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§ ita § - Aug 29, 2005 10:17:11 am PDT #4560 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

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.

Jars - Aug 29, 2005 10:18:17 am PDT #4561 of 10001

Yikes.

Is that the last of the session videos?

Also, yikes.

theonetruebix - Aug 29, 2005 10:46:44 am PDT #4562 of 10001
Session 416 (Information Page): http://www.session416.com/

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."

sumi - Aug 29, 2005 10:47:46 am PDT #4563 of 10001
Art Crawl!!!

I'm going to have to wait 'til I'm home to see that properly.

Betsy HP - Aug 29, 2005 10:50:53 am PDT #4564 of 10001
If I only had a brain...

Aeryn seems to meet your criteria as well, ita.

Kate P. - Aug 29, 2005 10:56:02 am PDT #4565 of 10001
That's the pain / That cuts a straight line down through the heart / We call it love

"War Stories" is possibly my favorite episode. God, I love Zoe so much. And Mal. And Wash. And it has my favorite line in it, when Wash and Zoe are fighting and Mal is getting frustrated with them:

Mal: "Okay, I'm ... lost, I'm angry ... and I'm armed!"

Perfect delivery.

Steph L. - Aug 29, 2005 11:00:03 am PDT #4566 of 10001
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine

"War Stories" is possibly my favorite episode.

Is that the episode where, toward the end, Mal is beating up (or trying to) the bad guy, and when t memfault Jayne? Wash? t /memfault goes to help Mal, Zoe says "No -- this is something he needs to do on his own," and Mal yells "No I don't!!!" and then Jayne (or Zoe?) just shoots the bad guy?

Frankenbuddha - Aug 29, 2005 11:02:42 am PDT #4567 of 10001
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"

Is that the episode where...

Yep. Also with the funniest torture scene this side of Princess Bride.

Kate P. - Aug 29, 2005 11:02:47 am PDT #4568 of 10001
That's the pain / That cuts a straight line down through the heart / We call it love

Yes! Classic.

§ ita § - Aug 29, 2005 11:03:05 am PDT #4569 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

Aeryn seems to meet your criteria as well, ita.

No, Aeryn was too special for me -- as a Peacekeeper she was better than mere mortals, and she was an atypical Peacekeeper too -- that was less about her fighting, but she still had a taint of special about her.

Zoe's just a normal woman who fights. Not a member of a warrior race, just some chick with skills.

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