Spoilery reactions to Serenity.
4****
Wash died. Waaaah! Book died waaah! Everyone else lived, yay! Even going into the movie knowing that Wash and Book were the only two who died, everyone else was put in moments of believable peril, where I wouldn’t have disbelieved them die’n. If that makes sense.
The end part with River and the knife/hook weapon things reminded me forcibly of the Buffy end. And some of the River fight visuals were like Buffy or Faith fighting. Not sayin if that’s good or bad, just that it’s there. (Argh. I’m thinkin’ in Serenity speak.) And I guess there’s only so many ways someone can fight multiple opponents with (mostly) bare hands.
Also, if they had put that River fight at the end of Buffy instead of the whole Spike fire thing I would have liked the Buffy end much better. (I thought Buffy jumped the shark at the end, but that’s a whole nother story.) But yay! Good movie.
I don’t have any problem with how Book died. “I killed them that killed us.”
“Killed the ship that killed us.”
However he said it. That was good. And then the montage of how everyone that ever helped them died with the assassin threatening them... That worked well.
But with Wash, it would have been just as good (better maybe?) if he hadn’t died like that. It was so sudden and pointless. Instead, have the spike go through his arm or torso (somewhere not immediately fatal.)
Zoë: “Wash? Wash! Honey, we have to go. Wash, we have to go!”
Wash half out of it from pain: “don’ think I’m goin’ anywher’ honeybunch.” Looks down at the spike.
Mal: swears in Chinese. “If it’s not one thing.” Into com: “Simon your bag. Up here now. Jayne. Bring sharp knives.”
Wash waking up: “No!” Screams as he tries to sit up straight, but brings up free arm protectively. “I can’t fly with one arm!” beseechingly, “Leave me here. Gimme a gun I can take out a couple of them, slow them down for you.”
Zoë: “Leave you for the Reevers?! We’re not leaving you!” More spikes fly in the window and Mal tackles her down and away from Wash.
Wash: “Then sh-shoot me now. Ah! Gawd!” Twists in pain when he flinches from the spikes.
Mal: “Nobody’s doin any shooting.” Simon runs in. “Good. Doc. Get him offen that spike.”
Simon kneeling beside Wash: “I don’t have the tools, he’ll go into shock...” Jayne runs in with knives.
Jayne: “What’s up?”
Wash: “Jus’ sh-shoot me now.”
Zoë: “The only person shootin’ you, is me once we’re off this planet!”
Mal: “This is not some Gorrem democracy!” Mal takes off his belt and wraps it around Wash’s arm above the spike. “Jayne gimme the knife.”
Jayne: “Now wait just a minute here.”
Mal: “We don’t have time! Gimme the knife!” Jayne hands it over and Mal hacks off his arm. Wash screams. Simon puts stuff on the wound so he doesn’t bleed out and off they run, Simon mostly carrying Wash. Everyone else with the guns...
Then Wash or Kaylee dies in the tunnel, if one of them has to die. Either from the poison darts or Wash succumbs to shock and blood loss and running around without proper medical care. Maybe the Reevers grab him before they reach the choke point where they make the stand ‘cause he’s (bleeding, leaving a trail, slowing them down). Everyone else gets out and Mal shoot him, before they run round the bend and get the door closed and start planin’ how they’ll make a last stand. So Zoë's still suicidal when they break in and the end all works out the same.
Or he lives and they have further adventures (and angst) trying to get his arm cloned because the Alliance controls all the advanced medical facilities they need to make him a new arm, and in the mean time he can (complain) backseat drive on Mal and River’s flying abilities....
But the way he really died. It was just too fast. And too random. It didn’t give (the audience) enough time to react.
There was something else I wanted to write and now I can’t remember it. I hate when that happens.
edited 10/12/2005
I went and saw Serenity again. This time, with my parents during the day and there were less people. And I think they changed the speaker volumes or something, because I could hear the couple of lines I missed the first time through. Wash’s death didn’t bother me this time. I think it was just too sudden, and pointless... the spike could have just as easily missed him and they all laughed about how close he came to die’n. But I was watching camera angles and some of the visual stuff this time. And back when they were on Miranda and talking about how all the people died, Mal said: “They died for no reason.” (Not poison, attack, etc.) And what was nifty was that when he said that the camera was pointed at Wash... so foreshadowing. Shiny.
Questions from the movie: Why do the Reevers use poison darts? Where did they get the darts from? I thought they wanted their victims alive to eat. And if they are mindless (basically ‘roid rage pumped aggressive) zombies how do they work together enough to operate their ships? And where did they get the knowledge of how to operate the ships? Wouldn’t they just kill each other and wipe out the problem? Unless they only kill other people and not each other. Hm. If so what do they eat when they don’t have any normal humans to munch on? I wouldn’t think they’d use refrigeration. *grin*
Is the Alliance one system? I thought people were was multi-planetary in many systems and the Alliance took over all the known (inhabited) systems where people live. Galactic civil war. The outer fringes are too far away from their central government to completely control, but I thought the Alliance was (almost) everywhere. Maybe that was just the central government system they showed at the beginning? That's what I'm going with anyway.
I want to see more of Firefly the tv show!
Wash died. Waaaah! Book died waaah! Everyone else lived, yay! Even going into the movie knowing that Wash and Book were the only two who died, everyone else was put in moments of believable peril, where I wouldn’t have disbelieved them die’n. If that makes sense.
The end part with River and the knife/hook weapon things reminded me forcibly of the Buffy end. And some of the River fight visuals were like Buffy or Faith fighting. Not sayin if that’s good or bad, just that it’s there. (Argh. I’m thinkin’ in Serenity speak.) And I guess there’s only so many ways someone can fight multiple opponents with (mostly) bare hands.
Also, if they had put that River fight at the end of Buffy instead of the whole Spike fire thing I would have liked the Buffy end much better. (I thought Buffy jumped the shark at the end, but that’s a whole nother story.) But yay! Good movie.
I don’t have any problem with how Book died. “I killed them that killed us.”
“Killed the ship that killed us.”
However he said it. That was good. And then the montage of how everyone that ever helped them died with the assassin threatening them... That worked well.
But with Wash, it would have been just as good (better maybe?) if he hadn’t died like that. It was so sudden and pointless. Instead, have the spike go through his arm or torso (somewhere not immediately fatal.)
Zoë: “Wash? Wash! Honey, we have to go. Wash, we have to go!”
Wash half out of it from pain: “don’ think I’m goin’ anywher’ honeybunch.” Looks down at the spike.
Mal: swears in Chinese. “If it’s not one thing.” Into com: “Simon your bag. Up here now. Jayne. Bring sharp knives.”
Wash waking up: “No!” Screams as he tries to sit up straight, but brings up free arm protectively. “I can’t fly with one arm!” beseechingly, “Leave me here. Gimme a gun I can take out a couple of them, slow them down for you.”
Zoë: “Leave you for the Reevers?! We’re not leaving you!” More spikes fly in the window and Mal tackles her down and away from Wash.
Wash: “Then sh-shoot me now. Ah! Gawd!” Twists in pain when he flinches from the spikes.
Mal: “Nobody’s doin any shooting.” Simon runs in. “Good. Doc. Get him offen that spike.”
Simon kneeling beside Wash: “I don’t have the tools, he’ll go into shock...” Jayne runs in with knives.
Jayne: “What’s up?”
Wash: “Jus’ sh-shoot me now.”
Zoë: “The only person shootin’ you, is me once we’re off this planet!”
Mal: “This is not some Gorrem democracy!” Mal takes off his belt and wraps it around Wash’s arm above the spike. “Jayne gimme the knife.”
Jayne: “Now wait just a minute here.”
Mal: “We don’t have time! Gimme the knife!” Jayne hands it over and Mal hacks off his arm. Wash screams. Simon puts stuff on the wound so he doesn’t bleed out and off they run, Simon mostly carrying Wash. Everyone else with the guns...
Then Wash or Kaylee dies in the tunnel, if one of them has to die. Either from the poison darts or Wash succumbs to shock and blood loss and running around without proper medical care. Maybe the Reevers grab him before they reach the choke point where they make the stand ‘cause he’s (bleeding, leaving a trail, slowing them down). Everyone else gets out and Mal shoot him, before they run round the bend and get the door closed and start planin’ how they’ll make a last stand. So Zoë's still suicidal when they break in and the end all works out the same.
Or he lives and they have further adventures (and angst) trying to get his arm cloned because the Alliance controls all the advanced medical facilities they need to make him a new arm, and in the mean time he can (complain) backseat drive on Mal and River’s flying abilities....
But the way he really died. It was just too fast. And too random. It didn’t give (the audience) enough time to react.
There was something else I wanted to write and now I can’t remember it. I hate when that happens.
edited 10/12/2005
I went and saw Serenity again. This time, with my parents during the day and there were less people. And I think they changed the speaker volumes or something, because I could hear the couple of lines I missed the first time through. Wash’s death didn’t bother me this time. I think it was just too sudden, and pointless... the spike could have just as easily missed him and they all laughed about how close he came to die’n. But I was watching camera angles and some of the visual stuff this time. And back when they were on Miranda and talking about how all the people died, Mal said: “They died for no reason.” (Not poison, attack, etc.) And what was nifty was that when he said that the camera was pointed at Wash... so foreshadowing. Shiny.
Questions from the movie: Why do the Reevers use poison darts? Where did they get the darts from? I thought they wanted their victims alive to eat. And if they are mindless (basically ‘roid rage pumped aggressive) zombies how do they work together enough to operate their ships? And where did they get the knowledge of how to operate the ships? Wouldn’t they just kill each other and wipe out the problem? Unless they only kill other people and not each other. Hm. If so what do they eat when they don’t have any normal humans to munch on? I wouldn’t think they’d use refrigeration. *grin*
Is the Alliance one system? I thought people were was multi-planetary in many systems and the Alliance took over all the known (inhabited) systems where people live. Galactic civil war. The outer fringes are too far away from their central government to completely control, but I thought the Alliance was (almost) everywhere. Maybe that was just the central government system they showed at the beginning? That's what I'm going with anyway.
I want to see more of Firefly the tv show!