The infamous catalyzer.

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UPDATED: Wednesday, February 11, 2004 11:16
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LTNOWIS

Monday, February 9, 2004 8:54 PM

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Given what happened in OOG, it would make sense that while they were in the junkyard, they picked up some extra parts for the ship. At least we know they have extra sychronizers, whatever those are.

Except later in the episode we see Kaylee installing the sychronizers into the ambulance. Unless I'm wrong.

Say, as long as we're on the subject, what do you think they did with the ambulance after Ariel? It couldn't have been that reliable, considering its origins, so they may have just cannibalized it for spare parts. Still, that would've been a shame, considering its spiffy paint job. Maybe they sold it along with a batch of medicine.

ADEPTUS

Monday, February 9, 2004 9:00 PM

Only Joss and Company know for sure there, Static.

No power in the 'verse can stop me.

ADEPTUS

Monday, February 9, 2004 9:06 PM

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Maybe they sold it along with a batch of medicine.

Were I they, and were it possible, I'd stash it somewhere for a repeat performance. The Ariel job netted them a fat profit, and was relatively easy to pull off (Jayne's betrayal notwithstanding.) With a decent downtime, they could probably pull off something like that at least two or three more times.

No power in the 'verse can stop me.

STATIC

Monday, February 9, 2004 9:17 PM

I totally agree with that!!!

I'd say wait about a year, then hit a hospital on a different planet.

Without the need to sneak Simon and River in as well, it might go even easier this time. . .and I'm pretty certain Niska would be alot more willing to listen to his henchman say, "Listen. . .ummm. . .Captain Reynolds would prefer that you and him just stay out of each other's way from now on. Is that cool?"

So there would be no need to GIVE away the 'take' again.

Damn good idea. . .of course. . .if they ever get RICH. . .how do you think it would go after that? Dress up Serenity a little? Get a whole CRATE full of Catalyzers? Mal could get a second set of suspenders and a few dozen more maroon shirts. . .Simon could buy Jayne a new T-Shirt to replace the one River. . .ummm. . .'modified'. . .Wash and Zoe could get their short vacation on the naked beach somewhere. . .

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Sorry. . .was thinking of Zoe naked.

Anyhow. . .how do you think it would affect the show?

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"Wash. . .we got some local color happening. A grand entrance would not go amiss."

ASTRIANA

Monday, February 9, 2004 9:35 PM

What? How could Zoe naked affect the show? I'd probably quadruple ratings for just the first minute of airtime... After that, exponential is pot lickings comparatively...

Not that I'm biased or anything...

~A~

...I'm still free,
You can't take the sky from me.

ADEPTUS

Monday, February 9, 2004 9:36 PM

Well you have to remember that they'd mostly be selling these goods for platinum, not credits. Can't spend platinum in the Core, and the conversion rate ain't so good; so, they'd only be rich out on the Rim. Now, that's still significant. If you get enough money together, you start to weild a fair bit of influence, and can maybe begin to consolidate a power base. You'd be able to afford a few more contacts, maybe bribe some displaced Alliance officials, probably even draw a few allies to you. Before you know it, you'd have your own crime network built to help you expand your wallet and your influence.

From there, you might be able to build up say, a militia, and start carving out your own Alliance-free territory if you did things right.

Anyway, that's one direction the show could go in. There are many others.

No power in the 'verse can stop me.

STATIC

Monday, February 9, 2004 9:46 PM

You know. . .I had never heard anywhere that you can't spend platinum in the core, but I sometimes miss details like that. Makes sense in a way, tho.

I don't picture Mal as the 'crime network' type. . .and I CERTAINTLY don't picture him as the 'militia' type either.

I think I'll start a new thread on this topic. . .'what would they do with ALOT of money?'

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"Wash. . .we got some local color happening. A grand entrance would not go amiss."

LTNOWIS

Monday, February 9, 2004 10:30 PM

Yeah, the repeat performance idea never occured to me. That's probably what they did. Still it wouldn't really fly with their "take jobs as they come" lifestyle to have a continually lucrative scam.

STEVE580

Tuesday, February 10, 2004 4:38 AM

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Originally posted by Static:
Damn good idea. . .of course. . .if they ever get RICH. . .how do you think it would go after that? Dress up Serenity a little? Get a whole CRATE full of Catalyzers?

When I first watched the show on TV, it occurred to me that they would never be terribly successful in their endeavors; because, as you say, if they became wealthy, than the whole nature of the show would change. And of course, this can't happen on TV shows.

And then I saw 'Angel'.
-Steve

DRAKON

Tuesday, February 10, 2004 12:53 PM

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Anyhow. . .how do you think it would affect the show?

Ask Rhoda Morgenstern.

Characters in dramas have to have a difficult life. A life where you have plenty of money and resources to follow your every whim, it makes for a boring story. Nobody would watch it, although you would be hard pressed to find someone who would turn down that life.

When Mary Tyler Moore's friend got spun off, one of the things they did was give her, her "happily ever after". And the show tanked. You can't write about the problems of a person when that person ain't got none. Well you can, but nobody wants to watch that stuff.

"Wash, where is my damn spaceship?"

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