Super SPOILER FILLED Serenity thread

[Cthulhudrew]

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.

Do you mean he dissolved the company? Because as near as I can tell, not only is it still a viable production company, but it's the company that is going to be producing Wonder Woman.

I think a lot of the people who worked with ME have moved on to other things (understandably) but this is the first I've heard of ME being defunct.

 

[Zweihänder]

Wash's death was unfortunate, but I really think it added a lot to the movie. It was so abrupt, catching him in mid-sentence. It just seemed so rude. Damn you, Joss!

Then Simon gets hit, and the Operative gets Mal. I swear I was on the edge of my seat the whole last 30 minutes of that movie. Awesome.

Oh man, I know what you mean. I was thinking at that point, Jayne might have been right, that he and only he would make it out of there. That would have been hilarious. Tragic, but also hilarious.

 

[Banshee16]

The Alliance probably did test the drug - and on humans as well as chimps. But they probably didn't test the gas the same way they used it. Testing would be easiest with doses of Pax (like an inhaler), but the people on Miranda were breathing it day in, day out for who knows how long.

Testing on chimps, or even humans for that matter has limited effectiveness anyways. Usually test groups can deliver statistically significant results, but how many drugs were released onto the market, and it was only when millions of people started using them, that there was a sample large enough to start seeing negative effects?

I know that drug (don't remember the name) that was taken by mothers and resulted in babies with birth defects like misshapen limbs etc. is a good example.

Pax could have been similar...

Banshee

 

[Pielorinho]

Another point about the reavers: we know next to nothing about their activities when they're not raiding planets. For all we know, there was one specific reaver who established dominance, who told everyone else that they must band together in order to get tasty tasty meals of flesh, who instituted religious rituals of self-scarification, who organizes raiding parties, and so forth. They could be a loosely-organized army, for all we know: we never hear the reavers speaking, we never see their living quarters, we have no idea what they're like when they're not raiding people.

Now there would be a grim second movie.

Daniel

 

[Nareau]

Another point about the reavers: we know next to nothing about their activities when they're not raiding planets.

I bet they sit around their spaceships, playing checkers and drinking Shasta orange sodas.

Spider

 

[Thornir Alekeg]

I bet they sit around their spaceships, playing checkers and drinking Shasta orange sodas.

Spider

You don't know what you are talking about. I have it on good authority that its Fanta they drink.

 

[Pielorinho]

You don't know what you are talking about. I have it on good authority that its Fanta they drink.

The funny thing is, now that Fanta song is going through my head, and I sympathize with the Reavers.

Daniel

 

[KaosDevice]

Given the prominence of the Blue Sun Corporation, and how it seems to have strong ties to the Alliance, I wouldn't be surprised if they simply bypassed the Serenity-verse's equivalent of the FDA by marketing PAX as a non-medicinal sort of drug, without any research into its long-term effects.

This reminds me of my one, one minor annoyance with the film. There was not a wiff, jot or tiddle of the Blue Sun corporation in the film. After making such a big deal of them through out the series and then to have them be completely absent bugged me. Hopefully that would be the fodder for a second film.

 

[PhoenixDarkDirk]

I know that drug (don't remember the name) that was taken by mothers and resulted in babies with birth defects like misshapen limbs etc. is a good example.

I belive that was "thalidomide."

Speaking of changing the subject, Serenity was the first movie I ever saw on opening day.

 

[Umbran]

You don't know what you are talking about. I have it on good authority that its Fanta they drink.

Nah. Nehi Grape. Warm.

(A virtual cookie to anyone who gets the reference)