I wanted a scene with them all laughing together at the kitchen table.
This. This is what would have been perfect at the beginning, before they went down to the planet. And then an alarm goes off, and they start their descent.
Wash: Well, I wash my hands of it. It's a hopeless case. I'll read a nice poem at the funeral. Something with imagery. Zoe: You could lock the door and keep the power-hungry maniac at bay. Wash: Oh, no, I'm starting to like this poetry idea now. Here lies my beloved Zoe, my autumn flower, somewhat less attractive now she's all corpsified and gross...
'Shindig'
Firefly Spoilers
Discussion of all Firefly episodes, including "Trash", "The Message", "Heart of Gold", and any movie news.
Gandalfe - Jun 24, 2005 9:44:24 pm PDT #1124 of 1424
The generation that could change the world is still looking for its car keys.
Typo Boy - Jun 24, 2005 10:15:24 pm PDT #1125 of 1424
Calli: My people have a saying. A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.Avon: Life expectancy among your people must be extremely short.
Also couldn't it have been a Dyson sphere - not the more advanced single shell ones, but a variation on Dyson's orginal design - with the moons not just laid out in a single orbit, but a shell around the sun. (not really even as advanced as Dyson's orginal - fewer larger worlds) That would give you space for a heck of a lot of worlds. You would have to do some very trickly calculations to keep worlds from bumping into one another, but ...
Matt the Bruins fan - Jun 25, 2005 3:42:34 am PDT #1126 of 1424
"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
The only thing is, I don't read their technology as advanced enough to move planetary masses into new orbits. The terraforming alone looked to have taken decades to perform.
Lilty Cash - Jun 25, 2005 4:42:40 am PDT #1127 of 1424
"You see? THAT's what they want. Love, and a bit with a dog."
And is it wrong that, in the scene at the graves, all I could think was "DAMN, Gina Torres is HOTT!!!"?
She looked freaking beautiful in that scene.
Kiba Rika - Jun 25, 2005 5:44:44 am PDT #1128 of 1424
I may have to seize the cat.
The terraforming alone looked to have taken decades to perform.
I think they even said this was so.
tommyrot - Jun 25, 2005 8:27:23 pm PDT #1129 of 1424
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Some more reviews from AICN: [link]
Dana - Jun 26, 2005 4:39:24 pm PDT #1130 of 1424
"I'm useless alone." // "We're all useless alone. It's a good thing you're not alone."
So...Wash isn't dead, right? It's just a fake spoiler, and I'll go see the movie again in September, and scenes will have been reshot, and WASH WON'T BE DEAD, RIGHT?
ow.
DXMachina - Jun 26, 2005 4:51:56 pm PDT #1131 of 1424
You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.
The good-guys are stalwart and true. The bad-guys are easily distinguished by their pointy horns or black hats and we always defeat them and save the day. Nobody ever dies…and everybody lives happily ever after.
Typo Boy - Jun 26, 2005 7:08:49 pm PDT #1132 of 1424
Calli: My people have a saying. A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.Avon: Life expectancy among your people must be extremely short.
The only thing is, I don't read their technology as advanced enough to move planetary masses into new orbits. The terraforming alone looked to have taken decades to perform.
Hmm - how can I wank this? They had to look hard for the best system to move to(not cannonical, but not contradicted by cannon). So they found something that could nudged into shape with a lot less effort than your normal solar system. The Terraforming was done simultaneously. What would produce such a system? They find it mysterious too - just happy to have run into it.
Mr. Broom - Jun 26, 2005 7:15:36 pm PDT #1133 of 1424
"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
The reason I don't really try to hard to think about how to work out the few potentially glaring scientific issues in the Fireflyverse is that I know Trekkies, and listening to them try to explain, for example, the preposterousness of the universal translator makes my brain sad. If you can handwave FTL travel, which contradicts all we know about physics, an obscenely large habitable solar system shouldn't take more than a pinky.