Mal knew.. right?
POSTED BY: ShinyLetsBeBadGuys
UPDATED: Friday, December 22, 2006 00:11
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Howdy ya'll, got another question for ya;
In Our Mrs. Reynolds when Mal confronted Inara at the end of the episode, he knew that Inara had kissed him not Saffron right?
A friend of mine and I are convinced that he did, that he was just doing his thing by messing with Inara, but I have to make sure. How do I do this? Ask Joss, well maybe at a later date, but I'm more than satisfied seeing what ya'll think about it.
So: Mal knew Inara kissed him, not Saffron
or
Mal was just doing some wishfull thinking, and being dense
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I am convinced that at that time (before Heart of Gold) Mal loved Inara but would not consider the possibility that she loved him. I think that he really was being dense, that he did NOT know.
It plays funnier that way, too.
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Originally posted by ShinyLetsBeBadGuys:
Howdy ya'll, got another question for ya;
In Our Mrs. Reynolds when Mal confronted Inara at the end of the episode, he knew that Inara had kissed him not Saffron right?
I don't think so. Mal is *S*O* clueless with women, as are all the other men except Wash, that he has no idea how Inara feels about him. He's living out the "hot Lesbian chicks" fantasy...
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Or, maybe being afraid isn't the same as not knowing. He didn't have to ask, she answered the question as soon as he began asking it. He also cares enough about her but was totally not ready to open himself or pursue a relationship with her at that time, so he wouldn't have to "in-your-face" it, he probably just wanted to know for sure.
"...There is a fine line between giving a woman what she's asking for and giving her what she wants without her having to ask..."
Or, he blew it. But Mal has never been stupiid in the show, his moral compass just guides him to make decisions that simpler and more polar people on the show couldn't understand.
"...let's not ruin an otherwise pleasant day with unnecessary bloodshed..."
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I say DENSE, Although that does sound sooo negative. This relationship was to last over several seasons that's why they bicker so much. In real life you might know someone that is attractive that you never agree with, and having a relationship with that person is the last thing that you think will happen.
He thinks she's attractive, and he might have fantasies about her. He just doesn't know how much she cares for him. He knows something isn't right, but when he figures it out, he come up with the wrong conclusion - Inara kissed Saffron.
And as someone else mentioned. It plays funnier that way.
Just my opinion.
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In my opinion, Mal was knocked the 
out when 'Nara kissed him, that and the fact that he's pretty dense, lead me to believe that Mal DIDN'T know that Inara kissed him.
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I concur with my peers; Mal did not know that Inara kissed him.
As stated above, Mal has feelings for Inara, he may very well love her, but he thinks she does not care about him. He is so unwitting in matters of male/female relationships that he did not even consider for a moment that she had kissed him and not Saffron.
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I think Mal knew and was just messing with Inara about her potential feelings for him - testing the waters, so to speak. Mal was not portrayed as that dense in the series. He figured out Jayne's betrayal fast enough in Ariel. He masterminded the Alliance/Reaver destruction in the BDM. But most importantly, as Joss likes to link incidents together between episodes to tell a bigger story, there's a very telling scene in Out of Gas. When Inara tells Jayne that Companions don't kiss and tell, Mal's response is to say "So there is kissing?" and then give her that smile that says SO much more. I don't think I'm reading too much into it. I think Joss did it on purpose for that reason. Mal knew, he just didn't know what to do with the information yet. So he played with her mind.
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I have always believed that he DIDN'T know, but I think his joy wasn't the hot f/f action thing. He was mostly just pleased to not be the only one taken in by Saffron's acting.
Dense, certainly. But embarrassed at all the crap he was taking over kissing Saffron was the big thing. IMHO.
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