Also a stand-up-in-your-seat-and-cheer moment as you realize what Mal's plan had been all along.And then there's the Oh, Crap! moment when Serenity bursts out of the ion cloud with a hundred Reaver ships chasing it straight into the Alliance fleet.Book gets his own (offscreen) moment of awesome when he shoots down the Alliance ship that destroyed Haven.The crew then responds with their own CMOA and take on the Reavers.
His last act, saving the crew from the Reavers and the Alliance. aaaaaaand then Wash got impaled by a spike.
Watch how I soar." When the crew landed safely near the ending, everything seemed all right. Maybe on another world, maybe on this very ground swept clean, but a year from now? Ten? They'll swing back to the belief that they can make people. Mal: Because sure as I know anything, I know this: They will try again. You know, the one when Mal gets impaled through the stomach with the Operative's blade, and then casually pulls it out and continues fighting.
The final confrontation with the Operative. Which he eventually uses to stab the Operative in the leg, then pull the Operative toward him with it for a follow-up punch. They get ready to strike, and Mal, the Operative, and the audience realize at the same time that his weapon is a screwdriver. The Operative draws his sword, as Mal pulls a random tool from a nearby toolbox to counter-attack. Side note: in the original shooting script, the line wasn't "I will shoot you down", it was "I will fucking shoot you". And judging from River's expression as Mal walks away, she's "seeing" something new as well. If I start fighting a war, you're gonna see something new." That scene is even more awesome in the light of his previous promise to Inara. Mal: So I hear a word outta any of you that ain't helpin' me out or takin' your leave, I will shoot you down. She finds herself still handcuffed to the floor, and gets a look on her face that simply says, "You know, I don't want to be handcuffed anymore." She then proceeds to escape, ambushes Jayne from the ceiling and knocks him out without trying, dodges the rest of the crew as they try to find her, and when Mal finally catches up with her, holds him at gunpoint without even looking at him. In a less spectacular but no less awesome instance, River wakes up and realizes what Miranda is. Which brings us to Kaylee's line of "To hell with this. Hell, five people, three of whom hadn't even shot someone before, holding off so many of the so-called terrors of the 'verse for as long as they did? That's awesome in its own right. Although that is the Alliance coming in, it certainly makes the whole spectacle much more awesome. And then, just to add to the effect even more, the wall behind her explodes. The doors were opened by the sheer force of badassery. The doors, might I add, that no one else was near, and River couldn't touch the controls were she was. Before Zoe can say "She's dead, sir." the doors open to show her and that absolutely terrifying look on her face. What is even more awesome about this moment is the fact that this happens right after Mal asks about River. That's when you know exactly what they meant by "living weapon." Despite what they say about bringing a knife to a gun fight, the Operative saved a lot of Alliance soldiers' lives when he called off the attack. The most vividly beautiful moment of the entire battle is when the doors rumble open, to show River standing completely uninjured, Atop a Mountain of Corpses, blood dripping from her weapons. Then as the camera pulls out, we see she's not only still alive, is not only still fighting, is not only holding her own, but is completely obliterating every Reaver like they're uppity toddlers, complete with a rising triumphant soundtrack that confirms that yes, the good guys won. It turns, and a fist comes out of nowhere, smashing into it, and the camera pans over to River. Then, we cut to a Reaver's head rising up, snarling. The scene is quiet, vivid, and heavy with emotion from all the death and sacrifice thus far, and we know that River may also be dead too, having been dragged away by the Reavers. Mal turns to walk away from the Operative, and you can hear the tearful voice of the long-dead scientist talking about Miranda.
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