Firefly, "Fixing the Bible" Picspam
For picspammy's Challenge #9, Scenes and Sequences.
A sweet moment between Shepherd Book and River Tam while aboard Serenity. Screencaps taken by me, colored by me. Enjoy the spam!
Shepherd: What are we up to, sweetheart?
River: Fixing your Bible.
Shepherd: I, um.. what?
River: Bible's broken. Contradictions, false logistics.. doesn't make sense.
Shepherd: No, no, you can't..
[runs to River]
River: So we'll integrate non-progressional evolution theory with God's creation of Eden. Eleven inherent metaphoric parallels
already there. Eleven, important number, prime number. One goes into the house of eleven eleven times but always comes out one.
River: Noah's Ark is a problem.
Shepherd: Really?
River: We'll have to call it "early quantum state phenomenon". Only way to fit 5,000 species of mammal on the same boat.
Shepherd: Give me that. River, you don't... fix the Bible.
River: It's broken! It doesn't make sense.
Shepherd: It's not about making sense, it's about believing in something and letting that belief be real enough to change your life.
It's about faith. You don't fix faith, River, it fixes you.
[the two struggle over of the pages]
Shepherd: You hang onto those then.
[River smiles]
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Bonus scene!
From the same episode:
Shepherd Book letting it all hang out, so to speak. Summer Glau is adorable.
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