Super SPOILER FILLED Serenity thread

[Ankh-Morpork Guard]

Anyone think one of those most tense and 'worst' parts of the movie is when they're walkking around on Miranda? Whedon pulled an X-Files, with the music building and building and things getting creepier and creepier...but nothing ever jumped out, making it even worse. I was just waiting for a reaver to pop out of no where.

 

[KenM]

I just got back from seeing it. I really liked it but I thought it was pretty predictable. I never watched the show but now I want to rent the DVD's. I do have one logic question though. There is a scene of the Operative looking at a video of the Captain, if the Operative got as much info on the people involved, how come he did not know about the Captain's nerve removal? That should have been in there if it happened while he was serving during the war.

 

[Dagger75]

I just got back from seeing it. I really liked it but I thought it was pretty predictable. I never watched the show but now I want to rent the DVD's. I do have one logic question though. There is a scene of the Operative looking at a video of the Captain, if the Operative got as much info on the people involved, how come he did not know about the Captain's nerve removal? That should have been in there if it happened while he was serving during the war.

Novilazation went into this. When Mal told him he had the nerve cluster moved the Operative thought to himself he should have looked closer at Mal's medical records.

 

[Super Girl]

I doubt it would be in Mal's records, wasn't Simon the one who did it? Back when Mal got into the duel with Atherton Wainright over Inara's honor? Pretty sure that is where Atherton stuck Mal with his sword.

 

[Dagger75]

I doubt it would be in Mal's records, wasn't Simon the one who did it? Back when Mal got into the duel with Atherton Wainright over Inara's honor? Pretty sure that is where Atherton stuck Mal with his sword.

He says in the movie piece of shrapnel in his first tour tore up that nerve cluster. Then he dislocated both the operatives shoulders.

 

[DreadPirateMurphy]

Wash dying is the first time in a LONG time a movie has shocked me. It was brutal and unexpected.

Other highlights for me:

River tearing the reavers to pieces.

Simon rescuing River.

Mal's reaction to Kaylee's comment about her nether regions.

Kaylee and Simon finally getting together.

The realization that Miranda was the reaver "homeworld."

Mal's proof that Inara's message was a trap.

River's look when Simon asks her, "Am I talking to Miranda now?"

Book's response when Mal says he'll have to share his secrets some day.

Mal kicking the local off his mule, then shooting him in the head out of mercy.

Mal shooting the Alliance pilot while his hands were up on Haven.

Jayne (of all people) trying to talk sense into Mal.

Sneaking past the reavers.

FINALLY getting to see some additional spaceships in the Firefly universe.

Thinking they're all going to die.

Finding out that they don't.

 

[WingOver]

Same with River and Miranda... here's a planet that's not in any database, but River looks it up in Serenity's computer? It seemed to come out of the blue, and with some foreshadowing could have worked a lot better.

I think they explained that the planet did exist, but it was a "black rock" where terraforming didn't take hold. News on the planet itself was scrubbed, but it probably still existed in the charts as a dead world.

 

[Super Girl]

He says in the movie piece of shrapnel in his first tour tore up that nerve cluster. Then he dislocated both the operatives shoulders.

I thought he said it was his first duel (meaning sword fight), I'll just have to go back and see it again , thanks for giving me a reason

 

[Banshee16]

I was tired of dancing on egg shells in the other two threads and I can't find the spoiler filled thread from way back when so I made another one.
This is a NO highlight or spoiler block thread, there will be spoilers here so you best stop reading if you haven't seen the movie.





Ready, if you are past this point its your own fault.......










Did everyone in the theater gasp when Wash died? I was in packed theater for the sneak preview there were gasps then dead silence. I was hoping the movie would rewind and show Wash ducking for cover. It was hard watching the movie a second time knowing what was going to happen. Rough stuff, Joss may be a bastard but I loved it.

I think Book used to be and Operative of Parliment before he became a sheppard.

Spoil away

That completely shocked me. They were "safe"....they'd landed, Wash was happy because he'd kept them alive. It was his moment of triumph, and then, *bam*.....out of nowhere. Was not expecting that. I was less surprised by Book.

I agree about Book. Don't know if anyone remembers, but in the pilot episode he pulls out some Shepherd-Fu on that bounty hunter, and I was wondering why a priest would know how to do that. He also had lots of inside info about the Alliance.....I'd probably concur he used to be an agent. Now we'll never know.

River. Very cool. Lethal. The scene where the blast doors open again and she's standing there with the dripping weapons...

The Reavers....very....disturbing. I caught a glance of one coming through the doors, who'd cut away all his lips, showing just his teeth and gums. Through the whole series, they never showed what they looked like, and now we know.

I don't remember Mr. Universe being in the series. Did I miss an episode?

The Operative was very cool. However, didn't Mal snap his spine? Yet at the end he's walking around? I laughed when Mal told him he'd been wounded by shrapnel so the nerves the Operative was trying to his had been removed. I was a little surprised that when they drew pistols on each other, that Mal didn't just shoot him in the forehead, since he knew the guy was wearing body armor.

I loved Kaylee's "I want to live now". That was pretty funny. It's too bad that Inara and Mal didn't have any closure. But I guess they're hoping for a sequel, or for the TV show to come back.

Banshee

 

[Banshee16]

That was almost word-for-word the same scene as in the original series, when Mal and Zoe first toured Serenity together.

And it was a rocking way to end, especially with Inara apparently digging Mal's "war-face".

I think I missed that part of dialog in the movie. What did they say?

Banshee