How do you see yourself on Serenity?

POSTED BY: Daikath
UPDATED: Friday, November 12, 2004 01:32
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SHINYSEVEN

Tuesday, October 26, 2004 2:11 AM

I can't believe you're asking for MarySues! Dude, that's like planting kudzu.

YT

Tuesday, October 26, 2004 7:03 AM

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Originally posted by zoid:
Zoe and I fall in love, and are married, on or about the final episode of season 5. Mal performs the ceremony as ship's captain, at my request, since he has become my best friend, even though we still have deep philosophical differences. Book does not feel slighted; I am a devout Catholic and have confessed my quandary to him -- torn between my faith and my loyalty to my new compatriot. Zoe is pregnant, and will give birth to our child midway through the following season.

Nice one, Zoid, but can we not use this as an opportunity for Firefly to explore different stories? How 'bout this:

Zoe is pregnant, with Wash's child

You are a chick

Keep the Shiny Side Up

LIVIDLIQUID

Tuesday, October 26, 2004 8:16 AM

I think I'd be a lot like Simon, only freakin' useless. I'd more-than-likely try to learn as much as I could and make myself useful, but something tells me I'd fail more often than I succeeded for quite some time until I finally found a way to fit in and contribute.

But let's say I were writing a character for myself into the show... at my age, I'd want to be Mal's illegitimate son or a cousin of Tracey's.

BROWNCOAT1

Tuesday, October 26, 2004 12:42 PM

I would be an old war buddy of Mal & Zoe's. We were separated at Serenity Valley and I was presumed dead. I was wounded and left behind, unconscious, coming to after the med ships had picked up the survivors and departed.

I managed to patch myself up enough to get moving and was later found by the burial details sent by the Alliance. I had dressed in an Alliance uniform in order to get off world and avoid imprisonment, not sure that the war was over.

Once I made it to the next planet, I disappeared and set off to hook back up w/ the Independents. I find out we lost and float from job to job, planet to planet, looking for a purpose. My friends are dead or gone off avoiding the Alliance. My family farm is gone, seized by the Alliance for nonpayment of taxes. My father died trying to keep the farm away from the Feds, and my mother died of the damp lung. Alone, I set off for the Rim.

Later I run into an old Independent buddy who is still involved w/ an underground movement of Browncoat leaders who avoided capture by the Feds. Feeling like I have a purpose again, I sign up. Needing transport for a mission I book passage on a Firefly class ship named Serenity (thinking the name odd) w/ a pretty young mechanic named Kaylee.

Once onboard I meet the captain of Serenity only to find it is my old buddy Malcolm Reynolds. I am hardly surprised when I see Zoe is still with him as they always were inseparable. We spend the better part of a day drinking and regaling the crew w/ old war stories (much to Wash's dismay).

What happens next? Who knows? Maybe I stay onboard, maybe I enlist Mal's help in some small way, perhaps Mal declines to help the Independents because he harbors resentment at command over what happened in Serenity Valley. Perhaps he chooses his new family, his crew, over any feelings of loyalty he once held to the Independent cause. Perhaps in Serenity he finally found the freedom he so desperately sought and no longer needs the cause.

Would make for an interesting season finale, no?

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ZOID

Tuesday, October 26, 2004 12:59 PM

YT wrote:

Quote:
...You are a chick

Trust me, dude, no one is going to believe me as a 'chick'. I'm too masculine (i.e., ugly) to play 'matronly babushka', let alone 'cheesecake' suitable for your lesbian fantasy. Adam Baldwin as 'Buffy' -- as I explored, tongue-in-cheek on the 'Is this a change of heart?' thread -- would be more workable.

So, I'll stick with me being a dude and married to Zoe, with all those difficult bedroom scenes. It's tough, sweaty, distracting work; but, I'm willing to pitch in when the chips are down. That's just the kind of guy I am.

You're just jealous you didn't think of it first.

Explicatively,

zoid

P.S.
Nyah-nyah-ny-nyah-nyah!
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"Burn the land and boil the sea, you can't take the sky from me." The Ballad of Serenity

Only 177 days, 16 hours, 13 minutes, and 51 seconds left until The BDM!

HANS

Tuesday, October 26, 2004 2:19 PM

I'd be the well-meaning but naive poli sci grad student from a rich central planet who just got a government grant to record oral histories with former independents on the outer colonies. In order to stretch my grant money I hire out with Serenity as it travels from world to world, interviewing various colonists and writing my thesis "Class identification as a determiner of independence allegiance". As time passes I come to identify more and more with the Serenity crew and find myself getting involved in their hijinks, all the while changing from a ivory tower academic to a firey supporter of independent's rights and future political leader of the new independence movement (around season seven... :).

Hans

HERO

Tuesday, October 26, 2004 4:05 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by Daikath:

So how would you like to see yourself onboard Serenity?

I see myself as the starboard stabilizer (ie right wing). Without me the ship don't fly. Besides, there are plenty of port stabilizers on this board. We need some balance.

H

ZOID

Tuesday, October 26, 2004 6:18 PM

Hero wrote:

Quote:
I see myself as the starboard stabilizer (ie right wing). Without me the ship don't fly. Besides, there are plenty of port stabilizers on this board. We need some balance.

Actually, the ship would fly with only the left wing, but it would only go around in a huge circle (like a) jerk.

Observantly,

zoid

HERO

Tuesday, October 26, 2004 6:45 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by zoid:

Hero wrote:
Quote:
I see myself as the starboard stabilizer (ie right wing). Without me the ship don't fly. Besides, there are plenty of port stabilizers on this board. We need some balance.

Actually, the ship would fly with only the left wing, but it would only go around in a huge circle (like a) jerk.

Thats the way left wingers are. They argue in circles and behave like jerks. If you wanna get where your going you need a right wing to make it happen.

Must be the season, can't order dinner without considering the politics...

H

YT

Tuesday, October 26, 2004 6:50 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by zoid:
Adam Baldwin as 'Buffy' -- as I explored, tongue-in-cheek on the 'Is this a change of heart?' thread -- would be more workable.

Yah, I liked that one, on two levels. And he's got the acting chops to pull it off, or wherever.

Quote:
You're just jealous you didn't think of it first.

Curse your sudden but inevitable disclosure.

Well, I thought of it the first time I saw the show. But I ain't gonna mess with the dude who taught Captain Neo everything he knows.

Keep the Shiny Side Up

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