Super SPOILER FILLED Serenity thread

[Shard O'Glase]

Uh....this was heavily alluded to even in the pilot episode of the show. River was a super-genious, able to pick up anything with ease. Heck, she picked up medicine faster than her brother, who's a gifted trauma surgeon...and you're wondering about how she can fly etc.?

It was her story arc being completed, and that's a story that had lasted through most of the first season, and driven events behind many of the episodes.

It would make sense that she'd be resolved in the movie.

Banshee

Yeah but in the show she was crazy sometimes mind reader chick who couldn't contorl it. They resolved it by making her the best in the universe at everything and in control of her abilities. So yeah it was resolved, it was just resolved in a really, really dumb way.

 

[RangerWickett]

I can see why that would grate on you. But it's hardly like River made the rest of the crew pointless. She didn't really do anything productive until the end. The first 90% of the movie, it was the crew with their guns protecting her because she was crazy and flakey. Then for a little bit at the end of the movie, she was able to go all bad-ass and have a moment of glory.

Is it just that she's more powerful in combat than the other characters that bothers you?

 

[dravot]

I can see why that would grate on you. But it's hardly like River made the rest of the crew pointless. She didn't really do anything productive until the end. The first 90% of the movie, it was the crew with their guns protecting her because she was crazy and flakey. Then for a little bit at the end of the movie, she was able to go all bad-ass and have a moment of glory.

Is it just that she's more powerful in combat than the other characters that bothers you?

I hear she also makes a rilly good beef stew and doesn't let anyone else in the kitchen. It's so unfair.

 

[Rel]

I hear she also makes a rilly good beef stew and doesn't let anyone else in the kitchen. It's so unfair.

OUTRAGEOUS!!

 

[Thornir Alekeg]

I saw the movie a second time this weekend and found I enjoyed it even more than the first time.

My wife could not get over some of the costume changes. She thought the outfits for Mal, Simon and Zoe looked so much better in the series. They made them too modern/sci-fi looking for the movie. And Wash's jumpsuit just seemed...wrong. I know he had the hawaiian shirt on underneath, but it just didn't seem casual enough.

 

[The Grumpy Celt]

I still say the Operative was the real hero. If Wheadon makes a sequel, it should be more "Blake's Seven" like in its ending.

 

[Rel]

One thing that I feel is worth mentioning after reading some Serenity commentary on other boards is how lucky we are to be gamers. I see post after post of people hoping, begging and pleading that the TV series be restored or that more Firefly movies be made. And I hope so too. But for gamers there's always more story, even if we have to make it up ourselves.

That makes me feel all warm and fuzzy inside.

 

[ThirdWizard]

Yeah but in the show she was crazy sometimes mind reader chick who couldn't contorl it. They resolved it by making her the best in the universe at everything and in control of her abilities. So yeah it was resolved, it was just resolved in a really, really dumb way.

River is a munchkin!

 

[Henry]

That makes me feel all warm and fuzzy inside.

GROUP HUG!

...but keep your hands where I can see 'em.

I've already seen a couple of threads on this site (in d20 and general) on RPGing with either the Firefly universe or the "Firefly" feel. Can't stop the signal, after all.

 

[Meloncov]

While River is highly gifted in nearly everything, she is still emotioanlly unstable. She made significent improvements during the movie, but many of the things the Alliance did to her cannot be undone. This alone makes her unsuitable to be the primary pilot, no matter how great her skills are.

Also, I think that the last seen with River and Mal was intended to convey that no matter how great her reflexes and inteligence are, she cannot match someone who has both talent and an undying love for what they are doing.