Zoe an intellectual? by Wagneraude

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Zoe an intellectual?

POSTED BY: WAGNERAUDE
UPDATED: Wednesday, April 7, 2010 06:01
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Tuesday, April 6, 2010 1:15 PM

Has anybody noticed that Zoe is somewhat smarter than she seems. In 'The Train Job' she identifies Bowden's as a degeneratve disease, and even knows of the existence of treatment for it. In 'Safe' she is able to give multiple definintions of sanguine, a word that even the captain doesn't understand. Is it possible that before the war, Zoe was a teacher, or some kind of scholar.

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Tuesday, April 6, 2010 1:27 PM

BYTEMITE

Maybe. There's also things that Jayne and Mal know that people don't expect.

Rim education appears to be hit and miss on some things. There's also the access to the cortex they now have that they might not have ever had before, and plenty of time between burns take-offs, and landings to get bored and learn new things.

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Tuesday, April 6, 2010 5:49 PM

PENNAUSAMIKE

Zoe was supposed to be career military.
I guess she's just one smart cookie!

Mike

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Wednesday, April 7, 2010 4:24 AM

KRELLEK

some of the Rim worlds are very possible the backwater, tough to live in, with rampant crime and such, but I think there might actually be quite a few of them that has either because of some "civilizing" by the Alliance after the war, or because of there still rather close proximity to the core and therefor also older colonies that has had time to build up themself, and therefor better infrastructure, and possible a somewhat working society with some pretty good schools and such, and only looked down upon by the "elite" of the core planets, as backwater yokels, because they supported the independents planets in the war

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Wednesday, April 7, 2010 4:41 AM

CYBERSNARK

I don't think Zoe's an "intellectual" as such. She just happens to hang around with Mal, Jayne, and Wash.

There's no chance of looking dumb with that competition.

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We applied the cortical electrodes but were unable to get a neural reaction from either patient.

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Wednesday, April 7, 2010 5:23 AM

ZEEK

I got the impression she has some medical training. She seemed to pick up on a few medical things a bit too quickly. I'd have to rewatch the episodes to remember all the little hints, but I think there were enough of them that something is up.

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Wednesday, April 7, 2010 6:01 AM

AGENTROUKA

Cybersnark - you hold up Jayne as intellectual competition??

I think, honestly, that Zoe simply read a bit as a child and beyond. Understanding what 'sanguine' means is not that hard if you've seen it in use before. If she ever stumbled over the medical "humors" theory, she'll know the sanguine-blood connection, too. Or maybe she just picked up a dictionary once.

I think that's how Mal acquired much of his education, too. It's quite eclectic and obviously based on personal interest, poetry but not art, dancing but not anything engine-related. (Okay, the dancing was probably his Ma.)

Wash obviously went to a regular school, and Jayne.. did none of that. He has trouble reading fluently. Picked up plenty of skills to keep him afloat, though.

Medical training is obviously due to the military.

I don't think the word intellectual applies to either of them, including Wash. Book, Inara, Simon and River do apply.

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