Episode Three

Although I didn’t find this episode as exciting as the rest have been it was a more interesting look into a character we haven’t seen much of yet these past couple of episodes. Nora, the companion, gave a glimpse into ‘her world’ as I’ll call it. You also got to see her and the Captain interact more and there is, at least I believe there is, a love connection happening on board the Serenity. The other interesting thing that happened in this episode was that River actually spoke for more than thirty seconds in a scene. She wasn’t just dazed and walking around staring at the ceiling she actually spoke, and rather harshly at that, to the man who had them all captive while the Captain was in lodgings for his duel. She said something along the lines that she had a long secret and that she wouldn’t tell that man. It gave a little foreshadowing in to the future when hopefully we finally find out the evil things the alliance has done to her. Aside from that, and back to Nora, you saw that a ‘companion’ is actually what we would call and escort or maybe even a whore. I had been slightly confused on that fact until this episode. I was pretty sure that that was what it was but I also thought that since when she went into the other town and freed the Captain and Zoey that maybe it was a good thing and not the equivalent of a modern day high paid prostitute. I was very thankful she didn’t stay with the Ather and that we can see where the Captain and her relationships headed.