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who is your favorite character on firefly and why?
Asked by Anonymous
I’ll be here all day if I try to figure out which character is my favorite, so I’ll just list all the characters and why I like them:
- Mal- I like Mal because he’s a character who’s still around after his story ended. He’s so convinced that the war was his day, his story, but he lost, and the war is over, and he’s still here, so he just does what he can to make it to the next day.
- Inara- A sex-positive female lead of color who is a contant source of wisdom and asserts her right to her own space and her own independent existence from the rest of the crew? What exactly is not to like?
- Wash: Because he has that rare quality of being the only one who seems to realize how ridiculous their lives are. He’s like Arthur from the Magic School Bus, only happier, or like Rory, only he dies slightly less often.
- Kaylee: Because she’s sweet and bubbly and likes strawberries and knows how to work a spaceship better than anyone, and is also sex-positive and also she’s friends with everyone and hates mean people.
- Jayne: Because he thinks he’s super-serious even though he’s a bit of a doof, and because he knows he’s a bit of a doof, but you’d better not mention it because he’ll shoot you dead so fast it’ll knock you out of your boots. He reminds me quite a bit of Lassiter from Psych.
- River: She’s a mentally ill badass who uses her perceived weakness to her advantage. Also, she likes playing games and dancing, and doesn’t like hospitals, and I can identify with that, and I thought it was hilarious when she pretended to be British just to mess with Badger.
- Shepherd Book: Because he’s like, balance personified. He’s incredibly physically fit and extremely intelligent. He’s a man of faith and a man of science. He’s an older man who doesn’t mind engaging in youthful pranks,
- Zoe: I don’t hate to sound like a broken record here, but another sex-positive female lead of color! Also, she’s the most competent fighter on the ship, and still engages in traditionally feminine activites because she likes them. Also, her and Wash are possibly my favorite TV couple in history, and if not, they’re definitely up there with Leslie Knope and Ben Wyatt.
- Simon Tam: He’s a rich doctor with a cushy job who gave up everything to protect his sister. Also, he’s this incredibly handsome dude who is not at all suave, and I love watching him awkwardly stumble over attempts at courting, especially since he’s so repressed and aylee is so forward and they really like each other but neither of them knows how to respond to the other.
I think I got all of them!
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Sometimes I feel like Thresh has the same quality to him as Rory and Wash, where they’re the only person in their respective lives who acknowledges how ridiculous everything happening to them is.
Like, I feel he’s the type of person who, upon being reaped for the games, was just like “of course it’s me. When is it ever not me?”
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Ended up telling my babysitting charge:
- A simplified version of “The Impossible Astronaut/Day of the Moon”
- Firefly episodes “Jaynestown” and “Trash.” She is absolutely tickled pink at Simon’s complete inability to talk to a woman romantically.
- An extensive character profile of River Song, who’s one of her favorite characters.
We also watched some Legend of Korra, drew a little bit, and ate pizza. Incidentally, I looked like some kind of wizard when I caught her flipping the same page back and forth rather than actually reading.
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Assuming the universe began in a “big bang,” or the explosion of a singularity containing all matter and energy that makes up the universe today, and all that matter is still moving outwards from the epicenter of the explosion, what happens when the dust settles? Does all matter fall back to the center of the universe and converge back to a single point? Does that point explode again, creating a new universe and starting the process over again? How many times will this cycle repeat? Perhaps more importantly, how many times did this happen before the current universe came to be? Is it possible that the universe is a never-ending cycle of expansions and contractions with no beginning and no end?
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my favorite character on firefly is all the characters on firefly
- firefly
- serenity
- One time I said Shepherd Book was my favorite character
- Then I said it was a tie with Wash
- Then I listed the other seven people it was a ''tie'' with
- Then I also said ''Jubal Early''
- Because if you watch the episode with Early everything he says out loud
- is said the way River hears people when she reads their minds
