Not Complaining!

[evilhippo]

In an effort to not complain, I will instead pose a random question.

So, after watching Serenity a second time I caught a few things that I didn't catch the first way through. However, it still seems to me that it's massively unfair that Book died without any more character development. In order to fix this, I'm working on a sort of theory. Perhaps there are hints... maybe it's outlined for us somewhere. So, the most obvious thing to me would be that he's a former assassin (operative? something) along the lines of Jubal Early. I mean, there are lots of things that would be explained that way, and the whole "believe" thing could very easily be a giant hint at that. But this leaves the giant issue of how on Earth he quit. Then again, obviously Jubal didn't know anything about what he was out to do, so it's quite possible that Shepard would be the same way. They could probably just let them go when they got too old, or disenchanted. Though... hmm. It might be worth thinking about. Any ideas? It almost seems too obvious this way, and maybe I'm just point out something the rest of the fandom has known forever. (Since I know pretty much nothing of the Firefly fandom. They want a second season. That's enough to keep me away from them. Okay, I just don't know where to find them.)

So... I'm surviving. Notice how I haven't made any voice posts yet? I'm holding up. The walls aren't closing in yet. And I got homework done today. (We'll forget that I almost got dragged out to go clubbing, and definitely forgot it was Saturday).

Comments

[shichahn.livejournal.com]

From the little I know of the Firefly fandom here on lj, they don't have an answer either and are extremely upset by this as well. It's quite obvious that whatever he did before, it was something involving weaponry of some sort, and I agree that the elite operative sort of suggestion seems pretty likely. But if anyone knows anything more than that, I haven't heard it.

[evilhippo.livejournal.com]

I kind of like the idea of him being some sort of assassin, and even if it's not the case, it'd make a pretty interesting basis for fic. If I could ever get myself sufficiently bunnied towards Firefly. Hmm... Maybe this calls for me to watch the series again.

Actually, this is the only reason I'd support any kind of second season. I think the movie gave things a good end... but more backstory would be cool. I always want more backstory.