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locker_monster) wrote2010-11-14 03:07 pm
locker_monster) wrote2010-11-14 03:07 pm
Who would have guessed that Book was actually...
So, has anyone read Serenity: The Shepherd's Tale? I suppose if Firefly had kept going, we might have learned all about Book's past as the show went on. Or maybe not. This is Joss after all. ;-) But now that I read The Shepherd's Tale, I kind of wish I hadn't. Leaving Book this super mysterious guy is more interesting than knowing, well...
I like how the story kept changing your perception of Book every few pages though. First you think he's this, then that, then something else. In the end, you realize Book, which isn't even his name, has been all sorts of people in his life and it's all contributed to the man he is. He dies knowing he's lived a full life. Not necessarily a good life, but a full one.
And Joss wasn't kidding. Book does discover God in a bowl of soup. I thought he was joking about that.
I think it might be worthwhile to read the comic backwards, just so Book's life is laid out in the right order, but the Memento approach wasn't bad either. At least we now know why Book is so good with guns and how he was able to get medical attention when he was shot in "Safe". He was Alliance, well, disgraced Alliance, but a good officer before he was discharged. But I never expected him to a Browncoat working undercover to overthrow the Alliance. That means he has a lot more in common with Mal than we realized. In the end, though, he was just a kid with an abusive father and he decided to leave home. At his very core, Book was just a guy trying to find a better existence.
I don't think I ever had a theory about Book's past, but I was reading a Firefly wiki and one of theories was kind of spot on. Did anyone else get close, too?
Don't get me wrong, it's great to have new Firefly canon to play with, but I'm always hesitant when that canon adds something to a character's past. You never know what to expect. But I guess Joss has nothing else to lose when it comes to Firefly. So, does this mean we'll eventually get a story about Inara's past?
I like how the story kept changing your perception of Book every few pages though. First you think he's this, then that, then something else. In the end, you realize Book, which isn't even his name, has been all sorts of people in his life and it's all contributed to the man he is. He dies knowing he's lived a full life. Not necessarily a good life, but a full one.
And Joss wasn't kidding. Book does discover God in a bowl of soup. I thought he was joking about that.
I think it might be worthwhile to read the comic backwards, just so Book's life is laid out in the right order, but the Memento approach wasn't bad either. At least we now know why Book is so good with guns and how he was able to get medical attention when he was shot in "Safe". He was Alliance, well, disgraced Alliance, but a good officer before he was discharged. But I never expected him to a Browncoat working undercover to overthrow the Alliance. That means he has a lot more in common with Mal than we realized. In the end, though, he was just a kid with an abusive father and he decided to leave home. At his very core, Book was just a guy trying to find a better existence.
I don't think I ever had a theory about Book's past, but I was reading a Firefly wiki and one of theories was kind of spot on. Did anyone else get close, too?
Don't get me wrong, it's great to have new Firefly canon to play with, but I'm always hesitant when that canon adds something to a character's past. You never know what to expect. But I guess Joss has nothing else to lose when it comes to Firefly. So, does this mean we'll eventually get a story about Inara's past?