First Word In Your Head...

POSTED BY: DarkHood
UPDATED: Thursday, June 3, 2004 14:47
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THATWEIRDGIRL

Tuesday, June 1, 2004 9:30 PM

Mal - hopeful
Zoe - fierce
Wash - love
Book - knowledge
Kaylee - warmth
Jayne - sly
Inara - lonely
Simon - adrift
River - perpetual

spoon? well, maybe spork, but not all out spoon.

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KARENKAY99

Tuesday, June 1, 2004 9:50 PM

Mal - safe
(wow, had to analyse this. i think because i would feel safe with mal around. guess i'm totally assumming we're on the same side. :-)

Zoe - beautiful

Wash - wacky fun
(i know, that's 2 words, but that's what popped in my head, i'm sorry)

Book - mysterious

Kaylee - sweet

Jayne - clueless
(but one of the reason i love him)

Inara - lovely

Simon - doctor
(not really fair, huh?)

River - Crazy
(yep, you said it, nothing to add)

"They say the snow on the roof is too heavy. They say the ceiling will cave in. His brains are in terrible danger."

ANNIK

Tuesday, June 1, 2004 10:45 PM

Mal - tall
Zoe - stoic
Wash - happygolucky (oneword!)
Book - thoughtful
Simon - geek
River - dissonant
Kaylee - shiny!
Inara - mystic
Jayne - thick (as in mentally! ... get your minds out of the gutter!)

Cheers,
Annik
... my sister's a ship. We had a complicated childhood.

DARKHOOD

Wednesday, June 2, 2004 1:06 PM

Stop going on about the spoon lol! It was the first word in my head. On closer inspection I guess it may have something to do with being born with a silver spoon in your mouth.

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Mal's on the ground, about to get speared by Crow. A shot rings out. Crow is kneecapped.

Mal: Nice shot.

Jayne: I was aiming for his head.

CYBERSNARK

Wednesday, June 2, 2004 3:10 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by zoid:
Jayne = Ares (god of war)

I'd paint Jayne as more of a Hercules-type. The original myth one, not the Kevin Sorbo superhero.

Ares was cunning and ultra-powerful, and his name evokes images of a sinister and brutal elegence (he was a god, after all).

Hercules, OTOH, was the thick-headed lout whose heart was (usually) in the right place. While powerful, he was mortal (well, half-mortal), and not known for living in Olympian splendour. He wore an animal skin (not armour crafted by Hephaistos) and carried a big club (not a sword capable of splitting hairs).

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BROWNCOAT1

Wednesday, June 2, 2004 3:25 PM

Mal - Tortured
Zoe - Strength
Wash - Jovial
Book - Wisdom
Kaylee - Innocence
Jayne - Misguided
Inara - Grace
Simon - Protective
River - Lost
Serenity - Home

"May have been the losing side. Still not convinced it was the wrong one."

ANNIK

Wednesday, June 2, 2004 4:27 PM

??,MA,riginally posted by Cybersnark:

Quote:
Originally posted by zoid:
Jayne = Ares (god of war)

I'd paint Jayne as more of a Hercules-type. The original myth one, not the Kevin Sorbo superhero.

Ares was cunning and ultra-powerful, and his name evokes images of a sinister and brutal elegence (he was a god, after all).

Hercules, OTOH, was the thick-headed lout whose heart was (usually) in the right place. While powerful, he was mortal (well, half-mortal), and not known for living in Olympian splendour. He wore an animal skin (not armour crafted by Hephaistos) and carried a big club (not a sword capable of splitting hairs).

And didn't the mythological Hercules also have an ... um ... 'relationship' with his nephew? That's where the analogy doesn't work for me.

Perhaps Thor, as depicted by Douglas Adams?

Cheers,
Annik
... my sister's a ship. We had a complicated childhood.

ZOID

Wednesday, June 2, 2004 5:04 PM

Cybersnark wrote:

Quote:
I'd paint Jayne as more of a Hercules-type. The original myth one, not the Kevin Sorbo superhero.

Ares was cunning and ultra-powerful, and his name evokes images of a sinister and brutal elegence (he was a god, after all).

Hercules wouldn't necessarily be a bad choice, but I was sticking with gods (Prometheus was a Titan, a pre-Olympian Greek god, BTW). Having said that, I'd go with Ares anyway. He was single-minded, fickle (he'd back whoever appeared to be the most brave/foolhardy, more than a few times switching sides in the middle of a battle) and not overly concerned with the morality of either side of the conflict. Kind of a 'split someone's skull open and ask questions later, if ever' kind of guy. We see Jayne always wanting to mix it up, even against disastrous odds ("The only fluid I see is this puddle...") and only Mal holding his leash keeps him from making that crucial tactical error.

Ares was not all-powerful, and was defeated on occasion on the field of battle by mortal men (he had a penchant for getting on the field himself, as did the other Olympians, to a lesser degree).

Respectfully,

zoid
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"I knew a man once. History will never recall him, or what he gave to make us free. That's the way he wanted it. But as long as I live I'll remember, and he'll never truly die."

- River, from A Child Shall Lead Them: A History of the Second War of Independence Wilkins, Richard

DARKHOOD

Wednesday, June 2, 2004 6:18 PM

Where did you lot learn about Greek gods?

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Mal's on the ground, about to get speared by Crow. A shot rings out. Crow is kneecapped.

Mal: Nice shot.

Jayne: I was aiming for his head.

ZOID

Wednesday, June 2, 2004 6:45 PM

DarkHood:

When I was a schoolboy (starting in 3rd grade) I ingested everything I could find on Greek mythology and dinosaurs and astronomy. I also read the Roman adaptation of Greek mythology, but found it distastefully bland and perverse in comparison. I think our modern Judeo-Christian society owes more to -- resonates more with -- classical Greek philosophy than it does with ancient Roman morality.

It's important to remember I'll soon be 46, and when I was a child we only had AM radio and 3 channels on TV. We were forced to read and engage in physical outdoors activity in order to entertain ourselves. Poor us.

Respectfully,

zoid
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"I knew a man once. History will never recall him, or what he gave to make us free. That's the way he wanted it. But as long as I live I'll remember, and he'll never truly die."

- River, from A Child Shall Lead Them: A History of the Second War of Independence Wilkins, Richard

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