You know, I’m amenible to a discussion between the relationship between various male officers of that other popular space opera franchise, and there was certainly some strange happenings on Gilligan’s Island, but I can’t really see any of the male crew or passengers of Serenity displaying even the vestiges of repressed longing for each other, the inevitable slash-fanfic aside.
Kaylee and Inara, however…that was going to happen at some point, I’m certain.
In real life, math freaks sit around complaining about physicists mucking about with unrenormalized expansion of non-spherical Fermi surfaces without knowing what the hell they’re talking about and debating the proof that girls are evil.
It’s unclear how math geeks actually propogate, but it clearly has more to do with cellular division than sexual reproduction.
I do recommend the novel version for any fan of the movie… it includes a bunch of extra scenes that were clearly dreamed up by Joss but many of them didn’t even make it onto the DVD deleted scenes… some Serenity valley stuff and description of how Simon made contact with his anti-Academy friends, and more.
Plus, the running joke about Zoe’s facial expressions is quietly hilarious. (The author seems to be competing with himself for how long a run-on hyphenated expression he can use to describe them, like “Zoe shot Jayne her don’t-fuck-with-me-now-buster-or-you’ll-live-to-regret-it look.”)
Most of the guns used in the series are slugthrowers, but they appear to use caseless ammo with electronic ignition. I’ll have to review the DVDs for the details, but at one point you can hear the whine of a high-powered electrical device being switched on as a crew member readies a rifle. In the movie, they seem to use all pinfire casefull ammo.
I noticed that too upon second viewing. I love little details like that! It’s rare to become a fan of a TV show and realize the writers have actually invested as much thought into the writing as you have.
Speaking of lasers, I think it’s a neat little running joke that they never seem to work very well. Between the two lasers encountered by the Serenity crew, the first won’t fire at all (admittedly, it’s very old), and the second runs out of juice in approximately 2 seconds (check battery ). No wonder everyone still uses projectile weapons.
In Ariel while they are going through the salvage yard for parts for the ambulance, it sure looks like one of the characters (Wash, I think) picks up something and casually tosses it aside. I’m pretty sure it’s the same something (compression coil) that they so desperately needed in Out of Gas.
I went this past Saturday to Santa Cruz. At midnight, the Del Mar Theater showed eight episodes of Firefly and the Serenity. We were there until 10am. I think on Friday they showed just Serenity. Everyone sang along to the theme song and The Ballad, and even the “Grr Arg.” It was a blast, even if I was completely zonked by the end of it.
). No wonder everyone still uses projectile weapons.