Blog 10

For the next episode of my choice I watched episode 10, “War Stories”, from Firefly. I thought it was ironic that in this episode Wash talked about how Zoe always follows the captain’s orders and that she doesn’t really have her own opinion. It’s ironic since we talked about this situation of Zoe’s in class the other day; I didn’t really think that it would be talked about in an episode, I thought I was just more of an idea that the creator wanted us to be aware about. During the episode, Wash messes something up with the ship and says he did it because he doesn’t want to hear of another bonding story between Mal and Zoe. So in return, Mal lets Wash go with him on this “job” and the two men end up getting caught in a battle trying to complete the mission. I think it’s funny on Wash’s part because he was the one that wanted to see what it was that Zoe does with Mal and he ends up in one of the scariest situations. I also think it’s funny that Wash thinks that Zoe obeys everything that Mal tells her, when Mal says to Wash, “There’s plenty of orders of mine she didn’t obey… She married you.” In my opinion, from Wash’s facial expressions in the episode, he is bothered yet relieved that Zoe did this. In some odd way, I think Zoe and Wash are very good for each other because they balance each other out.