Serenity question thats bugging me/you
POSTED BY: BrownBug
UPDATED: Wednesday, November 14, 2007 17:50
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Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar...
...It's movie magic, baby. It's the money shot. It's the perfectly timed climax (of the movie, you pervs).
...It's equal parts Seren(dip)ity and cinematic license. Don't try to make too much sense of it. Just go with it. As long as it's remotely possible that it all happened that bang-bang fast, why get twisted in a knot that Joss made it happen that way? Would you have been happier if Joss had the blast door open after the Purps tore out the wall, after the Op told them to stand down?
I mean, there's got to be some literary rules, as well as logical ones, right?
Respectfully,
zoid
P.S.
That was a great shot. Along with the one of Mal with blood in his eye, just before the Op says "Stand down..."
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"I aim to misbehave." -Capt. Mal Reynolds, Serenity, a.k.a. 'the BDBOF'
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All idiosyncrasies aside, we have no idea how powerful River really is. When she told Jayne that she could kill him with her brain, we assume she was just scaring him, but she could have been telling the truth, and if so, then why couldn’t she have pressed the button inside with her mind?
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Also make's me wonder if River somehow controlled Jayne by planting the idea of going for a 'niiiiiice shuttle ride', so she could escape from being locked up. She did after all kick his butt back in the bar.
If anyone could be controlled by their base impluses it would be Jayne.
Also makes me think she may have kept Jayne asleep during the whole Objects in Space episode, because she knew he would screw up her cunning plan.
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There is no doubt that she and Mal are the central and important characters to this story
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One of the reaver's heads that she had just lopped off flew over and hit the button, you can see it bouncing to the right.
Select to view spoiler:
Made you look!
"It's no wonder that truth is stranger than fiction. Fiction has to make sense." - Mark Twain
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But wasn't the door rigged so it could not be opened from the outside?
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Originally posted by rallem:
But wasn't the door rigged so it could not be opened from the outside?
Oooooh good point!So no bouncing reaver head. Peer pressure?
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Originally posted by rallem:
All idiosyncrasies aside, we have no idea how powerful River really is. When she told Jayne that she could kill him with her brain, we assume she was just scaring him, but she could have been telling the truth, and if so, then why couldn’t she have pressed the button inside with her mind?
Why would you assume she was not being entirely truthful and candid?
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Lucky coincidence.:<)
Five minutes earlier, and everybody woulda been reaver-lunch.
Five minutes later, and she'd have had to say, " You should have seen what just happened..."
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There is a Mystery Science Theater spoof about Serenity that mentions this.
http://eric261.tripod.com/mst3kserenity/mst3kserenity.html
Quote:
ZOE: Sir...
MAL: It’s done. Report. ....River?
[blast doors open to reveal River surrounded by dead Reavers]
MIKE: Oh great. Nice job of rigging the blast doors so they won’t open again, Kaylee.
I think the best explanation is that Mal came in through the elevator, and the next door was rigged to open. All though the theory about the Alliance over-riding the doors works well too.
"We may experience some slight turbulence, and then... explode."
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