Mal and Religion

POSTED BY: Highwayman
UPDATED: Thursday, October 20, 2005 14:28
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THEREALME

Thursday, October 20, 2005 12:45 AM

Smaug,

I really like your ideas. I have one point to add, though.

At the end of Heart Of Gold, Mal is about to confess his love for Inara. If I could see that, then certainly the ultra-psychologist companion Inara could. Note that companion wash-out Nandi could tell at a glance that Mal was in love with Inara and (more importantly) Inara was in love with Mal.

But Inara shut Mal up. Right before he could confess his love to her, she interrupted him and dropped the bomb that she was departing.

If all she was waiting for was him to say something, then she blew it for herself.

No, there is something else going on with her, that keeps her from making attachments to others. It is probably that same mystery that drove her away from the Core planets.

TheRealMe, First Officer of the Sereni-Tree

HIGHWAYMAN

Thursday, October 20, 2005 9:41 AM

Wo De Ma, you are really good Smaug. I think they should get you to write some episodes man! If they ever do episodes again.

I think that as TheRealMe said, there is definately something going on with Inara that is keeping her from attatchments. Maybe we'll find out and Mal will put an end to whatever it is, and maybe die in the process. So by freeing Inara to be able to be with him, he dies. That's very Shakespearian don't ya think.

SMAUG

Thursday, October 20, 2005 2:28 PM

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At the end of Heart Of Gold, Mal is about to confess his love for Inara. If I could see that, then certainly the ultra-psychologist companion Inara could. Note that companion wash-out Nandi could tell at a glance that Mal was in love with Inara and (more importantly) Inara was in love with Mal.

Let me preface this by saying that I have not seen HoG yet. But I can speculate based upon what I do know.

A short answer is that we all know that love is blind. It doesn't take this other companion to figure out they are in love with each other.. I think everyone on the ship knows this. Well.. except for maybe Jayne

I DO believe Inara has a secret.. I don't beleive that it is anything that would keep her from making attachments.. except maybe compansions arn't supposed to? In a just a its-not-good-for-buisness-kind-of-way.

But not that they can't. I haven't seen HoG.. but I can speculate upon what is to happen.

When you are talking about a love this deep.. that goes beyond just being attracted to each other, having some things in common, enjoying each others company, etc.. but beyond all that to a very deep emotional need of the other person where you feel like you are holding your breath underwater, and you can't breath again until you feel the other. It doesn't matter how well Inara may be able to read other people when it comes to herself. She may be feeling things she has never felt before, and maybe even feeling things she never thought were truely possible. This has a way of making yourself blind to the obvious. Especially when I am not talking about just love here.. but a deep seeded emotional need from your very soul where there is no one else in the 'verse that could possibly fill. Nobody ever said love was easy... especially not one this deep.

I will further speculate.. I could be wrong because I haven't seen that episode, but I beleive I accidently read that Mal sleeps with Nandi.. if not her.. then someone. If that is true.. then this is what I can speculate on. When Inara learns of this, it will cut her to the core of her soul. She will feel in an instant, a pain of which she has never imagined possible. I have seen a clip of Inara crying.. I am guessing this is when she finds out. Let me put a little weight upon what Inara.. and Mal.. feels because of this (the other sleeping with someone else).

We all know it eats at Mal when Inara goes off to see clients. He tries to play cool like it doesn't bother him and focus on his own job at hand.. but inside.. it eats him alive. To imagine what it is like, imagine this: here is a woman, and not just any woman, and not just a woman you think is beautiful, not just a woman that you love, but the woman that you NEED. Now imagine this woman, standing before you.. the one woman you truely love with all your soul where no other woman could ever take her place. Now imagine there is a glass wall spererating you from her. So you can see her, but you can't touch her or feel her or speak to her or do anything but see her. Now suddenly she isn't standing before you on the other side of the glass but suddenly being f*cked by some man. And she seems to be throughly enjoying it. And then you suddenly find yourself bound with your eyes pried open where you can't turn away or close your eyes and are forced for all eternity to watch this man (or it could be an endless array of men) take the woman you love over and over and over and over again right before your very eyes. Now that would be my own worst hell I could ever imagine, there is no physical pain that could ever come close. That's a little extreme and of course not exactly what Mal is going through, but not too far off. Actualy in one mannor, it’s actually worse, because Mal doesn’t “see” what Inara does with her clients, he only imagines it. And what he is imagining.. is probably 100 times worse than anything Inara is actually doing. What we see Inara doing with her clients is very flowerly and calm and romantic. Not exactly lustful and pass

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