Serenity: The MST3K Version

POSTED BY: kjalmar
UPDATED: Monday, June 5, 2006 00:22
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REGINAROADIE

Saturday, June 3, 2006 11:55 PM

OK, I'll give you that. I'm just saying that not everyone who works for the Alliance are evil people. Most of them are probably regular office workers doing regular office work and living normal everyday lives. It would be the higher ups in power who would be corrupt.

I direct your attention to the 1985 sci-fi classic BRAZIL. I re-watched BRAZIL a while back, and I kinda realized that this movie could easily be set in the FIREFLY verse and be about some pencil pusher works for the Alliance, but dreams of escaping and flying away. Maybe if FIREFLY lasted 5 to 7 years, maybe there would have introduced a Sam Lowry type character who joins the crew who used to work for the Alliance, but one day just decided that he had enough of it and wanted to see the Rim for some excitement. Sort of like Simon and River, but in his case he would WANT to go out to the Rim and not HAVE to. Or maybe it would be just an hour long version of BRAZIL set in the FIREFLY verse. Different names, maybe different outcome, but similar in themes.

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"There's only one "Return" ok, and it ain't "of the King", it's "of the Jedi."

"Maybe we should start calling your friend 'Padme' because he loves 'Mannequin Skywalker' so much, Right? (imitating robot) Danger...danger...my name is Anakin...my shitty acting is ruining saga."

Excerpt of internet teaser for CLERKS 2.

CROUGHTYRHOBAUT

Sunday, June 4, 2006 9:00 PM

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Guesss I'm too old school. Mike is ok, but Joel will always be my favorite stranded janitor in space.

agreed, agreed...i stopped watching when mike came on the show.

Hey! Here's a wacky idea-- try substituting the word "Joel" for the word "Mike"!

Just a crazy thought.

SIMONWHO

Sunday, June 4, 2006 10:06 PM

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Originally posted by reginaroadie:
OK, I'll give you that. I'm just saying that not everyone who works for the Alliance are evil people. Most of them are probably regular office workers doing regular office work and living normal everyday lives. It would be the higher ups in power who would be corrupt.

True but that particular person knew exactly what the Alliance did and did nothing about it (unless she was the one helping the group that got River out).

If you work for an evil empire, you are part of it and become tainted and at risk automatically. Surely as a Clerks fan, you know this? Those construction workers knew what they were letting themselves in for.

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CHRISTHECYNIC

Sunday, June 4, 2006 10:13 PM

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Originally posted by SimonWho:
If you work for an evil empire, you are part of it and become tainted and at risk automatically. Surely as a Clerks fan, you know this? Those construction workers knew what they were letting themselves in for.

Yes but the Alliance isn't some evil empire, it is, as Joss says, largely benevolent.

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And that was a great scene in Clerks, indeed it was one of the better scenes in movies in general.

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She might not have known what she was doing, librarians don't read all of the books in the library and they don't actually need to read any of them, they just need to understand the numbers on the side.

She might not have been cleared to read the records she was keeping.

If she did know then I agree, she deserved worse than she got.

N0SKILLZ

Monday, June 5, 2006 12:22 AM

Funny stuff. I miss MST3k!

JAYNE: The Alliance starts the war, and then you volunteer.
MIKE: You.... volunteerer.

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