So did I. Because Mal is a ridiculous name for a French person.
Well, yes. I couldn't even find anything that it would be short for.
When you look back at this, in the three seconds it'll take you to turn to dust, I think you'll find the mistake was touching my stuff.
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smonster - Jul 30, 2010 8:39:45 am PDT #10314 of 30000
We won’t stop until everyone is gay.
§ ita § - Jul 30, 2010 8:40:03 am PDT #10315 of 30000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Yeah, "Mal" didn't cross my mind until I got here, and I still had to look it up.
Amy - Jul 30, 2010 8:42:08 am PDT #10316 of 30000
Because books.
What ita and megan said about Moll/Mal. I thought Moll was cute, and it never occurred to me he was saying Mal.
Jars - Jul 30, 2010 8:42:25 am PDT #10317 of 30000
I thought it was Moll too! But then Americans pronouncing names is a problem for me in general for me. I though Tara in Buffy was Terra for the first year or so.
Jessica - Jul 30, 2010 8:43:59 am PDT #10318 of 30000
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
I'd been assuming Moll the whole movie, but the credits disagreed with me.
Dana - Jul 30, 2010 8:45:46 am PDT #10319 of 30000
I haven't trusted science since I saw the film "Flubber."
I also assumed Moll.
megan walker - Jul 30, 2010 9:52:59 am PDT #10320 of 30000
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
Oh, thank god it wasn't just me.
But he pronounces it sort of in the middle of the two languages so I put it down to that.
Plus, his two kids had such British sounding names that at a certain point I began to wonder if she was even supposed to be French.
Dana - Jul 30, 2010 9:55:04 am PDT #10321 of 30000
I haven't trusted science since I saw the film "Flubber."
Oh, so here's another question which may have been answered by the credits but I didn't notice.
Is Michael Caine Cobb's father or Mal's father?
§ ita § - Jul 30, 2010 9:56:08 am PDT #10322 of 30000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
They don't have surnames in IMDB, so that doesn't help.
Dana - Jul 30, 2010 9:59:51 am PDT #10323 of 30000
I haven't trusted science since I saw the film "Flubber."
I guess I assumed that a man with an English accent would be more likely to have a French daughter, but then I read a review or a comment somewhere that referred to him as Cobb's father. I think to me, the relationship's much more interesting if Cobb basically killed his daughter.