Serenity observation

POSTED BY: UFO
UPDATED: Tuesday, October 8, 2002 22:15
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UFO

Monday, October 7, 2002 9:40 PM

*ahem* Not sure how to start this post, but here goes...anyone notice that from the side Serenity looks like...a...ummm...penis?

I hope I'm not the only one, because my wife and I laughed out loud when we first saw it in the first episode. I paused the Tivo and asked "What the ? What does that look like?"

JAYNESGIRLFRIEND

Monday, October 7, 2002 10:29 PM

Not until you said something!

Seriously though, I thought it looked more like a bird. Its got a beak and everything.

"I was gonna get me an ear, too." - Jayne

DELVO

Monday, October 7, 2002 10:31 PM

You must have the world's most seriously deformed/mutilated one ever, for there to be any resemblance at all.

ZICSOFT

Monday, October 7, 2002 10:31 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by UFO:
*ahem* Not sure how to start this post, but here goes...anyone notice that from the side Serenity looks like...a...ummm...penis?

I hope I'm not the only one, because my wife and I laughed out loud when we first saw it in the first episode. I paused the Tivo and asked "What the ? What does that look like?"

Well, hey, it's traditional. Check this out.

This one (below), believe it or not, is from an elementary school site!

Of course, starting with Star Trek, priapic imagry sort of disappeared from space fiction. (That, along with the Eunuch Look on TNG, was the big appeal to our friends at Heaven's Gate:

http://archive.cln.com/charlotte/newsstand/c051797/hal.htm )

Trust Joss Whedon to restore tradition, and return space fiction to its, uhm, roots!

JOSS, WHERE'S MY CHECK???!!!

ZICSOFT

Monday, October 7, 2002 10:47 PM

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Originally posted by JaynesGirlfriend:
Not until you said something!

Seriously though, I thought it looked more like a bird. Its got a beak and everything.

"I was gonna get me an ear, too." - Jayne

Well, officially, that angled thingee is supposed to make Serenity look like a Firefly Beetle, even when the aft end isn't glowing.

But yeah, you look at it from the correct angle, and the ship looks like, you know.

I saw it straight off. I didn't say anything, because, well, people might think...

JOSS, WHERE'S MY CHECK???!!!

LIVINGIMPAIRED

Monday, October 7, 2002 11:27 PM

I see the bird thing. I see the beetle thing. But this penis thing... that's a stretch.

My 2 cents.

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UFO

Monday, October 7, 2002 11:49 PM

A stretch!? Look at the picture just above. If that isn't phalic, I don't know what is.

ZICSOFT

Tuesday, October 8, 2002 12:00 AM

Quote:
Originally posted by LivingImpaired:
I see the bird thing. I see the beetle thing. But this penis thing... that's a stretch.

Hmm, you're not circumcised, are you?

JOSS, WHERE'S MY CHECK???!!!

DELVO

Tuesday, October 8, 2002 1:15 AM

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Of course, starting with Star Trek, priapic imagry sort of disappeared from space fiction.

Remember the launch of the Phœnix in First Contact? Just a plain old cylinder, thrusting straight up out of the ground, with a bulging semi-conical section on top just a bit wider at its base than the rest of the rocket. That was the most precise non-statue recreation of a penis I've ever seen other than a giant balloon sticking out of a window of a car parked at a sorority house.

DELVO

Tuesday, October 8, 2002 1:20 AM

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Originally posted by Zicsoft:
But yeah, you look at it from the correct angle...

OK, now that you posted that picture, I can stretch my imagination to make this work as long as we're only talking about PART of the ship, not just THE SHIP... but I'd still be mighty upset if mine really looked much like that. It not only looks out of proportion, but just too sharply angular.

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