Cast Yourself In Firefly!
POSTED BY: Talvin
UPDATED: Monday, April 19, 2004 11:14
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Owner and bartender of the next place to receive Malcolm Reynolds on U-day.
Watch me get out a baseball-bat-looking stick and pound on the fellas who make the mistake of pounding on a browncoat. They can toast U-day all they want, but when they commence with the browncoat thrashing - look out.
We have art so as not to die of truth ~ Neitzsche
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Originally posted by Channain:
Owner and bartender of the next place to receive Malcolm Reynolds on U-day.
Watch me get out a baseball-bat-looking stick and pound on the fellas who make the mistake of pounding on a browncoat. They can toast U-day all they want, but when they commence with the browncoat thrashing - look out.
We have art so as not to die of truth ~ Neitzsche
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You rock, deary.
Just remember that you're standing on a planet that's evolving and revolving at 900 miles an hour... The Galaxy Song, Meaning of Life, Monty Python
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Me personally, hmmm, I would like to be an apprentice, or Shepherd in training, put under Book's tutelage, but of course, it has to be more interesting than that. So I would wanna be someone who embodies what he once was and its possible this young man could go either way. So someone who has had their fair share of disappointments and is full of anger and hate, and he is trying to teach this person to become a better man and rise about it, to be a Shepherd and guide others, not give in to the hate like the person, we all suspect he once was.
I personally find character stories about redemption and walking a fine line in the grey area more interesting than just clean cut villains or whiter than white hereos.
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hm .. i would want to write an episode and maybe even direct you all ( if you let me) .. but after a couple of Joss epis of course...
They say it’s the last song
They don’t know us, you see
Its only the last song
If we let it be
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Originally posted by Hero:
Just like real life. I'd want to be a lawyer. Defending Mal in a frontier lawsuit for some sort of cargo/delivery issue that is threatening to take his ship.
As soon as I read your first paragraph I flashed on a scene from Serenity. As I can recall the passengers are stowing their stuff and Zoe turns to Mal and says "If the feds find the goods we'll lose the ship." Mal replys,"Ain't gonna happen". This always struck me as a sorry bit of false bravado, now I know it's not! Mal's got an ace in the hole, a brillant and righteous lawyer. Hero = Mal's lawyer. Congratulations, you've made it into Firefly's 'verse, my version of it anyway.
“but I’ve been sane awhile now and change is good” …Wash
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I would be a remittance woman, traveling the outer planets, collecting the inheritance my wealthy and socially well connected family keeps sending as long as I stay far, far away from them. I would cheerfully seduce Jayne, Mal (thereby pushing Inara into his arms) Kaylee, Jayne, Jayne, and Jayne.
Sorry, got stuck there for a moment.
Isige
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Howdy, 'coats:
I'd be the powerful and -- as is invariably the case -- wise programming director of an enormous multimedia outlet on the Cortex.
After a full day of mentoring worthy artists, I would pay my usual visits to the orphanage and the homeless shelter on the way home. As is habitual for me, I would donate all my income to these unfortunate souls, except for the pittance required to heat my 1 room cold-water flat, and provide my Maruchan noodle rations, which I would be portrayed sharing with my only companion, my lovable cross-eyed ginger tabby, Mr. Whiskers(tm).
Then, one day several seasons later -- during which I would have become the main character of the series -- it is discovered that my blood contains a cure to all of Mankind's known diseases. I hang supended, my arms outstretched, my feet bound together, as my precious life's blood flows out to heal all of humanity. As I die, Inara and the other chicks flail around beneath me, gnash their teeth, rip their garments, ya-da, ya-da; meanwhile, the menfolk hang their heads in shame that they can't be more like me, except Jayne, who runs away saying, "I swear I never knew that feller!"
That's the character I'd like to play.
(I had a completely different version of the same character, but I figured I'd never get it past the brass...)
Archly yours,
zoid
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"River? I thought she was a sweet girl. Of course, we were all sure she was crazy, too."
- Inara Reynolds, Secretary of Ecumenical Affairs
from A Child Shall Lead Them: A History of the Second War of Independence Wilkins, Richard
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Um...right.
Ok, another possibility for me to play:
Investigative Reporter. He's doing a piece on "Independent Ships On The Rim: Criminals or Victims?" and he picks Serenity as a good subject. Of course, he is working undercover (until he is found out).
Obviously, this is something that Mal & Co. canNOT allow. Their daily lives plastered all over the Cortex? Ohhh, bad juju. Killing him and dumping the body is a bit out of the question, though. Time to get creative.
"I give up. I admit it. I'm a Browncoat."
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Gorramit Talvin, you stole my idea!
But mine was more of a conspiracy-type story.
The new guy books passage (with Mal complaining that their passengers keep ending up as crew 
). He's obviously hiding a secret, which makes Book, Inara, and the Tams get all suspicious and furtive.
Basically a tongue-in-cheek replay of "Serenity," but with the new guy as the victim of everyone else's increasingly paranoic reminiscences.
In the end, they manage to drop the guy off at his destination, resupply, and head for space. Everyone's speculating about what the new guy's secret was (with Book and Inara desperately doing damage control to whatever vitally important details they've let slip about themselves). And then, someone's reading the cortex and does a spit-take. . .
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We applied the cortical electrodes but were unable to get a neural reaction from either patient.
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Originally posted by Talvin:
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Less funny, but very, very interesting, would be if you decided, pro bono, to take up the cause of Simon and River Tam in a nice public court somewhere. That could be rather dramatic (albeit a bit hazardous to the solidity of your brain). Before we do that, though, we need to know exactly what that warrant says. Hmm. It doesn't exactly sound like they believe in Habeas Corpus, does it?
Sorry to go off on a tangent for a moment, but
that's a question that has bothered me since the
lawman in serenity tried to arrest simon.How
can you arrest someone who was not detained
leagally and committed no crime to begin with?
If the academy wishes to maintain a low profile,
then a high-profile manhunt is a silly way to go
about it.
I'd be happy to see this discussed in another
thread if someone with a leagal background would
start one.
If history is remarkably clear on one point,
its that people don't learn from history.
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