Firefly Layout

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RANDY

Thursday, February 6, 2003 5:09 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by LJC:
middle level:
passenger dorm --> infirmary
joined the crew.

Actually, the infirmary/common room (where they relax, NOT the dining room) is in front of and below the cargo bay. In "Serenity", Mal tells Simon that Kaylee is dead while they are on the catwalk above the cargo area. Simon then runs down the stairs, through the cargo area then down another set of stairs to the infirmary. When he gets to the infirmary, you can see the cargo area at the top of the stairs behind him. Then in "Objects in Space", at the very end, when Mal touches Inara's lip outside the infirmary, the camera goes up the stairs and into the cargo area where River and Kaylee are playing jacks.

I'll have to watch more closely for more clues.

"...morbid and creepifying, I got no problem with" - Mal

LJC

Thursday, February 6, 2003 5:17 PM

Ahhhhhhh.... Thanks for the correction! So the passenger dorm and infirmary are level with the top storey of the cargo bay? Rather than above the cargo bay? Nifty! Now I can modify my sketches s'more!

RANDY

Thursday, February 6, 2003 6:06 PM

The infirmary is in FRONT of the cargo area (ie. towards the front of the ship) but on a level BELOW the cargo area. It is NOT underneath the cargo area.

Actually, I was just watching Serenity for the umpteenth time and I realized that the passenger dormitory and the infirmary are next to each other. In Serenity, when they first take on the passengers, they carry their stuff from the cargo bay to the dorm through that same door that leads to the infirmary. And in Jaynestown, it opens with Simon and Kaylee talking in the dorm when they hear Jayne taping on those guns and run around the corner to the infirmary.

So that would put the infirmary and passenger dorm below the crew quarters which would make sense. That way all the living units are in the same area and thus all the utilities, like plumbing, would be in the same place.

And therefore, the only thing below the dining room is the cargo bay. This makes sense because in Serenity, when Inara meets up with the ship on Persephone, Zoe walks around the dining room and stands at the top of 3 flights of stairs to tell Mal that they've got a full house.

Maybe I'm watching this show too much... :-)

"...morbid and creepifying, I got no problem with" - Mal

RANDY

Thursday, February 6, 2003 6:10 PM

CORRECTION CORRECTION!

I keep getting turned around because the cargo doors are at the front of the ship. That means the infirmary and the passenger dorm are below the engine room. Doh! Sorry about that.

"...morbid and creepifying, I got no problem with" - Mal

LJC

Thursday, February 6, 2003 6:25 PM

But when River goes up the stairs next to the infirmary in "Objects in Space" she comes out at the mess--not the engine room. It would make more sense to me that the passenger dorm is directly below the crew quarters, and the infirmary is below the mess... And didn't Mal and Book come out at the stairs between the Engine room and the Mess? So wouldn't that mean the passenger dorm is fore of the engine room, which is aft and over the top level of teh cargo bay?

Ack. Now I'm all turned around again. I just drew a cross-section which I *think* is close. But what i really wish I ahd was one of those detailed maps you see on cruise ships with "You Are Here" on it. I betcha there was one hanging in the ME offices for when they were breaking stories... Of course, they don't have the spacial relations problems I have becasue for me, Serenity is a real palce they can go stand in adn say "Ah. This is here, that is there." whereas I'm trying to piece it together using tracking stots and hand-held sequences...

HAPLO721

Thursday, February 6, 2003 9:28 PM

If you go to the "features" section of the official site, and look at the "Sketches, wardrobe, gadgets, and more" video, there's a floorplan/blueprint looking thing that the camera scrolls across at the very beginning. If you disable all the video options in Quicktime, you can take screenies and cut & past 'em together to see the whole thing. Unfortunately, it's not the highest resolution. The video is shown in a window about the size of the little screenshot in the top-left corner of this page.

Early: You ever been raped, Kaylee?
Kaylee: You know, it's funny you should mention that... ever heard of the Fox network?

RANDY

Thursday, February 6, 2003 9:37 PM

Hmmm... Actually, in OiS, River goes up a different set of stairs (to the right of the sickbay) than the one that leads to the cargo bay (to the left of the sick bay). If I remember correctly, in Serenity, Mal and Book go up these same stairs (on the right) and end up in the engine room where Kaylee has strung all this stuff up. And the engine room is behind the mess because in Out of Gas, the fire comes from the engine room into the mess. Also, in Our Mrs Reynolds, Mal has a talk with Saffron near the engine room and he points her to the mess which is down the hall.

So it appears that the infirmiry and passenger dorm are below the engine room which is behind the mess. In fact, I was re-reading the posts and the layout that I'm imagining matches Drakon's post above.

Does this make sense or am I floating in space somewhere? I'm never sure anymore...

"...morbid and creepifying, I got no problem with" - Mal

DRAKON

Thursday, February 6, 2003 9:45 PM

"Actually, the infirmary/common room (where they relax, NOT the dining room) is in front of and below the cargo bay."

Um this is not quite right. The large cargo door is in front of the cargo bay. The infirmary/common room is behind the main cargo bay. I get this turned around as well.

RANDY

Thursday, February 6, 2003 10:07 PM

You are completely right. That's why I had to issue that "CORRECTION" above. Sometimes I get lost in my virtual mind.

"...morbid and creepifying, I got no problem with" - Mal

SLOWSMURF

Friday, February 7, 2003 9:22 AM

No one seems to know whats under the bridge(and now I suppose we never will :( )

As for that "big" staircase next to the infirmiry(not the little one that goes to the cargo bay), that definetly just leads right up to that hallway between the engine room and mess.

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