Zoe. She's all soldier, but that doesn't keep her from being human. She's unshakably loyal to her captain and to her husband, but that doesn't stop her from telling off either of them when circumstances call for it. I really wish the show had gone on long enough to give us a Zoe-centric episode; the closest we got was "War Stories".
Kaylee. One of the purest souls on that ship; almost never hides how she feels or what she's thinking. Also, mechanical genius. I kind of loved that she was allowed to have a normal human aversion to violence, rather than being another fighter; you can be awesome without being badass, and Kaylee is.
River. She's a Joss Whedon trope: the victim who retakes control of herself and her situation, and uses what was done to her to become stronger. By the end of the movie she's clearly become her own weapon rather than anyone else's -- but as we see at the end of the series, she's also quite capable of outsmarting rather than outfighting. I also love her awareness of her own brokenness, and the various ways she works to overcome or circumvent it.
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Date: 2010-01-31 02:31 am (UTC)Zoe. She's all soldier, but that doesn't keep her from being human. She's unshakably loyal to her captain and to her husband, but that doesn't stop her from telling off either of them when circumstances call for it. I really wish the show had gone on long enough to give us a Zoe-centric episode; the closest we got was "War Stories".
Kaylee. One of the purest souls on that ship; almost never hides how she feels or what she's thinking. Also, mechanical genius. I kind of loved that she was allowed to have a normal human aversion to violence, rather than being another fighter; you can be awesome without being badass, and Kaylee is.
River. She's a Joss Whedon trope: the victim who retakes control of herself and her situation, and uses what was done to her to become stronger. By the end of the movie she's clearly become her own weapon rather than anyone else's -- but as we see at the end of the series, she's also quite capable of outsmarting rather than outfighting. I also love her awareness of her own brokenness, and the various ways she works to overcome or circumvent it.