Maybe Mal has a Penelope and he just doesn't know it.
Firefly 4: Also, we can kill you with our brains
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.
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."
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.
It means "in the middle of things." You start your story in the middle (the war's been going on for years, the Cylons have been following for days) rather than the traditional method of starting at the beginning.