not so sure about this ...

[lotesse]

Everything I've read keeps talking about Alpha as the "alpha male," as a personification of the masculine destructive, as testosterone run rampant. And I just - man, you guys, I'm having trouble seeing Alan Tudyk as any sort of ubermensch.

I mean, yeah okay maybe he's going to play against type, but right now I just keep having recollections of Wash trying to be butch in "War Stories" and then I end up sporfling.

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[ithiliana.livejournal.com]

Not watching and not intending to watch, but MAN! Wash as ALPHA MALE?

hahahahahahahaha!

Don't get me wrong, I LOVED Wash (and he was Entwife's favorite character in FF/S), but ALPHA MALE?

*sporfles helplessly*

(The only Joss I ever watched/liked was FF/S...)

[lotesse]

Inorite? I'm not sure if the people writing the theories just haven't seen the casting spoilers or what, but I just can't see Alan as any sort of macho personage! And I adore Wash, and Alan for that matter - I figure Joss is going somewhere different from what folks are expecting, is all.

[jane-dark.livejournal.com]

You know, I can't see it either. And I had seen the casting spoilers. Except I also can't see him as slicing people up with sadistic and medical precision, and hiring a sociopath to take on Echo. Can you?

My interpretation of Alpha as embodying the alpha male may be completely dead wrong. I kind of love trying to predict where someone is going with a project long before it's really clear.

[lotesse]

I really like the alpha male theory, but I just can't see adorkable little Alan Tudyk being the big bad butch guy! I mean, in a way it would be kind of totally cool, if they could pull off that dramatic of a confounding of our expectations.

But then I start hearing "Mine is an evil laugh!" playing on loop in my brain, and oh it is to snerk.