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UPDATED: Wednesday, June 2, 2010 03:29
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Oh! Here's a good one.
Platonist and I, we're kind of Mal/Inara shippers, and it occurred to us that we might therefore have a bias that may prevent us from seeing clearly.
And, of course, shipping is much, MUCH less important than figuring out what's going to happen well in advance of it happening!
So I pose a friendly question to Mal/River shippers. It occurred to us that there are three kind of nice moments Mal and River share in the story Crystal, more moments really than River has with any of the other crew (Simon gets two).
What do you read into this?
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Ordered mine today from Amazon to support Haken, and shopped a bit at the FFF.net store at Amazon, too.
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I like the "What would Jayne and your character from Chuck talk about about if they got together?"
"Weaponry first -hot girls second"
Oh, that's priceless...
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Wouldn't there be a fight first and an attempt to take Jayne into custody? I mean, Casey *IS* intelligence, right? And Jayne's a mercenary on the wrong side of the law? The first time they'd met would be on opposite ends of sniper scopes. The second time they'd meet is 'cause Casey found out who he was from the first time and tracked him down.
But after the fight and the handcuffs, MAYBE a conversation, since it couldn't be lost on them that they look like long-lost brothers. Then beer, guns, and womanly figure appreciation.
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Yay! My copy finally came. And I very much enjoyed all the stories.
@Bytemite - I think you and Platonist can relax on the Mal/River thing, I didn't get that at all....it seemed more like a continuation of the movie theme, where River and Mal are the characters whose perspectives we see through the most.
Although I bet that last story didn't make you guys happy :/
I did adore the last Simon/River moment in Crystal though. Those two always manage to warm my cold little heart.
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>_>
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The last story isn't real. Apparently Mal has a vivid imagination.
It's not that I'm worried about Mal/River, I mean, I can definitely see a future where River, like, COMFORTS Mal or something.
I admit that Mal/River doesn't float my boat at all (even in that possible future), but I'm realistic, and I can accept that it could be a possibility, since there IS a Mal and River focus to the series. And I'm also willing to accept Mal/River fans like them together. So we can coexist, and I'm not asking what I did to put something over on them, I genuinely think there might be Mal/River undertones here.
Though technically, there's also potentially Rayne undertones as well.
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Darn it, how do you do invisitext? I thought the last one was open to interpretation on that point..I read it as a flashback at first, but I just went back and skimmed it again and now I can go either way. Which is good, because my Interpretation:A was a little depressing;)
Still not seeing any River-shipping in Crystal though...but for River-shipping fans, as bizarre as I find them, I'm sure they can pull something out of it:) Come to think of it...could probably pull one or two more less conventional River-ships out of it too...CHRIST NOW YOU HAVE ME THINKING ABOUT IT.
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Type [spoiler and close the bracket. And don't forget the [/*] end code function after the text you want to put in the spoiler.
There's probably plenty of foreshadowing in Take the Sky. I doubt things will happen exactly as depicted, but yeah, there's very likely hints. If it has consistency across Crystal as well, it's probably a very good hint.
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I've read and enjoyed these stories several times now, and I don't think they were meant to be the definitive collection of "shippy tales from the verse.”
They're just okay stories with well written voices of the characters we’ve come to love.
None of them change canon drastically or offer information we didn't already know.
And, yeah, the third one is sad, but it does change tense at the end, so my suggestion is to, take it with a spoon full of sugar, and buy the book.
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Well, okay, the only shipping in the Wash Kaylee one is a dash of Zoe/Wash here and there and a couple solid Zoe/Wash paragraphs at the end. The River one is pretty open ended, shipping wise, something for everyone, though it's a heavy emphasis on Kaylee/Simon. The last one is strictly Zoe/Wash, Kaylee/Simon, and Mal/Inara.
Haha, it just occurred to me. Mal ships Kaylee/Simon. I guess technically EVERYONE does, though. 'Cept maybe Jayne...
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