More objects in space..

POSTED BY: gnoc
UPDATED: Wednesday, June 23, 2004 16:41
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MALICIOUS

Thursday, April 15, 2004 12:32 AM

OR could it be as simple as Joss wanting to incorporate a repeat of Mal's "earlier"** order to River of "No touching guns!" as she later advises Zoe...?

**=(get it? Jubal Early?)

Mal-licious

SPOOKYJESUS

Thursday, April 15, 2004 5:08 PM

Yeah - that's where she gets her plan from - Joss says as much on the commentary.

HIGHIRON02

Thursday, April 15, 2004 6:21 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by SouthernMerc:
Jubal makes his descent onto Serenity;

What an interesting turn of a phrase. This one really made me stop and think.

We got you partially surrounded.

LAILING

Wednesday, June 23, 2004 4:41 PM

With all due respect, I don't think anyone has stopped to really observe Book and the things that he says and does or remembered to take them in context - the context of his society. Therefore, here's my opinion and my reasoning behind it.
1. Book takes certain things literally that many would not: "Hey, grandpa!" "I'm sorry, I've never married". Most would understand that the speaker was addressing him in reference to his age, not his marital status - meaning, "Hey, Old Man".
2. His conversation with Inara at the end of the pilot.
MY CONCLUSION: Book spent a sheltered or even cloistered life in the abbey.

1. He has some knowledge of tactics and the military.
2. His speech and body language do not indicate someone of high rank or who has been in command.
MY CONCLUSION: Book's order may have provided Sanctuary or Asylum that he had to be prepared to fight to ensure - or his order may have been a fighting unit in the war which remained isolated from regular troops (sorta like the Knights Templars of the Crusades), but Book, while trained in tactics, never himself held a command.

3. If Book's order regularly or frequently provided Asylum, they probably believed that a person is innocent until proven guilty, or in the innate goodness of a person until proven otherwise.
4. If Book's order fought in the war, they probably believed in the rightness of their actions
MY CONCLUSION: Something may have happened that made him lose his faith - a person given Asylum who turned out guilty, or realizing they fought for the "wrong" side in the war. At that point, he or his superiors may have realized that Book either had no place in the abbey anymore, or that any answers to be found couldn't be found there. Either way, he left and ended up in a society he doesn't really understand how to interact in.

MY THEORY AS TO THE MEANING OF THE THOUGHT RIVER PICKED UP ON IN "OBJECTS IN SPACE": "I don't give a hump if you're innocent or not; so where does that leave you?" I think he's saying that he's lost his faith in himself: "I don't care...", and, if HE, a man of God specifically trained to give someone the benefit of the doubt, doesn't care whether someone is innocent, then where DOES that leave the other person? Up Sh*t's Creek, more than likely! And, just as importantly, where does it leave Book?

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