The interior always felt so familiar and comfy to me. There are only maybe a dozen rooms total on the inside and the show gives you a sense early on of how they all connect to each other.
It also made clear early on that the interior was economical with space which makes perfect sense. It isn’t a space station, it’s more like an RV. Every room needs to be a bit multi-purpose.
Every room has little bits of the people who spend their time there: the bridge has Wash’s toy dinosaurs, the engine room has Kaylee’s hammock, and the cargo hold has the basketball hoop. Kaylee’s room even has a girly sign in the hallway, which I always felt just made perfect sense.
Despite having only seen a dozen 45 minute tv episodes in this ship, I get the sense that if I was inside it, I would not only feel right at home, but I would intuitively know my way around, as though it was somewhere I had spent a lot of time.
And I mean how’d they even do that? The interior of this thing is made out of the same kind of metal they’d make space prisons out of, like in the first Guardians of the Galaxy. How’d they make a ship out of prison material look cozy and homely?
I think it goes back to that economy of space (as in “usable room”, not “outer space”). I remember the first time I saw the scene where Mal uses the toilet/sink in his bedroom and you see how they fold out of the wall. It really gave Serenity that “RV” feel.
The scene where they celebrate Simon’s birthday using a “cake” made of protein bars molded into the shape of a cake is another example. It’s all about the human spirit forcing a place to be “home”.
The interior always felt so familiar and comfy to me. There are only maybe a dozen rooms total on the inside and the show gives you a sense early on of how they all connect to each other.
It also made clear early on that the interior was economical with space which makes perfect sense. It isn’t a space station, it’s more like an RV. Every room needs to be a bit multi-purpose.
Every room has little bits of the people who spend their time there: the bridge has Wash’s toy dinosaurs, the engine room has Kaylee’s hammock, and the cargo hold has the basketball hoop. Kaylee’s room even has a girly sign in the hallway, which I always felt just made perfect sense.
Despite having only seen a dozen 45 minute tv episodes in this ship, I get the sense that if I was inside it, I would not only feel right at home, but I would intuitively know my way around, as though it was somewhere I had spent a lot of time.
And I mean how’d they even do that? The interior of this thing is made out of the same kind of metal they’d make space prisons out of, like in the first Guardians of the Galaxy. How’d they make a ship out of prison material look cozy and homely?
I think it goes back to that economy of space (as in “usable room”, not “outer space”). I remember the first time I saw the scene where Mal uses the toilet/sink in his bedroom and you see how they fold out of the wall. It really gave Serenity that “RV” feel.
The scene where they celebrate Simon’s birthday using a “cake” made of protein bars molded into the shape of a cake is another example. It’s all about the human spirit forcing a place to be “home”.