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: 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