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.
She killed the door with her brain?
Man, the quote generator just threw up Zoe talking about her and Wash's beautiful baby for me. Sob!
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.
River can do a lot of shit we don't necessarily know about. I have no problem with wanking that she opened it psychically.
Maybe it was on a motion detector? So the standing-still (or being stone dead, on the Reavers part) would have triggered it if held long enough?
Today's Unshelved comic is about Serenity.
Yeah, but River hasn't been shown to be able to move things telekinetically. I could buy the motion detector thing, though. I love that dramatic moment, so I'm willing to wave logic for it, but it would be nice to have some logic, even so.
Maybe it was automatically triggered by the lift coming back down. I could see Mr. Universe having his doors timed to his walking speed so they could open and close in a Get Smart sort of fashion without him having to hit the buttons. So "It takes me 10 seconds from the lift reaching the floor for me to reach these doors and I'll have them open on that count."
Or something.
Maybe River decaptitated the last Reaver and his head flew into the button.
Ooh, I like that idea Kalshane.
