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Originally posted by jewelstaitefan:
You talking about when Jayne and Book take direction from Kaylee to bypass the hydraulics in the engine room to prepare for the Crazy Ivan?


Also, I suspect that he's all loaded up like Space Rambo in War Stories because he just doesn't want to miss out on the fun it looks like the others will have fighting.

He has lousy aim when he shoots Crow. :P

He has wonderful lines in Jaynestown.

He thinks he might survive the Reaver attack at the end of BDM. He doesn't want to explode in the beginning.
Mal & Zoe really, really should let him take grenades when he wants to.

He thinks it's more fun to smack 'em.

But he doesn't play well with others - he's the only BDH asked to leave a room, and more than once (excluding Mal in Inara's shuttle).

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Jayne...
notice the change in body language when there's fighting/shooting to be done. He locks down, goes professional.

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Jayne in the series I can understand. Jayne in the BDM I cannot. You'd think he'd be a tad grateful to Mal after Mal saves him from the Reavers, but he goes off and gets in Mal's face about the Battle of Serenity Valley as he is questioning Mal's leadership.

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Originally posted by wytchcroft:

But mostly i love that he sleeps through Jubal Early:)

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Originally posted by SpaceAnJL:
Originally posted by wytchcroft:

But mostly i love that he sleeps through Jubal Early:)

Yeah, that was interesting. But think of it this way - Jubal put out the folks who were a danger to him quick and sharp. If River hadn't locked Jayne in, he'd have popped out and Jubal would have shot him. End of Jayne.

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btw, do you think Jubal reacted to Book as a danger becasue he knew something specific, or was it just a 'vibe'?

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Originally posted by SpaceAnJL:
See, I think Book may have been a licensed bounty hunter for the gov at some point. Possibly after he had to turn in his badge. More visible and accountable than an Operative, but with a wide ranging brief and the freedom to make decisions which could be considered questionable in other lines of work...

Yeah, I don't think Jubal separates his inner and outer lives. Makes you wonder what school he went to, don't it?

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Originally posted by SpaceAnJL:
I was thinking it was more a case of recognising the competition.

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*nasty grin* Of course, there is one very obvious thing that Book, Jubal Early and the Operative all have in common. Remember our little 'Neverwhere' reference? I'm imagining a certain monastic-type school, possibly on top of a mountain a la 'Crouching Tiger'

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Originally posted by fillygirl:
Maybe Book trained Early to be an Operative and Early prefered to be on his own? Early doesn't seem like the type to 'follow orders',

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a bounty hunter would be more his style. Or maybe he 'flunked out' of Operative school due to his being unbalanced.

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Originally posted by SpaceAnJL:
It's been stated that Book was never an Operative (Ron G himself, from Joss.) I think he was military police of some sort, at some point.

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But the Operative has the feel of something that is owned and controlled by a very select few, the kind of folk who are not merely above the law, they make it and apply it to other people.

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Give me few days, I reckon I could probably whip you up a convincing timeline. All the way from the Astana Initiative, via the Pathfinder Missions, the first planet-divers and the 'Breath of Heaven' terraforming, the Exodus, the Founding of Londinium, Shorstein's invention of the Cortex, through the age of colonial expansion, via the Vestry uprising on Dyton, to the military coup at Station 8...

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