The inimitable Succatash offers up a bold new theory on Book.
Submitted for your approval... discussion, puzzlement, and/or spirited debate. See what 3 years' seclusion in a mountain hut does for Book backstory musings!
The house of Strange Finger goes where no previous Book theory has gone before. Test your own personal Book theory Kung Fu against this cunning contender!
September 15 2006
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Typhon24 | September 16, 00:53 CET
RiverKillsReavers | September 16, 02:18 CET
Not at all convinced it's what Joss had in mind but I do like the idea since it ties in with the way that monasteries were great repositories of knowledge through-out the dark ages so the association is already there between religious orders and the preservation of knowledge (and obviously it lends an extra meaning to his name apart from just 'man of The Book').
Saje | September 16, 08:59 CET
I'll believe it when I hear Joss say it. But dont get me wrong, it's better than anything I've come up with. I was attacked by wild giant beavers in the mountains. I had to leave early.
Grin! Sania D.
Sania Delian | September 16, 09:51 CET
WhoIsOmega? | September 16, 11:58 CET
I spy a small problem with this theory. . .
JesterInACast | September 16, 12:16 CET
I've always taken Book's "No, I don't," in the film to mean, he doesn't have to tell Mal about about himself, because he *just did*.
ETA: Now, there's no reason why the sequel couldn't revolve around Book's past (and Inara's as well), but I just think the question of who Book was has already been answered.
[ edited by pat32082 on 2006-09-16 19:38 ]
pat32082 | September 16, 12:35 CET
I agree that ex-operative is probably a more likely theory though (or at least more likely to be what Joss intended).
Saje | September 16, 13:03 CET
pat32082 | September 16, 13:43 CET
Saje | September 16, 14:02 CET
Of course it is just my theory.
embers | September 16, 14:38 CET
Kessie | September 16, 15:48 CET
Congratulations! I had no idea you were even expecting.
jaynelovesvera | September 16, 16:04 CET
[ edited by kurya on 2006-09-17 01:34 ]
kurya | September 16, 18:34 CET
ForeverAnya | September 16, 19:17 CET
Silly kurya, don't you know that the hero's love always dies horribly right after they decide to be together forever? ;-)
If it's a boy, jaynelovesvera, they're going to name it "embers," and if it's a girl, they're going to name it "embers." ;-)
billz | September 17, 03:23 CET
He's pretty young for that. I mean, the Alliance was presumably created before everyone left Earth That Was, and it must have taken a REALLY long time to get that expansive.
ElusiveJ | September 17, 16:33 CET
ForeverAnya | September 19, 22:41 CET