The ending is a weird anticlimax anyway, so I might do that. Does that mean I get to end with Jayne shooting Vera in a space suit?
Are you counting the Mal/Inara scene as part of what ruins the episode for you? Because I'm inclined to admit as part of my generalized denial that I'm going to see if I can argue that Mal's male-fantasy interpretation of Inara's being knocked out (omg!lezbianz!) helps contextualize his knocking her out as part of the same male-fantasy behaviour that remains unquestioned because we're so clearly in Mal's POV and that the show was going to be all about deconstructing Mal's POV but then got cancelled?
Speaking of: I get the "first clause" a lot. Joss has said that the show was eventually going to prove Mal wrong about a lot (most?) things and I tend to believe him. Of course, Joss might have just gone and made it problematic anyway, and almost certainly would have, but it makes me forgiving of all the regressive aspects the Western setting brings with it automatically. Jaynestown is the "Man Who Shot Liberty Valance," yes-this-story-is-a-lie-ask-me-how show, and it's episode 8 (BtVS didn't get to Lie to Me until ep 19). I can only imagine the inversions that were going to happen. Sigh. I can still have my unbounded love for the characters and for the density if not the politics of the world, right? Right.
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Are you counting the Mal/Inara scene as part of what ruins the episode for you? Because I'm inclined to admit as part of my generalized denial that I'm going to see if I can argue that Mal's male-fantasy interpretation of Inara's being knocked out (omg!lezbianz!) helps contextualize his knocking her out as part of the same male-fantasy behaviour that remains unquestioned because we're so clearly in Mal's POV and that the show was going to be all about deconstructing Mal's POV but then got cancelled?
Speaking of: I get the "first clause" a lot. Joss has said that the show was eventually going to prove Mal wrong about a lot (most?) things and I tend to believe him. Of course, Joss might have just gone and made it problematic anyway, and almost certainly would have, but it makes me forgiving of all the regressive aspects the Western setting brings with it automatically. Jaynestown is the "Man Who Shot Liberty Valance," yes-this-story-is-a-lie-ask-me-how show, and it's episode 8 (BtVS didn't get to Lie to Me until ep 19). I can only imagine the inversions that were going to happen. Sigh. I can still have my unbounded love for the characters and for the density if not the politics of the world, right? Right.