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!

I heart JZ's spicy brains and irrational sentiment, for I share the latter.

I don't care if it is cheesy. I want Zoe/Wash baby!

I am on this bus, the bus of JZ , Una and Tamara. The scenery is lovely.

I'm on the bus too.

See, I already feel like the bus has made stops at Xena, Scully, and Aeryn. And probably some other people I'm forgetting.

Zoe actually said out loud that she wanted a child, though, before conceiving one. Scully and Aeryn, not so much. (I mean, theoretically Scully did, but I am IGNORING THE ENTIRE BEHIND-THE-SCENES IVF PLOTLINE BECAUSE IT WAS QUITE POSSIBLY THE STUPIDEST THING EVER LA LA LA.)

I know, I know. I was just so glad that the movie didn't go there, because my instinctive flailing reaction would have colored my opinion of the whole thing.

I was thinking, the kid would have had to have been conceived before the trip to Miranda, and, while the level of radiation (to pose as a Reaver ship) was not enough to "fry" the crew, it would probably be enough to frell the pregnancy.

while the level of radiation (to pose as a Reaver ship) was not enough to "fry" the crew, it would probably be enough to frell the pregnancy.

Or else give the baby superpowers.