Why was Book in the cargo by in 'Serenity' ?
POSTED BY: AURaptor
UPDATED: Tuesday, April 6, 2004 23:25
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Originally posted by Fireflythemovie:
I still think Book was being entirely honest with Inara. He almost certainly has a violent past (or at least witnessed a lot of violence, and trained for violence, regardless of whether he participated) then joined the Abbey, presumably to repent for earlier actions/inactions.
I still wonder why he stayed on Serenity if he knew he was going to be with violent people. If he was so concerned about being on the wrong ship, why didn't he run the first time they landed?
Something must have happened to make him decide it was safe enough to stay. Perhaps he agreed with Mal's decision to shoot Dobson and knew that Mal and the crew were not bad people but were good people in a bad situation.
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remember in the deleted scene, book asks simon why he chose serenity and simon said because it seemed disreputable. maybe that's the same reason book chose serenity. maybe he figured that's where he would find simon and river. or maybe he is running/hiding from something too. or maybe he really does just want to help the heathens aplenty. :-)
as for why he shows up in the middle of mal finding simon in the cargo bay ...
i sorta like the conspiracy theory between him and dobson. i had never thought of that before. maybe there was more to what he said about 'the man he swore to protect'. maybe that's why he's so upset that dobson was dead and he wasn't so sure it was wrong.
course he could have just heard the commotion and followed the voices.
"They say the snow on the roof is too heavy. They say the ceiling will cave in. His brains are in terrible danger."
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Look, unless Book had some special - tell the future/ Jedi like powers - its unlikely he knew about Simon / River. They got on AFTER he chose Serenity. A case COULD be made that he was looking for a ship that might fit a certain profile,one that Simon would likely go for.....
As for me, there certainly is something about Book and his past, but I'm not ready to fall in line w/ the crowd and assume he is some guilt ridden Alliance officer. I'm not saying he couldn't be, but usually when everyone tends to favor 1 explanation, there's something else to the story.
I think that if Jayne doesn't figure it out, he'll at least wonder out loud often enough so that Mal or Zoe finally puts the pieces together and figures it out .... possibly in the movie ?
" They don't like it when you shoot at 'em. Worked that out myself. "
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What nobody hyar seems to realize is that if Book and Dobson were in cahoots they could easily have picked Simon up between the two of them on Persephone and avoided the whole mess. I think Book really is a preacher, was obviously some kind of Alliance bigwig before taking orders, and had no idea whose ship he was riding on when he took passage.
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Originally posted by AURaptor:
Why was Book in the cargo by in 'Serenity'?
To smoke a joint? ;)
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