You're nice, and you're funny and you don't smoke, and okay, werewolf, but that's not all the time. I mean, three days out of the month, I'm not much fun to be around, either.

Willow ,'Get It Done'


Firefly 4: Also, we can kill you with our brains  

Discussion of the Mutant Enemy series, Firefly, the ensuing movie Serenity, and other projects in that universe. Like the other show threads, anything broadcast in the US is fine; spoilers are verboten and will be deleted if found.


Mr. Broom - Oct 03, 2005 9:32:04 am PDT #5734 of 10001
"When I look at people that I would like to feel have been a mentor or an inspiring kind of archetype of what I'd love to see my career eventually be mentioned as a footnote for in the same paragraph, it would be, like, Bowie." ~Trent Reznor

But then why just Mal and not the others? so weird.
Maybe the others already got it, as they were all ready to go, and Mal was last because he'd been up on the bridge supervising the plunge into atmo. The next theory I can conjure is along performance-enhancing lines, and I'm not a fan of that.


§ ita § - Oct 03, 2005 9:32:48 am PDT #5735 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

I don't so much care about the explanation of the injection -- more about why it was left in without a context.


tiggy - Oct 03, 2005 9:38:51 am PDT #5736 of 10001
I do believe in killing the messenger, you know why? Because it sends a message. ~ Damon Salvatore

someone in the lj Firefly community said that Mal tells Simon he guesses it's about time to be innoculated as they're walking and discussing River going along on the job. i didn't catch it on first viewing, but that doesn't surprise me. i plan on going again with my aunt sometime soon and will listen for it.


Katie M - Oct 03, 2005 9:40:28 am PDT #5737 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

Maybe it was there to establish This Simon Guy Is A Doctor?


Betsy HP - Oct 03, 2005 9:41:16 am PDT #5738 of 10001
If I only had a brain...

Joss's grocery list leaked.

Oh, the happy. The happy in buckets. The happy so great that I'm forming a fanclub chuckling a lot.


bon bon - Oct 03, 2005 9:44:26 am PDT #5739 of 10001
It's five thousand for kissing, ten thousand for snuggling... End of list.

In the same scene, did Simon sneak something into a storage compartment of the mule? Or did I misread that?


Jesse - Oct 03, 2005 9:45:56 am PDT #5740 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

Maybe it was there to establish This Simon Guy Is A Doctor?

Yeah, I thought it was that. Kind of like, "River! It's Simon! Simon, your brother!" right at the beginning. Heh.


Kalshane - Oct 03, 2005 9:46:42 am PDT #5741 of 10001
GS: If you had to choose between kicking evil in the head or the behind, which would you choose, and why? Minsc: I'm not sure I understand the question. I have two feet, do I not? You do not take a small plate when the feast of evil welcomes seconds.

In the same scene, did Simon sneak something into a storage compartment of the mule? Or did I misread that?

Not that I noticed. I remember Jayne (I think) saying "spare clips are in the rear compartment" and then a shot of clips being dropped into said compartment. I don't remember Simon doing anything around the Mule other than being pissy with Mal and telling River to be careful.


beekaytee - Oct 03, 2005 9:50:01 am PDT #5742 of 10001
Compassionately intolerant

It immediately struck me as Summer's voice. She has some very distinctive inflections.

As for the injection...although I can't recall the dialogue, I remember thinking that it might have something to do with Inara's schmancy seringe-in-a-box from the pilot. (Joss did say it would someday be revealed...)

Which later led me to speculate about an 'anti-Reaver' something the Alliance came up with after inflicting Paxil-whatever (won't Tom Cruise love THAT connection...see, see? haven't I been telling you psychopharmaceuticals are evil?!) on the unsuspecting.


lisah - Oct 03, 2005 9:51:45 am PDT #5743 of 10001
Punishingly Intricate

I don't so much care about the explanation of the injection -- more about why it was left in without a context.

exactly