Why did Mal pick Serenity?
POSTED BY: Fastmover
UPDATED: Saturday, January 27, 2007 19:01
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I just watched OoG again last night and found the ending part pretty interesting when the used spaceship salesman is trying to sell Mal that really tall and ugly rocket-ship thing. What caught Mal's attention about Serenity? Was it purely her beautiful lines? Some have mentioned here that Serenity gave him freedom, but couldn't any ship give him freedom?
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Why are people attracted to anything? It's a question that really can't be answered aside from the person/people that is/are being attracted to something. And since Mal is fictional, we've got quite a problem figuring this out.
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I always wondered if there was another firefly somewhere in his past, maybe childhood, and this was bringing back old memories. Kinda like me seeing a really old Chevy pickup-- loved 'em when I was a kid, but never had the chance to own one of my own.
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Maybe he wouldn't've bothered with Serenity if the salesman had tried to get him to buy it first. Mal feels like a reject from the "civilized" world, and lo and behold, a ship all off on its own that no one seems to care about anymore. Maybe they shoulda given the ship some tight pants and we coulda called 'em twins.
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This is just my opinion (1st amendment) so if you don't like it theirs a corn in between my toes you can kiss. Now, We have Mal with a look at Serenity like Xmas with a red rider bb gun. Inara's statement I loved Serenity from the first moment I saw her. Kaylee's open affection for it. Wash and River's home feeling for it. Shepherd Book's smile like an old reliable friend. Jayne's best deal yet. The #%&$#*# bounty trash Jubial Early said alot about Serenity in a positive man crush way. The simplicity of it, wide openess of it, and no complications to it. Ya know Serenity was a heap in the desert. They bought it cheap, cleaned it up, a junk yard near by for parts, and then Kaylee put in worken order. When Inara signed on board they could enter any port of call.
"Battle of Serenity, Mal. Besides Zoe here, how many-" "I'm talkin at you! How many men in your platoon came out of their alive".
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Originally posted by PirateCat:
We have Mal with a look at Serenity like Xmas with a red rider bb gun. Inara's statement I loved Serenity from the first moment I saw her. Kaylee's open affection for it. Wash and River's home feeling for it. Shepherd Book's smile like an old reliable friend. Jayne's best deal yet. The #%&$#*# bounty trash Jubial Early said alot about Serenity in a positive man crush way.
Kinda like that old Chevy pickup of mine. Alla these folks musta had a previous, favorable, memorable experience with one of those 40,000 other fireflys floatin' around out there.
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serenity was appealing to him because it looked like they shared the same expeience he had. he was just as lost as the ship was. they were both used to their limits. Mal saw that the ship was an opertunity. he saw a ship that didnt deserve to be made into spare parts. the ship was just not being used but it was still a ship just like mal lost his faith but he is still a person that wants t live in the verse as a person not a person that follows the rules because they have no choice. Mal gave the ship freedom and the ship gave freedom to him.
Someday the verse will spit in your soup but at least they gave you soup.
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one plan
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-Our mission as browncoats is to make us known.
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Well, if there are any pilots out there, consider:
You're shopping for a plane to start a little cargo business, just enough to make a few bucks and be your own boss. You head out to an airfield where you know there's a plane for sale, and you're listening to a sales pitch when you happen to spot, off in a corner of the field, battered and beat-up, unflyable, but basically intact...
...an old DC-3.
That's what happened to Mal (spaceship version).
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I'm pointin' right at it!
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I think that it's just 'cause it's pretty. 
Plus that rocket thing doesn't look like it'd be very efficient...
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Originally posted by asortafairytale:
I think that it's just 'cause it's pretty.
Plus that rocket thing doesn't look like it'd be very efficient...
I'm certainly glad he didn't go for that rocket thing. I think that thing belongs in the "What a piece of junk" thread in the other sci-fi forum. I must say that a lot of the Alliance vessels in the BDM were nice looking.
That analogy about the pilot in search of a cargo hauler plane is a good one, and also the one that Mal picked Serenity because he wanted to give it another chance and no one else paid any attention to her. The only thing that really interested me is how he mentions Serenity in particular offering him freedom.
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