Super SPOILER FILLED Serenity thread

[Thornir Alekeg]

If they were acting on instinct, or savage rage, there were a LOT of targets closer and easier to get to. Serenity went right through the center of the Alliance fleet. Targeting Serenity doesn't make sense if the Reavers were acting rationally, and it doesn't even make sense if they were acting irrationally.

Hmmm, I thought the ship that followed them in was the same one Mal shot at. No idea if I am correct, but then, might it make sense that they were fixated on this one ship and its crew, as opposed to all the other Reaver ships which were just in shark-like feeding frenzy mode.

 

[Jeremy]

Nah. Mal ordered that little ship with the grappler scytheblade arms shot. The one that was chasing them was much bigger and had an emp cannon on it's underside.

It probably just saw Serenity dodging and weaving, caught it's attention and said, I want the hard prey. Knocked it out of the sky, watched it recover and land, moved in to collect their spoils. Laughed when the crew sat in their exposed glass cockpit congratulating themselves on their ugly landing instead of running for their lives like all the other cattle does.

I hate Reavers. Nuke 'em all from orbit.

 

[Belen]

If they were acting on instinct, or savage rage, there were a LOT of targets closer and easier to get to. Serenity went right through the center of the Alliance fleet. Targeting Serenity doesn't make sense if the Reavers were acting rationally, and it doesn't even make sense if they were acting irrationally.

Dude...they wanted Serenity. Serenity flew through their turf, shot up on of their ships, and they needed to fit solace in raping, sewing flesh into hats, dining and explaining how their feelings were hurt to the crew.

I am not surprised that they following Serenity.

Also, notice that the crew had time to escape and set up a defense. That means the harpoons were shot into the ship from another ship. They could have done that after hovering and seeing it Serenity made it or not.

 

[Banshee16]

And I have no problem with "pointless" death in movies like this. Why? Because sometimes people die pointlessly.

I loved the character of Wash. I'm sorry he's gone. But I do not, in any way, feel that Joss was "in the wrong" for killing him. It added to the tension for a lot of people, myself included. But even if it had not, it was perfectly appropriate for the events that were happening at the time.

I agree....I was very sad when Wash died....sad, shocked, stunned.....but I don't think it was bad. People die for no reason all the time. The movie dealt with that, plus it helped set up a really tense final 30 minutes of the movie.

Banshee

 

[Storm Raven]

I have a friend who's really worked up over Wash's death. He loves Whedon's shows and loved the movie, but if he met Whedon on the street he'd probably yell at him for killing Wash. He's not normally a fanboy type but he admits he'd like to get on a Firefly forum and scream bloody murder.

And this is why Walsh's death was perfect for the story. Killing a character only has impact if you kill a character that people care about. Killing off a secondary or tertiary character that no one really minds dying is a trivial issue. Likewise killing the "set-up to die" type characters that litter action movies with their bodies has almost no impact. Killing a character people like: now that's going to ramp things up.

 

[Kobold Avenger]

I also seem to find Shepherd's death a lot more distressing than many people do - my friend above, for example. Shepherd was Mal's moral compass to a certain degree; notice how Mal went back to him for help even though he was no longer a member of the Serenity crew. His death helped to give Mal his own internal moral compass back, I think. Did it occur to anyone that one of the corpses they strapped to the ship might have been Shepherd's?
That possibility made the whole scene even more disturbing for me.

They did bury Book's body at the end, so it's possible they didn't strap his body to the ship, and left it in the cargo-hold instead. But it wasn't really clearly pointed out either way on what they did.

 

[sniffles]

They did bury Book's body at the end, so it's possible they didn't strap his body to the ship, and left it in the cargo-hold instead. But it wasn't really clearly pointed out either way on what they did.

Well, it showed them having a memorial service - there might not have been any bodies under those markers. I wonder what the burial customs are in the Serenity universe? Maybe they buried the bodies in space.

 

[RangerWickett]

How exactly does one strap a skeleton to the hull of a ship?

 

[Shadowdancer]

Who keeps the Psychic Friends Hotline in business?

Dude! Dion Warwick told me you were going to post that. That's so weird.

 

[Jeremy]

How exactly does one strap a skeleton to the hull of a ship?

You tie up by it's wrists and ank--wait? You mean the bones don't hold together?

Maybe they used some kinda hot glue gun... that... er.. holds up to re-entry sequences...

Look.. Do you wanna run this ship!?

Well.. You can't..... .. .. er..