Where does 'Serenity ' end? What planet?

POSTED BY: SeanCJ
UPDATED: Tuesday, February 6, 2007 16:31
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GORRAMSHINY

Tuesday, February 6, 2007 12:22 AM

well, there is a topic about the same thing HERE: http://www.stillflying.net/forum/viewtopic.php?p=5623#5623

I think we fans need to find one big discussion forum where ALL the browncoats go that is only for discussion and talking about the series and stuff (no fanfic or anything, just one giant forum).

I sorry if that was totally off topic, but that's what I think.

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TRAVELER

Tuesday, February 6, 2007 3:31 AM

We see only the ships crew actually doing the repairs. If they were on a main planet there would be a professional dry dock repairing Serenity. This makes me beleave they are still on Mr. Universe's planet.

Traveler

ROCKETJOCK

Tuesday, February 6, 2007 5:57 AM

The basic rule with canonicity of a novelization is that if it contradicts what's seen on screen, the screened version wins. So, though the novel says Serenity limped to a repair yard with her disattached thruster in her cargo bay, the damage seen in the movie was far too severe for her to have launched without major repair. The operative probably had enough pull left to offer medical aid and keep the Alliance Troops off The BDH's collective ass while repairs were made, but you'll notice, the only people doing those repairs were Mal and company.

Where did the repair yard come from? The same place Mr. U's facility did; Mr. U stole it, fair and square, by faking a terraforming catastrophe that was going to make the place uninhabitable, and then moving in once the original owners were gone. Quite the hacker, Mr. U.

That backstory, by the way, comes from the novelization; since it doesn't contradict the movie, I can accept it as canonical.

As for the lack of ionic display, we never see an exterior of the surface of Mr. U's world except in daylight, which would probably drown the pretty lights out. At night, it would probably be like having the northern light dusk to dawn.

"She's tore up plenty. But she'll fly true." -- Zoë Washburn

NEWOLDBROWNCOAT

Tuesday, February 6, 2007 7:45 AM

I agree with most of what RocketJock says. Serenity was too damaged to be moved. And another issue, the Operative had the repairs done on his own authority-- if he'd had the ship moved, Parliament and the forces that sent him out would have noticed it.

So it was done there , on Mr. Unverse's planet.

SEANCJ

Tuesday, February 6, 2007 4:23 PM

I'm afraid I'll have to disagree to a point about the repairs being done solely by Serenity's crew. The damage was very extensive and (no offense intended here) I highly doubt that this crew would have the collective knowledge or tools in place to reconnect a HUGE thruster engine along with all the other major mechanical and electrical repairs needed throughout the ship after such a landing. I'm pretty sure the EMP from the Reaver ship destroyed most, if not all, electrical/computer components throughout the ship. Of course Kaylee has an innate sense of the ships workings, but the other crew members have no clue whatsoever. The amount of time it would take a crew of 7, only one mechanic amongst them, to make those repairs is, quite frankly, unimaginable. They needed help.
If they remained on Mr. U's planet, I think that there had to be some Alliance engineers helping out with this as ordered by The Operative. I think that is primarily what Mal means by "patching up our hurt" as he clearly looks deliberately up at Serenity during that line. By 'hurt' I am sure he means the damage done to Serenity herself. He knew the crew could have taken care of their medical situation by themselves as proven in many episodes in the past, but the 'hurt' suffered by Serenity was far too great for him to take care of by himself and even his pride could not keep him from accepting help in that regard, even from the Alliance. Mal would not have had the parts nor the money needed to make those repairs.
My bet is the The Operative went so far as to aid in their major repairs but to also provide the replacement parts needed to make those repairs. There was most likely some medical aid given to the crew as well but the jist of his comment was towards the damage done to the ship itself.
I am tending now to think that the ship was hauled off Mr. U's planet and fixed up at another location with the aid of Alliance or a shipyard crew. I will bet that Mal did not allow anyone 'inside' Serenity to help with those repairs, but he would have needed help with the heavy major stuff outside.
I also base the repairs being done off Mr. U's planet secondary to the lack of ion cloud as Serenity sails off into the sunset.
Its an affect they pointed out every single time they came back to Mr. U. Why would they forget it at the end?

"You wanna run this ship?"
"Yes"
"Well,...you can't"

SEANCJ

Tuesday, February 6, 2007 4:31 PM

Oh, I just realized one more thing. Time it takes to heal!
Most of our crew sustained severe injuries during that fight. Most of those injuries would take many many weeks, if not months (even with the advanced medical practices of the time), to heal before they could be crawling around inside/outside the ship making those kinds of labor intensive and extensive repairs.
If you look at them during the 'funeral' scene, they are all bandaged up but clearly still feeling the affects of their wounds, leaning on canes, arms in splints ect..
But, cut to the repair sequences, they all appear to be fully healed and able bodied.
Would the Alliance have waited around all that time 'on Mr U's planet' to provide the aid to our ship? I'll bet not.
Again, I think that The Operative gave some medical aid to our crew initially to patch them up and get them on their feet, let them have their 'funeral and last respects' but then hauled everyone, Serenity included to a near by planet with the facilities AND parts, to make those extensive repairs. The crew was allowed to heal during that time before they were ready to begin the fix up of Serenity.

"You wanna run this ship?"
"Yes"
"Well,...you can't"

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