why couldn't they have called the elevator and at least gotten further away?
Inara says at one point, "The lift wont move!" or somesuch.
Pretty cool except for the part where I was really terrified and now my knees are all dizzy.
Willow ,'Never Leave Me'
Firefly 4: Also, we can kill you with our brains
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JenP - Oct 03, 2005 3:48:41 am PDT #5684 of 10001
Eddie - Oct 03, 2005 3:53:17 am PDT #5685 of 10001
Your tag here.
Inara says at one point, "The lift wont move!" or somesuch.
Hmm, Mal didn't seem to have any trouble using it. Oh well, we know Joss isn't big on the technology.
§ ita § - Oct 03, 2005 3:54:03 am PDT #5686 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Mal didn't seem to have any trouble using it.
Mal wasn't calling it from the same place they were. If the panel in the room where they were trapped was broken, it makes perfect sense.
MechaKrelboyne - Oct 03, 2005 5:33:52 am PDT #5687 of 10001
... and that's a Pantera's box you don't want to open. - Mister Furious
All I can come up with is: maybe his dinky little stun gun couldn't get the job done from the distance where the fight started. Once they were on the central platform, he didn't have time while fighting Mal. Once he thought Mal was defeated, there was no need to destroy the transmitting equipment.
It's probably the same type of stun gun that the Alliance had in the series, which only affected people. Like the one Jayne couldn't shoot a door with.
Matt the Bruins fan - Oct 03, 2005 5:34:09 am PDT #5688 of 10001
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
Yeah, the room Mal was in didn't have Reaver gunfire ricocheting all over it.
I did wonder what good the blast doors were going to be in sealing out the Reavers if they were going to pop open automatically a few minutes later. River didn't key them open, she was posing dramatically halfway across the room.
Frankenbuddha - Oct 03, 2005 5:48:50 am PDT #5689 of 10001
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
It's the selection of the marriage to kill that I don't trust because of author issues, not just the character I "like" best, because I don't necessarily like Wash best, and the older character, which is after all a Hollywood cliche which I think could stand to be inverted.
I can't argue that older characters getting killed off isn't a cliche, but for "happily married couple" I've always parsed it down to "happy couple", and I can't think of one of those that ever ended well in any Joss-verse (that was made up of major charaters that I cared about - I'm ignoring Willow/Kennedy like a thing to be ignored).
I'm much more satisfied that Wash died than that Zoe/Wash broke up at some point, which is by far the more usual route per Joss.
Foxhunter - Oct 03, 2005 5:50:21 am PDT #5690 of 10001
When we kill people it makes the policemen flustered and stern.
She killed the door with her brain?
Katie M - Oct 03, 2005 6:20:06 am PDT #5691 of 10001
I was charmed (albeit somewhat perplexed) by the fannish sensibility of many of the music choices -- it's like the director was trying to vid Canada. --loligo on the Olympic Opening Ceremonies
Man, the quote generator just threw up Zoe talking about her and Wash's beautiful baby for me. Sob!
Zenkitty - Oct 03, 2005 6:21:29 am PDT #5692 of 10001
Every now and then, I think I might actually be a little odd.
Matt, I also thought it was funny that River must have opened the door, then posed dramatically.
Let's see. She was exhausted, and used the point of one of the weapons to reach over and hit the door-open button.
Wait. Kaylee said she sealed it so it couldn't be opened from the outside, so the Reavers couldn't get in. I can believe River could override it, but not without putting down the dripping weapons of heroism.
brenda m - Oct 03, 2005 6:22:50 am PDT #5693 of 10001
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there
River can do a lot of shit we don't necessarily know about. I have no problem with wanking that she opened it psychically.