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* In War Stories, Zoe chooses Wash over Mal. Fair enough. Mal's been better trained to deal with torture, they'll need a pilot if they are to rescue Mal, and Wash is her husband. Pretty solid decision on Zoe's part. Yet, her next plan is, frankly, rather stupid. She and Wash plan to storm Niska's space station alone. Just the two of them. Which Jayne correctly tells them is suicide. While Zoe's a competent fighter, Wash is average at best. Not to mention the fact if Wash is killed during the attack, they have no way to pilot ''Serenity'' out of the station. Fortunately, this plan never comes to fruition as the rest of the crew volunteers to go with them. Instead of wisely using these people, Zoe, Wash, and Jayne charge towards Mal. Okay, smart enough, I guess. After all these are the best fighters (they didn't know about River yet.) However, they left Kaylee, Simon, River, and Book behind to guard the ship, which Zoe tells them to hold, as it's the most vital spot of this rescue mission. If it was so vital, why did Zoe leave behind her weakest fighters (Kaylee and Simon can barely shoot, while Book, while decent, is old and has a no-killing code.)? If Zoe's supposed to be this great strategist why did she a) want to charge in there with just her and Wash and b) why such a lame plan when she had everybody with her?
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**** He didn't know if Vera would fire without oxygen, and he didn't want to be out there and have her fail on him. Better to play it safe and definitively say that she absolutely would not fire without oxygen, hoping that the rest of the crew would trust their weapons expert, rather than getting into a debate over firearm mechanics when the entire crew is about to die.
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* It might not have been important territorially. Many decisive battles have been fought over unimportant ground. Serenity is referenced as being important because of the casualties the Independents took, roughly two thirds of their force. Very few armies can survive as a force in being after taking 67% casualties. Think of it like Gettysburg. The location itself was unimportant, just the place where the two armies happened to collide. It was the loss of so many troops that made it a crushing defeat for the confederates, they lost just over a quarter of their army, and were only able to keep up the fight for a little over a year longer. Imagine two thirds of the army having been destroyed. The Union would have been in Richmond in days. The Independents were already losing the war, its possible that the forces committed to the fight at Serenity represented some of their last combat worthy units, after losing that fight, they simply did not have the military might necessary to win or even force a draw.
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** Because emotional responses are not rational.rational, and Mal sleeping with Nandi causes all kinds of emotional turmoil. Inara is in love with Mal, no matter what she says to his face. Remember that she kissed him on the lips when she realized he was alive after his run-in with Saffron, and River's mind-reading indicates that she wants Mal to come clean with his emotions regarding her. Hell, the end of that episode has her state she's leaving when she realizes she's growing so attached to Mal that him sleeping with another woman ''causes her to have a breakdown''.
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** Because emotional responses are not rational.
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* In "Heart Of Gold", why is Inara crying when she finds out Mal slept with Nandi when she's told Mal repeatedly that she won't ever sleep with him. So, what, because she won't have sex with him, he can't bed anybody. anybody. It's not like he's in a relaitonship with her. her. He's a grown ass man. man. He's within his rights to have sex with Nandi.
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** A Companion is more than just a person who you pay to have sex with. A Companion is a ''companion'', who serves as a therapist and confidant as well as a lover. In addition, being able to ''have'' a Companion is itself a major status symbol. That a Companion decides you are worthy enough to take you as a client appears to be a big thing; Atherton Wing invites Inara to the ball with him and tries to take her as an exclusive Companion for himself, and Inara blacklisting him is a severe blow to him. Considering that a Companion can do things like have face-to-face talks with planetary governors or walk into police stations and remove suspects without much in the way of a raised eyebrow from the police indicates that they have a very high place in the Alliance's society. The draw of the Companion is not simply the sex, it's the fact that you can even get one in the first place.
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** A Companion is a highly-ranked member of society, remember. They're a service to the rich, and having access to them is a status symbol in itself. Think of it less like prostitution and more like a high-class hotel or restaurant.
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** Related: Remember in Heart of Gold, she admits those girls ''are'' whores. There's still a place for normal prostitutes in the 'verse. Plus, Inara has been shown choosing clients that would not be traditionally attractive (the adorkable virgin from the mudder community, for example).
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** She's not a prostitute, she's a Companion. It's made very clear in the series that pretty much everything about the Companions is completely different from a modern-day prostitute, except for the 'have sex for money' part.
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* If a companion chooses her own clients, then why would anyone ever engage in ordering themselves a client? Isn't the whole appeal of prostitution the fact that you can have sex with anyone without having any skills with women? If she can just pick whoever, then it stands to reason that she'll just pick the most intelligent/attractive/wealthy whomever.
* If a companion chooses her own clients, then why would anyone ever engage in ordering themselves a client? Isn't the whole appeal of prostitution the fact that you can have sex with anyone without having any skills with women? If she can just pick whoever, then it stands to reason that she'll just pick the most intelligent/attractive/wealthy whomever.
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****This is addressed in the Fridge Logic of Firefly. The Troper who mentioned it suggested the idea that is melts brains - which could be used as evidence (that dead people's brains could be read like a book). They do it to detsroy any evidence that they existed.
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* Also, River ''can read minds'', she's a ''very'' fast learner, and she was in the constant presence of spooky mad scientist types, the kind who would have ''highly trained guards'' in their employ watching over her (possibly the Blue Sun people). She probably absorbed the information from them, and the Alliance decided to roll with it and groom her badassery in case they need a badass telepathic WaifFu fighter. Alternatively, the mind reading abilities combined with her genius math skills makes her able to predict the exact movements of those she's fighting and counter them. IE, they ''didn't'' train her, she's just a naturally skilled combatant, similar to how Spider-Man's spider-sense makes him a highly capable of fighter despite never being formerly trained.
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*** I seem to remember that Tracey mentions they're suped up in response to Simon thinking he's in cardiac arrest from the accelerated heartbeat.
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*** Frozen assets get unfrozen if the accused is acquitted. And there's a pretty big difference between costs like lost wages during the trial phase and the government seizing your property and auctioning it off without your say-so.
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*** The commentary on the DVD. Joss confirms that the only reason Tracey was still moving after being shot the first time was because of the special organs.
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** Nothing about the organ smuggling plan as described in the episode makes sense. The idea is Tracy transports the "product" organs from point A to point B, where his original parts are presumably waiting for him. But if the group(s) he works for can transport Tracy's organs to the destination, why do they need Tracy to smuggle the product organs? Why not just transport the product organs the same way they transported Tracy's organs? And if cloning organs was an option all along, why is this organ smuggling scheme even necessary? Why not just grow the organs on the spot?
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** Nothing about the organ smuggling plan as described in the episode makes sense. The idea is Tracy Tracey transports the "product" organs from point A to point B, where his original parts are presumably waiting for him. But if the group(s) he works for can transport Tracy's Tracey's organs to the destination, why do they need Tracy to smuggle the product organs? Why not just transport the product organs the same way they transported Tracy's Tracey's organs? And if cloning organs was an option all along, why is this organ smuggling scheme even necessary? Why not just grow the organs on the spot?
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*** Yeah, about that whole "supersoldier organs" thing. I don't remember it ever being stated in the episode that the organs were some sort of uber-parts. True they were running "hotter" inside Tracey's body but that could have been part of the rapid growth process (I do remember it being stated that Tracey was also incubating the organs). But it seems that everybody on this thread except me and the OP agrees that these were super-organs he was smuggling, so where did this idea come from? Is it mentioned in some Expanded Universe material or something?
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*** FridgeBrilliance here: Tracey's a moron who doesn't think before he acts, and this is an early indicator of such. He didn't think the plan entirely through. The smugglers he's working with had no reason to give his organs back, and the moment he arrived they'd put him under, cut him up, and let him die.
*** Another possibility is that, well, he's ''smuggling'' the organs. Regular organs can likely be transported through regular channels. But million-credit supersoldier organs are a different matter. They remove his regular organs, which would pass through inspection with no trouble, while Tracey carries the special ones inside his body, which wouldn't be searched, to the destination. Then they swap them out.
*** Another possibility is that, well, he's ''smuggling'' the organs. Regular organs can likely be transported through regular channels. But million-credit supersoldier organs are a different matter. They remove his regular organs, which would pass through inspection with no trouble, while Tracey carries the special ones inside his body, which wouldn't be searched, to the destination. Then they swap them out.
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** In short, the navigation circuits on the trash containers are like the tags the airport puts on your luggage.
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** Nothing about the organ smuggling plan as described in the episode makes sense. The idea is Tracy transports the "product" organs from point A to point B, where his original parts are presumably waiting for him. But if the group(s) he works for can transport Tracy's organs to the destination, why do they need Tracy to smuggle the product organs? Why not just transport the product organs the same way they transported Tracy's organs? And if cloning organs was an option all along, why is this organ smuggling scheme even necessary? Why not just grow the organs on the spot?
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*** Flawed statistic. People do live longer on average nowadays, but life expectancy went up mostly because A LOT of people used to die young. As a general rule, if you lived past sixteen, your chances of dying of old age were almost as good as they are now. Saying that though, medical advancements explanation seems to fit best.
