It is Free Comic Book Day 5/5/2012: Avengers, Buffy, Serenity and The Guild. Not just United States!
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Quote:Serenity: Float Out would have been a better comic if Zoe meets Wash's pregnant girlfriend at the memorial. Wash's adultery is more interesting than his piloting.
Originally posted by BYTEMITE:
. . . Wash's known wishes about their children. He wanted them raised planet side. And Zoe does appear by herself in Float Out - and I do think that's Zoe.
*looking at two* I don't think they're going to have two pregnant women with a history with Wash around just for the dramas.
Zoe would lose her cool in front of the crew. ( Too bad the rest of the crew were not in Float Out. ) Then Zoe could have regrets about her own child that will never be born.
The Joss Whedon script for "Serenity," where Wash lives, is
Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/two
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Um, they just showed pregnant Zoe - again - in It's Never Easy. Unless you think Zoe got pissed off, walked out, and Mal offered a job to the suspiciously similar substitute?
You can only milk angst about a window lamenting they didn't have kids for so long.
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Quote:That did not improve It's Never Easy.
Originally posted by BYTEMITE:
Um, they just showed pregnant Zoe - again - in It's Never Easy.
I'll have a counterfactual: “If only Zoe was not pregnant and Wash's girlfriend was, then Serenity: Float Out would have been unforgettable. The actual comic was very bland and better forgotten.”
The Joss Whedon script for "Serenity," where Wash lives, is
Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/two
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Unforgettable in that they could have made a beloved character kind of a jerkass cheating on his wife in retrospect? Yep, that's certainly the way to go, drama over poignancy, derailment over respect for the characters, whatever was I thinking?
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Quote:In this counterfactual comic, the pregnant girlfriend was before Wash married Zoe. Because Wash refused to be a father, he had split from the girlfriend. After Wash is dead, the girlfriend honors his memory by having the child. It is Zoe who initially assumes Wash was cheating, thanks to Jayne's suggestion. You know what a dog Jayne is. Pregnant girl that looks like Zoe at Wash's funeral and Jayne comes to a Jayne conclusion. Zoe punches Jayne in the face for suggesting that Wash was not true, but the idea still bothers her and the real story comes out after the funeral.
Originally posted by BYTEMITE:
Unforgettable in that they could have made a beloved character kind of a jerkass cheating on his wife in retrospect?
The emotional whiplash that Zoe feels is what makes it interesting.
Zoe is mad when she believes that Wash was an adulterer,
glad that Wash has a child,
sad that she will never have a child with Wash.
Mad / glad / sad is a complicated emotion to have in a comic book.
The Joss Whedon script for "Serenity," where Wash lives, is
Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/two
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...Or she could be MAD at herself that she got Wash killed, GLAD that he's going to have a child, and SAD that he won't be there for their child.
No creepy stalker ex who looks just like Zoe (?!) raping Wash's memory by using his frozen sperm without his consent (?!!) necessary. :/
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Quote:Easy to get around that objection: Wash agreed, then changed his mind after the girlfriend is pregnant, but before she told him. He ran away, taking all his dinosaurs, on Serenity while she was at work. Wash's girlfriend stopped the pregnancy, where stopped means placed on suspension, not aborted. This is science fiction.
Originally posted by BYTEMITE:
No creepy stalker ex who looks just like Zoe (?!) raping Wash's memory by using his frozen sperm without his consent (?!!) necessary. :/
Everything is the setup for a scene: For suggesting that Wash was cheating on Zoe, Jayne is beaten by Zoe, Wash's pregnant girlfriend, and River. After, Kaylee tells Jayne that he was mean to talk bad about Wash. Mal tells him to keep his mouth shut around women. “Like you do around Inara? What about you and Nan--” POW! Mal knocks Jayne out cold. THE END.
The Joss Whedon script for "Serenity," where Wash lives, is
Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/two
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I think it would have been better not to make Zoe pregnant.
I do not fear God, I fear the ignorance of man.
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Quote:Me too!
Originally posted by m52nickerson:
I think it would have been better not to make Zoe pregnant.
The Joss Whedon script for "Serenity," where Wash lives, is
Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/two
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I don't think it's BAD, though it's not what I would have done. The point was to give Zoe and the fans closure I guess.
I don't really like the proposed alternative scenario, but then, I think you all already knew that.
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