I thought Simon was repressed but straight.
Maher, on the other hand is gay.
I get that plot-wise the writers (and actor) intended for the former to be true, but the city slicker Western stereotype shares enough distinguishing characteristics with modern gay identity that Sean hasn't been able to sell me on Kaylee being more Simon's type than Jayne is. I never saw that Ryan Caulfield show - maybe he succeeded in butching it up as a police officer?
Isn't Brian's Song basically about the intense bond of affection that developed between two teammates from different sides of the tracks and how one was the chief source of emotional comfort for the other as he slid into a lingering terminal illness?
Yeah, not holding my breath for that to be the role that break's Sean's string of ambiguously gay-seeming characters, regardless of the actual facts of the story.
R. Tam Session 165 is up. D/L mirrors are at the bottom of this page.
File size is 3.6Mb
Run time is 90 seconds.
Holy Hannah. I had to turn my volume all the way up to catch the quieter bits, and then the louder bits happened and it scared the crap out of me.
I've been working through the DVDs, and we just watched "War Stories" last night. I'd sort of been dragging my feet about it, 'cause of the torture.
Now, I've always been hot for Zoe. But Oh My God, War Stories is just... she... I... uh. She rocks it. Gina Torres' work in that episode was just fan-fucking-tastic. In fact, strong performances from Fillion and Tudyk as well. The scene when they're both being electrocuted and Mal is trying to keep Wash from going under by baiting him about Zoe was dark and funny and scary and facinating as well.
War Stories is interesting for many reasons. 1) the failed appeal to FOX with the "hey, we can have two hot women make out too, ya know!" and 2) the steady emergence of Book as a total badass. "The Bible is... fuzzy... on the subject of kneecaps." Good, good episode. Also, Simon really seemed to come into his own after the hospital heist in Ariel. More confidence. More like part of the team.
I've been a slow poke... haven't watched these eps since they originally aired and am now coming up on the unaired ones, so that's something to look forward to.
Anyway, sorry for the squee...
I was just thinking about War Stories. I'm lending the DVDs to another friend, and I'm all excited about disk three, again.
So I took some time to muse over Zoe, and why she's my favourite TV warrior woman. Two key things:
1. She's not otherly gifted. She's not a Buffy or a Xena.
2. She's comfortable with it. Her conflicts will come from other places, not the fact that she's fighting -- it's way time for that to happen for female fighters.
The whole hot as the flames of a thousand suns thing and the happily married thing? Such wonderful bonuses.
Yikes.
Is that the last of the session videos?
Also, yikes.
Reports, both from some of the places who have posted these, and apparently from Joss himself at the Premier, is that there are five Sessions in total.
That likely means that the next and final will be "Session 416, First Excerpt" which will bring us full circle back to where this all started, with "Session 416, Second Excerpt."
I'm going to have to wait 'til I'm home to see that properly.
Aeryn seems to meet your criteria as well, ita.
