Zoe?
POSTED BY: traveler
UPDATED: Tuesday, August 8, 2006 19:19
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I find myself going on about why this person does this or what's in that person's past. We know Zoe fought with Mal and obviously respects him. She also probably had no one else to return to after the war. But she stayed with Mal. Even took up his criminal activities. There was no love interest, Wash swept her off her feet and she swept him.
Does Joss ever discuss Zoe?
She follows Mal's lead but will let him know if he's done something wrong.
I loved the look Zoe gave Mal after he told Kaylee she would look ridiculous in that fancy dress she was mooning over. I thought she was going do that gun butt in the face thing she likes so much. But her eyes sliced Mal in two.
And when Mal was showing her Serenity for the first time she asked him if he paid serious money for this pile of, sorry I don't speak mandarin.
But she joined him. And went into the black to share his dream.
Is this the power of Serenity. To draw people toward her. Book nearly walked on by. Inara could have done better.
But Zoe was the first. She gave Mal the start of this family of misfits. Yet of all the others she does not come off as a misfit. She's level headed and is a good leader in her own right. The choice she made with no doubts when she said Wash before Niska could finish his sentence. Who took on Niska in his own back yard? Zoe! Stormed that spacestation like a hot knife through butter.
And to finish my blabbering, when they removed Wash in the movie she lost the person who she wanted a child with. That has to be a double hurt.
I'ved watch the series several times now. Big surprize. And I can't put my finger on her motives like the others we have discussed.
Any thoughts people? I'm starving.
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And when Mal was showing her Serenity for the first time she asked him if he paid serious money for this pile of, sorry I don't speak mandarin.
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Shows you how dirty my mind runs. I thought she said something much worse.
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I look at the cast as this.
Just a new theory of mine.
Serenity-the mother
Mal-Brother
Zoe-Sister
Wash-Brother-in-law to Mal
Book-the grandfather
Jayne-the hick cousin
Simon-the son
River-the black sheep
Kaylee-the daughter
Inara-the on the rocks girlfriend
Zoe...well Zoe follows Mal. She tends to agree with him on all points even when it puts her in trouble with her marriage. But in War Stories it comes to a middle and she chooses Wash over Mal. But is it because he is her husband or that she knew that Mal could tough it out?
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I'm new to this show, but from what I've seen, I feel Zoe is the female version of Mal, but with a "clearer" head on her shoulders. Where Mal may just go with the flow, Zoe takes a step back to assess the situation before making a decision. Then again, she can be all guts and just aim for the bull's eye. I'm a Star Trek fan so I would compare Zoe to Commander Wil Riker, and Mal would be Captain Picard. Zoe is Mal's "Number 1" for those of you who watch Star Trek.
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I think "female version of Mal" is a quite a bit off the mark. Zoe is hardcore, Mal is not. Zoe hasn't changed since the war, Mal changed a hell of alot. Mal is also a hell of alot funnier than Zoe. I think he's more of a leader than Zoe is, as well.
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She does seem to have an abilty come up with good plans. She picked Wash because he was her husband in "War Stories". I don't doubt that. But Wash was the one person who could slip Serenity right under Niska's nose. Who better to pick for the job.
They tell you Mal was a sergeant during the war. But there are a lot of classifications. Zoe must of earned some stripes her ownself.
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m'm, mal a sergeant, zoe a corporal, given the amount of people mal was supposed to be commanding during the battle of serentiy, and the fac that, given their relationship, i can't see him having anyone as his second but zoe, i'd guess on her having held a fair amount of responsibility her own self.
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Sometimes if you're lucky you just wind up with a great boss - I'm in that situation myself, and Zoe really resonates with me (damn, she's so cool.)
They served together, grew as close as possible in a platonic relationship, saw each other through everything the war threw at them. After Serenity Valley... well, that kind of closeness, that deep relationship, is hard to duplicate, and once you have that and you try to duplicate it with someone else, most of the time they will not measure up. Zoe is with Mal because they are comfortable with each other. Anyone who's had a hard time finding just the right job and the right people knows that comfort is more important than anything, sometimes even health and dental ;) My boss and I can scream at each other, be each others confidantes and even best friends at times, and more times than not know each other's plans and thoughts at any given moment. No way I'd give that up for good pay and a HMO plan.
Zoe rescued Wash from Niska's because he needed rescuing. She knew Mal would likely be able to do exactly what he did: survive AND fight back. Replace Wash with any other crew member and she'd have done exactly the same.
Walk tall, or don't walk at all...
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