"Excuse me but have you heard the word of our lord and savior"?......(BOOM!)

Then you're gonna love "The Expanse"!

Watch the expanse. Its all thrusters an physics.

@@v8matey all thrusters and space-magic-physics art least. The main conceit is that they have thrusters with orders of magnitude more efficient (higher power and much lower fuel burn) so hopping around the solar system or even into and out of earth orbit is way cheaper than is technically possible.

The special effects on this show were the best in all of SF. This looked real.

🔥BURN BABIE BURN🔥

Especially when they are caught in the blast.

*T-rex murder noises and unintelligible screaming

@@ladyscarlette6289 Hahahh, mine is the evil laughter!

he def watches beast wars

one ping only

“All stop, quick quiet!”

What's going on, Jonesy?

Which way is he turning, Jonesy?

Considering he turned to port it must have been the top half of the hour.

agree... I think he could beat Han Solo. ;-)

dregerclock He could even beat Ice Man XD

+Marko Živković Ice Man was a fighter pilot not a spaceship pilot

+dregerclock Has Han Solo ever landed a 700,000 metric ton Starship with no prior experience?

Anthony Lacroix Exactly, his space ship is not quite what you would call agile while in orbit, compared to it a F14 would be like a Sukhoi :)

lets assume that, nerd..lol jokes

@@hibbidyjibbidyy Oh no I am a huge nerd and I LOVE easter eggs in games and movies lol

Whedon likes killing off main characters rather unceremoniously like that. Usually much further into the story than you would expect and at times you would never think to worry about. I think he sees it as a way to emotionally connect the audience with the characters on screen. So you're pissed off right along with the remaining characters.

They had to lose someone to make the audience really feel the weight of the fight. Like, sacrifices must be made for the victory to have emotional weight. It would be too perfect if everyone made it thru, y'know? Plus there was something a little poetic about him dying in the pilot's seat after pulling the maneuver of a lifetime. That having been said, my heart broke for Zoe and the others nonetheless 😭😭😭😭😭

Gotta remember, the movie Serenity was basically seasons 2-7 shoehorned into 90 minutes. It would have hit different in a naturally progressing series

Not just unnecessary, downright mean-spirited.

your reaction proves how well whedon wrote/directed and how well tudyk acted, and therefore that his death was necessary

my sister used to date a uk navy dude, we watched rouge one, he go so exited for "those are straight up raf, look at those moustaches!"

Well...they WERE human once upon a time...

"Watch how I soar..."

Probably the same reason my wife's Kia will never outrun my Charger. The latter has a (relatively) inefficient but very large engine.

Loosh Actually, most modern sedans will outrun anything made in the 60s. My Hyundai Sonata had a top speed of 155. (Faster if you change the computer chip.) I had it up to 135 once and it was still accelerating like a bat out of hell. A 1970 Charger with a 426 had a top speed of 137. A Kia Optima has a top speed of 152. Muscle cars are junk.

Efficiency != speed. Bicycles are more efficient than any other mode of transportation, for example.

They run their engines hotter then recommended which is what makes them faster at the expense of them giving off more radiation, basically it is like turning a reactor to above 100% you get more juice but extra waste heat and radiation which is why when they are going as fast as they can their engines give off all that extra smoke its a side effect of running the engines that hot. Also a tuned up muscle car will go much faster then any modern sedan especially since with muscle cars you usually have far more room in the engine compartment to add tons of modifications or what most people do put in a much more powerful engine, anyone who thinks muscle cars are junk is a fool who fails to understand just how much power you can add to the car.

DeathlordSlavik Sorry, you are wrong. No production car from the 60s was as fast as the average sedan of today. Some RACE cars were as fast (barely - the pole speed at Indianapolis in 1968 was 171. That is barely faster than my Sonata.) but no production car was as fast. Muscle cars are junk.

BBQ and ready to serve. HAHAHA!!!

They likely slammed into the ground. After all that the old lady had a 50/50 chance, however.. she didn't reappear in any of the following episodes so maybe Liegh DeBose is right.

Funnily enough, this Reaver ship is in Serenity (during the Reaver battle, it's visible when they come out of the cloud, bottom left), so we know it survived.

It was the first episode

Because if Wash did it your way, that would end up as a Controlled Flight into Terrain.... that ground was awful close at that point.

@@mhobson2009 Point the nose above the horizon, wait for the pursuer to tuck in behind, and cut loose.

Because it's a more exciting script, better visuals on-screen and these are pretend space people stories.

@@Hunpecked probably a ships engines (rear) are more vulnerable to the fireburst than the front. also if u wanna do damage with the heat rather then the pressure wave then blasting the reaver ship from behind is more effective because the heat will stay longer on every shippart because the ship is moving in the same direction then the wave

Because of the Grav Hook on the port side of the ship. If Serenity got any closer, then the Grav Hook would pull them in. Even if you tried to fry them,, it would probably tear up Serenity as well.

WarBerJr02 It didn't explode, they just fired the main engine in atmosphere, causing the cloudlayer around them to ignite.

Totally Not A Cylon how do i ask google to explain the science behind that to me?

Totally Not A Cylon also, i think you're a cylon.

rocco420 Uh... um... what? why? I would never...

Totally Not A Cylon i guess a cylon wouldn't say that. i was wrong.

Explain? I guess I missed it.

What, the Crazy Ivan? If that's what you mean, that's not an easter egg from that book. It's a submarine maneuver made famous in pop culture by The Hunt for Red October. And although they do use it in Senerity, I would say that it's a misnomer that reference, IMO.

@@kenlee7367 I didn't see any "The Mote in God's Eye" Easter egg either and I know the book fairly well. Please explain.

I don't know about Mote in God's Eye references, but it sure looks like Wash is learned in the Kzinti Lesson. "A reaction drive is a weapon effective in proportion to it's efficiency."

I assume it the main drive ignition in atmo.

Cut the hydraulics. Presumably Serenity doesn't have controls that allow engine nozzles to be inverted like that. So Kaylee cut them, then he blasted the engine opposing to flip them around far more quickly than designed, before using the burn to escape. By the time the Reaver recovered from the burn, they'd be far and away out of there.

Yep. Whups