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ECAMBER

Thursday, May 4, 2006 2:35 AM

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Originally posted by Strand:
In Objects in Space...On the control board there is a old picture of an old black woman and a golden retriever. This is possibly what River sees to get her started talking with Early about the dog and his mother. Not to discount her physcic powers, as she learns about Early killing the dog through those, but just an observation, which I only picked up after watching the episode for the fourth time.

No power in the verse can stop me

First let me apologize for my previous post which had statements someone already made (redundancy is so annoying repetative).

Anywho, I didn't notice the picture, but that got me thinking. Early has a picture of the dog he killed out for him to look at in the lonliness of space? That makes that line "you've got issues" all the spookier. Like pediophiles who get fliers of the kids department store catalog. Just flat out creepy that he'd want that to look on (and presumably relive in his head). Yech!

VOLK564

Thursday, May 4, 2006 3:23 AM

Here's one that is probably the most likely to seroiousley be a coincidence:
In Ariel, when Simon, Jayne, and River are in the brain-scanning room, Jayne says something along the lines of: "Now hurry up, we gotta book," and just at the moment he says the word "book," River starts screaming. Couple of possibilities for this: one, that Book is evil and River just got reminded of it, two: Book WAS evil, and the fact that she is in a hospital run by the "evil" alliance just tuned her into that more, three (most likely one): River wasn't screaming about the fact that Jayne said "we gotta book," but that she knows where they're going to Book too - namely, a trap, or four: none of the above, and I'm just crazy.
Just a thought.

PINGJING

Thursday, May 4, 2006 3:40 AM

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Originally posted by Volk564:
...three (most likely one): River wasn't screaming about the fact that Jayne said "we gotta book," but that she knows where they're going to Book too - namely, a trap, or four: none of the above, and I'm just crazy.
Just a thought.

I think it's the third option. The brain screen goes kind of crazy right before she starts screaming, which I think might indicate that it is recording her psychic powers. But, if I recall correctly, Simon isn't looking at the screen at that moment, he's looking at Jayne. (Haven't watched it in awhile, so I could be wrong). So he misses the whole thing. Of course, according to the escape in the BDM, I guess he already knows.

Hope that means you aren't crazy ;)

Julia

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PINGJING

Thursday, May 4, 2006 3:41 AM

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Originally posted by ECAmber:
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I don't think turning away to see someone you love getting stabbed in through the sternum with a three inch needle makes a person afraid of needles. Hell, I would have zero problem watching that done to a stranger... but my kids daughters or my mom? Yeah, I'd probably want to turn around for that. Besides, how much hard core medical training/exposure does one get at the Training House?

Ok, so maybe I got a little too excited...

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KEYOKE

Thursday, May 4, 2006 7:06 PM

Dunno if this has already been posted, I really can't be bothered to read all that above me...

But during Shindig, as the camera pans down to the crew walking down the high street, A Mobquet Transport from Star Wars is landing in the background.

Later, in the episode where Mal and Wash get captured (Shame on me, I can't remember the name of it.) a second mobquet is moving accross the station as Zoe's shuttle moves in. Its actually flying backwards, the engines apparently on the "front"

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DEEPGIRL187

Thursday, May 4, 2006 8:22 PM

In "Shindig", when Mal, Inara, and Jayne are in the bar. Mal steals the slaver's wallet, and even though Inara obviously doesn't approve, you see her tucking it into her bra. I think it shows that even though she doesn't always like Mal's line of work, she does accept it on some level.

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VLOX

Thursday, May 4, 2006 9:02 PM

im probably looking too much into this but in the song bit it goes
take my love
take my land
take me where i cannot stand
and it show mal and zoe and this is wot the alliance did to them.
also at the
take me to the black
it shows wash which is wot he wanted to do go into space/black
and i cant leave since i found serenity is the
book and the tams
is this too sad to notice this

STRAND

Sunday, May 7, 2006 7:06 AM

I'm not quite sure whether this is done on purpose, or whether I am just watching the episodes too many times (not quite sure thats possible) but in Out of Gas, when Kaylee asks Simon to tell some funny doctor stories at the dinner people, Jayne says "Sick people are hilarious." In the Message, we find out that Jayne has a sick brother back at home. Could the sick brother at home have been the reason for Jayne's comment? Maybe it touched a personal nerve. Just my two platinum

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XEYRA

Sunday, May 7, 2006 11:45 AM

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Originally posted by pingjing:
Quote:
Originally posted by Volk564:
...three (most likely one): River wasn't screaming about the fact that Jayne said "we gotta book," but that she knows where they're going to Book too - namely, a trap, or four: none of the above, and I'm just crazy.
Just a thought.

I think it's the third option. The brain screen goes kind of crazy right before she starts screaming, which I think might indicate that it is recording her psychic powers. But, if I recall correctly, Simon isn't looking at the screen at that moment, he's looking at Jayne. (Haven't watched it in awhile, so I could be wrong). So he misses the whole thing. Of course, according to the escape in the BDM, I guess he already knows.

Hope that means you aren't crazy ;)

It is my understanding that when Jayne says they have to go (does he say they gotta book? Didn't notice that), that's when the image of River's brain starts acting up, showing all the areas of her brain that are reacting to her psychic understanding of Jayne's betrayal, reason why she then screams. And Simon is looking at Jayne, yes, so he does miss it. It is a really interesting scene because Ariel is one of those episodes where River's psychic abilities become startling real to the viewer...

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VOLK564

Tuesday, May 9, 2006 5:14 AM

Yeah, I actually noticed the purple brain thing just after posting that message. Go figure. :)
However, I did notice some new stuff - in the pilot episode serenity, Mal looks at one of Patience's men and after some banter, says "Nice hat," after which Jayne shoots him. The nice hat thing was a signal to Jayne, as he couldn't see who Mal was talking to - the hat gave him away though, hence the shooting. Don't know if that was obvious to the rest of all of you, but I thought it was rather nifty.
Also in the same epsiode, I noticed a goof on the filmmaker's part - once Serenity lands on Persephone's "little world" (I forget the name of the moon at the moment), we see Mal and Zoe walk off the ship, and Jayne drive the mule down the ramp, loaded with boxes (remember he almost runs over Mal?). Later in the episode, after the big shootout, the three of them ride back to Serenity on horses - where'd the mule go? You could say that maybe Jayne drove off on the mule, buried the stuff, then drove BACK to Serenity and walked to the rendezvous point, but that seems unlikely. Just thought I'd mention.
Another thing - Kaylee says the fateful line "Have faith, captian," to Mal not once, just in the BDM, but also another time in the pilot episode. Both times he responds in the negative. Wierd, no?