Grav suit?

POSTED BY: KalnVandell
UPDATED: Saturday, December 16, 2006 16:19
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KALNVANDELL

Monday, December 11, 2006 12:18 PM

in out of gas, before Jayne leaves with the others, he mentions that he left a grav suit prepped for when he needed it. Mal refused to use it.

I know this must have been brought up before.

But why did he do that?

Was it a "Captain always goes down with his ship" thing?

DUG

Monday, December 11, 2006 1:25 PM

The line from the shooting script is:

JAYNE
And I prepped a suit for you. It's hanging in
the foredeck. When the time comes, you can just...

I don't see that this is a grav suit; seems more likely it's one of the suits they were wearing in the pilot or when the Tams hid outside the ship. It might buy the Captain a few hours but I don't think he had any real hope that anyone would find him. I think he wanted the dignity of dying with his ship instead of clinging to the last instant in a smelly suit.

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EVILDINOSAUR

Saturday, December 16, 2006 2:04 PM

I don't remember Mal refusing to take it, I thought he had said something to the effect of "won't be needing it, but thanks"

I took it to mean Mal was still trying to be optimistic and that someone would still come to help. And he felt that admitting he might need a suit would be like giving up. Thats the way I saw it anyway.

"Haha, mine is an evil laugh."

CYBERSNARK

Saturday, December 16, 2006 3:52 PM

Also, by the time he ended up needing it, he'd been shot.

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STINKINGROSE

Saturday, December 16, 2006 4:19 PM

Agreeing with evil dinosaur, though there might have been some internal subtext there.

..and now I can't get down.