How did Mal get back into Serenity - BDM?

POSTED BY: Mavourneen
UPDATED: Wednesday, November 1, 2006 00:37
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TEACHDAIRE

Monday, October 30, 2006 11:55 PM

No. They were already on course. It would just have been a straight line dash.

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TRAVELER

Tuesday, October 31, 2006 12:26 AM

Wash would have had to wait to accelerate the ship until Mal got into the airlock. But Mal did not spend much time with the cannon. The Reavers don't need a lot of provocation. So a quick dash to the airlock and Mal tells Wash to hit the gas.

But I have thought about the red paint as well. Unless Kaylee repaints the engine room every week, where did it come from?

Traveler

MOOSE

Tuesday, October 31, 2006 12:40 AM

What makes you all think that it's actually paint?

FLORALBUNNY

Tuesday, October 31, 2006 1:56 AM

Red paint?
Easy peasy.
Mal's orders are given at Haven.
Haven is (or at least has been) a mining facility.
All that metal needs some protection from time to time.
There could be gallons of Rust-Oleum or its 26thc.
equivalent stored in one of those shacks or shafts.
Better ideas welcome...

bun
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OUT2THEBLACK

Tuesday, October 31, 2006 3:54 AM

Quote:
Originally posted by Moose:
What makes you all think that it's actually paint?

Errr , Mal says , " We'll need paint . Lots of red paint ." I think that was my first clue .

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BELUGASMOM

Tuesday, October 31, 2006 8:49 AM

Thanks for the explanation(s). The reboarding choreography has bothered me since viewing 1, also.

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CHOO1701

Tuesday, October 31, 2006 8:58 AM

Joss did say it was a mistake (i.e: ship flew of foo quickly after the cannon fired, thus leaving Mal exposed )

Although there is a hatch on the dome (yet non by the stair well that everyone come in by [Bushwacked. OiS, etc...]), right near where the cannon would be, so he could just climb down that.

(top view can be seen here: http://www.fireflywiki.org/Firefly/FireflyTransport )

Hope that helps :)

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CYBERSNARK

Tuesday, October 31, 2006 5:00 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by traveler:
Wash would have had to wait to accelerate the ship until Mal got into the airlock. But Mal did not spend much time with the cannon. The Reavers don't need a lot of provocation. So a quick dash to the airlock and Mal tells Wash to hit the gas.

Not really.

Mal fires the cannon, and Wash punches it. Mal hangs onto the cannon (I'm assuming he was secured there somehow), as Serenity grabs some distance and Wash lets up on the accelerator a bit. When the acceleration ends (with the ship still flying at a pretty significant clip, 'cause of Newtonian motion), Mal scrambles to the airlock and Wash can accellerate again if needed.

The actual mechanics of the Miranda-to-Mr. Universe's World flight aren't clear (the 'verse just isn't developed that way). What we see in the movie looks like Serenity and the Reavers accelerate up to speed, then switch off engines, allowing inertia to do the job until they reach the cloud.

They could be accelerating constantly, but by the time they reach Mr. Universe's World, they'd be moving way too fast to be able to manoeuvre (I'm guessing the Reavers wouldn't have followed standard deceleration procedures, given there was a chase on).

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KELKHIL

Tuesday, October 31, 2006 10:06 PM

See I always thought it was Jayne firing the cannon. I guess I will have to go back and study that scene now.

As far as falling off during acceleration.... as long as he was tied down to the ship he would be fine. The force from accelerating would not be in existance in the vacuum of space. Sure he might be left behind if he was not tied down, but I do not believe it would take that much effort to hold on.

Kelkhil

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TRAVELER

Wednesday, November 1, 2006 12:19 AM

If Mal were strapped down he probably would be okay. It would depend on the rate of acceleration. I still can't believe the time they did the Crazy Ivan; is that what it was called? Anyway, the thrust appeared immense. How could Mal, Jayne, and Kaylee not be flattened into pancakes. Our astronauts have to be strapped down using the propulsion systems of today's rockets. But they have done this same thing in every other science fiction show, so why not Firefly.

About the paint. I forgot that the sanctuary was an old mining site. They could have supplies like paint in storage.

Traveler

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