Maybe Zoe is pregnant?
Um, well, we listened to aggressively cheerful music sung by people chosen for their ability to dance. Then we ate cookie dough, and talked about boys.
Giles ,'Get It Done'
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.
libkitty - Dec 21, 2005 2:15:58 pm PST #7445 of 10001
Embrace the idea that we are the leaders we've been looking for. Grace Lee Boggs
Kalshane - Dec 21, 2005 3:13:33 pm PST #7446 of 10001
GS: If you had to choose between kicking evil in the head or the behind, which would you choose, and why?
Minsc: I'm not sure I understand the question. I have two feet, do I not? You do not take a small plate when the feast of evil welcomes seconds.
d - Dec 21, 2005 4:53:52 pm PST #7447 of 10001
It's nice to see some brave pretenders trying to make it interesting.
I got a lovely Christmas gift today. I am now the owner of a signed (and underneath the sealed clear plastic part too) Jayne action figure, a signed Jayne Serenity comic, and a signed Jayne trading card. I think it's cool, especially as I've never had official memorobilia!
Mr. Broom - Dec 21, 2005 4:53:53 pm PST #7448 of 10001
"When I look at people that I would like to feel have been a mentor or an inspiring kind of archetype of what I'd love to see my career eventually be mentioned as a footnote for in the same paragraph, it would be, like, Bowie." ~Trent Reznor
Maybe Zoe is pregnant?I hope to God not. It'd be Jaws doing the pole-vault.
JZ - Dec 21, 2005 5:22:06 pm PST #7449 of 10001
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.
I hope to God not. It'd be Jaws doing the pole-vault.
I'm horribly torn. Narratively it feels like a pregnant Zoe would be cheesetastic and shark-jumpy and painfully pandering to the audience's cheapest sentimental desires, and yet... I have those very same cheap sentimental desires myself. It's massively to the credit of Gina Torres and Alan Tudyk and Joss and every single writer and director on the show that one small part of my brain genuinely and insanely believes Zoe to be real.
As much as the thinking story-consumer me turns up her nose at the possibility of Pregnant!Zoe, the craxy part of me fiercely wants that for her, in his memory and honor, for her messy and complicated consolation, and because any child that came from the two of them would grow into an amazing person who'd improve the 'Verse just by existing, and we already don't have enough of those people now, so how much worse will it get in 500 years?
I completely understand that Zoe is fictional and her grief is fictional and the hypothetical child she and the also-fictional Wash talked about possibly trying for is just a fiction in a fiction, but I can't shake the feeling that their being fictional does not in the least prevent them from being Real, and I have this huge fierce sister/friend/admirer desire for her to have a child for its own sake and her sake, crap plots be damned.
I blame all the good acting and writing and directing, and also too many readings of The Velveteen Rabbit. Curse you, Margery Williams!
Una - Dec 21, 2005 5:30:59 pm PST #7450 of 10001
when i die, please bake my ashes into a brick and use me to hit fascists.
I heart JZ's spicy brains and irrational sentiment, for I share the latter.
Tamara - Dec 21, 2005 5:50:59 pm PST #7451 of 10001
You know, we could experiment and cancel football.
I don't care if it is cheesy. I want Zoe/Wash baby!
Beverly - Dec 21, 2005 7:49:27 pm PST #7452 of 10001
Days shrink and grow cold, sunlight through leaves is my song. Winter is long.
I am on this bus, the bus of JZ , Una and Tamara. The scenery is lovely.
sj - Dec 21, 2005 10:16:19 pm PST #7453 of 10001
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
I'm on the bus too.
Dana - Dec 22, 2005 6:03:50 am PST #7454 of 10001
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
See, I already feel like the bus has made stops at Xena, Scully, and Aeryn. And probably some other people I'm forgetting.