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Date Posted: 17:01:23 11/09/02 Sat
Author: Robert
Subject: CW's nitpicks (SPOILERS for Safe)
In reply to: Cactus Watcher 's message, "CW's Writer's Journal for "Safe" (spoilers for the ep.)" on 09:57:33 11/09/02 Sat

>>> I hope the notes for the next episode won't be such a nitpick-fest as these last two have been.

Yeah, I do too, but only you can prevent nitpicks.

>>> Has Greenberg ever even seen a live cow?

and

>>> What the heck does Greenberg think meat is?

Holy mackerel! You are really crapping on Greenberg this week. Did you have a bad day?

Do you think the writers really believe everything that they have their characters say? Is there no room in your willing suspension of disbelief for the possibility that Mal could have been attempting to con the prospective buyers? God forbid, Mal may have told a lie!

>>> Is half the punishment for murder on this planet having to listen to this long winded ?Arrest speech?"

So what is your complaint? Do you think it unrealistic that a future society would have a formal declaration of arrest? Or, do you just not want to hear it? This is a heck of lot less obnoxious than our present-day declaration of Miranda rights.

>>> I don't get the idea Greenberg completely understands the phrase "stand down" from this scene either.

Your transcription of stand down may be incorrect. I think the intention is that the noun stand-down is being used as a verb.

According to merriam-webster;

stand-down
Function: noun
Date: circa 1919
: a relaxation of status of a military unit or force from an alert or operational posture

It is well within the realm of possibility that a present-day noun could gain usage as a verb sometime in the next 400 years. Furthermore, it well within the realm of possibility that the definition of stand-down could shift towards "drop your weapons and put your hands over you head." It wouldn't be much of a shift. For that matter, such a usage might flow naturally from the civil war which only recently concluded.

This is not the first time that Joss Whedon and ME have played around with the language. They've been doing it for only the last six years.

>>> Gunfight - Am I crazy or didn't the guns on earlier episodes go 'bang' They definitely go 'piff' in this episode.

Yes, I agree with this one. Something was wrong with the sound mixing during the gun battle. Regardless, I can't get too upset, since the sound of gun fire on television never sounds authentic. I'm willing to accept a piff if ME is consistent with it though I believe this to be a technical error in this episode.

>>> How did they clean it up on the trip? Where did the liquid go? Do these people have any idea what a feed lot smells like? I seriously hope Serenity has a very effective cleaning and airing system!

Yes, I imagine they do, and it is called hard vacuum I don't know how it is currently done on the space shuttle or space station, but (if you will recall) the Apollo astronauts dumped their urine into space, to get rid of it. The writers have already demonstrated that they know that hard vacuum can be an effective fire suppressant and pirate suppressant. In addition, the writers have demonstrated that they know that sound does not propagate in hard vacuum. Thus, I think it is well within the realm of possibility that the writers know that hard vacuum is a great way to dry things out. Have you never heard of freeze drying?

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