tobiasds wrote:
Rocklar wrote:
tobiasds wrote:
bigyak wrote:
Wow, just say Episode 1. I downloaded it months ago, but never got around to watching it. I just programmed fro 70 hours this week, and needed a break. I was very impressed. Kinda "Space cowboy"ish, but with very good attention to detail and no bullshit physics.
... trying to not watch Episode 2....
... addictive personality interfering with my plans....
One of the things that always bothered me about the show was that while it was stylish, it seemed that hand weapons hadn't advanced as much as one would think over 500 years. Have to call shenanigans on that one.
They're definitely there. Check out ep 11 or 12 (the one where his 'wife' reappears) for evidence of old as well as new energy weapons.
The way I always saw that was energy weapons must have been expensive to buy, operate and maintain. The Serenity crew sometimes had a hard time keep their gas tank full, much less dropping a lot of money on some bling phaser.
Hi-tech guns are always available on the cheap, especially right after wars. Besides Rocky it looks like they are shooting six shooters or something.
Exactly. Cheap to fill with ammo, easy to maintain, easy to carry. I think the fact that they're not all armed with phasers or similar makes it seem a little more likely. It's always been a big leap of imagination for me to picture how so many people could afford spaceships that are at least dozens of times the size of a normal vehicle. They'd have to cost close to $1M. To that, I don't get the impression that the Serenity is owned but that it's mortgaged (why not - it's a primary residence
) and borrowed on to the hilt. Trying to make a huge payment on a ship doesn't leave room for buying high-tech weapons that require expensive charge packs and costly and time-consuming maintenance. I would say that Inara is the most well-off person in the show with the possible exception of Simon (but he blew a bunch of money getting River back) and I think she's the only person we've seen armed with their own energy-based weapon.
Heh...arguing whether or not the absence of energy weapons is appropriate or not...the pinnacle of geekdom. I'm so proud!
I need to watch the movie again, but wasn't even the gun that they mounted outside the ship projectile-based?
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