One of those nagging questions that I MUST have answered
POSTED BY: Zoot
UPDATED: Saturday, October 29, 2005 16:28
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yeah but my real burning question is:
Who opened the door allowing river the dramatic blood covered axe and sword in hand scene?
Kaylee said she would rig it to not be opened from outside.
If we assume river outdid kaylee's riggin', did river finagle the lock and then jump back into blood spattered weapon wielding pose-down to look dramatic as the doors open?
???
of course, the scene was so friggin' cool that i didn't even notice the issue until the third time i saw it. First time i was just "wow!" Second time the line i read here "is she single" was mired into my brain. Third time I went "hey, the doors open. How???"
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Maybe the door opening is a consequence of Alliance troops trying to break in elsewhere, like opening all doors in one sector or something?
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That was my question too! Who opened the door for River?! Someone else had answered suggesting that the Alliance automatically opened all the doors but then why did they knock down the wall?
My other question is and still ever will be why didn't those in the know do more to get rid of the evidence (Miranda). A nice well-place nuke could make the place look like the terraforming gone wrong disaster that it was supposed to be. And yes, there are all those Reavers who aren't supposed to exist in the way, but same deal, one operative with the right equipment can get through, or similarly, why didn't they send an operative to get rid of the research transmitter on the planet? If Serenity could find it, so could others. If the message was transmitted, someone like Mr. Universe should have been able to hack it and track it. I'd accept that they didn't know what they were looking at/for so Mr. Universe couldn't find that one signal but to leave the evidence hanging around on an admittedly dead and hard-to-get-to planet, very chancy.
BTW, these are nit picky details that are probably due to overthinking and obsessing but I only do this for stories that I really really love.
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Well, I think that the pax didn't take months to take effect.
After all a person dies from dehydration in about a week.
If it happened within a weeks time and the reavers were "born" they took off from the planet and made it "their" space. Any ship coming into that space to investigate = reaverized. So the government couldn't effectively get to Miranda without launching a huge campaign against the reavers (which they wouldn't want to do and cause people to question what's going on).
That's why I think no one was able to get there to destroy any evidence.
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What everyone saying about the pax makes sense, but I must confess it really didn't occur to me about the door. I can't until it comes out on dvd so that I can check up on the sequence of events.
What is really puzzling me is Inara's bow. I mean why not a gun? I've only seen th film once but if I remember correctly she seemed pretty efficient with it, so why have we not seen it before. Indeed why have we never seen Inara take part in any action before? In the last stand in Heart of Gold she could have helped, when they were so outnumbered. It's not as if she had any experience delivering babies anyway. In War Stories why did she not go and rescue the man she loves? Kaylee surely would have been a better choice to watch over River. Indeed if we knew then what we know now River would have been involved in the rescue too. Do you think Inara doesn't want people to know she is proficient with weapons, and if not why not? Could it have something to do with her secret, and has she made herself vulnerable by taking the stand alongide her friends?
I also wondered if the appearance of this bow means that the phial of liquid we se in the pilot episode isn't a weapon as I'd first assumed. I mean if it is a weapon why do we not see it in the film, and indeed why do we not see the bow in the episode? If it's not a weapon, and nothing to do with suicide then what could it be? A communication device, a present or possesion from someone she loved, a secret message, the bodily remains of someone? Any ideas?
Sorry for going on at such length, but it's lovely to find other people with the same obsessions.
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i thought Kayleee suggested rigging the door, but someone (Mal? Zoe? decided against it.
I don't think she did rig it in the end.
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Maybe reavers like live people because they scream and fight.............those people on Miranda were not fighters..........thats what I think anyways
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Start of scene (everyone standing in cargo bay with door down.)
Inara: Let's go to Persephone.
*Mal thinks about it*
Mal: No, let's not go to Persephone. It's a silly place.
Kaylee: Oh look at the fluffy white bunny rabbit. It's so cute.
*fluffy white bunny rabbit savagely leaps at Jayne's throat and latches on*
Wash: Wow, look at that sudden but . . . evitable? betrayal. Is evitable even a word?
River: It's an angry rabbit. It hates . . . and kills . . .
Jayne: Gorrammit, don't just stand there! Somebody get this rabbit off of me!
*Zoe shoots rabbit off with deadly accuracy. It falls to ground twitching. So does Jayne*
*Simon goes to Jayne, checks the body*
Simon: He's dead.
Kaylee: Poor rabbit. What did it ever do to anybody?
Jayne: I'm not dead.
*Others load Jayne's body on to mule, ignoring continuing protests that he's dead, then drive it off the ship*
End scene.
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Well my guess is it happened rather slowly...and people were alreayd lying down to go to sleep and not wake up by then.
And at first itd be like, whoa...Im having impulses to kill, and youd try to fight against it...but yeah, my guess is itd be slow.
Also, its possible they did rape/kill/eat/sew (not necessarily in that order) some more of the living population.
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