Malcolm Reynolds…<\/p>\n
Even the name is sexy.<\/p>\n
I\u2019m a Star Trek fan, I know a sexy Captain when I see one.\u00a0 As much as I heart Jean-Luc and his perfect bald head, he\u2019s not exactly a \u201cbad boy\u201d and y\u2019all know we girls love us a bad boy.<\/p>\n
Mal is someone you can love and hate simultaneously.\u00a0 Smoldering in one instant and frightening the next.\u00a0 He\u2019s unpredictable, he\u2019s sweet, he\u2019s handsome, he\u2019s loyal, he\u2019s tortured.\u00a0 He\u2019s intelligent but he talks like an idiot.\u00a0 He was rocking the quirky half-smile long before Edward entered the nerd lexicon.\u00a0 He can take care of and protect you.\u00a0 He\u2019ll take a beating for you.\u00a0 He has an amazing sense of humor.\u00a0 He is bilingual (yeah, yeah, I know everyone speaks Mandarin in Firefly, but whatever).\u00a0 He\u2019s the kind of guy you want to fix.\u00a0 But then you don\u2019t because he wouldn\u2019t be so sexy if he wasn\u2019t so complicated.\u00a0 He\u2019s not uppity like Simon, not stupid like Jayne, and not married like Wash (God rest his soul)<\/p>\n
In short, he can throw me up against the wall anytime.<\/p>\n
I suppose I\u2019m a little biased when it comes to Firefly.\u00a0 I love sci-fi and I love Westerns and Joss Whedon was kind enough to combine the two.\u00a0 But mostly it\u2019s because I had a totally awesome experience in 2004.\u00a0 My Popi is a Foley Artist for a major motion picture company and his sound stage just happens to be next to the largest stage on the lot.\u00a0 When I didn\u2019t feel up to exploring, and got bored of watching them fake walk and jostle clothes, I would peak in to see what they were doing next door.<\/p>\n Do you like’m bald or brunette?… I can’t decide…\n
The Summer of 2004 was a turning point for me.\u00a0 I had just graduated from college and was trying to figure out what to do with my life and how to go about doing it.\u00a0 It was decided that I would begin apprenticing Foley under Popi (it didn\u2019t stick and I left to explore other avenues).\u00a0 Me, and the granddaughter of Mr. Foley himself, would hang out at different parts of the studio and watch people work.\u00a0 One day we struck up a conversation with the construction foreman in the studio next door and he invited us to come in and see what they were building.<\/p>\n
It was Serenity.<\/p>\n
Almost fully completed, getting the final paint touch ups.<\/p>\n
I walked up and down the main corridor.\u00a0 I hung out on the bridge and talked about the construction with the people working on it.\u00a0 I sat in Wash\u2019s pilot seat.\u00a0 I could have died and gone to nerd heaven right then and there.<\/p>\n
I wish I had a picture of it to share with you guys but, alas, it didn\u2019t occur to me to ask and I doubt they would have permitted it even if I had.\u00a0 Movie studios tend to be mighty anal about that sort of thing.<\/p>\n
While standing on Serenity, I could totally picture Kaylee shouting from the engine room, Jayne cleaning off his weapons in the mess hall, and Mal walking towards me with that brooding look on his face.<\/p>\n
Inara can just gorram butt out, dong le ma?<\/p>\n “Uhhhhhh hi Burt. Didn’t expect to see you here.”\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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