Firefly Geographic Parallels?
POSTED BY: Ragua
UPDATED: Tuesday, February 28, 2006 23:31
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My brother and his wife recently invited themselves up to my place for their Easter Break, and it got me thinking about real-world parallels to the Firefly 'Verse.
They live in San Diego and are the ultimate Stepford family, while I reside in Portland, the city of rain, microbrew, and weirdness. With their name brands and Yuppieness, I figure that they're from one of the Core planets. Portland isn't quite Jiangyin or Whitefall, but I don't think we're Persephone, either. Still, we're definitely one of the outer planets.
Where does your city or town rank in the 'Verse?
"I shaved off my beard for you, devil woman!"
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Little bitty town in the Ozarks. Yup. As Outer Rim as you can get.
" You hold. Hold til I get back." Mal
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Ozarks, huh? Well, I'm in Little Rock. I probably don't know enough 'verse worlds to accurately place it, but it would be a moderately developed Outer planet, I would say.
"We've done the impossible. That makes us mighty"
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Addendum: I used to live in Chicago, and I would equate it with Persephone. Enough high culture to match Atherton Wing, Warwick Harrow, and their crowd, but most of the population are working class folks, like the Serenity crew, Badger, and the like.
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Oh God. I'm trapped in the Stepford center of San Diego, good ole' Carmel Valley, better known as East Del Mar or South Rancho Santa Fe. Yuppy city if I ever saw one. It's like Osiris here, good doctors all over the place and that real "We're so awesome, look at our money/" mentality.
Yup, Osiris. Not living here by choice, if my mom had her way we'd by off on Whitefall or Jiangyin, if it went my way, it would be some place a bit like Beaumonde, so maybe Portland or Vancouver.
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Jayne! Try not to steal too much of their shit.
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I feel for you, Eleka. It creeps me out whenever I have to go down there. It's as if my brother lives in a completely different reality.
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Originally posted by Ragua:
Addendum: I used to live in Chicago, and I would equate it with Persephone. Enough high culture to match Atherton Wing, Warwick Harrow, and their crowd, but most of the population are working class folks, like the Serenity crew, Badger, and the like.
I still live in Chicago and you have it on the nose. I think I even know where Badger's office would be. (The BNSF freight yards if you're curious; shipping containers as far as the eye can see.)
David
"A lot of people are asking me, you know, what exactly is Firefly? It's a tv show you morons!" - Joss Whedon
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Itty bitty town in north central Montana. We got a foot of snow last night. Definately one of the rim planets.
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Hmm.. Not in America, me, but my town is fairly Persephone.
Think, the shopping district where Kaylee's fluff dress lived. *g* Trade and market town since the middle ages.
Enough affluence to have "a temple built" (or three) and a nice history of prominent scholars, but medium-sized and ladden with an underbelly of problems that's not quite Core.
Yup, Persephone, aiming for Ariel one day.
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