Madame Klef sends Blue Sun bots
designed like giant grasshoppers after our heroes.
On page 9, Kaylee pulls a Crazy Kaylee in the family hover
vehicle. The move is likely inspired by the Crazy Ivan
maneuver Wash pulled with Serenity in "Government
Goods".
After plowing through the grasshopper bots, Kaylee remarks she
hasn't had so much fun since "that shindig on Persephone." This
is a reference to the events of "Shindig"...over
20 years previous!
Rasalia is disappointed upon seeing
Serenity for the first time, thinking that 500 years in her
future the technology might be more "futuristic." Emma retorts
with "What'dya want? Shiny robots and death lasers and such?"
Emma's comments may be a wink by the writer to Star Wars,
which Firefly somewhat resembles (as pointed out in the
study of
"Serenity").
On page 11, Rasalia refers to Madame
Klef as a Blue Sun bruja. Bruja is Spanish for
"witch".
When Emma points out that the modern 'Verse probably just has
the same old problems Rasalia's Earth-That-Was had 500 years
ago, Rasalia says, "De tal palo, tal astilla..." This
is Spanish for "Like father, like son..."
On page 17, Lu says something in Chinese.
Kaylee says something in Chinese on page 18.
As Emma maneuvers
Serenity wildly through an asteroid field, Rasalia seems as
if she's about to be sick, mumbling, "Dios..." This is
Spanish for "God..."
At the end of this issue, we see that River lives in a place
very similar to that once lived in by Mr. Universe, with TV
screens and monitors all over the place (as seen in
"Living Weapon").
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