conuly

Some of this stuff would likely have been addressed if the series had continued - it may even be addressed in the movie. Other stuff... not so much.

1. If Inara's job is so respectable and all (like they insist on telling us every time it's revealed that her job consists primarily of sexing with people for money, which is only every episode...), why again is she hanging around with a bunch of criminals? I'm sure this would've been addressed, perhaps by giving Inara an interesting personality. (I'm not an Inara fan, can you tell?)

2. Is the Alliance itself actually bad? We know certain aspects of the Alliance are less-than-savory, but hey, every closet has a few skeletons, right? So we've got icky blue latex, but maybe we also have theoretically universal health care, and it evens things out...?

3. Exactly what are River's talents, and which of them are natural?

4. Here's the important question. In Trash, how is it that this guy lives in a place where the garbage doesn't have to sit around for more than thirty seconds, but it takes six minutes for the cops to show up at his door after he pushes a panic alarm? Is it just me, or does this show a serious lack of priorities?

5. I would ask what destroyed Earth, and why that meant that the whole of civilization seems to have regressed to the exact same period of history (except with spaceships), but that'd just be silly.

6. Oh, and why is it called a Firefly? Why not a Lightning Bug? I prefer that term. It's more descriptive of what those insects actually do.