Inara knows about Book the whole time by Succatash

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Inara knows about Book the whole time

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UPDATED: Tuesday, June 22, 2004 21:15
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Friday, June 13, 2003 10:33 AM

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Originally posted by Succatash:
I'm pretty sure Mal named the ship after he bought it.

Book! Picked 'Serentity' to travel on. (Because of his attachment to 'Serenity Valley'?)

Obviously Mal already had the ship.

[)-man

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Friday, June 13, 2003 10:35 AM

SUCCATASH

Duh, sorry, I didn't read carefully enough.

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Friday, June 13, 2003 10:36 AM

DMAN[WARLLAMAS]

Quote:
Originally posted by Tiber:
I think that Book is most likely a member of a faction within the Alliance. This faction most likely wishes to protect River and stop the work of the HoB agents. I theorized this from something he said in an episode (can't remember which one!) about a government being a body of people usually ungoverned.

Sounds reasonable to me too.

Hmmm... so may bunny trails - which one to choose?

[)-man

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Friday, June 13, 2003 10:46 AM

SUCCATASH

Quote:
Originally posted by Dman[WarLlamas]:
Book! Picked 'Serentity' to travel on. (Because of his attachment to 'Serenity Valley'?)

Obviously Mal already had the ship.

[)-man

Do you think he picked Serenity after hearing the name or do you think he planned to join Serenity the whole time? Did Book know of Mal before they met? Was he secretly following Simon and River?

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Friday, June 13, 2003 12:29 PM

DMAN[WARLLAMAS]

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Originally posted by Succatash:
Do you think he picked Serenity after hearing the name or do you think he planned to join Serenity the whole time? Did Book know of Mal before they met? Was he secretly following Simon and River?

Well if Book is the 'secret agent man' we're trying to make him out to be, then he knew it was Mal's ship and is maybe keeping tabs on him? I don't remember if Simon and River were already onboard when Book meets Kaylee on the ramp. If they were, then this may support the 'following Simon and River' theory. I'll have to check.

I was implying with my earlier post that maybe he's just a man trying to make amends for things done in war and thought Serenity would be the ship to continue this journey.

After coming aboard and meeting Mal (later that day), he probably remembered his name from the war.

This is all supporting my hypothesis that Book is just a guy who did bad things in war-time and is trying to be a normal citizen again.

[)-man

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Monday, June 21, 2004 6:52 PM

SUCCATASH

Good point. Give me a year to think.

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Monday, June 21, 2004 8:55 PM

PURPLEBELLY

Inara knows who Book is because he was House Priestess before the Change.

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Tuesday, June 22, 2004 6:13 PM

JLYN

Re: Book had to have been a career military man. He deffinately participaed in the war, but given his age and the urgency with which the Alliance crewman ordered him to be cared for in "Safe," he must have been a general.

Longtime lurker, first post.
Question, how could Book be a general when the the Alliance commander in "Bushwacked" did not recognize him or respond to his ID?

Re: I think that Book is most likely a member of a faction within the Alliance. This faction most likely wishes to protect River and stop the work of the HoB agents.

Comment: Book can't be a member of a faction within the Alliance trying to protect River. If you watch his expression in "Serenity" when Simon is giving his history, Book seems to have the same expression on his face as he does in OIS "... half a hump..." response. His expression appears to be one of disdain/suspicion/disbelief and his comments after suggests he doesn't believe the Alliance would do what Simon suggests it has to River. I don't think he's lost faith in the Alliance.

Jlyn

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Tuesday, June 22, 2004 9:15 PM

PURPLEBELLY

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Originally posted by Jlyn:
suggests he doesn't believe the Alliance would do what Simon suggests it has to River.

Which is consistent with a wish to use River as a witness against Blue Sun. The imperative for River's safety is the cleansing of the Alliance, not River's happiness; Purplebelly's Denouement has River emerging from deprogramming as a contented vegetable.

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