Why did Mal pick Serenity?
POSTED BY: Fastmover
UPDATED: Saturday, January 27, 2007 19:01
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Originally posted by Fastmover:
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?
Josh Gray
Isn't it obvious? Serenity's shape is a fallic symbol, duh
Actually, that ugly rocket-ship looked a lot more like a fallic symbol if you know what I mean. ;)
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If it hasn't already been mentioned I think one thing was as follows: In "Our Mrs. Reynolds" there's a scene where one of the pirates metions how he thinks stealing Serinity is a waiste of time to his captian (or sometihing thereabouts) and the captian replys that he's just looking on the surface and that underneath she'll last forever and is a good catch. Alot of minor characters comment on how the ship is goesa (sp?). There are obvious paralels to Mal, his kind and his character, ie overlooked and look down upon, judged as bad or scum ect. The Firefly model seems to be pretty much overlooked by an entire universe because of their ignorance (again that's Mal all over) and Mal who knew the ships true value saw those parralels. Serenity is basically his soul in ship.
(first post BTW!)
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Originally posted by gigglyoroninomicon:
Serenity is basically his soul in ship.
(first post BTW!)
Welcome, Gigglyoroninomicon. May I call you Giggly?
*hands Giggly a virtual browncoat from the storeroom*
I'd say from your first post, you're needin' one of those.
I agree. Actually I agree with much of what's been said. Mal is like Serenity. So is River.
Also, DonCoat's analogy to buying a plane if you were about to become a small cargo hauler makes sense too.
As my husband and I work on cars and trucks every day and often on fine old classics for folks who speak of them with the same love in their eyes as Mal has for Serenity, I agree with that too.
I've had cars "call to me" and bought 'em!
I would go one step further and say that Serenity has "called" to some of us too. I love Serenity.
Truly. And were she real, I'd ship out on her in a heartbeat.
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Originally posted by FollowMal:
Welcome, Gigglyoroninomicon. May I call you Giggly?
*hands Giggly a virtual browncoat from the storeroom*
I'd say from your first post, you're needin' one of those.
That you may, or any abbreviation for that matter gig, con, lee, ron... ron lee, hell you can call me shirly if you like.
Anyway, I recon I've had a mental browncoat for quite a while, but this is the first virtual one I've been graced with, tis an honour. I also recon I'll never take it off, no matter how funny it starts to smell. Looks like a great comunity in here, happy to be part of it.
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