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Firefly Wednesday: Out of Gas
May. 16th, 2013 09:59 pm"Out of Gas" for Firefly Wednesday, on a Thursday because LJ would not let me post. Have decided that I, after the manner of Victorian heroines everywhen, must learn to be more forbearing of the small unavoidable vexations of life, because it is not like fretting about it made LJ let me post any faster.
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So, "Out of Gas"! It's sort of an origin story for how the crew ended up on Serenity. Apparently when Inara first rented her shuttle, she gave Mal a list of conditions - don’t enter without my knowledge, don’t call me a whore, and oh, I won’t be servicing any of the crew - the first two of which he flagrantly and repeatedly breaks at every opportunity.
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Why did the writers want to establish this fact? It makes Mal look even more jerktastic than he did when I thought he was just barging into Inara’s shuttle and calling her a whore on account of his general issues. No, it’s not just general issues, it’s specifically “Let me stomp all over the boundaries you set!” issues.
RUN LIKE THE WIND, INARA.
(My current theory is that Inara is an Alliance spy - spying not on Mal in particular, but on the conditions in the rim planets. Thus, she doesn’t leave Serenity because leaving would interfere with her mission. I have no support for this, but it explains why she stays so I like it anyway.)
This confirmation of Mal’s total creepitude is especially unfortunate because otherwise, in this episode Mal is almost menschly and likable and stuff. He stumbles around the ship, slowly bleeding to death as he tries to save his one true love! His one true love being, obviously, his ship Serenity. Seriously, the face he makes when he first sees her? That is the face of a smitten man.
(In other news, I am still in mourning for the birthday cake that Kaylee presented to Simon at the beginning of this episode. That was a beautiful cake, you guys, I don’t care if it was mostly protein. It is tragic that they didn’t even get to cut into it.
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So, "Out of Gas"! It's sort of an origin story for how the crew ended up on Serenity. Apparently when Inara first rented her shuttle, she gave Mal a list of conditions - don’t enter without my knowledge, don’t call me a whore, and oh, I won’t be servicing any of the crew - the first two of which he flagrantly and repeatedly breaks at every opportunity.
….
Why did the writers want to establish this fact? It makes Mal look even more jerktastic than he did when I thought he was just barging into Inara’s shuttle and calling her a whore on account of his general issues. No, it’s not just general issues, it’s specifically “Let me stomp all over the boundaries you set!” issues.
RUN LIKE THE WIND, INARA.
(My current theory is that Inara is an Alliance spy - spying not on Mal in particular, but on the conditions in the rim planets. Thus, she doesn’t leave Serenity because leaving would interfere with her mission. I have no support for this, but it explains why she stays so I like it anyway.)
This confirmation of Mal’s total creepitude is especially unfortunate because otherwise, in this episode Mal is almost menschly and likable and stuff. He stumbles around the ship, slowly bleeding to death as he tries to save his one true love! His one true love being, obviously, his ship Serenity. Seriously, the face he makes when he first sees her? That is the face of a smitten man.
(In other news, I am still in mourning for the birthday cake that Kaylee presented to Simon at the beginning of this episode. That was a beautiful cake, you guys, I don’t care if it was mostly protein. It is tragic that they didn’t even get to cut into it.
