You know why the series centers around Mal and not Zoe? Because Zoe is sane and well-adjusted.
Darn your sinister attraction!
Buffybot ,'Dirty Girls'
Firefly 4: Also, we can kill you with our brains
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Betsy HP - Aug 29, 2005 11:15:02 am PDT #4577 of 10001
If I only had a brain...
Frankenbuddha - Aug 29, 2005 11:18:18 am PDT #4578 of 10001
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
You know why the series centers around Mal and not Zoe? Because Zoe is sane and well-adjusted.
Heh, I was thinking about how Mal had serious issues vis-a-vis the discussion in Natter (or maybe Bitches?) where Farscape was being pimped and how Crichton starts out with pretty much zero issues and we get too see how all of them develop.
§ ita § - Aug 29, 2005 11:22:11 am PDT #4579 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
But Mal's not crazy. He ... he's ... I dunno. He has problems with some stuff (unlike his laissez-faire until action is required second in command), but they're in a mundane scale. He's a browncoat, and pissy about it, and he has contempt for Companions (though I think it's, at least by HoG, more of his inability to deal with liking Inara than anything else).
So he has a firm political stance, and isn't good with the ladies when something might actually be at stake, including re-evaluating his world view.
Normal stuff.
Crichton, OTOH, is more like a Mal/River love child. And damn, did I ever gross myself out typing that.
Nutty - Aug 29, 2005 11:32:19 am PDT #4580 of 10001
"Mister Spock is on his fanny, sir. Reports heavy damage."
Mal is not crazy; he is bitter. Possibly maladjusted, but definitely bitter.
Crichton isn't well-and-truly crazy till middle of S2, and never is he well-and-truly sane again. Still, that first 1.5 seasons of watching the Big Man on Campus get his head twaddled with was pretty entertaining in its own right.
Betsy HP - Aug 29, 2005 11:39:38 am PDT #4581 of 10001
If I only had a brain...
Starting fights in enemy bars every Bastille Day? Not exactually grounds for membership in the Sane Human Beings club.
§ ita § - Aug 29, 2005 11:42:38 am PDT #4582 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
But it's more like "Dude, don't do that!" behaviour than something requiring much medication, therapy, or hospitalisation.
DavidS - Aug 29, 2005 11:43:58 am PDT #4583 of 10001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Starting fights in enemy bars every Bastille Day? Not exactually grounds for membership in the Sane Human Beings club.
It's like you don't even hang out with frat boys.
DXMachina - Aug 29, 2005 12:00:01 pm PDT #4584 of 10001
You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.
I was gonna say.
manzo - Aug 29, 2005 12:49:24 pm PDT #4585 of 10001
If we're really lucky, they'll do it in that order...
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.
There was nothing said at the premier Q&A about these, so unless it was a private conversation?
So, what is the order of these segments, and is there a single place to get them from? Other than, you know, reading back through this thread. ;)
§ ita § - Aug 29, 2005 12:51:46 pm PDT #4586 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
The link here: dcp "Firefly 4: Also, we can kill you with our brains" Aug 29, 2005 11:47:54 am PDT has links to them all.