Survey: Hardest Character to write?
POSTED BY: Arcadia
UPDATED: Saturday, January 13, 2007 16:21
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I find that Book is the hardest. He's a unique guy. It's hard to make him wise and smart and funny and still keep him in charater. He's the kind of guy that doesn't give away anything unless he truly needs to and I have a big mouth. :) It's just not in my personality. I like someone who can shout their opinion. Like Wash or Mal or Jayne or Simon or River (how ever crazy you make her) or Kaylee or Inara. I have some trouble with Zoe too sometimes. She's supposed to be all stone cold and stoic and then she can be all... not stoic and hardcore. It's annoying!
Gryffyd
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Just remember this with jayne: he IS undeducated, we all know this, but he is not stupid, not like everyone else (including himself at times) thinks. Just apply a whole lot of good old fashioned street smarts to jayne, and you can do all right with him.
Just a suggestion. We ae all trying to create something special out here in our own ways, I kinda feel we al have an obligation to try and help one another.
Simon: "Were there any Feds?"
mal: "No, no Feds, just an honest brawl between folk."
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I agree on Wash as being a real obstacle to write, for the same reasons, but strangely I've also found Inara to be pretty difficult. I mean, I'm not the most refined speaker, and she uses a more sophisticate dialect than anyone else. I find it's hard to write dialog from her without sounding too corny or too low-brow. She's somewhere in the middle that's hard to figure out.
--"I know they tell ya: 'never hit a man with a closed fist,' but it is, on occasion, hilarious."--
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I find that Mal and Jayne are the two hardest to write for.
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I don't write Wash or Book seeing as everything I've written is post BDM. I'm starting to get a grip on all the other characters but River is just so gorram hard! It's just so difficult to get the way she talks right. I also find that writing dialogue for all the characters when alot of them are involved in the conversation for example, Inara, Simon and River sound very different from Mal, Kaylee and Jayne, and Zoe has a whole different thing going on. River also has the crazy thing and I've noticed that even Mal, Kaylee and Jayne talk a little bit differently. But yeah, overall I'd say River.
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Hands down Zoe- I can't get a handle on her for some reason especially post-BDM I don't quite know how she deals with grief and Wash's death. ODes she get on with bussiness? Does she lose it? does it sit inside her slowly tearing her apart?
Part from her i find Inara a bit difficult as well as Book but i find the easiset to write for are Jayne, River, Simon and Mal.
Well my days of takin' you serouisly are certainly coming to middle.
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Wash baffles me if only because he tells such awful jokes. Unless I've got him playing with dinosaurs, I just can't get into his head.
Zoe is next, she is so difficult to write - I think out of all the characters she's been the most neglected in the series and movie. One of the struggles I found with writing her post-BDM is that we were really never given any indication of how she would react to such a tragedy as losing her husband. We all can guess that she'd be stoic and strong, which she hints to with her line at the end of the movie, but I think the more telling part of that is the first - "She's tore up plenty-" What does "tore up plenty" look and feel like to Zoe?
I used to have a hard time writing Jayne, but I think I have a better understanding of him now. After the BDM, we can kind of mold him how we want. There are two schools of thought - one is that the Shepherd's death shook him up and brings out a bit of a lighter side - the other is that he's even more of mean, nasty hun dan than he was before. I tend to err towards the former.
I absolutely refuse to write Book. I know I cannot do him justice. But the other ones I love - especially River.
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So ... explain to me your obsession with all things evil?
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I find River to be the easiest to write. i could write pages and pages of her nonsense talk and it will all make sense with a little thinking.
im pretty bad with the speech patterns, i dont write many of the characters cos im a big mal/river fan, so i think all of them sans the other two are hard for me.. but i watch firefly and serenity on dvd all the time so im getting better.
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For me it's Mal. Mal is difficult to write because he's a mite unpredictable. I'll have him there and he's angry but all of a sudden he walks off and is completely different...I think I may just be retarded.
Wash definately is a bit hard, but I've never had trouble with River 
. Maybe because she's always been my favorite.
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-----Nathan Fillion (to me while drunk)
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1. If you try it and don't like it, you don't have to do it again.
2. You can have as much as you want, when you want.
3. Cravings can be very specific.
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I find Jayne to be the hardest, mostly because I find it tough to make him so intimidating and so loveable at the same time. Everyone else is relatively easy in in comparison (though River does frustrate me from time to time). Mal is the easiest by far, mostly because I see a lot of myself in him.
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