Unpopular Opinions

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ANNUETTE

Monday, June 25, 2007 9:15 PM

I'm not gonna go into my choice of pairins, purely becase i can't be arsed to defend them but i will share the one thing I reckon would have happened had Serenity continued-or even after the movie.

I think Kaylee would have become bored by Simon.

I think after the movie it would have been all sex and fun but i just think it would have fizzelled out. I also think Kaylee would have been the one to end the relationship.

But, going by the series, I'm not so sure. I waver both ways. I think she may have got bored with chasing him, or rather making advances and having him accidently reject them. Or she would have found a new interest.

I do sometimes wonder if Tracey hadn't be killed, if he'd stayed on as crew, would he and Kaylee have become a couple.

simon is my favourite character and he and Kaylee were really cute together at the end of Serenity but I can't help thinking they'd both have needed something else from it.

STEAMER

Monday, June 25, 2007 9:48 PM

I don't like Jayne.

There. I've said it.

I know other folk love him to pieces, and I know why other folk love him to pieces, but I don't.

I also think River is at least mostly sane since the end of the BDM. Mayhaps she still ain't 100%, but she's a lot better than she was and I think there's potential for her to get better yet, right set of circumstances permitting.

You'd think a compression coil had blown with all the flames that have shot through this thread already, so let me remind all hands, gently but firmly, that just because we're expressing our unpopular opinions doesn't mean they're open to trashing. That ain't the point. Dong le ma?

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PHOENIXROSE

Monday, June 25, 2007 9:58 PM

I like Jayne as a character, but I don't really like Jayne. He a good character, but if he were a real person I wouldn't want to be anywhere near him.

(Only flames I threw was when I felt personally insulted. I wouldn't take my opinions about the show being attacked as a personal attack; it's just a way of viewing a show. Yeah, I adore the show, and if anyone said it was a terrible show I would be a little ticked, but seeing things a different way while agreeing that it's a really good show is different.)

Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.
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MAL4PREZ

Monday, June 25, 2007 10:26 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by annuette:
I think Kaylee would have become bored by Simon.

I think after the movie it would have been all sex and fun but i just think it would have fizzelled out. I also think Kaylee would have been the one to end the relationship.

I can totally see that! She's got such a crush, and sees Simon as all kinds of shiny because he's a fancy Core doctor... but what if she went past that, got to really know him, and saw that he's just a human being?

Such potential there - and poor Simon, if it came to that! Hero worship collapse can turn into a sad thing...

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SUNLITLAZ

Tuesday, June 26, 2007 3:31 PM

Just a thought, for all those folk that didn't like the River fight scene in Serenity, and that it made her SuperGirl or something. Isn't that precisely what the Alliance did to River? Make her a super badass fighting machine? I thought that was kind of the whole point of all that they put her through, to make her a ... well, SuperGirl. To me, from the prespective of the storyline, it made sense.

I love Jayne as a character, he is quite amusing, but I agree that in person I probably wouldn't trust him. I also agree with a previous poster that he is most likely loyal to Mal.

I liked Wash a whole lot more than Simon. Simon was smart and noble and those were great, but from a fan's perspective, Wash was a great deal more entertaining and fun to watch.

I am new here, but that's my 2c worth, thanks.

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MAL4PREZ

Tuesday, June 26, 2007 3:47 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by SunLitLaz:
Just a thought, for all those folk that didn't like the River fight scene in Serenity, and that it made her SuperGirl or something. Isn't that precisely what the Alliance did to River? Make her a super badass fighting machine?

Not only that, but don't forget that she can read minds. I think that's key - she doesn't need muscle mass or hard blows. She knows what her opponent is doing, and can use that against them. Could be quite effective...

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ANNUETTE

Tuesday, June 26, 2007 4:57 PM

Exactly! *grins* Well i'm glad i'm not the only one. :)

ARCADIA

Tuesday, June 26, 2007 5:05 PM

One more unpopular opinion.

I think it was an utterly stupid move to have Inara flee from Serenity to... a training house? It just doesn't make sense to me when I really think about it. She's leaving Serenity because her feeling of attachment toward the crew, and Mal in particular, are interferring with her work, so she runs to a place where... she doesn't work at all? Really? I really hope that was just a convenience for the movie (both story-wise - it was easier to get things moving this way, and because having a practicing whore might have messed with the rating), and not something that would have been in the show, had it continued.

Arcadia (aka Greyfable and/or Katie)
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ARGOPELTER

Tuesday, June 26, 2007 6:36 PM

Delurking to reply to two ideas:

First, I agree with Orpheus that the movie was too funny. I actually arrived a little bit late to this party and saw the movie before the series. Although on a personal level I didn't have any trouble with the amount of humor because I was so wrapped up in the fast-paced story, I know people who took the number of jokes as a signal that they weren't supposed to take the film too seriously, and I expect they weren't the only ones. Then, when the film got very serious, some first-time viewers may have been confused and lost their suspension of disbelief. Joss says in the commentary that he removed the "fake grenade" scene because it made the Alliance look bumbling, but I wish he had applied that same line of thought more consistently. The "do you want to run this ship...well, you can't" moment, while very funny, lends itself more to sci-fi parody than anything else.

Second, Annuette mentioned Tracey/Kaylee, and I think that that kind of arc would've had a whole lot more than an episode's worth of material. Simon is not outwardly affectionate, and when Kaylee is presented with someone who is, she gravitates toward him. Kaylee would have to decide if Simon's attractive qualities outweighed his reserved personality, and Simon would have to figure out if he was willing to try to change himself for her. It's a shame the show didn't have the chance to do three or four episodes with Tracey as a crew member and love interest before killing him off.

Lastly, not sure how popular or unpopular this idea is with anyone, but I think the show is a little too Western. Before I saw the series, my one confusion/complaint about the film was basically, "What's the deal with all the Western stuff?" It makes a bit more sense in the context of the series, but even then, I could've done with less.

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Edit to fix a typo.

STARTROOP

Tuesday, June 26, 2007 7:33 PM

As far as the "western" aspect was concerned, what I liked about it was the play off of the American Civil War (I am a reenactor and just like it). I liked the old speech patterns and the stoicism. I like the amazing collection of classic firearms they showed (likely culled from the property room of many old movies).

I didn't like it when it went from that to the "Dime Western" motif. I think the time period could be similar, not the same.

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