Mal ,'The Train Job'
Discussion of the Mutant Enemy series, Firefly, the ensuing movie Serenity, and other projects in that universe. Like the other show threads, anything broadcast in the US is fine; spoilers are verboten and will be deleted if found.
tommy's attempting to stay on topic; isn't that cute.
I was going to attempt the same by comparing the adventures of the Serenity crew to the Odyssey, but I lacked inspiration.
I got excerpts from the Homer stuff in college. Medea and some other dramas in high school. Lots more Greek drama in college. (And we studied some of the Greek plays too!)
We watched a really bizarre production of The Birds. It was...bizarre.
I was going to attempt the same by comparing the adventures of the Serenity crew to the Odyssey, but I lacked inspiration.
Well, there's traveling after a war. And cunning. Cunning can be used as a noun, right?
But no home to go to or Penelope waiting.
Maybe Mal has a Penelope and he just doesn't know it.
Mal is tricksy like Odysseus.
There's a "Persephone"...although I don't think she's in The Odyssey.
We watched a really bizarre production of The Birds.
I was in an interesting production of The Birds. I played The Poet and Iris the Swift, a small-time goddess.
Sean Bean, who played Odysseus in Troy, does promos on the Sci-fi channel, which currently airs Firefly every Friday evening.
(Or did we stop playing the association game already? I'm always late to the party.)
How does one correctly pronounce "Sean Bean"?
Shawn Been.
How does one correctly pronounce "Sean Bean"?
"Guh."