and of course whatever I was planning has to wait 8|

because I have been waiting on that backstory for friggin ever.

Haha

I was oddly unsatisfied with it tbh

Even if it was interesting to finally get it

oooooh

...i should read some of the backstories a;lejt;waljerg

I love how on Amazon it has like, 15 votes for EACH STAR RATING.

which is so typical of browncoats 8|

/found it to be .... careful. But satisfactory.

I was unsatisfied mostly because despite being informative for the "flow" of his life it was still brief and borderline deliberately vague

particularly as to his intentions and the details of how he was doing things other than the biggest key moments

it's true; but I honestly wouldn't have wanted too much detail.

and I liked the way it was set up, as backward progressions linked by single moments

oh, interesting

I don't want an encyclopedia but I would have liked more of a... perspective.

i definitely have to read it

That's a poor word choic.

Uh.

Insight. I like the word insight.

more in-depth?

I WILL say that the link between his time as an alliance commander and as a browncoat mole should have been more lucid

Yes. God yes.

/nodnod

At the end I was left wondering... "so did he lost the battle and all those men on purpose for the browncoats?"

"or was he supposed to have moled as a mole and switched sides or..."

it was more of .... the reflection of someone on their OWN like who knows the details, and just recalls the emotional elements.

yeah, same here

and it leaves out the big tantalizing scene from the show-- WHY DID HE GET MED ATTENTION?

Also why did he know about the Blue Hands people

Because iirc he did

at least vaguely

I have no problem with any of the actual STORY, it was just... brief.

.....................but so much better written than the Batman I've been reading /sobsobsobsob

...lol

I think it would have been more satisfying if Book's past hadn't been hyped for the better part of 5+ years now.

We've gotten literally dozens of little details thrown out at us from interviews with Whedon or Glass and they've been going "THIS COMIC

BE DONE... SOON!" for so long I expected something more substantial than what we got.

As it was I finished The Shepard's Tale in about 20 minutes

and I was left feeling "that's it?"

The actual story progression, writing style, details, and the past itself isn't even bad. It just left me unsatisfied.

see, my expectations had very much cooled-- so you are right about that. It was a Big Thing, because it was one of the most incomplete

ideas

and the tone of the comic just just kind of. Vaguely reminiscing.

like a really good synopsis episode. e__e

Or well, half of one.

Firefly episodes are 45 minutes, remember.

If you were to put that comic on the screen I wager you'd get about half an episode's material.

LOL, point.

maybe a little more

That said, now that we have Book's backstory I am just /SIDEEYES FOREVER at wanting to know about the series's two other big

"Plot Holes" or blank spaces or whatever

which ARE these, exactly? /sticks to RL Firefly fandom-- the internet equivalent scares me

(which of course are that vial of whatever Inara has in episode 1

I've only read the TV Tropes speculations.

and the whole deal of what the Blue Hands guys are about)

Serenity sort of delved into the later

but it was still pretty vague

Mostly because they sacrificed the Hands in order to make the Operative such a big deal.

BUT THAT DAMN VIAL I am just forever /sideeyes at

Because narrative-wise I always assumed it was just suicide poison in case reavers showed up but then in some talk

oooooooh yes. I remember a whole "Blue Sun" thing being talked about, and fans even reading into why River slashed Jayne's chest ....

gdamn I need to watch this series again.

the creators were like "LOL NOPW"

NOPE-

apparently Inara has some sort of body modification or something...

Oh

Nevermind, Wiki claims it was answered

"The secret was apparently revealed in a panel at 2008's DragonCon; Morena Baccarin confirmed that Inara was dying of a terminal illness."

WUT.

WOW I MISSED THAT ONE.

...................what

/fails as fan

she was? but. They never even hinted at that...

how could I not have found an obscure interview reference from some Con in 2008 8| jeez, me

idk. That seems kind of fishy to me...

i mean. That they maybe dropped one clue, and then years later come out with this out of the blue....

idk, man

but see, this is part of why-- I LIKE that there are so few Firefly episodes. Sure, I could have dealt with double the number, who would

protest that?

BUT.... what is there leaves so much room for speculating, while still be satisfying in all the ways a good story SHOULD satisfy.

idk, maybe anime has shaped my tastes over the recent years.

No they did.

but I like a little vaugery.

There's three vague hints in the series that something is up with Inara, but...

I always assumed it was going to be she was modified to not age or something

1) in the pilot with the needle, like I mentioned. Context-wise you assume it's a lethal injection needle but in the commentary for

well, apparently i missed all of them...

the episode they explicitly say it is not

2) When Simon and her are talking about death she rather firmly says "I don't want to die at all"

if you watch the scene the firmness with which she says it seems out of place despite how dire the situation was

you can infer a greater meaning

idk, i don't remember being put off by how she said it. Maybe i need to rewatch

3) that... episode were she meets her friend or whatever? Her friend remarks about how Inara's appearance hasn't changed at all

All three are super vague though

Only the first two stood out to me

i think i took that to be a polite bit of conversation XD

I had to look for the third one

bah, none of the clues stood out to me at all, but then i didn't listen to the episode commentary

....though i do wonder why she chose to look at her vial of not-poison right then

it seems a little out of place, now that i know it isn't poison

huhhhhh. Well, that would have certainly made sense. It would have actually made her wishy-washy thing with Mal more tolerable, for me

Idk, symbol of her own mortality

Whedon's usual thing for throwing out a million eventually relevant plot points a second?

i guess so. And yeah, if she knew she was going to die... i can see her being less willing to make that kind of connection

(Whedon luv Chekhov's gun)

heh

that is one thing he does very well, yus.