BDM Theory -- Needing some BC Feedback [spoilers]
POSTED BY: MajinBuu
UPDATED: Thursday, October 20, 2005 05:46
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Yeah, good thoughts. I was listening to one of the commentary tracks on Firefly today (the one with Inara - Shindig, I believe) and they brought up a great thought:
It's the concept that Mal doesn't fit into Inara's world and Inara doesn't fit into Mal's world. I think this is a different way of saying what I mentioned before about how their worlds are so opposite. They also mentioned, however, that at the end of that episode we can see that not only do they not fit into each other's worlds, but they don't even fit into their own worlds. Mal doesn't like hanging out or spending time with other smugglers and Inara has run from the Companion Guild. And that is their common thread.
But I think Mal taking a stand could have indeed changed Inara's vision of him somewhat. And maybe it'll allow Mal to change his visions of her and "them" as well.
But not too much I think because then we'd loose all the drama that Joss is so good at. 
"I don't wanna explode."
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Originally posted by MajinBuu:
Okay...getting off on a tangent now, BUT...musing over the reference to agapic love, and musing over these Mal/Inara reflections. Agapic love involves self-sacrifice for the loved one. It is sacrificial giving love. Anyone else notice that Inara, at the end of the movie, when she says, "I don't know" had almost ZERO make-up on? She looked like she was 16. A very different look from the typically glammed up Companion. Perhaps the "whore" who "supported unification" is changing? Or, perhaps Mal's final staking of a claim (not blowing North when the wind blows North, but making a stand) has changed her ideas about him?
Ohhhh, *sigh* endless speculation.
Yup, no make up, and a simple blue sheath dress with spaghetti straps. Sorry, I used to make costumes for theater, so I notice a lot of this stuff.
I think they were going for fresh and innocent do-over for Inara. Did you notice the heartbreakingly longing look she throws down the hall toward Mal as he walks away into Mr Uni-land? Check it out next time. I think he has become the guy with the whole heart she was always seeing underneath the bluster and bad choices, and she has loved that vision of a perfect Mal from the start. I think self-sacrifice is why she walked away (between OiS and Serenity); she couldn't reconcile her love for Mal with the way he was acting. Sort of like how you still love your friends even when they go into butthead mode and you don't really like the person they're acting as at the moment. You still love the perfect center. She was willing to sacrifice being near him when she lost hope in the possibility of Mal ever being able to actually 'be' that best possible Mal.
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