Serenity Comic News and Sequel *RUMOR*
POSTED BY: Shiny
UPDATED: Saturday, June 10, 2006 21:05
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Originally posted by AgentRouka:
In the pilot episode, Inara states she's been on the ship eight months. In "Bushwhacked" she says "In a few weeks, it will be a year." That implies that at least two months, more likely three have passed since "The Train Job" and Simon seems awfully awkward still for having been there that amount of time. It could work, theoretically, but it seems odd.
Of course, it contradicts the "Safe" two months thing, too.
And in the movie Mal proclaims Simon and River have been on the ship for eight months, which throws everything all over the place even more.
True. Assuming they got on the ship as late as August or September, 8 months later only puts them in April or May, which is about when Trash happens (if we are to believe the Oct 24 date and Mal saying Saffron was on the ship a half year back) - way too early for the Serenity movie.
I've often wondered how they reckon time, anyway. I wouldn't think that every planet and moon was on the same day/night cycle as each other, or as Earth-That-Was. And River says "Day is a vestigial mode of time measurement based on solar cycles. It's not applicable."
There's one episode where Mal says something like "We'll be setting down at 10am" according to the planet time where they are landing, so that implies that times/dates are different on different worlds? Being out in the black and hopping around so much, maybe their sense of time is kinda distorted, so when they say "about 2 months" or "half a year ago" they're not so accurate? Jayne doesn't even know what month it is in the beginning of TRAIN JOB.
Or, as you said, just poorly scripted.
And I'm reading way too much into it. ~ Flame ~
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Plus we know Mal isn't overly precise as a rule. Remember his conversation with Kaylee prior to the BDM, where she told him the connections would hold for another two weeks (that was four months ago).
"Half a year" could be anything from last year to a couple of months back.
Plus, we have no reason to assume that the primary calendar is still based on a 12-month cycle. A year is a single orbit, so it's possible that Sihnon or Londinium or wherever they calculate their mean time from has a shorter or longer orbit --especially given how crowded the system seems to be.
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Wow. Speaking of time, I hope this is true because the captain and his crew are not getting any younger. We have to get our sequel and the series back soon. Don't get me wrong, I'd still be willing to watch 60 year old Mal and Jayne's adventures but I doubt that many other people would be too! Oh my god, I think I'm going to have a panic attack.
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