Why is Mal anti-companion?

POSTED BY: akredhead
UPDATED: Thursday, December 28, 2006 01:27
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To Mal's way of thinking, Inara saying to (and in) his face that she supported unification, is directly aimed at him.

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There's no doubt in my mind that it was directly aimed at him. Inara's well versed in tact, and she deliberately stated something she knew a browncoat would find offensive... if not to rub him the wrong way, why ?

She knew what she was doing. Mal knew what she was doing. He returned in kind.

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Mal has a tendency of taking things personally ("You did it to me, Jayne, to me!").

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Don't mistake "taking things personally" for "taking responsibility for me and mine".

If he 'took things personally' he would have dealt with things differently in his dealings with Badger and at Whitefall... but "its business, not personal" and he shows he can let the water shed off his skin.

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something about Mal having his heart broken by a Companion

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I think thats overly romantic and not likely. Even for someone as well travelled as him, he likely hasnt run in with many companions in the environs he finds himself most comfortable. (granted, we dont really know much about what type of person he was before the war, only that it shattered him and made him a different man).

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