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Originally posted by DonCoat:
Good questions.

Opinions vary on some of these. What follows are my own thoughts and they aren't necessarily a consensus among the browncoats here.

1. I don't think Serenity was flyable at the end of the movie, so it had to be one of two things. Either the repairs were done on U's planet, or the Alliance gave them the equivalent of a tow to the nearest facility. I don't think the latter is likely, so I vote for Mr. U's place. However, that too has problems, as it seemed that little planetoid was basically U's private haunt; why would there be a repair yard there? Speculation: it was once a populated planet but was abandoned some time before U took it over. (Pax again?) The facilities were still intact, and the Serenity crew made use of them.

2. By the same argument as (1), on Mr. U's planetoid. Interesting corollary question: was Mr. U's lovebot buried with him? She's visible in the memorial image. Further corollary: are these even graves at all? Maybe they're just memorial stones. Again, Book wouldn't have been there unless they brought his body from Haven.

3. Mal acknowledges that the Operative "patched up their hurt". That may only mean the crew, but then Serenity is the 10th character, so Mal may have been including her among those hurt and patched up on the Operative's orders.

Incidentally, the movie novelization by KRAD indicates that the last scenes occur somewhere else (can't remember where), and that Serenity flew there under her own power. A likely story! No way you could fly her on one thruster, in my opinion... never mind the fact that you have a big hole in the bridge window.

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Originally posted by DonCoat:
Good questions.

Opinions vary on some of these. What follows are my own thoughts and they aren't necessarily a consensus among the browncoats here.

1. I don't think Serenity was flyable at the end of the movie, so it had to be one of two things. Either the repairs were done on U's planet, or the Alliance gave them the equivalent of a tow to the nearest facility. I don't think the latter is likely, so I vote for Mr. U's place. However, that too has problems, as it seemed that little planetoid was basically U's private haunt; why would there be a repair yard there? Speculation: it was once a populated planet but was abandoned some time before U took it over. (Pax again?) The facilities were still intact, and the Serenity crew made use of them.

2. By the same argument as (1), on Mr. U's planetoid. Interesting corollary question: was Mr. U's lovebot buried with him? She's visible in the memorial image. Further corollary: are these even graves at all? Maybe they're just memorial stones. Again, Book wouldn't have been there unless they brought his body from Haven.

3. Mal acknowledges that the Operative "patched up their hurt". That may only mean the crew, but then Serenity is the 10th character, so Mal may have been including her among those hurt and patched up on the Operative's orders.

Incidentally, the movie novelization by KRAD indicates that the last scenes occur somewhere else (can't remember where), and that Serenity flew there under her own power. A likely story! No way you could fly her on one thruster, in my opinion... never mind the fact that you have a big hole in the bridge window.

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Originally posted by Gillacatan:
Actually, in one of the extras on the DVD, Mal order Inara and Simon to include Book among the bodies they strap to Serenity's hull. So, they did have his body...

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