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08 December 2005
Who's Your Firefly Crush? Zoe, Kaylie, River or Saffron? Or, if you ride sidesaddle (or bareback); Wash, Mal, Jayne or Simon? Note: the character we're talking about here, not the actor
WTBSINATVTKA? Some pictures so I can make a selection? (Though usually my crushes are based on personality, I like to project myself as shallow on the Internet).
We have this in our Netflix queue since we have heard so many references to it, but husband Dave and I are lukewarm on Science Fiction. Can you convince me to move it to the top of the queue?
I'd probably go for Kaylee. She seems like the most down-to-earth. The raven-haired chick looks either sneaky or stuck-up (judging from the bio). Zoe looks like the "I'm tough because I'm black" character. The blue-eyed chick just screams "issues" and "self-cutting" or what have you. Yay, that was easy. Let's do another one!
SLG: The science fiction aspect of Firefly is a distant second to the richness of the (admittedly mish-mashed) Asian/Western post-apocalyptic culture and the dramatic depiction of a group of people who've teamed up and been driven together by their desires, some of which are noble and some not.
There are many heavy-handed aspects to the show and many hokey or 'devicive' occurrences, but the set-up is such that when one of Whedon's points works, it works with an authenticity and lack of guile that can be really quite touching.
Malcolm Reynolds, the ship's captain, is a well-conceived character who has normal poorly articulated desires, complex motivations, and a task laid out before him that one imagines he never would have chosen while he was shooting guys in the name of what he thought was right to do. Watching him cope with his crew's need for love, validation, money, the upper hand, freedom and camaraderie is honestly enchanting to me and I think Nathan Fillion did a great job describing a man who has done and continues to do the less than ideal thing because it's the best he can think of at the time. There is no way you shouldn't move it to the top of your queue.
Zoe first (way butch, yummy), but definitely Kaylee too, because of her earthiness. Simon's who I would have gone for in my 20's (not because of any gender issues; I still like both guys and girls, but my taste for swoony poets has somewhat dissipated). (Mal's pants are nice, too.)
I know I'm gonna get piled on here but I'm gonna go with ... Kaylee. No, really! I have reasons!
Seriously, she's tops -- but Innara and Zoe are coolly attractive in that don't crush above your station kinda way. River (since I've only seen half of Season 1 so far, and not the movie) hasn't been fully developed (she's a bad character concept that the writers seemed to have shied away from tackling), although she resembles far too many of my RL relationships. Or maybe Saffron does. Hmm.
And I second man-crush on Wash. But maybe part of that is just envy, which takes us back to Zoe. ;-)
Mal -- I wish I liked Mal more. Nathan Fillion just seems a cut short of the acting chops needed for the role. Not that he doesn't try, but I think his dullness is part of the reason the show didn't succeed. Sorry, Mal fans.
I'm going to have to go with "Mrs. Reynolds" as the most enticing creature,though Kaylee is a mightly tempting filly. Actually, I'd probably end up with Zoe, being more like Wash than anyone else on the show.
Stilicho - I agree about Mal, sadly. I would have preferred an older commander... Mal just doesn't have the gravitas, and I was never sold on his command of authority.
Yes.
Rent the first disc. The worst thing that can happen is that you don't like it and you're out 5 bucks and an hour.
(well, actually, worse things could happen. You could somehow cut yourself opening the rental DVD case and the cut could get infectected and you'd get some embarassing social disease and you'd try to explain to people that you got it opening a DVD case, but everyone will think you're a horse f*cker or something).
Danosuperstar: But they're so neat! I forgot which website I went to who had it, but I always thought they were neat. So when it came time to tell my web designer what I wanted, I added that as one of the things I wanted.
I don't find any of the men on the show physically attractive, but if I had to pick one, it'd be Mal because he's an all-around good guy and a bad ass. Wash is ultra annoying; he makes me cringe every time he speaks.
Simon and Zoe originally, but my appreciation for Jayne grew until he became the reason I watched the show.
Inara is truly beautiful, but Kaylee's who you'd want to go mountain biking with. I'd spend the whole time with Inara worrying about saying or doing something uncouth, which would be inevitable.
On the other hand, she did take a shine to Mal, so maybe she's okay after all.
Mal. Unfortunately I'm going to have to agree with stilicho on Mal.
Kaylee and River. Regarding Kaylee, I usually feel unusual in my strong preference of cute over beauuutifulll or SEXY. But it appears I'm in good company here. I fell in love with Kaylee the first time I saw her.
And I do like River a lot. Although, um, she could accidentally kill me.
Wash is ultra annoying; he makes me cringe every time he speaks.
Funny in that Wash is very probably Whedon's stand-in. And, you know, that other thing at the end.
The complete package is Kaylee. I will admit this.
But on a purely physical lust-in-the-tall-grass level, I have to go with Saffron. I didn't see any of the Saffron episodes until I bought the box set, and the first time I watched 'Our Mrs. Reynolds' I had to walk out of the apartment to get some air.
There aren't enough redheads in the world. There aren't.
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