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POSTED BY: TheCrazyIvan
UPDATED: Friday, March 19, 2004 02:46
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JAHZARA

Thursday, March 18, 2004 2:16 AM

This was discussed a few months ago, and I believe it was Succatash, who called Inara a complete hypocrite for the crying scene.

I agree with that because love is just so...senseless sometimes. Inara and Mal have completely different ideas of what sex means. Mal, despite his animosity toward God, still holds sex as something sacred. Or special. To him it should MEAN something.

Inara sees that in Mal. She see casual sex as something beautiful, that should be experienced. Her clients are important to her, but it is completely professional. Business. Atherton's comments in Shindig hurt her feelings, but she literally shrugged them off. Her really didn't touch her having her body the same way Mal does with one argument.

I feel like she cried like you said, Totallyfryed. That she sensed a connection that she could never equal or allow herself to.

There was a part of her that saw Mal as hers, reinforced by the fact that in the year she had been on the ship, she had never seen Mal really look at another woman. I'm not counting Saffron, of course. Serenity allowed the closest sense of being with him she could hope for.

She wanted to, for lack of a better phrase, have her cake and eat it too. It doesn't make her a bad person, just human.

KALIMEERI

Thursday, March 18, 2004 2:25 PM

Just a few thoughts on the relationship between Mal and Inara, I guess.

Resolving the relationship between the two anytime soon would be a big mistake. The life would go out of that character line; seen it happen before in other series'--Remington Steele, or was it Moonlighting? Can't remember, but that killed it.

I don't see an easy resolution, though. Mal doesn't strike me as someone who's willing to share. I think it would wreck him to see her sell herself, if he came to regard her as his.

And Inara is determined to remain independent--she bought into the companion thing, but she feels that being threatened, even in her own mind. She basically wants someone who will fight for her, but it would get too complicated. Very possibly Inara is running from just that situation (among other things--the VIAL is still a bit of a mystery), and she doesn't want to fall into it again.

They're both very strong personalities. One or the other would have to bow.

I think it would be exceptionally funny for Mal to end up in a "shipboard romance", though, seeing as how he hates the idea so much.

Jen dao mei.

DORAN

Thursday, March 18, 2004 3:12 PM

"Don't get me wrong, though; Willow's still not off the hook."

Remember that in Willows case she was rejected out of hand by Xander for years while she crushed on him. It wasn't until she had someone and Xander had someone that they "kissed" and supposedly suddenly had all these feelings.

I can see why Willow might be hurt that Xander would avoid any intimate contact with her and yet throw caution to the wind and have a one night stand with Faith.

The scene where Inara cries hit me hard mainly because I wasn't expecting it.

I have had conversations with women in this line of work who have steady boyfriends. I remember being surprised to find out that though they have very flexible views on sex, somehow the act is justified as just a business transaction as long as money changes hands. Without the money it suddenly means something more intimate and they feel like they are "cheating".

It wouldn't be fun to walk such a fine line.

STEVE580

Friday, March 19, 2004 2:46 AM

The Inara crying scene was the best part of the episode, of course;' but it still sucked. And not just in comparison to the episodes before and after (I never really liked 'The Message'); it just, wasn't that good. I'd give it a 4.

Though, compared to any non-Whedon show, it's an easy 10.
-Steve

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