Who Proof's Joss' scripts?
POSTED BY: Poster Nutbag
UPDATED: Thursday, December 19, 2002 16:57
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My take on that line was that Zoe was implying that it was out of the ordinary for people to live on spaceships. (Afterall they went to the trouble to terraform several planets, why would you want to live on a spaceship?) In which case, I thought the point that she was trying to make to Wash was that since their circumstances were out of the ordinary to begin with, why was it so difficult to believe that River had the ability to read minds.
Just a thought.
BTW, you are aware that people have been living in space for the past few decades, right? Skylab, Mir, the International Space Station. It's not just science fiction anymore.
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I think Zoe and Wash's "Sounds like something out of science fiction" exchange is less out-of-place and/or self-referential than it sounds.
In Firefly's version of the future there are:
No aliens.
No time travel.
No clone armies.
No funny robots.
No crossable dimensional barriers.
No warp speed.
And, possibly up until that point, no full strength telepaths.
Thus all of the above would still be science fiction to the people of Firefly's future era.
Personally, I'm glad they still have science fiction in the future. It means the characters still have imaginations and aren't just mindless corporate drones or hopeless dirty serfs.
Somehow Wash and Zoe's comments reflect this. Perhaps they have an old beat up copy of Robert A. Heinlein's Orphans of the Sky on the shelf in their quarters.
During their down time, I'd love to see the crew of Serenity having a movie night on the ship. They can watch a preserved copy of Star Trek Nemesis and laugh until they cry much like their ancestors did this past weekend.
mattro
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I, too, was bothered by the self-aware "we live on a spaceship" comment. It happens on BUFFY occassionally ("Must be tuesday"). But being a balls-out fantasy-comedy-melodrama-etc, the metatext just works. With FIREFLY, I really am sold on this being *real*, and Zoe's comment snapped me out of suspension for a moment.
--- Joe
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Quote:
Originally posted by QueenTiye:
"Honey, you live on a spaceship" meant (to me), Honey, there was a time such a thing was considered sci-fi...no reason to rule out this as sci-fi now..."
This is exactly how I interpreted it.
And the fact that Wash was a bit confused by it really sold it to me.
GatorMarc
Eat 'em up, chomp, chomp.
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I'm with MOJOECA. All of the arguments hereto are plausible, but how long did it take how many people to justify it? It's a speed bump in the dialog, like it or not.
LONG LIVE FIREFLY (Hopefully)
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