Super SPOILER FILLED Serenity thread

[TanisFrey]

I saw it Sat night. Got my Brother to take me for my Birthday.

LOVED IT

I guessed several plot points in advance at spots.

Like the Miranda being the place where the Allience makes the Reavers. I was close.

River Kicking A!@#$%#$!, yup that was right.

I think that River and others are being made by the Allience are being made as, in part at least, Anti-Reaver troops.

It would not suprise that the Allience is still after the Tams for something else in River's mind.

 

[Warrior Poet]

The future - I personally think this movie was done to put an end to the series and open the door for future movies.

I hadn't thought about that, but that's a fascinating theory, and makes sense to me, too, now that you mention it. I can still see how they would try to do a TV show, but what they did certainly leaves it open as you describe.

Warrior Poet

 

[Hand of Evil]

I heard 1/10 or 1/2 of one percent.. I fall in the "reavers can't reproduce" camp. The Reaver phenomenon would burn itself out after a period of time - I can't imagine that even if they can draw in new members that they can do it quickly enough to replace those dying in battle, old age (eventually) or due to radically poor ship maintenance/radiation poisoning. I'm imagining about 150,000 Reavers to begin with.

Unless their blood became a toxic or they pumped bad air onto ships when they captured it, one or two people here or there... :\ You also have to wonder why the reavers continued to be effected by the PAX, they left the planet, did this alter their DNA, did they become carriers. Why did they not stop being effected after a period of time?

 

[Broccli_Head]

Orson Scott Card has reviewed Serenity:
http://www.hatrack.com/osc/reviews/everything/2005-09-30-extra.shtml

Spider

EDIT: Wow...I bet Joss is grinning ear-to-ear at that review. OSC compares him to Shakespeare. Several times.

So i wonder if OSC is going to ask Mr. Whedon to help him convert Ender's Game to a movie?

though maybe that is already being done.

 

[Fast Learner]

Universal owns UPN. Hence the U.

 

[Thornir Alekeg]

In terms of a return to TV, I know that Fox owns the broadcast rights for another six or seven years. That means someone would have to buy the rights from Fox (since Joss has said he would never work with Fox Television again), increasing the costs of producing the show (I doubt Fox will give it up cheaply at this point). I don't think a return to TV is very likely, as much as I would love it since they can tell much more intricate stories.

 

[Hand of Evil]

In terms of a return to TV, I know that Fox owns the broadcast rights for another six or seven years. That means someone would have to buy the rights from Fox (since Joss has said he would never work with Fox Television again), increasing the costs of producing the show (I doubt Fox will give it up cheaply at this point). I don't think a return to TV is very likely, as much as I would love it since they can tell much more intricate stories.

That is why some say he desolved Mutant Enemy, because it freed him up to procede with Serenity (not Firefly), as owner of the characters/world/story and not as partner to FOX of the show.

 

[Rykion]

The person in the transmission mentioned 1/10th of 1 percent became aggressive instead of lying down. I specifically listened the 2nd time I saw the movie because I and a friend disagreed. I originally thought 10% percent too, but that was not what the person said. With 30 million people, that is 30,000 Reavers. If they don't reproduce/convert, they will not last long.

 

[Tetsubo]

Unless their blood became a toxic or they pumped bad air onto ships when they captured it, one or two people here or there... :\ You also have to wonder why the reavers continued to be effected by the PAX, they left the planet, did this alter their DNA, did they become carriers. Why did they not stop being effected after a period of time?

Some chemicals can have long term, permenant effects on the victims. This is seen in the real world. Look at Love Canal.

 

[Tetsubo]

But remember, only 1/2 of one percent of people exposed to Pax become reavers. The only reason there were a substantial number of reavers to start with was because they gassed an entire planet.

Right. Which is why I mentioned that Pax would have to be weaponized. I. E. turned into a chemical that ALWAYS created a Reaver.