A (new?) Book Theory

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UPDATED: Thursday, May 6, 2004 22:20
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EMBERS

Thursday, May 6, 2004 12:54 AM

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Originally posted by howdyrockerbaby1:
Okay... so this is the basic gist of my new Theory.

He feels responsible for the untimely death of his son and is then lying to himself and others when in Serenity he says "I never married."

Well, I have to disagree with this theory because it doesn't (IMO) suit Joss' style.

Joss will mislead us with double meanings, or with the actor playing a different emotion that implies things he isn't saying... But I have never known Joss to have anyone tell an out and out lie.

Book is full of secrets, and they are hinted at in various ways (the way Early attacks him as tho he was a soldier instead of a shepard, and the way Book spends as much time as Jayne working out...), but I don't believe that a clear statement like 'I never married' would be a lie... Altho it may have some important meaning because it was repeated twice, and Joss usually doesn't waste words, not once much less twice.

I'm happy to know the movie is evidently going to tell us more about Book, because I am VERY curious about him!

TJACK

Thursday, May 6, 2004 2:27 AM

To Lost:
What if Book were a highly placed Bounty Hunter well respected by the Alliance? That would also explain Jubal's recognizing him.-"That's no Shepard"

TJACK

Thursday, May 6, 2004 2:27 AM

To Lost:
What if Book were a highly placed Bounty Hunter well respected by the Alliance? That would also explain Jubal's recognizing him.-"That's no Shepard"

FIREFLYTHEMOVIE

Thursday, May 6, 2004 2:41 AM

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... But I have never known Joss to have anyone tell an out and out lie.

Well, that's not entirely true. I seem to recall Willow doing a whole lot of lying around Season 6. And the Scoobies lied to their parents all the time. But the audience has always known they were lying, fairly soon after the fact if not as they're lying.

EMBERS

Thursday, May 6, 2004 2:49 AM

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Originally posted by Fireflythemovie:
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... But I have never known Joss to have anyone tell an out and out lie.

Well, that's not entirely true.

No, you're right...but somehow I always felt that there were clues when it was a lie...

It is hard to call, cause the more I think about Book repeating that 'I never married' line twice made me think there must be more to it....

There is so much we don't know about everyone on board the Serenity (I'm so glad we're getting the movie!)

KINGOFTHEMUDDERS

Thursday, May 6, 2004 3:13 AM

"I never married" and "I'm not a grandpa" can still work.

- Book never married BUT had a love affair which produced a child. This child grew up and joined the browncoats

- That child died in the war and never had a child of his own. Therefore, Book was never a grandpa.

CAPTAINMAL

Thursday, May 6, 2004 3:51 AM

I'm thinking that Book is some sort of double agent. He wroks, ultimatly, for an antiAlliance or anti-Blue Sun outfit which is determined to find out what they are doing in the "River Project" and in the course of that service he had been or is a double-agent within the Alliance.

So they Alliance thinks he's on their dime and mal and Co. think he's a simple shepherd butreally he's neither...he has his own agenda. One that's not contrary to being allied with Mal & Co. but one that is definatly contrary to Alliance/Blue Sun interests.

Just so much suposition of course....

"Why we still discussin' this?"

GUNHAND

Thursday, May 6, 2004 3:53 AM

Well Book is definately the mystery that I'm most looking forward to seeing more about when the BDM comes out.

All sorts of theories here, and most of them could fit, heck they all could fit at the same time depending on how sneaky and/or bad Book was before he became a Shepard.

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KINGOFTHEMUDDERS

Thursday, May 6, 2004 4:02 AM

It should be noted in every Book discussion that Tim Minear said who book is "isn't what you are thinking"

JUMPY

Thursday, May 6, 2004 5:21 AM

The thing I find that sort of screws up all these book theories is when he starts crying during the Serenity episodes cause he's fallen in with theives and the dude got killed etc.

If he was so important and was involved with killing peeps in some capacity why does he put on the waterworks because its all too much for him? You think its just an act? They don't suspect anything about him in that particular time so why go to the trouble?

I dunno its just wierd is'all

Simon: Oh yes, he's a real beast...It's a wonder you're still alive.
Jayne: He looked bigger when I couldn't see him

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