something ain't right about shindig
POSTED BY: evildead1971
UPDATED: Thursday, April 15, 2010 00:24
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i was watching shindig this afternoon and i had a thought;
how come badger didn't recognize simon and river? wasn't there mention in bushwhacked of a bulletin on the cortex about the tams being on a firefly class? now maybe badger missed that bulletin, but he seems the type to try and know everything that goes on.
maybe in a future episode that issue would have been brought up. would have made for a interestin' episode. 
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My guess would be something to the effect of it never occuring to Badger that Mal could be involved in something that high-level, as it were. Besides, he seems to have bought River's act, and believed her to be from his home planet/moon (the name of which escapes me for the moment, but I think that I did read the name somewhere), and so she couldn't be the fugitive River Tam. That is the solution which jumps immediately to mind, anyway.
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Huh. Never thought about that. I was always so tickled by River's performance to notice.
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Originally posted by RogueScholar:
My guess would be something to the effect of it never occuring to Badger that Mal could be involved in something that high-level, as it were. Besides, he seems to have bought River's act, and believed her to be from his home planet/moon (the name of which escapes me for the moment, but I think that I did read the name somewhere), and so she couldn't be the fugitive River Tam. That is the solution which jumps immediately to mind, anyway.
I would take an educated guess that his home planet is Londinium as that is the one that Mal makes a reference to, although I'm not sure that the show actually states that he is from there. Fits with his accent and River's fake accent as well.
I agree that he probably wouldn't have made the connection straight away, probably wouldn't be interested in escaped fugitives as a rule, being as there is no direct profit or motivation for him. It's not like he's going to go looking for them or anything. It would only matter if they crossed his path or he was hired to do something about it.
Now when he did realise, or it was pointed out to him then that would be another story. And I'd bet a good one too.
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Badger does sell Mal out for "Those Left Behind". I am not sure whether it was Mal he sold out or River though... had it clicked?
As for where he is from... Dyton Colony. No idea where that is, but I would say NOT on a core world.
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Quote:So was Badger, obviously...
Originally posted by PhyreLight:
Huh. Never thought about that. I was always so tickled by River's performance to notice.
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I read this thread and thought about it for a while and here is my impression. It is entirely possible that this was the making of another future episode of Firefly bringing Badger back in the series in Joss' head, but unfortunately the people in charge at Fox decided to axe the series and we will never get to know now that the BDM pretty much ended the Tam's lives on the lam.
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I'm not so sure that Miranda was the ONLY Alliance secret in River's head, and they have no more interest in the Tams. If so, the Tams would return home, which I'm not betting on happening.
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I don't think the Tams will ever return home, because I think at least in the mind of Simon that their parents knew that River was in trouble and said nothing so they could remain comfortable.
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Quote:They're still fugitives. Simon still broke into a top secret military facility, I doubt all will be forgiven just because 'what' he stole has already done it's damage.
Originally posted by jewelstaitefan:
I'm not so sure that Miranda was the ONLY Alliance secret in River's head, and they have no more interest in the Tams. If so, the Tams would return home, which I'm not betting on happening.
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