# (Spoilers) Firefly 3: Bushwhacked **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [May 23, 2005, 1:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spoilers-firefly-3-bushwhacked/305026 "2005-05-23T01:37:22Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![zamboniracer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/e9a140/32.png) [@zamboniracer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zamboniracer)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2005, 8:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spoilers-firefly-3-bushwhacked/305026/41 "2005-06-03T20:14:53Z")
> [@NE Texan](#): > > “All right men - SOMEWHERE in this galley should be a note they left, saying where they went. FIND IT!” > 😉 “I found this spoon, sir.” Sorry. I was channelling “The Life of Brian” rather than “Firefly”. I won’t happen again. Maybe. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2005, 8:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spoilers-firefly-3-bushwhacked/305026/42 "2005-06-03T20:21:28Z")
> [@levdrakon](#): > > I’m just watching it now. Mal was also the only one who knew that the Reavers would likely booby-trap the ship the way they did, so he must have some real information about them. Real, yes. But that’s different from first hand. Could be that he knows someone who knows someone who found a ship the Reavers had hit, and got his info from them. ---
**Author:** ![levdrakon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/49beb7/32.png) [@levdrakon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/levdrakon)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2005, 9:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spoilers-firefly-3-bushwhacked/305026/43 "2005-06-03T21:11:14Z")
> [@Miller](#): > > Real, yes. But that’s different from first hand. Could be that he knows someone who knows someone who found a ship the Reavers had hit, and got his info from them. I agree with that. I get the impression from Mal that no one has a first hand, face to face encounter with Reavers and lives to tell the story. > [@El\_Kabong](#): > > There’s a long police tradition (at least in fiction) of harassing people under suspicion by making as much of a mess of their property as possible during a search. The troops were probably ordered to leave no stone unturned (nudge nudge wink wink) and thus did so. I understand that. They were basically ransacking the place, but still. Looking under a placemat, then looking under the placemat again? It just looked silly to me, and something I’d give Joss Whedon some shit about, if he were a personal friend of mine. Like **NE Texan** said, “what are you looking for, a note with a little diagram pointing to the window outside the galley?” **audit1** , that’s a good point. They really should have noticed there appeared to be evidence of two more people living there than they could account for. ---
**Author:** ![NE\_Texan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/e99b99/32.png) [@NE\_Texan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NE_Texan)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2005, 9:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spoilers-firefly-3-bushwhacked/305026/44 "2005-06-03T21:54:04Z")
I don’t know about that. The commander seemed to assume the refugees were there, and his men were sent to look for them. Whether or not Simon and River’s belongings were there is irrelevant. If they can be found, then it wouldn’t matter if there had been no other signs of them. On the other hand, if they weren’t on the ship, it doesn’t matter if there were signs of two others; could have been killed recently, dropped at the last stop, or left with the hypothetical ship _Serenity_ just might have docked with prior to the Alliance ship coming. The Alliance commander was going to sell the ship and put the crew in custody anyway. I think the soldiers were looking for stuff to steal (cash?) while they were there. 'cuz the Alliance probably doesn’t pay too shiny. ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2005, 2:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spoilers-firefly-3-bushwhacked/305026/45 "2005-07-06T02:05:06Z")
In addition to “no noise in space” _Serenity_ obeyed physics by matching rotation with the delerect. You can see the stars rotating in comparison. I also noticed that _Serenity_ shuts down her engines when she breaks orbit and obeys Mr. Newton’s Laws. 🙂 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spoilers-firefly-3-bushwhacked/305026.md?page=2)