Wow. That's just infuriariting that people can be that craxy and stupid. I'm glad some other fans are piping up to apologize for the ridiculous behavior of the loonies.

I just saw some fans post that they wrote to him to apologize for their more insane-o breathren. That's sweet.

Heh. That's exactly what I'm doing right now.

I was talking to a friend about Serenity last night, and had a great thought for the next movie. Anyway, I thought it was great. It all came about because I was thinking that the Operative in many ways stood for Book. I think it's likely that Book had a similar story. This was reinforced when he said that he didn't have to explain his past, when earlier he had implied that he would. Also, rumors that Book and Wash might show up in a future film impacted it.

So, my theory is this: When Book decided to retire as an operative, why wasn't he killed? It had to be because he had too much information in places where it would come out if he were killed. This would explain his treatment in Safe as well. The Alliance did not want him to have an unnatural death. Now, he clearly has had an unnatural death. What if the information he had squirreled away in various locations now started to come out? I'm not sure what the crew would have to do with this, but I'm sure Joss or Tim (!) could figure that out.

I have absolutely no idea if any of this is "true" or not. This is simply the rambling of one, possibly deranged, mind, and not a spoiler for anything at all because I don't know diddlysquat about anyone's actual plans for any possible future movies or episodes.

Also: that article led me to look up Sarah Paulson. She was Merlyn in American Gothic !!

libkitty, I love your theory. I've been thinking of Book as a retired op, but hadn't carried it nearly as far.

Confession: I showed Firefly to a Star Trek club, ship, whatever. Told 'em there'd be a movie soon. Next thing you know they've put together a complete Serenity crew in costume and ready for opening night. Their own idea. Somehow, I don't think I turned off any Trekkies. Trekkers. Whatever.

Now, what colour is my coat?

As long as your shirt isn't red, Mikey!

Speaking of crazy Browncoats, someone who joined the yahoo group I manage on Saturday just sent an e-mail to the group today saying "Stop e-mailing me". Um, perhaps you missed the whole "this is an e-mail list" thing?

Those are my favorite. No matter what the fandom.

I remember seeing one of those in my Netflix complaints group. Guy couldn't understand why everyone was bagging on Netflix.

I started to write her a very polite e-mail explaning it to her and then decided it wasn't worth the effort (especially in the face of her apparent hatred of e-mail) so I just removed (but didn't ban) her from the group. Which I'm sure is now making her wonder why she got kicked off, but at least it will solve her e-mail problem.