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** [[WatsonianVersusDoylist Doylist]] reason: It's a metaphor for birth, and her nudity emphasizes her vulnerability. Watsonian reason: Perhaps clothing interferes with the cryogenic freezing process. It does look like some gas escapes when the pod is opened; maybe the cryo chemicals need unimpeded skin contact to work.
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* Why, exactly, did she not have any clothes on??
* Why, exactly, did she not have any clothes on??
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** My thinking is that I agree it's something that happens when a ship syncs up to port control, which would be a routine part of landing. Refusing to sync up would be as suspicious as a present-day airplane failing to file a flight plan- it's a giveaway that something is up with your vessel and warrants further investigation. A smuggling ship like ''Serenity'', trying not to draw attention, would follow procedure whenever possible (so as to break the rules good and hard when the time comes). It's also why we mostly see her land somewhere away from their destination, where port authority doesn't have jurisdiction because it's ''not a port'' (as in, out on the desert in the pilot episode, out on the prairie in "Safe"). The price of landing without restrictions is that you have a drive or a hike to get where you want to go.
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*** Point of order: Gettysburg was strategically ''critical'' because no fewer than 5 major roads come together there. Holding Gettysburg means controlling a huge chunk of SE Pennsylvania, because any force that wants to move in that area will take at least twice as long and run more risk of being detected if they have to maneuver around the town. It's true that the battle began as a collision between scouting units on both sides and grew as each army brought in reinforcements, but the reason they were both scouting toward Gettysburg in the first place was because it's a central hub for commerce and transportation. Had Lee succeeded in taking and holding Gettysburg, it would open Pennsylvania up to a larger invasion as well as tying down Union forces trying to retake the town.
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** Exactly. Day and night are just conventions when you live in space (in "Shindig" there's a bit about the distinction between ship time and local planet time). All you need to do to start the day is turn the lights on.
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** Magistrate Higgins doesn't seem the kind of man to give "yard time" to someone in his prison. Opening the box negates the point of locking someone in a sweltering, stinking container. Stitch probably had a hole to do his excreting into (not a big one, not enough to allow fresh air) and a hatch where food was passed in, and that's all. With all that, it's still possible to do ''some'' kind of minimal exercising. Sit your butt in the corner, bend and stretch your legs as much as you can, do crunches, flex your arms and shoulders- it's ''possible''. Not comfortable, not ideal, but possible. At least enough to keep some kind of muscle tone. It's also possibly the only way to not go completely insane in the isolation. As I remamber, Stitch did stumble some when we first see him walking around, so he's not in great shape but he's not completely wasted away either.
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* Do any sources explain what the layout of Haven (Book's settlement in the film) is? When ''Serenity'' first arrives, she's shown descending some kind of vertical entranceway labeled "Haven Shaft 3", which hints at possibly an underground city of some kind. But when we see the settlement, it's out in the open, in fact later we see it's open to strafing runs and airborn attacks. So, what's the "shaft" thing all about?
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* Do any sources explain what the layout of Haven (Book's settlement in the film) is? When ''Serenity'' first arrives, she's shown descending some kind of vertical entranceway labeled "Haven Shaft 3", which hints at possibly an underground city of some kind. But when we see the settlement, it's out in the open, in fact later we see it's open to strafing runs and airborn aerial attacks. So, what's the "shaft" thing all about?
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* Do any sources explain what the layout of Haven (Book's settlement in the film) is? When ''Serenity'' first arrives, she's shown descending some kind of vertical entranceway labeled "Haven Shaft 3", which hints at possibly an underground city of some kind. But when we see the settlement, it's out in the open, in fact later we see it's open to strafing runs and airborn attacks. So, what's the "shaft" thing all about?
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* Do any sources explain what the layout of Haven (Book's settlement in the film) is? When ''Serenity'' first arrives, she's shown descending some kind of vertical entranceway labeled "Haven Shaft 3", which hints at possibly an underground city of some kind. But when we see the settlement, it's out in the open, in fact later we see it's open to strafing runs and airborn attacks. So, what's the "shaft" thing all about?
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* As mentioned above, in ''Serenity'', when River joins Mal and the others on the heist, she goes barefoot. Given it's established she has boots, wouldn't Simon be concerned of her possibly injuring her feet? Why doesn't he bring her the boots she's sometimes seen wearing? It's not until Simon and River discuss leaving Serenity afterwards that she has her boots on.
