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gridloreSimply fucking ROCKED. Well written, beautifully envisioned, and executed perfectly. But I have one little rant that isn't really a spoiler.
The series and film claims this all takes place in a single solar system with "dozens of planets and moons that were terraformed." (Or more accurately, Southern California-formed.)
This is freaking impossible with a single star. It's have to be a freaking bright supergiant to have a life zone large enough. So I, being an absolute geek, have come up with a solution.
Serenity Actually takes place in a trinary system. The central star is a fairly bright giant (call it a F5 III) with three gas giants in its life zone. These GG have multiple large moons. The second star is a G0 V orbiting at 80+ AU, with two worlds in its life zone, plus one right outside the edge (but still close enough to be somewhere above utterly frozen. The last star is a G8 V with a few piddling worlds and moons that were terraformed, but not overly well. This is the "outer system" mentioned in the canon, since a distant trianry could be well over 300 AU away.
Other than that, not a single complaint about the film.
The series and film claims this all takes place in a single solar system with "dozens of planets and moons that were terraformed." (Or more accurately, Southern California-formed.)
This is freaking impossible with a single star. It's have to be a freaking bright supergiant to have a life zone large enough. So I, being an absolute geek, have come up with a solution.
Serenity Actually takes place in a trinary system. The central star is a fairly bright giant (call it a F5 III) with three gas giants in its life zone. These GG have multiple large moons. The second star is a G0 V orbiting at 80+ AU, with two worlds in its life zone, plus one right outside the edge (but still close enough to be somewhere above utterly frozen. The last star is a G8 V with a few piddling worlds and moons that were terraformed, but not overly well. This is the "outer system" mentioned in the canon, since a distant trianry could be well over 300 AU away.
Other than that, not a single complaint about the film.
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Date: 1 Oct 2005 21:37 (UTC)However, Joss seems wedded to the idea of a single star system and STL travel between the colonies.
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Date: 1 Oct 2005 21:41 (UTC)You have what amounts to FTL radio (not to mention the FTL internet), but FTL travel is "unrealistic?
C'mon Joss, gimme a break.
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Date: 1 Oct 2005 21:59 (UTC)Also, the notion of one of those habitable (Earth-prime, in fact) planets being WAYYYY out from everything else...
Oy.
Astronomy and planetology are obviously not Whedon's strong suit.
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Date: 1 Oct 2005 22:26 (UTC)And the reason it bothers me so is that everything else is so good. Whedon has created these great characters, great story, cultures, technology...
And then set it in a star system with all the plausibility of a bunch of flat plates being carried around on the backs of elephants standing on turtles. And he either doesn't realize this, or doesn't care.