Who was Shepard Book?
POSTED BY: 6ixStringJack
UPDATED: Friday, November 23, 2007 11:21
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It fits to a point, but in "Safe" Book's welcome after his ident chip was read was not consistant with that of a cop let alone a crooked cop.
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Originally posted by rallem:
...If the crew were to revisit Wash’s past, there might be a few minutes of him flying for the war, and being a prisoner of war, and in all maybe an entire episode of his relationship with Zoey. Perhaps that episode would show the depth of the pair’s arguments and their passion for one another with the culmination of Zoey giving birth to Wash’s child, but other than that I cannot see any more future episodes with Wash’s character present and that is why I feel his death was the most tragic of the two.
Nope...Wash didn't fly in no war , least not as
a military pilot...
Wash is basically a pacifist , and frequently the lone 'voice of reason' when there's dissent among the crew...
There are lots of ways Wash can be back , whether in Series or Movies...
There's room enough in the 'Verse for everyone...
Only limit is imagination...
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I think in an interview Alan Tudyk said that he thought Wash had flown in the war and was shot down in his first mission and spent the rest of the war in a POW camp, but he did not say on which side for the war he fought on. Of course this all could be Alan's imagination trying to fill in blanks to his character's past, or it could be information which was fed to him by Joss Whedon to help him figure out his character's motivations.
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I'm almost 100% sure that Alan said that that's what HE came up with about his own character.
I still like the idea, though, even if it isn't Joss'
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Most thoughtful post that I can recall seeing
from you , 6StringJack .
Thoughtful and thought-provoking...The
combination is too rare , at times...
Not from you particularly , mind...
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Originally posted by out2theblack:
Most thoughtful post that I can recall seeing
from you , 6StringJack .
Thoughtful and thought-provoking...The
combination is too rare , at times...
Not from you particularly , mind...
Did his post make you think of cookies or something?
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I could see the crooked cop thing working with one of two bits of extra info to explain safe. A.) He used his crooked connections to make himself a fake ident card that would get him all sorts of nice treatment from the feds. B.) He found out some very damaging information about the Alliance and used it as blackmail to get a gold star on his ident card. He'd have to have it worked out so that the info would come out if he was killed. Serenity 2 anyone ;-)
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I am not saying that Book was an agent, but for the sake of my fan fiction story he is and I was wondering what sort of plot devices could help build my story.
This is what I have planned so far:
Jayne will have pinched Books ident chip while on Haven and he will reveal this fact to Mal in private while the crew are on their way back to Haven to find clues.
Shepard Book will have a safe deposite box in a 5 star hotel on a busy outer world and inside it will be loads of money, a laser pistol, and some other ident chips. (sort of a bourne thing)
On the planet he was hung over a volcano it will be a corporate mining facility which uses the lava for ceramics similar to that on "Jaynesworld." Through some manipulation of archives the crew will be able to find the actual video showing Book in battle.
I need something to tie this all together and I am using at this moment an old journal from a ships captain whom Book hunted down, but if I could get some more idea I would greatly appreciate it. 
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The crooked cop thing would also work with OiS, because "I don't give half a hump if you're innocent..so where does that leave you?" is exactly the sort of thing a crooked cop would say.
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