NUTLUCK

Thursday, 28 June 2012 19:28

Poor Jayne, I don't think things are going to end anywhere near as happily as he is hoping they will.

AMDOBELL

Thursday, 28 June 2012 23:42

I loved River confusing the *goushi* out of Saffron but groaned and shook my head at Jayne. Silly man, trust him to let the wrong part of his anatomy do the thinking or 'not thinking' for him! Ali D :~)
"You can't take the sky from me!"

GWG

Thursday, 28 June 2012 23:44

From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cassandra "In the cult television series Firefly, the character of River is based on Cassandra: she is a genius and knows things, but was driven insane and speaks in jumbled riddles no one understands until it actually happens. [citation needed]"
From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iphigenia The second reason is that Iphigenia sees this as a patriotic cause. Iphigenia realizes that if she dies, then the men can sail to Troy and win and protect their own women. If the men did not get to Troy to defeat the Trojans then all the Greek women would be raped and possibly killed

EBFIDDLER

Thursday, 05 July 2012 15:33

No one seems surprised by the way Saffron gets the drop on Jayne! :-) Gwg, you're on target with the Trojan War-related references. You'll see more of them as the story goes along, however, the story only loosely references them, so don't be expecting a complete re-telling of the Iliad here. :-) Thanks to all of you for your comments.