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#189395
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Rankings
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/189395/action/topic#189395
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Admittedly, it does seem rather out of character for Adam to create socks that so easily give away his identity. After his previous ban, he made several socks whose names hid his identity quite well. Of course, his posts immediately gave himself away by stating who he was and why he'd come back.
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#189389
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Serenity
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/189389/action/topic#189389
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Wow. Sorry Chaltab. I assumed you were a Firefly fan. If you do want the answers, I'll go ahead and give them to you. If you're waiting to see it yourself, don't read the rest of my post.

In this view of the future, companions are registered with a guild and are much higher class than prostitutes or whores (non-guild whores being shown in one episode as a completely separate entity), being akin more to geishas. So Inara is actually of a higher social standing than Mal, being the captain of a cargo ship. Therefore, it is advantageous for Mal to have a companion on board to bring the ship some respectability. In Out of Gas, it is shown that Inara used this knowledge as a bargaining chip to get her a better price on the shuttle. Specifically, in the pilot episode, Serenity, Mal states to Shepherd Book, "There are some settlements wouldn't let you dock without a decent companion onboard." The advantage for Inara is that she gets to expand her client base by being constantly mobile. The basis for Inara leaving Serenity was established towards the end of Firefly but never given a chance to play itself out. It obviously happened at some point in between the end of the series and the beginning of the movie. But it wasn't just an idea that was originated solely for the movie.

EDIT: As far as being shunned, Shepherd Book shows some initial disapproval to her profession, but he doesn't let it interfere with his personal relationship with her.
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#189257
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Serenity
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/189257/action/topic#189257
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Well, there is development. Over the short course of the series, Simon became more accustomed to his life "in the black." His wardrobe got more relaxed. He fought off an assassin. And there's all that time in between. I found it really cool that Simon was punching Mal in the movie, when, in the episide Serenity, it was the other way around. It was like they had come full circle.

The biggest thing that annoys me about Serenity is the time issue. In the movie, Mal had said that it had been eight months since they took in Simon and River (and Book). And, correct me if I'm wrong, but I'd always heard that the movie takes place six months after the end of the series. And that would mean that those 14 episodes all took place in the span of two months. While it seems unlikely that the development of the characters could have happened in that span of time, not to mention all those different situations, it kinda cheapens it to me to think that they had such little time together. And, also, in Trash, Mal tells Monty that the events in Our Mrs. Reynolds took place half a year prior to then. So I'm confused.
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#189251
Topic
The Things We Hate And Love Thread .
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/189251/action/topic#189251
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I might as well handle both my topics of interest with this one post.

Adam in the newspaper?! In USA Today? Where's the justice in that? It's mostly the timing that gets me. Right after he came back and trolled and flamed for over a hundred posts last night! What are the odds?

And greencapt, I agree. I hate the words padawan and youngling. They just sound... really, really stupid. Apprentice. That's a cool word. He should have stuck with that.
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#189249
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Serenity
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/189249/action/topic#189249
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Yeah, there were a lot of unanswered questions, and I understand the rationale, since it was already hard enough to do everything in Serenity that they did. Any more storylines to add in would have been nearly impossible and detracted from the main plot. I do wish to read the comics, though.
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#189137
Topic
Serenity
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/189137/action/topic#189137
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Yeah, I'm thinking you have a good hypothesis there, Han's Girlfriend. I was going to mention the cantstopthesignal.com stuff, but you beat me to it.

I guess this comes from me seeing Firefly first, but Mal will always be the main character. I don't even have to explain why he is in the TV series because there's no argument there. In the movie, Nathan Fillion gets top billing both in the opening and closing credits, and the movies posters/DVD box. While that's stupidly not always indicative of the lead character (what are some movies thinking?!), I feel that it is here. When we first board Serenity, we follow Mal through the ship, introducing us to all the characters. Joss even filmed an additional scene between Mal and River, right before they get off at Lilac, to make it more obvious to the viewers that River, who up to that point could have been mistaken as the lead character, "passes the movie off to Mal." All the confrontations with the Operative are against Mal, including the final battle. The two scenes with Shepherd Book are opposite Mal. He gives two big monologues to the rest of the cast, including River: the, "I'm not waiting around for the Alliance to choose mine," speech and the, "I aim to misbehave." And at the end of the movie, we once again follow him through the ship, talking to the Operative, Zoe, Inara, and, finally, River.

I'm not trying to diminish River's importance in the movie, but Mal is, and always has been, the hero, the protagonist of this 'verse.