one more thing

[kivrin]

I felt Zoe's concern about the townsman they kicked off the mule was a little out of character, or at least it wasn't what I expected from her, but when I think about it I realize of the people on the mule she's more likely than Jayne or River to both question it in her own mind and to call Mal on it. So I don't feel it's out of character anymore.

Comments

[prosicated.livejournal.com]

It makes sense to me once Wash dies -- she does what he's been nagging for, and he gets offed, like he was a pawn for developing her character.

[kivrin.livejournal.com]

I think I must be forgetting or have missed something, because I can't remember what he's been nagging for. Help, please?

[prosicated.livejournal.com]

Oh, just for her to stand up to Mal and stop "Yes, sir"-ing him....

[kivrin.livejournal.com]

Ah, yes. That makes sense. (I was thinking I'd missed some nagging in the movie, rather than looking back to the series as a whole.)

[prosicated.livejournal.com]

Yes, I am muddling up movie and series. A friend of mine has proposed that the movie was simply not canon, it's an alternate universe situation.

[kivrin.livejournal.com]

well, I'd say not so much muddling them as looking at them as a whole, which is logical... though I like your friend's AU idea.

[prosicated.livejournal.com]

I'm not sure they read all together coherently, though. A lot of things were jarring -- the Simon-knowledge-criminal problem, the Kaylee-personality thing (her rapid fire alternations between sensuous and innocent), the complete loss of River-as-weapon/hands of blue/corporation thing, etc. -- and really only read as an alternate interpretation of the "facts" of the series.
Then again, they explained Reevers, which is awesome, and I was amused to be able to completely assess their idea of culture based on mouths.
(Reevers were all teeth and blood, cultured people kept their mouths mostly shut when they spoke, emotional and lower class people opened their mouths wider...)

[kivrin.livejournal.com]

Well, let's say it's logical to make the attempt to look at series & movie as a whole, even if it leads one directly into contradictions. :) Like Mal deciding that oh, yeah, River and Simon aren't crew, despite his explicit statements to the contrary.

an alternate interpretation of the 'facts' of the series
That's a really good explanation of it. And I love the 'mouth theory' of culture.

The reavers explanation was really good, and I thought ESPECIALLY good in view of the kind of lame 'conventional wisdom' explanation of them that we got in "Bushwhacked." So they saw the nothing and... became nothing? Huh?