C,mon guys. You are all beginning to sound like marching band members complaining about Jocks. There's room for everyone and if we meet our potential as she has hers in her profession then everyone will be better.
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Of course Serenity's "potential", like many other kinds of potential are created by a certain kind of "society". Her innate abilities which manifest themselves today in USTA tennis skill would have quite different (and perhaps less grandiose...) consequences in a world in which hitting a ball around was just something kids played in the street on hot days in the city....
Which leads me to why I find this scene so ugly. One little oncogene or even just a pulled muscle or a speck of soot that happened to blow into her eye or a micrometeorite or ... could change the situation dramatically for this not really larger than life figure. If, at the end of the game, she would make a gesture of humility, acknowledging how much of her victory was due to factors outside her control, I'd feel OK about it.
Once again, I recall the master seal hunter in a PBS special on the traditional life of the eskimos (or whatever name they wish to be called by). The man stood motionless over a hole in the ice, for hours, and then suddenly jammed his harpoon down the hole, and caught a seal. He exclaimed: "I almost missed!" Ms. Williams probably does not have any such role modelling in her life (that's the best "face" I can put on her).
I think we ought to get our cosmology straight, and rename the first planet Serena (the second planet is already correctly named).
\brad mccormick
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