Best Summer Glau facial expressions.
Also a reading of Zoe as Captain in this heist? YES PLZ.
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Things grow older. Other things come back to you in cycles.
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(I’m sorry, I had to do a text post because my wordvomit was getting ridiculously long—the original GIF set of the opening sequence is at the content source)
Brown: Mal, Zoe, Wash;
Green: Inara, Jayne, Kaylee;
Purple: Simon, River, Book
(shots of the ship Serenity throughout)random thoughts—there are other in-depth analyses out there, though
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Zoe’s presence is more often more important than anything than she can say. When she speaks, it’s always for a reason; for a particular reason. She’s just not talking just to be talking. I think that if Zoe is displeased or if she’s happy, we want to feel like the temperature is literally changing in the room and that was my job. To make it feel that if the room was cold, a happy turn would come in and Zoe would be pleased.
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This is a quick sketch of the first scene of the first episode aired, “The Train Job”, rewritten around Zoe Alleyne, captain of the Firefly-class transport ship Serenity.
Concept by crowleyshouseplant (check out the tags on their “firefly” posts for more details about this ‘verse, and also this post on the storytelling given to female characters).
INT. AT THE BAR
Zoe trounces Mal at tiaoqi and expounds her philosophy vs Mal’s (balance, healthy dose of pragmatism). We focus on Zoe’s reaction first as the Unification supporter calls for a toast (what looks only like humour, exasperation, then nothing), then Mal’s (exasperation, anger), then Jayne’s (confusion, drunkenness, indifference).
Mal gets up with the excuse of getting a drink, but Zoe shuts him down. He sits back down quickly with a “ma’am”. Maybe a little smile on Zoe’s part… then she gets out of her seat. We follow Zoe as she goes to the bar and, maybe after a little reasonable banter with the Alliance sympathizer, in a no-nonsense (and definitely angry) way takes down the jerk and half his pals. It’s kinda magnificent.
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i like the way you phrased that—because in all the voice overs at the beginning of the episode? that establish the verse? I think they’re only given by Mal and occasionally Book. =/
Yeah, it’s mind-boggling how much the male (especially a deep) voice is used in voiceovers for everything. And how much we don’t notice.
(I would look up advertisement statistics to back that up, but I’m sure it’s nearly 100% of the time. Even for commercials with a female narrator, the tag/slogan is usually male=default.)
I would pick Zoe and… Kaylee for alternate voiceovers. Or River—that would be interesting.
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Show’s a lot quieter, now that it’s helmed by Captain Zoe Alleyne. By her gender and her race alone, she’s not someone the viewers are typically encouraged to see the ‘verse through. On the surface, she doesn’t present much variation—strength, straight posture, terse speech—but then, in the span of forty-six minutes, you see the thousand variations around the core of her. You see the way she holds everything together, and the quiet connection and utter love she has for her ship. You come away from the screen having been charmed by Mal’s smarminess, Wash’s irreverence, Kaylee’s sweetness and so on, but the image of Zoe remains on your own face, which for a while thereafter transmits her subtle signals and smiles.
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Zoe is all about assessing and balancing a situation. Right now, all I know of her backstory is she was in the Dust Devils after Serenity Valley.
Now, she’s looking to find a new centre of gravity, and fly true.
ping 平 - (adj.) level, smooth (although “never goes smooth!” = cong2wei4 shun4li4 从未顺利); (v.) to reach a tie/draw, suppress
jing 静 - quiet, motionless
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All the thanks to crowleyshouseplant.
- I think it’s a different kind of translation—instead of into Chinese (linguistic and cultural), it’s into Zoe’s Story, from Mal’s.
- I need to get me some of the prequel comics for Zoe backstory.
- Need I even mention the adorableness that would be Wash/Mal and exploring all the masculinity issues around Jayne? ALL THE SUBVERSION
