Re:Just saw the pilot episode, Serenity
[quote=”nursewhen”] It’s also just struck me that none of the ships are armed! (apart from the military stuff) How rare is that? I can’t think of a sci fi program with space ships where all of the shootouts are on a personal level. When you need ship to ship combat, you just hang Jayne out of a window with a big gun. Brilliant! [/quote]
I think its because the Alliance severely limits the use of ship based weapons. After the little civil war, I would think the control freak Alliance would want to limit any future problems.
It’s kinda cool about the hand mounted ship weapon. Almost all of Sci Fi ignores projectile weapons. B5 covered it briefly when the Centauri bombarded Narn with mass driven asteroids. Which in reality would pretty much destroy the planet’s ecosystem, not to mention the infrastructure. Most scifi forgets that knocking a small hole in the hull of ship is enough to depressurize an entire unprepared ship in a short period of time. Cracking glass (not plexi) will get it done faster.
Forget high tech weapons like lasers and photon torpedoes, we’ve been killing each other successfully with primitive weapons for eons, just stick with what works! 😉
[quote]Looking forward to the gag reel. :D[/quote]
I don’t want to sound negative, but it wasn’t that great. It was funny, but it was only a couple minutes long, so there wasn’t much there.