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You scored as Zoe Alleyne Washburne. The Soldier. You are the second in command, and that is fine. You like a chain of command, but only when the one in charge has earnt your respect. Those who earn your love or loyalty will find no one better to guard their back. </td> Zoe Alleyne Washburne 75% Inara Serra 69% Capt. Mal Reynolds 63% The Operative 56% River Tam 50% Kaylee (Kaywinnet Lee) Frye 44% Simon Tam 44% Shepherd Derrial Book 38% Hoban 'Wash' Washburne 31% Jayne Cobb 19% Which Serenity character are you? created with QuizFarm.com

 

I tried it  a few months ago, before I saw Serenity, and already got Zoe...A soldier, moi? Huh?

Thanks to dear psubrat , I have now a 2 months paid account which means I can use many icons. Most of them were made by kazzy_cee . As for the others I tried to credit, but for a 3 or 4 of them I actually didn't remember where they came from. So don't be cross, just let me know if it was one of yours and I'll credit you.

A month of violence

Violence was on my screens this month.

Violence in suburbs, violence at the cinema(Cronenberg's film), violence online (my post on torture) and yesterday, I got some violence without any screen, violence on stage. I went to see a 3h30 hours play written by Botho Strauss (but premiered in Paris before going to German theatres), based on Shakespeare's bloodiest play, Titus Andronicus. The story is actually modified and intensified on some decisive points. The title Shändung has been translated into French as Viol (Rape) which kinda confined the meaning to the sexual side of a mutilation. Actually the play is about the general degradation that spreads itself, propagating its contagion, polluting everything (including the audience!), endlessly giving birth to monsters. And Titus is a monster among others.

There were good things in the play but also horrible ones, and when I say horrible, I don't mean the bloody, gory scenes because that part was actually well done (especially the post-mutilation scene,  a very intense scene when the actress playing Lavinia was staggering on stage, completely naked and covered in blood and plastic in a Laura-Palmer-kind-of-way), no I'm talking about the scenes showing modern life that was outside of the Shakespearian plot or that "making-off" of the performance with pseudo-interviews giving insights on the plot, it was artificial, wordy and pretentious IMO. So the play could have lasted 2 h30 and would have been better without all that post-Bretch stuff.

You're gonna think I'm crazy and/or obsessed but of course now I'm thinking of some connections with the Buffyverse...

( the womb, the hands, the monsters )