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A tv set called "Home"
Monday, November 2, 2009

Hello everyone,

Just watched Castle for the third time this morning and although I like the show and enjoy it, the characters on the show seem more like friends (which they are) than relations.

Now there’s nothing wrong with that and I admit it’s only in it’s second season but given the situation I do say maybe that’s all it will be.

I enjoy CHUCK also and feel a little more of the same. Maybe not quite as much because they do get together for holiday gatherings and meals which makes it feel a little more like a family. But still not much more.

Now family is the whole reason that I am writing this. The nine people on Firefly were/are a family. I don’t think that I’ve ever felt more strongly of a kinship or a bond among characters of a tv series more than I did those folk on that tiny vessel, and they only had one season to pull it off.

That thought in mind had me going through certain scenes in my head and it came to me that each character at some point refers to Serenity as theirs, or part of the BDShip as theirs or belonging to them.

Mal does it all through out the 14 episodes. “ My ship is not the rutting town hall!” and Kaylee does it when she calls Serenity her “good girl” and also “ Hear what that purple belly called Serenity!” It’s like the ship is hers.

Here are some others I’ve listed;

Book, “ It’s good to be home.”

Mal to Jayne, “ Wanna be captain !?”
Jayne, “ YES!” ( he would be more than happy for the boat to be his) “ I’d do a sight better job than you!”

River, “ I am the ship. I became the ship.”

Zoe and Wash:

“ Don’t’ I stay with the ship?”

“ I outrank you, have fun.” (both showing that the ship is theirs while Mal is away)

Inara, “ What did I say about entering my shuttle uninvited!”

Mal, “ It’s my shuttle, you rent it.”

Inara, “Then when I’m behind on the rent you can enter unannounced.”

And also, “ I love this ship, always have…….”

My point being that in the cramped quarters of this small vessel each and every crewmember has become emotionally invested. They do for one another, they do for the ship. They count on their unspoken kinship. It was shown in the “Out of Gas” episode when Zoe called for the shuttles to return to Serenity. She seemed to have gotten an argument from no one and all knowing they were going back for their death. Even Jayne states that they would have arrived first if not for what Inara had done to her shuttle ( which we know really was nothing).

The only character aboard that shies away from the noting that Serenity is home is Simon. Don’t know if I’ve ever heard him announce anything about Serenity with affection.

Just some thoughts, Z

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