. . . muttered the ogre

Claire Wolfe enjoys Firefly, film at eleven. She’s not so keen on Kaylee:

The only element that didn’t ring true to me was this little gamin girly they made the ship’s mechanic. She sort of “intuits” the machinery of the ship – not with alien powers, but just with a loveable girliness. I didn’t believe it for one second, and pictured real mechanics groaning at the idiocy.

I wonder what she’ll think of River later on.

I’m no technician, but let me say I didn’t get that vibe off Kaylee at all. It is established in later episodes (Shindig and Out of Gas come to mind) that she is simply a mechanical wiz who makes it look easy.