If you had to eliminate a Firefly character...
POSTED BY: OPPYH
UPDATED: Wednesday, December 23, 2009 15:50
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Ok, just for the sake of discussion: If you had the power to guarantee Firefly a full first season(22 episodes) if you eliminated one of the crew aboard Serenity. Now I'm talking eliminate them from the start of the series, like they never even existed. Who would it be?
I would have to choose Book.
a) HE was usually made to feel unwelcome anyway by most of the crew
b) His character wasn't essential to the series...remember his death in the BDM wasn't even justified. We knew no more about him after his death as we did when he was alive and kicking.
Now don't get me wrong, I love the character of Book but given the choice, I'd have to let him go over all the others.
Just think No Jayne=No Jaynestown(perish the thought).
No Kaylee=No Kaylee/Simon romance in the making(I'm depressed just thinking about it).
What do ya'll think?
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That's really not something I even want to speculate about. As for Book, he was essential to the show. He provided strength, wisdom, humor, and a moral compass when it was often needed.
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Probably Inara.
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Joss was going to do this anyway, I think, with her illness. he was just going to make it as incredibly heartbreaking and poignant as possible. Damn his sudden yet not unexpected betrayal.[/spolier]
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This is just for the hell of it, since I really wouldn't want to eliminate any of the nine main characters, it would be as sacrilegious as eliminating Serenity herself.
But...if I had to choose, I agree with ChapterandVerse...Inara would be least missed. The romantic tension could have been transferred into an unresolved triangle between Mal, Zoe and Wash.
wo men ren ran zai fei xing.
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Simon. Just never cared that much for him. At least, not as much as the others.
"I thoroughly disapprove of duels. If a man should challenge me, I would take him kindly and forgivingly by the hand and lead him to a quiet place and kill him."
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Simon. Just never cared that much for him. At least, not as much as the others.
Then explain how River would have ended up on Serenity.
wo men ren ran zai fei xing.
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So...would the UST be between Mal/Wash or Mal/Zoe?
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So...would the UST be between Mal/Wash or Mal/Zoe?
Well, you know Joss has at times teased that he is a bit gay, so you never know.
wo men ren ran zai fei xing.
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Well, then, it's Mal/Simon for the UST, which many believe is already there, and the Companion is also a mechanic;)
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Simon. Just never cared that much for him. At least, not as much as the others.
Then explain how River would have ended up on Serenity.
wo men ren ran zai fei xing.
Why? No one else is qualifying their answers, there was no "and make the story work" criteria. Any character being lost would require changes to the story - so who cares? I don't like the character, sue me. Let him bring her on, and Dobson kills him, if you have such an inexplicable need for an answer.
"I thoroughly disapprove of duels. If a man should challenge me, I would take him kindly and forgivingly by the hand and lead him to a quiet place and kill him."
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