How Serenity Should Have Ended
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UPDATED: Sunday, January 20, 2013 13:34
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Quote:If I had been shot in the back with a ray-gun, fallen on my head, I would lie down and die. Mal is sterner stuff. He gets back up, but forgets the Operative. Falling on his head must have damaged Mal's memory. “Operative? Where?” says Mal in confusion. Turn around, Mal. He's behind you. He has a grudge! Remember? Mal goes, “What grudge? Who?” Mal, his brain on autopilot, can't stop the signal playing in his head long enough to deal with the Operative standing right behind, ready to kill him.
Originally posted by Storymark:
And maybe folks aint at their most mentally acute right after falling out of space, crashing, watching a friend die, all while be chased by a horde of cannibals.
I don't really think, with all that was going on, that Mal was putting a whole lot of mental juice into reflecting on past defeats.
The Joss Whedon script for "Serenity," where Wash lives, is
Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/two
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How much would it have sucked if he HAD just shot him in the head and that was it??, No climactic fight scene, no forcibly showing the Operative "the error of his ways" ?? No happy conflict resolution and affirmation at the end??
Nah, Joss got it right...
Sometimes, it really is about crafting a tale then it is taking an easy action "out". It's okay to do that stuff ina series when you're runnin' outta time for an eppisode, but ya got time to do it right in a movie.
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Quote:I admit the shooting in the head goes too far. The Mal/Operative fight needed to be quick, but not dead. There was time for all that conflict resolution later with Loki in The Avengers and that fight was over in 20 seconds.
Originally posted by Wishimay:
How much would it have sucked if he HAD just shot him in the head and that was it??, No climactic fight scene, no forcibly showing the Operative "the error of his ways" ?? No happy conflict resolution and affirmation at the end??
If a fight goes on too long, questions start popping up: Does Mal really feel like telling a joke ("I'm goin' with wraith") after being run through by a sword? Is there a Secret Pinch of Death known by Operatives and unknown in the 21st century? Does moving Mal's "nerve cluster" prevent the Pinch from being effective? Make a fight quick and nobody asks those embarrassing questions. Here is an embarrassing question that Joss immediately answered: Is Loki god-like enough to survive the Hulk thrashing? Joss showed us that Loki was still alive. It added 5 seconds to the scene, but it was worth it to hear Loki whine.
The Joss Whedon script for "Serenity," where Wash lives, is
Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/two
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Nathan Fillion is about as naturally menacing as Elvis Presley is in his cowboy movie Love Me Tender, the one where he dies in the end. Mal's smartassery remarks while fighting did not help sell Nathan as a tough guy.
The Joss Whedon script for "Serenity," where Wash lives, is
Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/two
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