At the end of the BDM ...
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Originally posted by theonetruebix:
Of course she would have won. Wtch her eyes when she turns around to look at them. She's doing the math.
Maybe the math in her head also told her that she wouldn't have stood a chance and attacking them was akin to going out in a blaze of glory?
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Originally posted by Siri:
And they didn't want her dead - they wanted her alive - not really sure they really wanted Simon alive - but River, yes, they would have avoided killing her if at all possible. Maybe used "the words" or shot her up with a stun gun or something to try to knock her out.
Actually, Inara says that the Operative believes that "killing River is the right thing to do". Why would she assume he wants to kill her unless the Operative gave some such indication? After all, she was always classified as "fugitive" with a bounty on her head, which implies capturing her alive.
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Since I'm a massive River/Summer fan I would have to say yes but if I wasn't I'd say yes but if I was a retard I'd say yes,Mo'kay.
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It's quite possible -- I would say almost certain -- that the particular group of soldiers in that scene was not in the Operative's squadron, and hence would not necessarily have known about River's capabilities.
I say this because most of the Alliance force was not with him until he called in "every ship in the quadrant". Those who were with him all along (and might have known something about River) were aboard his flagship, which was destroyed in the Reaver battle. The Op was the only survivor of that ship's company, as far as we know. The only other escape pod we saw was engulfed in the fireball.
So this team was from another ship. They knew that the Op was in command but may not have known much about the mission and its objectives. They were quite unlikely to know that River was a trained psychic assassin, since even that knowledge would be highly classified and limited to a "need to know" basis.
So they were confronted by a strange and confusing situation. That's not easy to handle even for a trained soldier, and is something River might have been able to take advantage of.
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Big Damn Yes, Why cause, But she has spidy senses remember her jumping up to the ceiling at the VA clinic. Then she would loop around axe in hand wack kill 2 use another purple belly as a shield assault rifle in hand now blam one row dead blam another row dead easy as lyen. Also she knows Mal got through and she would be a jump ahead on the troopers cause she reads minds and most important its in the script.
He looks better in red. (warning do not wear blue sun shirts around this little crazy person)
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I have to say no. If it was hand-to-hand combat, the soldiers would have no chance. But, they had guns. Lots of guns. Even if she managed to take out two or three, she'd have been gunned down before she could get to them all.
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Originally posted by AgentRouka:Quote:
Originally posted by theonetruebix:
Of course she would have won. Wtch her eyes when she turns around to look at them. She's doing the math.
Maybe the math in her head also told her that she wouldn't have stood a chance and attacking them was akin to going out in a blaze of glory?
And note how she turned to look at Mal, getting his order. She knew it was hopeless, but she was preparing to attack them anyway if that was what Mal wanted her to do.
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Originally posted by AgentRouka:Quote:
Originally posted by theonetruebix:
Of course she would have won. Wtch her eyes when she turns around to look at them. She's doing the math.
Maybe the math in her head also told her that she wouldn't have stood a chance and attacking them was akin to going out in a blaze of glory?
And note how she turned to look at Mal, getting his order. She knew it was hopeless, but she was preparing to attack them anyway if that was what Mal wanted her to do.
I absolutely agree.
All I'm saying is that she had no chance of beating them, not that she might not have tried. *g*
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She would have been gunned down.Heavily armed soldiers standing in a firing squad formation are not easily beaten. All it would take is one bullet.
But the interesting thing about that scene is she is ready to fight, Mal also has his gun unholstered also ready to fight.
But Jayne? he just seems to be telling her to put the weapons down.
In the movie, the target of the operative is to eliminate River Tam, not capture her. He also IMO 'closed' the Academy. at point of death.
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