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Originally posted by AgentRouka:
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Any color jelly beans?
Anything but liquorice - I hate liquorice.... Favourites would be; Pear Sundae and Caribbean coconut :P
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*grabby hands* No way....
Yup.. Way
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I do not htink I've seen this approach taken to a Book plot before! Especially if the mystery is not resolved at all but rather even heightened!
Also, I would be most delighted!
Well I like to think that Book pissed off alot of people in his past. Perhaps through doing good just as much as through doing something questionable.... Anyway as 'Bugs' likes to say " On with the bugs bunny show..."
Season 3. Episode 7 : In evil hour.
Serenity pulls into 'Bacchus Docks' to settle some business and rendezvous with Inara - who had flown ahead earlier for her business, when upon their approach the dock port explodes! The Bacchus port is shaken to the core and there is mass panic as ships take flight to avoid further explosions.
Later a wave from Inara informs Mal and the crew that the Bacchus complex is under alert and that no-one is allowed in or out indefinitely, as the feds suspect the incident deliberate - and she doesn't know when she can make it back to Serenity. Surmising Serenity was the intended target Mal and the crew try and work out just who this powerful Mal may have pissed off, to warrant such a display. With boyish petulance Mal objects but then Zoe reminds him of Commissar Lars Forrester.
Mal reluctant to enlighten the rest of the crew on the subject looks to Shepherd Book for some kind of guidance - who curiously urges Mal to 'Rabbit' leaving Inara behind. Serenity hits glow and vanishes out of sight of the Bacchus Port. Inara accepting her predicament turns and heads to her quarters...
To Inara's surprise Mal is already there! (playful and cool about the whole thing as you can imagine Mal being) Incredulous Inara asks how and Mal explains he drifted in wearing the space suit and that they really don't have time for this as they must hurry and flee in her shuttle and rendezvous with Serenity. There are a few tense moments avoiding the feds but they make it to the shuttle and manage to rendezvous with Serenity.
On reflection Mal is unconvinced that it was the work of the Commissar but accepts that they must be extra careful with whom they deal with from now on. Shepherd Book gives Mal a quizzical knowing look.
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Originally posted by bluesuncompanyman:
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Season 2 episode 18 "We Were Soldiers"
Awesome title! Very powerful!
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In an opening sequence, we are gifted with a new sequence from the war. Mal is between battles and eating with Browncoat solders in a trench. The sequence ends with him staring into a cup of water in his hand. Transition: we are now shown Mal, sitting alone in the dinning room in Serenity, with a cup on the table and he's lost in thought.
Beautiful imagery. Something like this is all about the actor and maybe the music in the background. Nice stuff.
Could Kaylee maybe be talking frivously about a liason she had with an army man, and she says something like :
" Y'know how ripped those guys are..."
and Mal takes offence to it because he once was such a man - before he was bitter and broken...
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Originally posted by TheSomnambulist:
Could Kaylee maybe be talking frivously about a liason she had with an army man, and she says something like :
" Y'know how ripped those guys are..."
and Mal takes offence to it because he once was such a man - before he was bitter and broken...
I'm not certain in my minds eye what Mal would be mad about, that's the problem. I have the story skeleton, but not the meat of it. I wanted whatever it was to be something important to Kaylee, something that people on the crew would think awsome. That way when Mal becomes an A-hole nobody understands. Mental war scars are like that. A good friend of my father will not watch fireworks during july 4 because they remind him of Vietnam, when the VC would shoot up flares while looking for americans and the sounds remind him of airburst shelling.
My point is, there is only one person who understands the "thing" and that's Zoe. I also thought of a scene where Wash could walk away with Zoe and once out of range make a sideways comment only to be tersely rebuked by Zoe who, even after seemingly defending Mal, refuses to explain why.
I wanted to put a human face on Mal's pain, and start to peel back the layers of hurt a man feels when he watches his land burn and his sea boil.
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Originally posted by bluesuncompanyman:
I also thought of a scene where Wash could walk away with Zoe and once out of range make a sideways comment only to be tersely rebuked by Zoe who, even after seemingly defending Mal, refuses to explain why.
This could also be a great set-up to further explore Wash and Zoe's marital problems, the way they drift apart because Zoe refuses to really communicate with Wash and deal with the way the war affected her!
Would be a nice mirror to the defeated image of Mal you close the episode with. :)
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TS, you really know how to reel them in! The Commissar Lars Forrester, now?? What's the story behind that?
I like how sneaky Book is about all this, absolutely refusing to give anything away, even knowing it must chip away at Mal's trust and patience...
Bacchus port is some kind of space station, I take it, for Mal to be able to float in with a space suit? :) Gah, he and his pranks.
Moreplease?
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Originally posted by AgentRouka:
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TS, you really know how to reel them in! The Commissar Lars Forrester, now?? What's the story behind that?
Thank you. Ahh yes Forrester... Someone Mal stole from? An old war time nemesis? Or perhaps an angry husband...? Who knows at this stage....
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I like how sneaky Book is about all this, absolutely refusing to give anything away, even knowing it must chip away at Mal's trust and patience...
Yes I wonedered about that during the Message. Book looked very confident towards the end but at first he took time to assess the situation. As though calculating something....
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Bacchus port is some kind of space station, I take it, for Mal to be able to float in with a space suit? :) Gah, he and his pranks.
Yup. It is. I should probably have elaborated, only I am trying to keep these brief. It's tricky after a while.
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Moreplease?
Will do, but I'm wondering. Should I maybe do this elsewhere?
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Originally posted by TheSomnambulist:
Thank you. Ahh yes Forrester... Someone Mal stole from? An old war time nemesis? Or perhaps an angry husband...? Who knows at this stage....
Saffron-related..?? :D
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Will do, but I'm wondering. Should I maybe do this elsewhere?
Possibly a good idea... a separate thread?
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Tune in to see :
Mal goes for a haircut, recognizes the barber as a former Alliance brute, so he slits his throat with a number 3 clipper, and steals his tip jar.
Badger has a duel to the death with the Geico gekko to determine who will be able to continue using that cockney dialect.
Saffron returns to Triumph and kicks the Elder in the nuts, just 'cause she wants to.
Wash's clone, now 2 years old, grabs babysitter Inara's boob and says oooh, good boob.
President Obama guest stars as Jubal Early's brother Hymie, out to avenge his death, or at least to register the crew as Democrats.
Hands of Blue guys accidentally fall into a boiling vat of red dye #5, and perish in a brownish-colored haze.
River and Jayne, having been happily married for a year, announce the birth of their daughter Fred.
Tune in next week, same gorram time, same ruttin' network.
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Originally posted by bluesuncompanyman:
I've worked on this one awhile, the specifics aren't there, but the structure of the story skeleton is worked out in my mind.
Season 2 episode 18 "We Were Soldiers"
In an opening sequence, we are gifted with a new sequence from the war. Mal is between battles and eating with Browncoat solders in a trench. The sequence ends with him staring into a cup of water in his hand. Transition: we are now shown Mal, sitting alone in the dinning room in Serenity, with a cup on the table and he's lost in thought. He gets up to join the crew to see whats going on, since they just left a world and are flying into the black from port and Kaylee is calling everyone into the cargo hold to show/tell them something. I don't know what Kaylee wants to show the crew...It could be an object she aquired, or wants to talk about someone she met on planet, or any number of different things. But whatever it is, Mal reacts BADLY to it. As in he turns into a total A-hole and makes Kaylee cry thus upseting Inara who scolds him. Everyone else has a vocal opinion about Mal's bad behavior (including River who says something cryptic) except for one person: Zoe. There needs to be a camera angle on her in the scene showing her looking at Mal, wordlessly. It should be subtle, like an easter egg for fans to find later, as they will come to understand that Zoe knows exactly why Mal is upset.
The remainder of the episode consists of various flashbacks to the War, where we learn the truth of Mal's bad reaction to Kaylee. The episode finishes with Mal back in the dinning area, again with his cup, sitting in silence. The final scene ends with a camera angle of his face in frame looking away towards his cup in thought, and we watch as a single tear leaks from an eye. It is the first time we have ever seen such emotion from him. A mournful rim world fiddle plays over this scene and holds a final note as we read "Executive Producer, Joss Whedon"
Many of the best Buffy episodes hold sound into that 1st credit for dramitic effect.
I've had this episode in my mind for 3 years. I don't know the specifics, just the framework. I'd leave it to Joss to Wow us.
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Perhaps what that thing is is a reminder of his home planet Shadow. Maybe a symbol the Malcom's had to show this was their ranch (ranches have symbols, icons on their gates), and Mal had a smaller one he made into a pendant or charm, the only thing he had left of his world and his mother. Might be at one point during the war, maybe on a reconnaicence (SP?) or rescue mission they went into an Alliance camp and the head officer had the large ranch symbol hanging over his tent (token of the mans first command?) and of course Mal goes ballistic and jeopardizes the whole mission (and ends up killing the officer?) and this get's him demoted (that may not be important) But the symbol's lost until years later Kaylee sees it, thinks it's pretty, and not knowing it was from Mal's own ranch buys it, not knowing the reprecussions (and bad memories it brings, which of course was leading Mal into the war. Maybe this is the crux (him seeing his Ma's symbol above the enemies door) that makes him into what he becomes. The turning point. From there he just runs blindly on faith because he has nothing else.
Oh, and the final scene could be him holding and rubbing the smaller symbol that once held memories of mom, home, freedom, and life.
Just spitballing here, but something personal may be one of the ways to go. Fun thread. Oh what might have been. :)
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I'm sad to see this thread dying out, so here is another blurb I've been mulling over in my head.
A friend of mine first noted that the actress Sarah Chalke from the TV show Scrubs looks very much like Jewel Staite. Almost like a sister...
Then I had an idea. How about a fun little episode about Kaylee where the crew is required to set down on the very planet/moon where Kaylee first came aboard with Bester. The reason they're here is that Kaylee's sister (played by Sarah Chalke) has sent her a wave on the Cortex for (insert reason). Once aboard, (perhaps she needs a free ride somewhere and is freerolling on sis? This would annoy profit motivated Mal) we find out that she has a history of trying to steal Kaylee's boyfriends and immediately starts hitting on Simon who has NO CLUE how to handle it. In the end, hilarity ensues and Kaylee's sis is eventually dumped off at her destination. By episodes end the process of meeting her actually strengthens Simon and Kaylee's relationship. In the final scene we'd be gifted with a 1st kiss. This of course flys in the face of their relationship in the movie, but I'm thinking "what-if" had the show continued in a proper fashon.
I like this episode because it serves as a comedy in my mind, something needed after an episodic Drama like my idea above for "We Were Soldiers"
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