New to Firefly and have some questions
POSTED BY: KingofallLondinum
UPDATED: Monday, October 9, 2006 02:00
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Inara's syringe is almost defintly a suicide drug,be serious what else could it be.
Why do you insist it has to be that when Joss said it wasn't.
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I have a slightly different view of the Tams. They are obviously very well-to-do, but I believe they are either very naive or very trusting of the government. They knew that it was a government program that they enrolled River into. Everybody believes it including Simon until the letters start coming in. Simon obviously knows his sister much better than the parents so he knows when something isn't right. Like many extremely wealthy familys, the parents don't really have much involvement with their children. They have their careers to worry about, and nanny's to take care of teh kids. I think the Tams believe that the government is completely trustworthy and could do no wrong, like Americans felt before the Kennedy assassination. So being complicent with the government in regards to River, yes. Knowing what was happening to her, no. It never enters into their mind.
When Simon's father bails him out of jail, I think he is way more concerned about what it will do to his and his family's social status. Not so much of what the Alliance may or may not do to him because of it. He even says that just coming into the building goes on his record, and was quite peeved about it.
The other questions seemed to have been answered already, but I just wanted to throw out another opinion on the Tams.
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KingofAll
Just want to say 
You have a lot of good questions/points - I will have to read it more closely at home!
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Darkfly, you are most enthusiastic about your newfound love, but please have the respect not to loudly assume things and tromp over those who differ with you.
I am a relatively new fan, too - 8 months now, I guess - and am careful to be respectful of those who came before me. You would be wise to do the same.
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Originally posted by Grizwald:
Darkfly, you are most enthusiastic about your newfound love, but please have the respect not to loudly assume things and tromp over those who differ with you.
I am a relatively new fan, too - 8 months now, I guess - and am careful to be respectful of those who came before me. You would be wise to do the same.
I'm too am a relatively fan-11 months,I'm not trying to say all of my answers are the right ones most of them are my views on what I think could be the answers.
Go to http://www.fireflyfans.net/thread.asp?b=19&t=22697 for more info!
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In regards to #2 I read an interview with Tim Minear a while back where he said the vile of black stuff was a poision that would kill anyone that raped her...I am despertly trying to find the interview, but as of yet I can't find it, when I do I promise I will post it becasue it was filled with lots of juicy tidbits!
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twixt my nethers...weren't run on batteries.
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Thanks Capture. I would love to read that interview.
Some great points here on why there was not an Alliance cruiser in the movie.
It is one of those nitpicky things for me. I just think they could have worked one in somewhere in the movie and it would have tied into the series nicely.
In the series, those big city ships just cast an ominous pall over everything when they showed up.
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Welcome:) Those were great questions. I'd have to say I think the Tams are a wealthy enough family that they don't really see their children as people. ( I've had some erious experience with this) they see the kids as reflections/extensions of themselves. Children are expected to do what they are told and to bring glory to their family name. I honestly think the Tams believe River is in a school for the gifted and that Simon is just being difficult. I also think they don't value either child and just see what they want to see. A doctor in a prestigious hospital and a gifted girl who will one day make a good marriage. That's all they see and all they care to see. For them kids are like toy dolls you can put on the shelf or dress in pretty clothes or make them into whoever you see them as.
I choose to rise instead of fall- U2
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Capture, I think this is the article you were thinking about with Tim's comments:
http://www.fireflyfans.net/thread.asp?b=2&t=14960
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Great! Thanks for that Duster.
And thanks to all of you for the warm welcome.
As for the episode Minear talks about, wow, that is very dark. Probably too dark for the series. It could have been done very well, of couse, but sheesh, that is taking the series down a particularly traumatic line.
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