Why Wash is 100% alive and mostly well.
POSTED BY: pastorbadger
UPDATED: Thursday, November 22, 2007 09:57
VIEWED: 83595
PAGE 13 of 30
Quote:
Originally posted by RocketJock:
And while the 'Verse's medical technology is admittedly far advanced over our own, the suggested combination of circumstances necessary to preserve Wash's life are so contrived as to require the use of an Infinite Improbability Drive.
Oh, ye of little faith...and even less research! I've already pointed out quite clearly that Wash's injury is survivable with the medical technology available here in 1967!
You accept receiving a dead guy in the mail who walks and talks two scenes later and don't think it cheapens the series one whit, but refuse to accept what's possible even today?
"contrived combination of circumstances necessary"??? Alliance finds guy. Resuscitates. Looses paperwork. Oh, the tangled web. I'm so confused!
I understand why you’re frightened. Star Trek III and Aliens IV will do that to a guy. A greater tragedy to losing Firefly, would be keeping it at such a cost. But you must have faith. Have faith in Joss. He will not cheapen the franchise, neither will he discard it. “Yeah, though we walk through Serenity Valley we shall fear no Alliance.”
(O.K., I’m going to stop right there, before I go and get in trouble with my Boss. Lol)
NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | PERMALINK | TOP | HOME
And by the way, does no one find it odd that we're all happy to leave Book strapped up there next to the kid dressed up like the baby Jesus?
Because though it didn't look bad at all, those in the know realize what dark blood from a gut wound means. And we know the best doctor in the system was right there. If Book was going to survive a liver puncture, he'd have done it.
Book's death was likely. We need an E.R. nurse to speak up here. Book's wound looked terrible. Wash's, not so much.
From now on when any person posts yet another lay opinion about the apparent severity of Wash's wound, I'm just gonna muster up my best "Jayne" and shout from off camera "steering column!". lol
NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | PERMALINK | TOP | HOME
Point of interest? As Serenity begins sneaking through the Reaver fleet toward Miranda, you can see the ship that eventually EMPs it coming to a halt. Watch the lower left corner of the screen for the ship stopping and thrusters darkening. It's identical to the ship that zaps Serenity after breaking atmo.
Sorry, gang - Reaver ship through and through. Rest in peace, Wash.
~
"We'll pass through it soon enough."
NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | PERMALINK | TOP | HOME
" I'm on board with our standard run and hide scenario." Wash
hhhhmmmmm......
NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | PERMALINK | TOP | HOME
You know, I haven't really wanted to do much fanfic, but you have given me a direction that would go really well. I might just give it a try.
BTW, for anyone who's confused - Book is NOT on the front of Serenity. Nathan Fillion was just feeling weird. If I know Mal, he put that Alliance soldier he shot on the front of the ship. Just my thought.
"We may experience some slight turbulence, and then... explode."
NOTIFY: N | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | PERMALINK | TOP | HOME
I'd be willing to venture that the Alliance ship Book shot down was at least a 4 man crew and that every one of them became a hood ornament. Why torch your friends when you can play marshmellow with folks you don't know.
Z
NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | PERMALINK | TOP | HOME
I wonder if there are any animals/bacteria on Haven? If so then what did they do to the corpses to keep them from being eaten?
If anyone gets nosy...Shoot em.
Shoot em sir?
Politely.
NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | PERMALINK | TOP | HOME
Quote:
Originally posted by Steamer:
Point of interest? As Serenity begins sneaking through the Reaver fleet toward Miranda, you can see the ship that eventually EMPs it coming to a halt. Watch the lower left corner of the screen for the ship stopping and thrusters darkening. It's identical to the ship that zaps Serenity after breaking atmo.
Sorry, gang - Reaver ship through and through. Rest in peace, Wash.
Point's still not relevant to Wash being alive, but why do science fiction fans always assume that the same model of ship is the same ship? Folks who can't tell one white Honda from another suddenly think they can fleet ID.
"Why are we discussin' what's already been settled?" Mal.
NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | PERMALINK | TOP | HOME
um...yeah, people seem to be saying (with the exception of a couple, thank you very much to those couple of 'coats who know what's a joke and what's not) that book was strapped on "front and center" as Mal said in the outtakes. THAT, ladies and gentlecoats, was called "nathan's sense of humor." Nathan does that all the time. It's his way (is that better than a plan? 
) It was an outtake. I have to admit, it was damn funny, but just an outtake. Not the movie, not what happened.
Now, they might have brought book's body with them to Mr. Universe's planet to bury it when they got the time, but i very highly doubt that. The more likely thing is that they decided to leave him there and thought that they would go back after the fight, if they were still alive, to bury all their friends properly. That would have been a good plan if only Serenity hadn't crashed and had to be rebuilt totally. So, it's very likely that Book's body was not there. I maintain that at least Wash and Book's "gravestones" were memorials, and memorials only. Mr. Universe might have actually been buried because, hey, if there's a body, we might as well give it a grave stone anyway, give the guy a funeral.
And i did find it kinda weird that Mr. Universe was given a place next to Book and Wash. i mean, i think it was just some comic relief to lighten up the mood a bit, (at the theater i was at, everytime i saw it, people laughed during that part), but still, Mr. Universe betrayed them. Maybe they didn't realize it, and he did help a whole lot with getting the word out, but still...aw well, it's happened and it stands. but back to my original point. Book wasn't on the nose of the ship. That didn't actually happen. Was a joke peoples.
keep flyin'
EngineAngel
Wash, you were the best gorram pilot in the Verse. Rest In Peace (and then come back again!!!)
NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | PERMALINK | TOP | HOME
Ah..yes "I cried like a baby. A hungry, angry baby." Mr.U
I really enjoyed the Mr.universe character. And He had a plan. Yep I do feel that there was something in that genius head.Something that would have shown us more of "The very best violance" and all to help the Firefly crew.
Sadly a sword through the gut would keep the plan from being acted upon.
Mr. Universe too could return at a later date
Forgive me but the folk I see not coming back (at least in the flesh) were those skinny individuals strapped to the front of serenity. They're pretty much gone.
The grouping of the memorials is another clue. If they were gravemarkers then the graves are pretty much one on top the tuther. When my time comes I sure don't want someone with his foot up my exhaust pipe. Even if I am dead 
NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | PERMALINK | TOP | HOME