To Whom It May Concern: Future Quotes Finale

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ZOID

Monday, June 7, 2004 10:19 PM

Delia:

Of course I missed you, Oh, Keeper of Knowledge, Mistress of Tomes! I could never work in a library, any more than I could in a candy store. Nobody'd ever be able to find me. I'd be stuck in the stacks, reading all day, and get the sack. I do envy those who do, though...

As to Kaylee and Simon's additional 4 children: name 'em what you'd like. I fancy they'd all be girls, just to vex Simon (given his uncanny knack for relating to females ). Although a gifted doctor, he's constantly befuddled around his girls, and makes 'em cry a lot ("Oh Daddy!" *sobbing and running to room* SIMON: "What'd I say!?"), but they -- like their Mom and the fems here at FFFn -- dote on their father.

If they're all girls, I figure one would be "Simone" after Simon, and one a "Georgina" (or whatever) after Kaylee's daddy. I don't really see any named after his parents, but I'm not looking that deeply into all the secondary relationships either. I can tell you it's gonna rain, but I can't tell you where and in what order the individual drops are gonna fall... Only God, er, Joss can do that.

I can tell you one thing I fancy about their kids, though. They are all smart, and helpful, and practical, and worldly wise beyond their years; they get precisely the best characteristics of both of their parents (with the exception of the 'black sheep', Alicious, who keeps getting caught by the local constable, up on Lookout Point with one neighbor's boy or the other. Heh-heh). They grow up to be doctors and teachers and Keepers of Knowledge on Jiangyin. They lead that world out of its need and 'politics of superstition', into prosperity.

Thanks again, Delia, for your indefatigable interest in the 'future quotes'. Your encouragement meant a lot to me.

Respectfully,

zoid
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"Burn the land and boil the sea, you can't take the sky from me." The Ballad of Serenity

Only 318 days, 6 hours, 47 minutes, and 44 seconds left until The BDM!

CYBERSNARK

Monday, June 7, 2004 10:53 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by zoid:
Although a gifted doctor, he's constantly befuddled around his girls, and makes 'em cry a lot ("Oh Daddy! *sobbing and running to room* SIMON: "What'd I say!?"),

"Oh, no dear, it's all right. He makes everybody cry; he's like a monster."

Quote:

If they're all girls, I figure one would be "Simone" after Simon, and one a "Georgina" (or whatever) after Kaylee's daddy. I don't really see any named after his parents, but I'm not looking that deeply into all the secondary relationships either.

Maybe a Jane (or perhaps some humourously masculine name

), just for the mutual irony.

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We applied the cortical electrodes but were unable to get a neural reaction from either patient.

MANATREE

Tuesday, June 8, 2004 12:24 AM

Marvelous winding journey for all of the characters! Thanks for sharing your vision with us.

DARKARCHON

Tuesday, June 8, 2004 4:18 AM

Zoid...

A great post and I enjoyed reading it immensely.

-Dark

P.S. I did get that River was talking about Mal even if I didn't consciously pick up on the tense change. It just seemed natural the way it was expressed that that was who she was talking about.

"Go on inside. Give your brother a thrashing for messing up your plan"

JAHZARA

Wednesday, June 9, 2004 12:01 AM

Wow.

I have been loving these quotes so much. I just couldn't wait to see how they ended. Wow.

I'm so glad you listed explanations. I got that River was talking about Mal, too. I also wondered about the 4/6 children. Interesting.

Yay for Mal and Inara getting married. I think if their relationship would have been allowed to fully develop, it would have been just incredible. Maybe Inara is buried on Shadow, too. At a later date. It's hard to think of them as having been married but not together, so I'm gonna have a little selective amnesia.

Thanks so much for the fun and speculation!

MANTICHORUS

Wednesday, June 9, 2004 11:15 AM

Wow...
I think... that's how Mal'd want to go out... being a 'big damn hero'...
I-I'm okay... :snf:

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"BADGER: You think you're better than other people.
MAL: Just the ones I'm better than."
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"MAL: Gotta say, doctor, your talent for alienatin' folk is near miraculous.
SIMON: Yes, I'm very proud."

RELFEXIVE

Wednesday, June 9, 2004 11:42 AM

Facinating...

It would be pretty damn shiny to get the full version of all of that, someday...

Mal: "We're not gonna die. We can't die, Bendis. You know why? Because we are so... very... pretty. We are just too pretty for God to let us die."

DELIA

Wednesday, June 9, 2004 4:11 PM

Zoid,

You're welcome. I'm glad to have have provided encouragement. It wasn't hard to be interested in your quotes -- they were wonderful. I'm going to miss having a new one next Monday -- any chance you've got a sequel cooking away?

As for Simon and Kaylee's daughters, after telling me to name them, you named three of them. I propose, therefore, that Simone, Georgina, and Alicious are joined by Serena, named in honor of certain ship much beloved by her parents, and her Aunt River.

Poor Simon, surrounded by girls. I suspect he and Malcolm would band together out of self-defense (and shared waiting for the bathroom).

Delia

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Spike: Why don't you rip her lungs out? It might make an impression.
Angelus: Lacks... poetry.
Spike: It doesn't have to. What rhymes with lungs?

ZOID

Thursday, June 10, 2004 10:10 AM

Delia, Mistress of Tomes and Keeper of Knowledge:

I don't have anything planned as a follow-up, basically because I don't do fanfic. I could write lots of stuff, from lots of angles. But, as I've said before, I'm not going to, because it doesn't feel right to me. It's Joss' story, not mine, and I think I'd be leading people down a primrose path, that might seriously diverge from JW's. If he hired me as a writer, I'd go off on that bad boy; but I'd have to say chances of that happening are astronomical (galaxy, as compared to solar system).

I read the first installment of Zahn's Star Wars derivations, back during the (15-year?) hiatus from theaters that story took; I found it morally disturbing that someone else was telling the story, even if they were doing a much better job than I could have done. What if people like my storyline better? (Okay, that's not gonna happen, but it is a possible permutation.) What if some get confused between my vision of Firefly and Joss'? What if my character motivations and those of the official Firefly 'verse are disparate, but people remember mine at movie time and think, 'The movie didn't ring true'? What if I get everything as close to correct as (non-psychically) humanly possible, and everybody feels like they already know where all three movies in the series are going? Doing the whole 'logical analysis' yields a lot of possibilities -- some more probable than others -- but with JW's penchant for the improbable...

I just don't feel like risking ruination of the finest SF ever realized on film, any more than I already have. Already, I have noticed more than a few posters who have repeated my predictions, here and at other websites, and it makes me wish I'd said less.

Still, I'm captivated by the idea of 'Cretaceous Park'. A TV series could be made of it, but because of copyright entanglements, there never would be. But, it'd be damned funny, and one could work in the whole Firefly crew (including a thrice-resurrected Mal) on a regular basis. That'd be my choice for fanfic material from the quotes.

BTW: bung, dung, hung, rung, sung, tongue, and young.

Respectfully,

zoid
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"Burn the land and boil the sea, you can't take the sky from me." The Ballad of Serenity

Only 315 days, 19 hours, 0 minutes, and 5 seconds left until The BDM!

DELIA

Thursday, June 10, 2004 12:37 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by zoid:

BTW: bung, dung, hung, rung, sung, tongue, and young.

Also, clung, flung, among, sprung, and strung. Though once you try to and the "s," some don't quite work.

Well, I'll miss having your future quotes each week, but I suspect I'll survive. Thanks again, it's been a blast.

Delia

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Spike: Why don't you rip her lungs out? It might make an impression.
Angelus: Lacks... poetry.
Spike: It doesn't have to. What rhymes with lungs?

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