Let's shine a light on Nandi... (Thanks people! YOU RULE!)

[wytchcroft]

 

So...

...i'm trying to clear my head and start from scratch about Nandi and see if the story i have in mind is right for her. Sometimes they don't fit the characters i hope they will - or that inspire them in the first place... Inara's done that to me - and Book - and River too.

So... my primary question is about time;
How much time between the Guild and the palais de tin foil in Heart of Gold.

I'm interested in where the girls came from - were they on the planet already - or did they come with Nandi? (yeah yeah, that's the ears on my plot bunny sticking up)...

The Dulcimer story;
I don't buy it, too neat and too funny, so what incident(s) caused Nandi to detach from the life of a Companion?

And lastly of course Nandi herself.
Who is she, what is her character and when did it chrystalize into the Nandi of HOG (Oh and there's the bunny's whiskers!)?

So - a lot of questions... I'd like to thrash em out on someone's lj age but shoot, everyone's disappeared!

Advice would be shiny!

Discussion would be the thing that comes after shiny!!:)


 

Comments

Re: For me, her feelings for Inara are a pretty big aspect of her personality because it...

[agent-rouka.livejournal.com]

Cool thing to notice! :D I admit I haven't rewatched this episode much at all. It's just painful to know the awful end! I'm a wimp.


And tsk tsk tsk, in a meeting! *G* Yay, more later!

Re: For me, her feelings for Inara are a pretty big aspect of her personality because it...

[browncoat2x2]

Ah, whereas I, mistress of ze angst that I am, have watched that episode second only to Shindig I think. I watch every little Mal/Inara interaction, and every little Mal/Nandi interaction, and everything else relevant to them that I can glean :o) I know it's not a great episode story wise, but I love it for the character interaction and developments. And as much as it hurts, I watch that scene with Inara crying all the time, it just kills me. :o)

And I wasn't *in* the meeting yet, but the meeting was coming to me, so I had to 'close up shop' so to speak ;o) I WISH I could have my laptop in front of me during meetings! Maybe I could stay awake! ;oD

Re: Ah, whereas I, mistress of ze angst that I am, have watched that episode second only to Shindig

[wytchcroft.livejournal.com]

It's definitely one of my most watched - even though it's flawed, it just has so much going on, i get drawn back all the time, didn't even notice at first just how many fics of mine have sprung out of this episode.
You're right about the story (or at least how it's played out) but the scenes, man, so many strong scenes with so many of the characters!:D

Re: Ah, whereas I, mistress of ze angst that I am, have watched that episode second only to Shindig

[browncoat2x2]

Yes, so many great scenes, so many new glimpses into characters, good lines, heartbreaking moments... really, there could be no story (uh... ;o) and I'd still love watching :oD

Re: story

[wytchcroft.livejournal.com]

yeah, it's like the thread over at FFFN, re-writing Shindig.
i mean STORY, who gives a good gorram about that? FF is one of the very very few series where, to me, the episode stories are like, who cares!, it's the characters and the over-all arcs that count.
I mean, y'know, I'd watch em go shopping! Oh wait... :D;D

Re: story

[browncoat2x2]

Well, I do like it when there's a good story to go along with the good characters, but if I've got to sacrifice one, I'll drop the plot for the character stuff anyday :oD Character development is the real meaty stuff I like, when actions have consequences, and the characters grow based on their experiences... you know, like *people* :oD

Re: story

[wytchcroft.livejournal.com]

and that's the thing - HOG has so many stories really:):):)
- Zoe/Wash (the whole baby thing)
Simon/River (River going along on the job + the jokey birth scene which is actually a joss vital if you ask me)

Book actually surrounded by working women, so we can see his rapport with Inara is not necessarily a one-off, or we can see the effect Inara has had on him (depending how you read it).

M/I + Nandi, Mal vs Burgess (another Anti-Mal) oh i could go on and on. THOSE are the stories that count, not the 'plot' per episode.

(Within reasonable limits o'course.)

right gonna go try out my bunk i guess. A pleasure ma'am as always. *hugs!!*

H.O.G.

[wytchcroft.livejournal.com]

right so - something(s) about H.O.G. and Nandi... well, I've always been bothered and not worked out why.
And now BINGO!
my sis gave me CSI season 2... most of that season i missed first time around but not all... and I'm watching the episode Slaves of Vegas (what a great title - not!) and HELLO it's Nandi!!!
Lady Heather, of course.
I'd forgotten, but in her first story she basically says absolutely everything that Nandi says!
Almost word for word* - and some of what Inara says too in FF.

And it shows almost Nandi as Nandi would have been as a Companion - in the way she talks to Grissom, not the actualities of her establishment which is much more HOG.

So, anyway - the weird echo sensation i always had with HOG is finally solved. huzzah!

*i can read a man almost before he walks in. /// you're fear is of being known //// you like the veneer of civilisation, fine china, high tea/// - plus the whole tea ceremony bit in the first place.

Re: H.O.G.

[wytchcroft.livejournal.com]

it's one of the sillier episodes of CSI actually apart from the acting. Michelle really makes it work.

Re: H.O.G.

[browncoat2x2]

Catching up on comments...

I've never watched CSI, so I haven't seen the episode... but sounds interesting! I might have to find that episode some time