaylee on the ground working on the mule 2 crates in the background. and the glass in the dinning area. Missed the one on Mr. Universes' screen (Guess I'll have to go watch it again.

The camera hold on Wash after "no reason". (I really only noticed after reading it here. *sniff*)

My favourite catch (and I'm surprised it hasn't been mentioned yet, but hell I only caught it on the 4th viewing): Mal crawls out of the er..crawlspace, and head towards the bridge to confront River. to his right: "Kaylee's Room" the sign.

I wish they had left some of the stuff from the VC script, like The Op finding info on screen about Inara, which leads him to show up there. and a better introduction of her there "teaching".

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QUICKSAND

Sunday, October 9, 2005 5:24 AM

I don't know what this "teaching" is of which you speak, but I have a video file of the Serenity clip they played at conventions like a year ago... I think there's a brief shot of that "teaching" thrown in. Cuz it sure wasn't in the movie.

Also, the comics were not written by Joss, they were written by Brett Matthews, who wrote the Firefly episode "Heart of Gold," which in my opinion is the worst episode of the series. I have, though, read the first 2 of the 3 comics... and they're pretty cool, I must admit. If that's what the next 3 episodes of the TV show were going to be like, Fox will truly never be forgiven.

XOXO

SHUAIJAN

Sunday, October 9, 2005 5:34 AM

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Originally posted by Skymutt:
Ok, here's one big thing I noticed that I might just be making up after the fact, I want your opinions.

It seems that Wash's death really had little point in the scheme of things. Sure, it added that hard twinge of drama for all the fans, but it did nothing in the way of plot or exposition. Here's what I noticed...

When the crew is outdoors on Miranda, just before the scene inside the crashed ship, they're coming to the realization that the whole population just lay down to die. One of the last things said about this is when Jayne says something to the effect of 'they all just died for no good reason'

As he says this, the camera pans to the right and focuses solely on Wash, only wash, and holds for a moment. Hmmm.. foreshadowing, or just my addlepated self finding meaning where ther is none? comments?

I agree with you on that...Wash's death was, IMHO, completely uncalled for. Some other foreshadowing that people were going to die was Zoe's dialog when they were robbing the security vault right before the Reaver attack. River points out the guy pulling out the gun, and Zoe says "Do you know what the definition of a hero is? A hero is someone who gets other people killed."

THECRAZYIVAN

Sunday, October 9, 2005 5:37 AM

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And apparently, when the crew are walking of the ship at Beaumonde, Jayne can be seen wearing his hat from The Message.

this is true, my friend who didnt know much about firefly/serenity other than what i said pointed it out. How? Shes the one who made mine :-P

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"There is a sense that this is still not over. It's hard to put a finger on what's so special about this project and about this group of people, but it's just one of those things you have to trust in, and relish. I am very, very proud."
---Jewel Staite on "Firefly" and "Serenity" in "Finding Serenity" (essay collection by Jane Espenson)

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