Ages of characters?
POSTED BY: Firefight
UPDATED: Wednesday, December 29, 2004 23:00
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perhaps she was in stasis for 4 years...
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Mal: "Everybody dies alone"
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Quote:This list was compiled on the basis of the age of the cast members. While of interest, it is unlikely that date of birth was the definitive critereon in casting or Morena Baccarin would not have been considered a replacement for Rebecca Gayheart.
Originally posted by Hardy:
... according this list ...
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Quote:Could it be that a school career on a Core Plant in the twenty-six century is as different from that in the US in the twenty-first century as the latter is from that in the China of the sixteenth century?
Originally posted by BruisersMom:
Simon made it through school very quickly ...
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Quote:The ages of Inara and Book will have been determined by the programming that created those particular covers. How old the underlying entities of those instances are ... is problematic.
Originally posted by PurpleBelly:
... Morena Baccarin would not have been considered a replacement for Rebecca Gayheart.
Only Purplebelly believes this
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IIRC, the characters' ages in that timeline (if it's the same one) are loosely based on the actors' ages when it was written (Gina Torres 33, Alan Tudyk & Nathan Fillion 31, Adam Baldwin 40).
I tend to think that Zoe is younger than Gina and Wash is a bit younger than Alan, and Mal older than Nathan. I'd still put Jayne a couple of years shy of 40, but that's just me. I think 20 is a bit of a low estimate on Kaylee's age
Cybersnark, I'll bow to your superior knowledge of warior women - let's call Zoe 28, then. :D
On the subject of Simon: he finished his internship in eight months. How long do internships usually last? A year? Two? It's mentioned that he's young for a doctor, and if he really is gifted, he could have run through pretty much everything in two thirds of the time. (Twelve years of school in 8 years, four year degree in 3, four year med degree in another 3 - he's still only 20, as Tlacook says.) Rivergirl, I agree - River's six (stretching it) or seven (just about possible, but maybe eight) in that flashback scene, Simon twelve, maybe thirteen, definitely no older. A six-year age gap is about right - if River's 16 or 17, Simon is 22 or 23.
Hardy - stasis for four years? You mean cryo? What was Simon doing for four years, then?
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Quote:
Originally posted by PurpleBelly:Quote:Could it be that a school career on a Core Plant in the twenty-six century is as different from that in the US in the twenty-first century as the latter is from that in the China of the sixteenth century?
Originally posted by BruisersMom:
Simon made it through school very quickly ...
Could be!
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Simon could have been modest in saying that he was gifted when he should have said genius but that would go against the whole Simon is arrogant idea in the series. It could also take a shorter amount of time to become a doctor in the Firefly universe. I don't know. No one does. The people who wrote the show didn't tell us. Maybe they didn't think these things through thoroughly or maybe they didn't think that they mattered.
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Originally posted by BruisersMom:
The people who wrote the show didn't tell us. Maybe they didn't think these things through thoroughly or maybe they didn't think that they mattered.
I'm sure Joss has everything we ever wanted to know about all of his characters, universes, ect. hidden away in that mind of his. He just doesn't seem to be the one to not think it through. One of these days, we should hold him hostage until he tells us...or, to avoid being arrested, we'll just ponder and guess, as we are now. ^_^
This is yet another thing we need to look out for in the movie(s). Though, am I the only one that thought Jayne was younger than late 30's/early 40's? Adam just looks younger to me...same with Mal, though I can certainly see him being in his mid 30's. *Shrug*
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Simon is not just a doctor, he has a subspecialty (he's a trauma surgeon rather than just a surgeon). If their hospitals work like ours (and the one in Ariel looks suspiciously 21st century) after finishing his internship he'd still have several years of residency ahead of him. FWIW I'm convinced that Simon is about 25 and Mal about 32 and, as mentioned here, Jayne is younger than Adam Baldwin--if for no other reason than it's not very likely that people in his line of work ever *get* to be 40.
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Joss doesn't always think these things through like his obsessive fans do or so I have gathered from interviews with him.
He doesn't like to answer questions about science and doesn't much care about the "facts" if they get in the way of the story. I don't consider this a bad thing like some do.
The story should be first and people can learn to deal with the rest.
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