(Movie Spoilers) Backstory by analogy by Thrawn

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(Movie Spoilers) Backstory by analogy

POSTED BY: THRAWN
UPDATED: Wednesday, October 5, 2005 19:04
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Wednesday, October 5, 2005 7:04 PM

So, one thing I was realizing about this movie that impressed me a lot is how much of these characters' pasts we're getting not TOLD to us, but SHOWN to us by the actual events in the film. My friends and I certainly came out of the theater thinking that Book's backstory wasn't even a question - The Operative was Book's past. (This, incidentally, was confirmed in the novelization.) It's subtle, but the implications, and the emphasis on faith, are both there.

Also, Mal's "when I start fighting a war, you're gonna see somethin' new". He does start fighting a war, and as a result, we get Sargeant Malcolm Reynolds. We saw a little bit of the darker side of his ability to lead in Out Of Gas, but never anything like this. It's what he was in the war, I bet, what he had to be, when the version we see in The Message and Serenity (the episode) flashbacks failed.

Along the same lines, there was a post in another thread (I wish I could remember the author) which said that Wash had to die in order for Zoe to be where Mal was - back in Serenity Valley again. That got me thinking. Remember how Tracey described her as cold and emotionless during the war? Again, we never REALLY got to see that, not really. We just got a few quick moments, never any of her tough decisions. In this film, with her reaction to Wash's death, we get her reaction to the war.

We learn who these people were by the present story in the film.

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