The unknown Book
POSTED BY: slayerofabel
UPDATED: Wednesday, December 15, 2010 10:14
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watch the episodes safe and objects in space the watch the movie and if you want look how book takes out the fed in serenity. But am i the only one that thinks book may have been an aliance opritave and asassin? Realy i have been thinking this for years plz let me know your thoughts
Keeper of the secret truths
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Most of the time I have filthy man thoughts but on this subject I'll tell ya what I think. It's been discussed and rehashed. I believed the way you do but after hearing all the arguements Book is a Federal Marshall. Knowing alot about crime and jurisdictions. An agent would't need to know that much about it. He also has seen agents work or crossed paths with them before. Kinda like an FBI man crossing path with CIA and other agencies. But who really knows for sure.
"Battle of Serenity, Mal. Besides Zoe here, how many-" "I'm talkin at you! How many men in your platoon came out of their alive".
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There no way he is a fed or he would have had the bound long befor. He had plenty to have them put away for life. And he would have not fought so hard to free a man let mel when nishka had him. To turn his life over to god like he did he would have had to have real demonds to fight. and in the episode serenity the striks which he use i know my self that was kung fu strikes and way above what a fed would have. Those where strikes that only a killing machen would know some one like the operitive from the movie has. With skills like that if he were a fed he would have been tapped long befor to be an operitive.
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The 2 most common questions that get tossed around here are:
1. What is Inara's secret?
and
2. What is Book's secret?
My answer for Book is always this: He was an operative during the Unification War. His guilt over past deeds was so intense that he felt he needed to "Be out of the world a spell" just as he states to Kaylee in the Eavestown Docks.
The line that goes over everyones heads is in the pilot episode when the Barker for the starship Brutus calls him Grampa and his response is "I never married" While being a shepard and not being married certainly makes sense, the truth to his statement is that ne never married because he was an operative. The priesthood came later.
A final note: I think that had Firefly continued, tension would have developed twixt Book and Mal/Zoe. I think that somewhere Mal would have learned something about a thing Book did during the war that led to the deaths of many Browncoats.
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I always like the subject of Book when it come up here. Based on River's mental delving into his mind in "Objects In Space", I've always said that I think Book was an Alliance interrogator. Not a kind or gentle man, but basically a brute who did the dirty work for the Alliance, gathering information for them from captured enemies and such. Operatives were merely assassins, but the Alliance interrogators like Book were much more sophisticated and subtle. He oversaw the interrogations, possibly even violently, of enemies of the state, then at some point in his life he had a epithany, and saw the light of goodness and rightousness. How he got away from them is another story.
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In Objects in Space, at least until River stumbles upon Zoë and Wash on the bridge, the thoughts she'd been encountering all revolved around her and were in some way frightening or negative.
The way Simon thinks about how he could still be on Osirius (if it weren't for River), Jayne thinking about his mistake on Ariel that nearly got him killed... In that line, Book is thinking about River too... And that is very, very scary.
My thinking is Book is retired special forces from a branch of the Alliance competing against the Blue Sun corruption in parliament. That scene suggests to me that he's on Serenity to watch, guide, and maybe even teach River.
Of course, he does use a sword in the comic book Better Days... Like a certain Operative.
Yay for A Shepard's Tale coming out soon. :)
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Quote:
Originally posted by Riverlove:
Operatives were merely assassins,
Oh, no.
no no no
Operatives are the top of the heap. More than just simple assassins, they represent the tip of physical and mental conditioning. The Operative in the film is far more than just an assassin. He's a thinker and a war leader. He's a diplomat. He's a philosopher. AND he's a killer. The Blue Sun scientist "Dr. Mathasis" knew exactly the supreme power that accompanies an operative when he entered the archives in a huff. The moment the scanner told him who he was facing his immediate response was to politely say: "Of couse an Operative of the Parliment will be granted full access"
Book has a supremely mysterous past. He never married simply becasue, like the Operative from the film, he didn't exist.
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yes yes yes an operative is far more they are interigators bouty hunter and asassins. Think about the way the early in objects in spacew was to talk in a fasion like that to a man when know that you are liable to kill him lets you get in his brain and walk around a bit. with out the benifit of powers like rivers. now some on ecsplain how you know book was thinking about river when he is talking about and to jain seems to me that what he was thinking fit better to the uter contempt felt for jain by wnyone who met him. pluss when some one was thinking about river jos had then face the cammera like they were talking to her. yet book was looking tword jain. idk just my thoughts
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We don't know that Book was still looking towards Jayne, although I guess I could watch the scene closely and try to take visual cues for where Book is looking when River reads him. All I know is that Jayne was in the kitchen/preparation area, and Book is kind of by the table.
It's not necessarily true that when River is listening to someone's thoughts, she sees them looking towards who they're thinking about. For example, Objects in Space again, when River is listening in on Inara and Mal. When River reads Inara, she looks at River, but it seems pretty obvious to me that her thoughts are directed towards Mal. I could be wrong, but Inara wouldn't think that towards River unless you believe there's femslash there.
Who Book is thinking about and the context of his thoughts are deliberately kept secret, so no, I don't know that he's thinking about River. But I have three reasons for why he might have been.
1) I don't think Book is thinking about Jayne. "I don't give a hump if you're innocent or not" is a statement that only makes sense if someone is or is claiming to be innocent. Jayne is not innocent, nor in their actual conversation is Jayne defending his innocence.
2) River's the only other person in the room.
3) Considering what she picked up previously from Simon and Jayne, I made an extrapolation that Book is thinking about River also. It's pattern recognition.
Of course, it's also entirely possible that River wasn't picking up their surfacemost thoughts, but rather memories or thoughts that are unrelated to what is currently happening. If that's the case, there's no easy way to interpret what River picks up, except for Jayne, because we recognize it.
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watch the seen befor you coment simon is looking at kaylee then when he is thinking he fases the camera. jain is talking to book looking at the counter and what hes wooking on then as he thinks about river and looks to the camera and says im sorry i got geedy the money was to good then back to the counter. book could tell by the convo with jain he was seeking some form of forgivness for something and as river read his he just keppt looking the same diretion as befor. Joss's directing stile is to convay way more of the meening with the seen its self then the lines. His stile is like a beautiful poem or painting. The actores convay way more in there movment stance and the filming stile of the seen mixed with all ways a perfect music score. Every episode is a beautiful painting worthy of hanging next to the monalisa.
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