Is this before or after Inara hosts the Ambassador in the shuttle? Because if it's before, it makes me a little nervous that his fantasy gets validated.
It's before, so, point.
I know what you mean about Inara. But there's lots of missing story there. And years of buildup to the point htey are in the show; Out of Gas shows her entirely in command, and then one supposes Mal's constant Mal-ness wears her down. Special or no, he's special *to her* after a long enough time; he's the only person as strong-willed as her in life choices around. (Zoe is stronger-willed than Mal in many respects, naturally, but in terms of direction-in-life-stuff less so.) I'm not sure it explains everything, but I'm willing to let it explain some of it.
Joss has said that if he and Mal were to get together, they would just yell at each other for ever, unable to agree on anything. He's also indicated that the Alliance aren't that bad. (And indeed, the first thing we see of the Alliance is that they are willing to follow a distress call rather than pick up Mal et al.) I do believe we would get shown lots more of Mal's reactionary-ness as bad, but the baseline has to be set somewhere.
I was mostly in Simon's POV too! But I always loved Mal. Part of that may be that I was also in River's later in the show, and she loves Mal so much.
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Date: 2010-09-28 07:18 am (UTC)It's before, so, point.
I know what you mean about Inara. But there's lots of missing story there. And years of buildup to the point htey are in the show; Out of Gas shows her entirely in command, and then one supposes Mal's constant Mal-ness wears her down. Special or no, he's special *to her* after a long enough time; he's the only person as strong-willed as her in life choices around. (Zoe is stronger-willed than Mal in many respects, naturally, but in terms of direction-in-life-stuff less so.) I'm not sure it explains everything, but I'm willing to let it explain some of it.
Joss has said that if he and Mal were to get together, they would just yell at each other for ever, unable to agree on anything. He's also indicated that the Alliance aren't that bad. (And indeed, the first thing we see of the Alliance is that they are willing to follow a distress call rather than pick up Mal et al.) I do believe we would get shown lots more of Mal's reactionary-ness as bad, but the baseline has to be set somewhere.
I was mostly in Simon's POV too! But I always loved Mal. Part of that may be that I was also in River's later in the show, and she loves Mal so much.