More Subtle yet interesting show observations - post yours
POSTED BY: jewelstaitefan
UPDATED: Friday, December 19, 2008 17:29
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I had always assumed that most of what they got for the ambulance craft would then be transferred for use on Serenity - they didn't keep the ambulance, they would have likely stripped it (maybe sold back to the junk yard). Never thought they would just waste it on one use.
Yeah, I guess it never dawned on me that they actually got away with the ambulance. I was always so amazed they made it back alive, and then transitioning to the scene with Mal and Jayne, I never gave it much thought.
Now you got me thinking about it, they probably got a better price for that craft on another planet, and they did have the space in the cargo bay. Those would be more common on Ariel, with "big junk" as Simon said.
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Originally posted by asarian:
Point of interest, it's Wash who actually finds what looks suspiciously like a catalyzer! (the part he gleefully tosses at that other piece of luh-suh craft). Now, that's a part Serenity would REALLY come to need.
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"Mei-mei, everything I have is right here." -- Simon Tam
No. Wash found that in Ariel.
The catalyzer was needed in Out of Gas, a few episodes before.
You telling me that 'cause you think I don't know? :) But seriously, I've always wandered about that: what sequence Joss wrote the episodes in. It really DOES look like a catalyzer, namely; and it always seemed a mite odd that Kaylee would allow him to throw it away AFTER OoG.
N.B. The catalyzer seems to be a bit of a recurring theme, actually. Wasn't it seen in the cargo-bay of Serenity in the BDM, too? (when Kaylee and Jayne are talking alone).
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You said "a part they would come to need" implying you thought OoG was after Ariel.
Kaylee did not see the catalyzer that Wash picked up - she was working on the synchronizer.
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Originally posted by jewelstaitefan:
You said "a part they would come to need"
Yes, come to need during the series; a punctiliar kinda thing: not necessarily after Ariel. :)
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... implying you thought OoG was after Ariel.
Yeah, after watching Firefly a zillion times, I'm sure that's what I thought.
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Point of interest, it's Wash who actually finds what looks suspiciously like a catalyzer! (the part he gleefully tosses at that other piece of luh-suh craft). Now, that's a part Serenity would REALLY come to need.
I'll have to keep my eyes open for the resemblence the next time I watch. I never noticed it before.
"When you can't do somethin' smart, do somethin' right!" -Jayne Cobb quotes Shepherd Book
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There's something I never completely understood in Shindig: Inara, browsing through several proposals from prospective clients. Like the young pale guy who says, "If you've selected my proposal to hear, the honor that you do me flatters my.., honor." She clicks him away, and proceeds to select Atherton. But his, suddenly, is a live feed! (as he's clearly interacting with her).
So, what's up with that? How CAN it even be a live feed? Hard to imagine Atherton sitting by his phone/Cortex all day, ready to take Inara's call (and yet he picks up instantly). Or maybe I'm a complete moonbrain, and it never were a live feed at all! But it sure looked like it to me.
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Also, I just realized there's a relationship between Jayne's "Let's moon em!" and Badger's "And I didn't flash my arse at the gorram law!" :)
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Also, I just realized there's a relationship between Jayne's "Let's moon em!" and Badger's "And I didn't flash my arse at the gorram law!" :)
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"Mei-mei, everything I have is right here." -- Simon Tam
which i think says a lot about Badger - his desire for 'respectability' versus his jealousy of such rebellious gestures. He'd LOVE to flash his arse at the law,, i'm sure!
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Also, I just realized there's a relationship between Jayne's "Let's moon em!" and Badger's "And I didn't flash my arse at the gorram law!" :)
Which i think says a lot about Badger - his desire for 'respectability' versus his jealousy of such rebellious gestures. He'd LOVE to flash his arse at the law, I'm sure!
What's really subtle (as opposed to my other observation), is that Badger refers to the Alliance Cruiser as "the law". A regular civilian might not haven chosen such a colored word, but a crook like Badger, he naturally sees things in terms of being chased by the authorities; to him, even the mention of Alliance means "the law".
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Asarian, re: Inara in Shindig.
Consider this: you are listening to your voicemails, or messages, and suddenly a new, active, call comes in, you can take the call and interact in real time instead of playing phone tag. Now imagine this is the future, where video messages do this effortlessly with smooth transition. I hear "You've got mail" is something done in our time.
Of course, you might complain that I've read this in the Officail Companion or something.
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