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Originally posted by JaynezTown:
Just wondering how Wash got to the place where he's at now, and what made him sign up with Mal instead of Tanaka or others like Renshaw and so forth.

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Originally posted by PurpleBelly:
My take is Wash was trained to fly in the Air National Guard, which he joined to avoid the Draft. He became involved with criminals to supply his coke habit.

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Originally posted by Indy:
Well, that's Alan's own theroy. Great one too, though. I hope Joss lets us know in the movie. Hope he uses Alan's idea. Check out Alan's commentary with Nathan in "War Stories" and with Jewel in "The Message"

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"Hell if Jesus had the power than so do I
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My take is Wash was trained to fly in the Air National Guard, which he joined to avoid the Draft.

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I realize you were joking. ..and I laughed. ..

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Originally posted by JaynezTown:
He's a great flyer and his skills are well know. He is a super pilot, managed to high tail it out of the hospital and lose those hands of blue in Ariel plus other folk like Tanaka or Renshaw have been trying to get him. Wash seems to be a bit of a legend like Rex White the Nascar champ was, the Captain von Richthofen known as Red Baron or the F1 champ schumacher.


However there seems to be more to Wash than his quick jokes, and flying skills. Unlike folks like Jayne, our pilot Wash seems to care a lot about what happened in the War. He has a fierce envy of what Mal and Zoe did in the war and seems to wish he were there in the action. He has a good heart, and has a real dislike for those alliance and feds but he doesn't seem to have done much in the old battles.

Now if he's a great pilot seems like he could get a nice paid job with the hands of blue type people as a flyer but it's clear that Wash and these folk wouldn't get along, unlike Mercs Wash isn't in it for the Cash and he seems to be a true browncoat. Wash of course loves Zoe a lot and they are very close, however he has no tales of war or honour. So what happened Wash ? Was he shot down in the early part of the fighting, did the high tail it like some chicken, or maybe the Independant commanders clipped his wings and grounded him for insubordination and some inappropriate acts and he never got to fight or fly.

Just wondering how Wash got to the place where he's at now, and what made him sign up with Mal instead of Tanaka or others like Renshaw and so forth.

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Originally posted by gocartmozart:
In fact, I would make the following ranked list of the things Wash loves.

1) Zoe
2) Flying
3) Food
4) his crew
5) Humor

Agree/disagree

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