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The good is that I have just submitted a reworked version of the first chapter of Alice Rising to a state arts commission fiction project. Of course, that will eventually become the bad, because I know they won't like genre, but still. It's got lots of local color which they do like, and I needed the feeling of submitting something, right now.

The bad is that I have a lot of pain and tenderness in the top of my left deltoid muscle. Seems all to be in the arm, so I'm hoping it's just my usual complaint of tendinitis, and not a rotator cuff injury (hoping I'd feel that more in the shoulder, but who knows?). But even tendinitis takes me six months or more to heal. Why can't I start over and be 15 again, or at least my tendons?

The other good is all the beautiful yarn I bought at a sale (just went to check out a shop and happened in on first day of sale). Best is some Silk Garden varigated for a scarf, not very challenging knitting, but I want a scarf that looks like this yarn. Also some purplish tweed for a cardigan/jacket, and some light green/aqua cotton for a sweater for Lydia. I've got that one well underway, but will stop for a while now. I know I'll find it a little less appealing to pick up since next step is casting onthe arms on double-pointed needles, a job I don't love. But it's easy when that's done.

On my way through rewatching Firefly before rewatching Serenity, I saw "Ariel" last night. Always love seeing Mal try to teach Jayne a little morality, but sort of suspect that the main thing Jayne learns is respect for how tough Mal is. That's one reason (among thousands) why I wish it had continued as a series--the possibility of moral growth in an almost sociopath was one of my favorite plot lines. The other question is the extent to which the drug really changed River. I need to keep that in mind for the rest of the watching--I origianlly saw it all so out of sequence I couldn't notice things like that, and had forgotten by the time I saw the movie.

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Wow! I'm watching Firefly too (One episode each night, for those playing along at home) and I just watched Ariel last night!!! Creeepy!

MY question was this:

River hardly ever does things randomly: they make sense to her internal logic (ripping out bible pages) or to her future/other-sight (some of what she says). So she slashes Jayne with a knife right in the beginning of the ep, and we know she 'feels everything' so this was painful for her, too. Did she do this because she 'knew' what he was planning? If not, why did she do it?

I think Jayne showed some kind of redeemability when he wanted Mal NOT to tell them what he had done, because it showed an awareness of something outside Self. Otherwise I suspect Mal might have let Jayne die, do you think?

Date: 2006-01-11 07:32 pm (UTC)

mamculuna.livejournal.com

I wondered about that too, but didn't get as far as her knowing what was going to happen. It's likely, of course. And then the other possibility is just that she knows Jayne's a bad guy who will eventually bring them harm--and he's certainly shown that pretty clearly.

Mal may have given Jayne another chance because Jayne's part of his crew, too, or just because of Mal's own goodness.

I thought Jayne showed more redeemability in Jaynestown, where he clearly begins to care a little about the people and not just the money and fame.

Date: 2006-01-12 08:00 am (UTC)

londonkds.livejournal.com

She slashed Jane because he was wearing a T-shirt promoting "Blue Sun", the business conglomerate which has rather too large an involvement in the Alliance government and was involved in her modification. This was a huge planned plot element that never actually came to light in the episodes made and didn't fit into the film, but has been alluded to in interviews and commentary.

Date: 2006-01-12 02:09 pm (UTC)

Thanks! I haven't watched all the commentary yet. What about the blue gloves--are they related in any way?

Date: 2006-01-12 03:46 pm (UTC)

They work for the same people. They're killed off in the Serenity comic mini-series (set between the TV show and film) but we never learn much about them, except that they were freelancers hired by the government rather than employees and that those blue gloves were the visible part of some weird bionic bodysuit.