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"?
I pronounce him guilty of being hot.
We did the Illiad and the Odyssey in highschool, but I don't recall ever hearing "in medias res" before, nor do I have a clue what it means.