I liked the answer to the Reavers. They didn't seem like zombies to me - zombies are content to stand around and wait outside - these boys fought tooth and nail to get at their prey. Anger doesn't necessarily mean too angry to operate machinery.

I wish we saw more, too, but I just assume he used to be a government man - everything Mal hated - but he "saw the light" and no longer worked for them - though was still entitled to top flight care and privy to how the government worked. I'm glad he fought back in the end and killed the bastards who kill him and his and not turn the other cheek. Hell, he may have been remarkably similar to the assassin guy, who, like him, became disillusioned with the government, too, and left it behind, and needed to wonder in anonymity.

I liked it. Death always make things more real, and they mourned him later. River filled his slot - Zoë worked through it, though "torn up plenty, she would still fly true" or something like that. It was good.

Not really. Just somebody with the equipment to get the word out.

She was made to be a super weapon, so kung fu and precog and mind reading. She knew about Miranda because some asshole allowed top government men - who knew about Miranda and shit - to visit her, where she could read their minds, so lots of government secrets were exposed, and this is why they were so keen to kill/capture her.

Kaylee got her fondest wish - to hook up with the doc. Inara did enough for a companion.

Mal did get lucky, but so did the assassin for getting that far. Personally, I liked it, and had the assassin better information, he may have realized Mal's differences in nerve cluster placement via medical records, but I guess he didn't bother to read everything.

I think Mal probably would have killed him since he didn't seem that far sighted to know sparing him would be better, as it turned out. He A) helped them to reset, and B) told the government the big secret was out and the reason to kill/capture River was moot. Perhaps he wasn't evil so much as a true believer in his cause - the government is ultimately working for the good of all - and he was a little disillusioned and had already failed, so why kill - that would be to kill without purpose, which he never did, so he didn't really change at his core. Then he had to disappear since the government wouldn't be overly happy with him, either, and he wasn't working for them anymore - maybe just like Shepherd - though I suspect Shepherd wasn't trained as much or as lethally as this guy was.

. . . I think.

I missed this thread the first time around and in between then and now my wife introduced me to the show and the movie. I agree (Strike that, at this point I think that everyone agrees) that the series should have continued. It was really awesome. The movie was great but the end does end it.

Man do I miss Frank and I wasn't even best buds with his like you guys.

I could watch some Firefly tonight...but I think I remember them too well as of yet. That's one of the problems with having so few episodes.

I'm going to speculate that when the reavers tortured that guy, the resulting madness may have come about due to mingling of bodily fluids - cutting him, cutting themselves, and via intimate torturing. It happens enough some incorrectly thought it was a result of just torture and could predict it, but I think the chemical must play a hand in it to get such a predictable resulting reaver madness. Introduced in that way, there could be a much higher percent chance of madness than when taken in by air. Otherwise, just being tortured wouldn't lead to reaver madness with such predictability, IMO.

Reavers don't seem interested in killing each other, though, so that's interesting. And they don't seem to lose their cleverness or ability to do intricate things. This PAX stuff (IIRC what it was called) is interesting stuff.

Odds are, I'll rewatch the entire series and movie again some time this year. There are few episodes, but then, one can rewatch them all in short order, too.

Makes sense.

Morena Baccarin, Robert Picardo and I were in a tiny van heading to the airport from a tiny, underattended comic convention in Boston where we were all guests.

I don't think any of us had a great time! There was nobody there.

That sounds like a set up for a porn movie.

Could you please state the nature of the sexual emergency?