I've had ENOUGH of this MAL/INARA tension bull

POSTED BY: Ty
UPDATED: Thursday, August 21, 2003 17:29
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TY

Thursday, August 7, 2003 8:32 PM

...and I'm obviously the only one! LOL, seriously, why must we see the same things over and over and over and over again played out in the realm of romance? Tension, turmoil, "game-playing", the whole 'he loves me, he loves me not' scenario?
OK GUYS, I'M DONE RANTING AND RAVING!!!! Sometimes I just get tired of seeing crap like that...I know so many people are damaged emotionally and one day, I'd like to watch a t.v. show or view a movie in which the people make healthy, emotional decisions and deal with living in an environment where the viewers can see, a level of emotional health can be acheived in life and there are interesting persons whom can be developed in t.v. or movies who aren't completely self-involved and self-destructive. AND NOW, I'M DONE RANTING!!!!

SIGNYM

Thursday, August 7, 2003 8:40 PM

I wonder if there's more behind the tension than that? Inara's reasons for being on Serenity are, well, obscure. Is she working for the Alliance? For a faction within the Alliance? For whichever resistance group sprang River? I think there's more to the story than what we've seen so far, even tho attraction definitely plays a part in it!

SIGNYM

Thursday, August 7, 2003 8:42 PM

Oh, and BTW I agree with you. Most scripted TV shows (and a lot of the "reality" ones!) are based on premises that would disappear with just a smidgen of honesty!

TY

Thursday, August 7, 2003 9:20 PM

Obscure....so the right adjective. I think every guy on Serenity probably has or has had some attraction to Inara but Mal, hey Joss, Tim, let that attraction stuff go!!! It just makes me so weary the back and forth that those characters go through. I had my fill out that in the late 80's in MOONLIGHTING.

SIGNYM

Thursday, August 7, 2003 9:42 PM

and when they finally 'get together' the show goes POOF!

FREMDFIRMA

Thursday, August 7, 2003 10:01 PM

I find it intensely amusing for my own reasons..

You see, my relationships have always kinda started that way, in fact, tons of em apparently do - it seems the folks who really care the most about each other... are among the LAST folks to realize it.

That is reality, often enough to make a believer outta me.

Just one more reason to like Firefly.

-Frem
die fux die

TZEGHA

Sunday, August 10, 2003 5:14 PM

that's why we have Zoe and Wash!

At least the tension between Mal and Inara has valid reasons, and is not contrived like many tv show relationships. I don't think Cybyl and Bruce's characters (I'm only guessing, since I watched the show when I was like five) had the emotional scars and depth that Mal and Inara have.

VETERAN

Monday, August 11, 2003 12:55 AM

Yeah it's a little contrived, but it is a TV show. The way I see it is both characters made very clear rules early on. Mal: I don't approve of shipboard romances. Inara: I will not be servicing you or any of your crew. And they're both too stubborn to be the first to cave in.

CHANNAIN

Saturday, August 16, 2003 1:36 PM

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Originally posted by SignyM:
Oh, and BTW I agree with you. Most scripted TV shows (and a lot of the "reality" ones!) are based on premises that would disappear with just a smidgen of honesty!

honesty? you want to bring honesty to television? are you daft? don't you think the world has quite enough educational TV as it is? not to mention most British television (no offense to any of the UK denizens who might see this), but injecting honesty into scripted television would very easily wipe out most of their best programming from Dr. Who all the way to East Enders. and let's face it, if Mal and Inara had confessed their true feelings from the get go; if River had had a revelation right off the bat and told Simon exactly what happened, why, where, and by whom; if Book told all there was to know about the man behind the collar when he met Kaylee at the docks on Persephone - where would we all be right now?

here's a little honesty - the top headline on this site at the time of this posting is "Futerama makes a comeback." at first I honestly feared once again for this fandom - that another show could take center stage on the Firefly site. then i realized it's an illustration that, yes, a cancelled show can come back. regardless, i'll be honestly more at ease when that headline goes away.

“We three are the only ones in this place wearing brown. Means we’ve found something worth fighting for.
Something worth being more than alive for.”
Sarahetc

TZEGHA

Saturday, August 16, 2003 8:19 PM

and in reality, I see plenty of people getting themselves into situations that could have been avoided with that smidgen of honesty.

I'll say it again, I think that these two have enough insecurities, hang-ups, and whatall to make their tension very much called for.

And how many people know themselves well enough, are self-aware enough, to be able to be 'honest' with someone?

I think that at the end of HofG

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that Mal was trying to do just that, cut through all the bullshit, stop the WackFun Dance of Self-doubt and Loathing and just air their feelings, get it all out in the open. And like he said, he wouldn't hold her to whatever she may say, he wouldn't put any obligations on her for confessing her feelings, wouldn't take advantage of the knowledge that he is asking for. But she wouldn't hear it, for plenty of sound reasons, and threw his white flag back in his face.

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