Items I've wondered about.
POSTED BY: JontheBrowncoat
UPDATED: Sunday, August 22, 2004 10:14
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Since this is one of my absolute favourite episodes, I would like to throw in my 2 cents as well 
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"They never really explain how the townspeople know who Jayne was when he dumped the money. He showed up, he robbed from the magistrate, he flew off, and dumped some money. When they'd ever meet him, get his name, or know what he looked like to make a statue of him?"
Why does this have to be explained? I can come up with 250 million answers to this question off the top of my head. ahem... he and Stitch hung out in Mudderland while they were planning the job. Used people in the community to get info. Had his face showing when he threw the crate out (he was only about 30 feet up. The guys hard not to recognize, being 6'4" and all). etc. etc. etc.
Since the Magistrate of the town knew very well who stole from him (at least after the capture of Stitch) he surely made some kind of Wanted-Poster and showed it around in town. Since the people there knew Jayne's name from him hanging around there they now knew name and face of the "Hero of Canton"
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"Stitch walks upright pretty well, and manhandles Simon pretty readily, despite being locked up in a cramped box for four years. Did the Magister let him have daily exercise periods and all, or what?"
I have two answers to this. One is, sure, why not? and Two is, ain't it amazing what hate will let ya do?
On the other hand: Being a mudder seems to be a taxing job, like some hard training.
It is not said that Stitch had to stay in the Box the whole time, so it might as well be that he came out every day for some hard labour and was put back into the box in the evening.
The Magistrate of the town surely had an interest in keeping him alive and healthy to work off the damage he did (and probably to have Stitch suffer as much as possible for robbing him)
So Stitch is bodily fit because of the work as forced labourer (which is not shown or explained due to too little time in an episode and the fact that pulling him from the box in the evening is a nice surprise thingy)
Just my take on this, hehe
Keep flying,
Gavida
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Acutally, a lot of these "nitpicks" can be found in the episode recaps at Television Without Pity, and I think whoever edited the TV Tome page may have taken liberties with some of the items that were noticed.
Also, since TV Tome is written by fans, by and large most of the time there are glaring errors on any page, from the names of characters, to spelling (my pet peeve with the site), to actual episode summaries. Read the descriptions there with a healthy distrust of its contents.
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Originally posted by JK:
The third one (admitted to by Joss) is, of course, that after they escape from the reavers, there's a shot of Alan Tudyk where he's pretending to hold the steering controls; in actual fact, there's nothing in his hands.
Funny stuff.
JK
That's a good one !
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So Stitch is bodily fit because of the work as forced labourer
Good idea! I think that's the first really rational explanation of this.
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Originally posted by nedward:
The academy where River was sent is... where? Presumably not Osiris, or Simon wouldn't have been on Persephone.
I believe the academy was on Osiris - how else would the family have heard of it? They'd never have sent their daughter to the ass end of the 'verse for a school.
Well, Persephone certainly has an upper class, and I think communications/travels between worlds are pretty common, at least for the rich. But I don't think the Academy was on Persephone. More likely, after the rescue, the people helping him dropped him off on Persephone, warning him not to return to Osiris.
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Originally posted by JK:
The third one (admitted to by Joss) is, of course, that after they escape from the reavers, there's a shot of Alan Tudyk where he's pretending to hold the steering controls; in actual fact, there's nothing in his hands.
Funny stuff.
JK
I had always thought that scene was just Wash doing a funny thing. Sort of a 'yes, you can let go now'/hands stuck in their position kind of thing. Never thought about it as an error.
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ZOE: Now we have a boatful of citizens right on top of our... stolen cargo. That's a fun mix.
MAL: Ain't no way in the 'verse they could find that compartment, even--Even if they were lookin' for it.
ZOE: Why not?
MAL: 'Cause... ?
ZOE: Oh yeah, this is gonna go great.
MAL: If anyone gets nosy, just, you know...shoot 'em.
ZOE: Shoot 'em?
MAL: Politely.
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