Anybody know if Serenity went to Boros?
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Wait, was that bar on Boros? or was that just an unspecified planet?
I'd read Those Left Behind if i knew where to find it. I had the impression Dobson + being shot in the head = most decidedly deceased.
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War Stories was on/around "Ezra".
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I know that, i was talking about the beginning of the Train Job :P
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I doubt that is Boros.
Boros was described in the Pilot episode as teaming with Alliance. I would expect it to be fairly built up.
I would expect The Train Job to have also taken place on Ezra.
(Deleted bit of War Stories suggests that Niska is someone who has power on that world... and I would suggest he was trying to expand it in TTJ through nefarious means...)
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Originally posted by nbz:
I doubt that is Boros.
Boros was described in the Pilot episode as teaming with Alliance. I would expect it to be fairly built up.
In the pilot, after being turned down by Badger, they are indeed talking about not selling the merchandise at Boros, as Mal thinks it's not a good idea to be caught peddling Alliance goods. But that just says they weren't planning on flashing the goods at the gorramn law -- which they never planned to begin with.
Truth is, we simply don't know why they were headed for Boros in the first place. In front of Serenity's "parking space", at Eavesdown docks, we can see some sort of electronic placard which lists Boros as their destination. But other than that, why they planned to go there is yet untold. Could be as simple that Boros is simply the next big hop in space, and that it thus makes sense for them to offer transportation to the next big Alliance world.
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Originally posted by freelancertex:
I'd read Those Left Behind if i knew where to find it. I had the impression Dobson + being shot in the head = most decidedly deceased.
The shooting script says:
"-- and shoots Dobson in the face. He flies back, letting go of River and dead before he lands."
TLB deviates a mite from his demise, but it was after all only a shooting script, and no where in canon has Dobson's death really been confirmed. In fact, this serves as a good example NOT to mistake a shooting script for canon!
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what. is. canon?
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and no where in canon has Dobson's death really been confirmed.
Yeah but has he suddenly sprung up from somewhere? I haven't read the graphic novel because I don't know where to get it like tex, so it's possible that he did in there, but could someone answer that question?
And as for the topic, I think that the reason why they had Boros as a destination was to pick up more passengers, and I don't think they really were going to go to Boros anyway. They just wanted to get into space so when they figured out where to sell the cargo they'd already have some distance covered. It's been a while since I've seen that episode bacause I haven't had time
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Originally posted by RiverFlan:
And as for the topic, I think that the reason why they had Boros as a destination was to pick up more passengers, and I don't think they really were going to go to Boros anyway. They just wanted to get into space so when they figured out where to sell the cargo they'd already have some distance covered.
It is entirely possible that what you say is true: that they never meant to go there anyway. However, two things leap to mind that make me not so sure:
1): They already had their cargo onboard, and had planned to sell it right there, on Persephone, to Badger. That plan fell through, and Zoe suggested they sell it on Boros instead. To which Mal rightly pointed out -- them being Alliance goods and all, and Boros somewhat crawling with Alliance -- that the risk of doing so was too high, and that it would have to be somewhere else on the rim (which turned out to be, somewhat reluctantly, Whitefall, as we all know). My long-winded point being: I don't think they planned on going to Boros only after the deal with Badger got busted.
2): Simon had definite plans to bring River to Boros. So, if everything were right... well, they'd be in jail. :) But other than that, if everything had gone according to plan, it stands to reason they'd delivered Simon and box on Boros, right?
On the other hand, the Train Job takes place at a small mining moon, called Regina. Now, my planetary knowledge of the 'Verse has always been somewhat limited (on account of my brain missing), but I believe Regina, together with Whitefall and Higgin's Moon, is one of the three moons orbiting Athens (Ezra, the barren moon that Niska has his space station, is near Greenleaf and Lilac, all orbiting a gas giant called Georgia).
So, where does that leave us? Much of the maps are somewhat speculative/tentative, but if it's true that Regina really is quite opposite on the map to Boros, I dunno, then still going to Boros would make their trip to Whitefall and Ezra (to drop of the goods on Niska's doorstep) quite a detour.
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I suppose that we can never know, but it's fun to speculate.
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