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Things Noticed in Serenity Some Spoilers!

POSTED BY: SpacemanSpiff
UPDATED: Tuesday, November 8, 2005 11:36
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LIMINALOSITY

Sunday, October 9, 2005 6:13 AM

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Not sure.... Although is it just me or does Simon look different in the movie? To me it looks like his hair is different. Perhaps darker. Also he looks more musculare in the movie. Also Book's hair just seemed different as well. Maybe it's just me....

Simon had a completely different haircut. So did Mal, actually. Both have longer hair than they did in the series, and both have more modern cuts instead of the distinctly Old West styled cuts they used to have. It looks better and it's honestly more believable. And I want Simon's haircut.

Book had cornrows and a fairly bushy beard, where in the series his hair was pulled back into a bun (the movie is an enourmous improvement here).

Oddly enough, the women looked pretty good in the series, and the movie improvements weren't really as dramatic.

Everybody was sporting a lot more hair product than they did on Firefly as well.

Some of you seem to know more about guns than the average human. It was an interesting tidbit that Hollywood uses real guns with bits from the hardware store and old cat turds hot melt glued onto them. I will get a bigger kick out of movie guns after reading your post.

"Evil's afoot and I'm almost out of that Nancy-boy hair gel that I like so much. Quickly, to the Angelmobile, away." -Spike

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JOEMO

Sunday, October 9, 2005 6:44 AM

After my third viewing I was talking with some fellow browncoats and one said that he was surprised at Wash's death because Joss wasn't one to needlessly kill off characters. This got me thinking..... I cam to the realization that there are probabily a number of reasons. First Alan Tudyk has other projects, mainly a Broadway production they would have to fight for production time with.

STAKETHELURK

Sunday, October 9, 2005 7:03 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?

I'd like to add to what others have mentioned that the comics may be hard to find by this point--but there's collection of them all (a trade paperback it's called) due out early next year (Jan or Feb). It's already up on Amazon for preorders, I think. Its got a beautiful cover.

PUREJOY

Sunday, October 9, 2005 8:36 AM

Something I noticed:
When Inara and Mal are talking, she makes sure to add that he'll be paid for coming to help. First thing I though of was their "strictly business relationship" from Heart of Gold.

I've got a question though... When the operative is looking at Mal's profile, does it say he was a Captain in the war? I though Badger called him Sargent in (I think it was) Serenity?

P1NKISPUNK

Sunday, October 9, 2005 10:27 AM

After the "Serenity" credit, the movie starts and ends with Mals cry of "what was that?"

"This mummy hand has ceased to exist! It is an ex-mummy hand!"

LYN

Sunday, October 9, 2005 10:36 AM

The dress Inara is wearing in her last scene with Mal, when he tells her that they will bring her back to civilisation now and she replies 'I don't know' - Am I imagining things or is that one of River's dresses - not from the movie but from the series?! It doesn't look like it's one of Inara's dresses at all (length, style, etc), and I'm pretty sure I've seen it before...

That Inara is wearing something of either River's or Kaylee's makes sense, since she doesn't have a lot of clothes on Serenity (apart from the mysterious forgotten box Mal mentions in the wave), but I'm just not sure where I've seen that dress before. Any ideas?

MER

Sunday, October 9, 2005 5:03 PM

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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.

Lol that would be me. To me, all the Reaver ships look a like....that sentence sounded all wrong....

BUBBLEOFEARTH

Sunday, October 9, 2005 8:45 PM

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Originally posted by lyn:
The dress Inara is wearing in her last scene with Mal, when he tells her that they will bring her back to civilisation now and she replies 'I don't know' - Am I imagining things or is that one of River's dresses

Forgive me on this one, but I married an English professor, and it's rubbing off:

Mal told Inara she would see a new side of him if he went to war. She did.

At the end, I was uncomfortable with the exchange between Mal & Inara the first couple of times I saw it. I liked that she'd taken her makeup mask off, and was wearing something different from usual (hadn't thought of it being Kaylee's or River's) but I didn't understand why she was grinning and acting like a schoolgirl with a crush. An un"skilled" schoolgirl, even. Inara doesn't act like that, right?

But maybe Inara does. Maybe Inara took her whole mask of companion training off, and we got to see a glimpse of the real deep down sweet vulnerable Inara, before whatever horrible thing happened that made her have to protect herself from any real kind of love.

When I thought that, I just wanted to hug her. Wish these people existed. Guess most of us do, eh?

YAY Joss!

SPACEMANSPIFF

Tuesday, October 11, 2005 3:31 AM

Inara and Mal both throw each other off. Their training (him as a hard captain and fighter, her as a companion) goes right out the window when they are together. Love does that.

Curse your sudden but inevitable betrayal!

AVTOMATJ

Tuesday, October 11, 2005 4:30 AM

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And Mal's rifle is really, really, really ugly.

Mal's Rifle is a heavily sci-fi modified M-16A2...I deal with that gun on a daily basis...I know the build of that gun.

I gotta agree with LONGWAYOFDRUMS on this one, it's a slightly sci-fi modded AR-18/180.

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Vera was a sci-fi modded ak-74 BTW....the gun used by Jayne in the Reaver fight? was a sci=fi modded m-249 SAW

Vera was a Saiga 12 shotgun (based on the Kalashnikov) that was first modified and used in the movie "Showtime" with Eddie Murphy. http://securityarms.com/20010315/galleryfiles/2100/2173.htm

The large rifle Jayne has in the Reaver fight scene is a AK-47 with a K-var AKU-94 Bullpup conversion kit ( http://www.k-var.com/product.asp?0=211&1=213&3=137 )and a huge water-jacket looking thing attached to the front.

Things Noticed in Serenity *Some Spoilers!*

Things Noticed in Serenity Some Spoilers!