Post by Pixi on Jul 2, 2005 19:38:02 GMT -5
Lola said:
William said:
As Rachael said "Who the hell IS Book?"To me, during the first run of this show, that very question was one of the largest I held. And if you all would like, I'll let you in on a little secret part of my theory. I don't know if this ... should be permissible, or if it is a "spoiler" because I am completely unspoiled for the movie. If you don't want to know what I discovered while the show was still airing then don't read beyond the next paragragh.
On the official Firefly website run by FOX, they had script pages and stuff available to look at... Now, I wondered at the time how they chose which script pages to post and why...and then I stumbled onto something.
In the typed up script for the pilot "Serenity", the scene where Simon is using the encyclopedia to review the battle on Hera ...the entry states: "The Independant Faction, with sizteen brigades and twenty air-tank squads, held the valley against Alliance forces for almost two months, until superior numbers and a briliant deep flank strategy by General Richard Wil --"
Now, I have a theory/had a theory that Book is this General , formerly of the Alliance. It makes so much sense. I believe that like Mal, he was horrified at the carnage of war...of perhaps how "his" side handled things... and that he left the military and joined the brotherhood that he did. It would explain his knowledge, his training, his fine mind... jsut everything...
Now, I have wavered on whether it is by circumstance or not that he is aboard Serenity. I have hatched several different conspiracy theories (many of them also utilizing Inara as some sort of Alliance spy or a neo Browncoat spy) on why Book and Inara are aboard that ship. But, considering the cooincidence Zoe's line actually being "Were not in there. The book, I mean." It's jsut so damn Joss-ian!
Vlad
Fascinating super cool idea! It would be very Joss! I hadn't seen the stuff you mention on the site, but I gotta admit I have been pondering the idea that Book might turn out to be some high up person in the Alliance - and maybe he turned to the religeous life after the war, etc. etc.
I wonder if the movie will address this question of Book? I haven't really read much about the movie yet. Not necessarily trying hard to avoid spoilers, but sort of.
Lola
Oh cool theory. Obviously Book has to be some sort of higher up mucky muck or he wouldn't get the treatment he did after being shot. And he is obviously extremely well-versed in all things military.
Plus - in one of the last episodes I just watched the bounty hunter after River said that's not a shepherd.
So who is he? A delicious mystery. I really, really love the way Joss tosses out mysteries.