Fireflyfans.net is making me hate Simon: vol.1

Monday, May 31, 2004 11:52 AM

I hate to say it, but fireflyfans.net is slowly eroding my love for Simon. Over the course of the next couple of blogs I shall attempt to explain why. As always you are welcome to disagree or not as you see fit. These are completely and utterly my own opinions and I am very well aware that they are not popular ones. This however is my blog and I shall strive onwards to rant about Simon in the hopes that getting it off my chest will make me stop dreading the next time I see a post about him.

What drives me bonkers is the mostly overridding belief that Simon and Kaylee should be together. I shall now wait patiently while the mob throws rotten fruit then quietly disperses before continuing :P

Part the first: Romance is a two way street Missy!

Simon and Kaylee are from two different worlds. Socially, economically, culturally they had very opposing upbringings and like it or not, that shapes who you are. Simon is trying his darndest to conform to his new situation. We've seen his clothing style loosen up, him smile more, and him actually acting like a real person not the stiff cardboard cutout that his old society expected him to be. What we don't see though, is Kaylee making any type of concessions at all. She expects Simon to totally and completely embrace the courtship rituals of her society and becomes increasingly upset when he can't fully do that. And he tries people, he really tries. Anyone who tells you otherwise is selling something..ahem..sorry, wrong fandom reference. He tries, and yes he slips up but is that really call for the cold shouldered, spiteful verbal lashing that Kaylee dishes out to him? Not at all. Once, just once, I'd like for Simon to inadvertently say something offensive while trying to be nice ie) "I love your hands Kaylee, they're so strong. Not like the girls on Osiris with their smooth, milky-white skin, no your hands are real hands, working hands." Now of course Kaylee will be insulted by this just like always, but in my semi-perfect universe she would smile and accept it for what it is, a complement. We could then anticipate the usual Kaylee-like reply "Thanks Simon, good to know that you think I'm so unique." But unlike anything ever seen before, this wont be said like unique is worse than the Alliance, it will just be Kaylee genuinely pleased with a compliment that Simon has (clumsily) paid her. Sadly this will never come to pass. We will never see Kaylee meeting him halfway, ever. So I urge you (those that havn't already left in disgust to go petition Hakken to blacklist me from fff.net), next time you watch your DVD's or tapes or however you get your fix, really look at whats being said. He isn't trying to be mean, but she is. She lashes out with all the spite of a little girl who didn't just get exactly what she wanted. Lets stop blaming Simon for every little thing that goes wrong, shall we?

Just as a little end note, there was once when I felt Kaylee has legitimate cause to feel offended by what Simon has said. When he called Serenity luh suh (though in the heat of the moment, upset by Mal) he had it coming. You just don't do that, especially when Kaylee is around.

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