I dislike it in general when other characters have nothing better to do than think about other characters' love lives.
Yes! I mean, if they do it once or twice over the whole show, that's one thing, because people do gossip...but if they talk about it all the time, or if the writers use it to explain something about the romance to the viewers - like, we're wondering why A & B don't just get together already, and X explains to Y "Well, it's because A is SHY (or whatever)..." It's just so lazy!
And it's especially weird here. IDK, the Firefly characters just seem to be weirdly insightful about each other's feelings about things, even when they don't know each other very well. It's like they're afraid that if they don't spell things out, the viewers might miss the fact that Inara and Mal are totally destined for each other.
Which, to be fair, we might. Because Mal does not treat Inara all that well. But this does not seem like a good way to solve that problem...
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Yes! I mean, if they do it once or twice over the whole show, that's one thing, because people do gossip...but if they talk about it all the time, or if the writers use it to explain something about the romance to the viewers - like, we're wondering why A & B don't just get together already, and X explains to Y "Well, it's because A is SHY (or whatever)..." It's just so lazy!
And it's especially weird here. IDK, the Firefly characters just seem to be weirdly insightful about each other's feelings about things, even when they don't know each other very well. It's like they're afraid that if they don't spell things out, the viewers might miss the fact that Inara and Mal are totally destined for each other.
Which, to be fair, we might. Because Mal does not treat Inara all that well. But this does not seem like a good way to solve that problem...